Nigerian-British writer-director-actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje delves into his own childhood and teenage years for an enthralling and moving real-life story. In the 1960s through 1980s, Nigerian c...

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• Wed 16 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 102 minutes

Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. From director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis, comes a rock-n-roll comedy abou...

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• Wed 16 Oct
• 113 minutes

"Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?" Joaquin Phoenix brilliantly creates a complex and compelling portrait of the legendary DC comic villain as director Todd Phillips radically and ...

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• Wed 16 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 122 minutes

Chris Morris, creator of such surreal and satirical comedy classics as The Day Today and Brass Eye belatedly follows his big screen debut FOUR LIONS with a ballsy and very funny tale of FBI trickery w...

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• Wed 16 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 88 minutes

Previews is a regular night showcasing some of the best unreleased films, shows - and VICE documentaries. Join us on October 17th for an advance screening of VICE Studios’ THE BEACH BUM. The Bea...

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• Thu 17 Oct
• 90 minutes

High class people with low class values are at the heart of idiosyncratic French director Olivier Assayas’s hilarious and sprightly look at art, affairs and midlife crises. Parisian publisher Alain...

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• Fri 18 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 107 minutes

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitat...

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• Sat 19 Oct to Sun 20 Oct
• 110 minutes

Native Spirit Festival presents three films (1961 to 2019) about Reservations, Urban life and identity for contemporary young Native Americans. The Mystery of Now (16 mins) Director: Audrey Buchan...

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• Sat 19 Oct
• 110 minutes

MIDNIGHT EXCESS is a film programme from SUPAKINO that brings back the thrill of weird and wonderful late-night movies to London’s historic Rio Cinema. Join us for 2 nights of Oliver Reed horror th...

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• Sat 19 Oct
• 92 minutes

‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ Shakespeare’s most famous romantic comedy recorded at a live performance at the Bridge Theatre in London. A feuding fairy King and Queen of the fo...

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• Sun 20 Oct
• 160 minutes

Heartwarming, very funny, and beautifully animated, this latest instalment of a much loved saga is another Pixar Animation classic. Woody, Buzz and friends are enjoying their peaceful new life as B...

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• Mon 21 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 100 minutes

Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty follow the wonderful I, DANIEL BLAKE, with SORRY WE MISSED YOU - a captivating and compassionate portrait of a family and the challenges they face trying to ...

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• Wed 23 Oct
• 107 minutes

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitat...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 110 minutes

At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Olivia Gatwood’s new book, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today’s world and the challenge of brie...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 120 minutes

TOGETHER ALONE “If you are lonely when you are alone, then you are in bad company” - Jean-Paul Sartre Curated by Octavian Dancila as part of the Programming and Curation MA at the National Film...

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• Sat 26 Oct
• 200 minutes

TOGETHER ALONE “If you are lonely when you are alone, then you are in bad company” - Jean-Paul Sartre Curated by Octavian Dancila as part of the Programming and Curation MA at the National Film...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 200 minutes

UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL The UK Green Film Festival is an annual nationwide festival with the aim of bringing environmentally themed films to audiences across the UK. The Rio is delighted once again ...

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• Wed 30 Oct
• 92 minutes

Doc'n Roll Film Festival World Premiere John Morales, one of the most influential producers of the disco and dance music scenes, was responsible for more than 700 mixes and productions during th...

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• Fri 1 Nov
• 75 minutes

UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL The UK Green Film Festival is an annual nationwide festival with the aim of bringing environmentally themed films to audiences across the UK. The Rio is delighted once again ...

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• Sat 2 Nov
• 115 minutes

In this skilfully directed feature debut by Cha Sung-duk, things are not what they seem at first glance. The eponymous Youngju (Kim Hyang-gi) and her brother Youngin (Tang Jun-sang), two young orphane...

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• Sat 2 Nov
• 100 minutes

A young woman seems to have everything going for her. She graduates from university, finds a job in publishing and marries her handsome boyfriend. Soon a baby enters the happy family. The husband is b...

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• Sun 3 Nov
• 115 minutes

UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL The UK Green Film Festival is an annual nationwide festival with the aim of bringing environmentally themed films to audiences across the UK. The Rio is delighted once again ...

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• Mon 4 Nov
• 80 minutes

UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL The UK Green Film Festival is an annual nationwide festival with the aim of bringing environmentally themed films to audiences across the UK. The Rio is delighted once again ...

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• Wed 6 Nov
• 84 minutes

Hansard, noun, the official report of all parliamentary debates. Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Double Olivier Award winners Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings star in Simon Wood's new pla...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 150 minutes

UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL The UK Green Film Festival is an annual nationwide festival with the aim of bringing environmentally themed films to audiences across the UK. The Rio is delighted once again ...

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• Sat 9 Nov
• 93 minutes

Dong-shik, an innocent young man from the countryside, arrives in Seoul in search of his brother. Amongst the busy streets, markets and American army bases of the post-war city, Dong-shik eventually f...

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• Sat 9 Nov
• 86 minutes

Doc'n Roll Film Festival UK Premiere In the mid-1990s, Dayton, Ohio’s music scene was generating worldwide buzz thanks to the influential indie rock being produced there by the likes of The Bree...

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• Sat 9 Nov
• 90 minutes

Three friends with unusual nicknames - Independent Party, Pork Belly and Mr. Sensitive - celebrate their high school graduation by eating noodles and snooping around their local video rental shop. Ind...

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• Sun 10 Nov
• 92 minutes

We The Peoples Film Festival presents - The curse of drugs: from field to street As governments set out to introduce humane drug treatment policies, lives are lost and hopes dashed Opium Wars (...

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• Sun 10 Nov
• 62 minutes

UK Premiere From an impromptu performance for no one in particular in Tompkins Square Park Bandshell in 1984, to the DIY community festival that became a mecca for performers, who ‘dragged’ the art...

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• Tue 12 Nov
• 89 minutes

Doc'n Roll Film Festival UK Premiere The film follows the 21st Century formation of WITCH (We Intend To CauseHavoc) Zambia’s most popular rock band of the 1970s and documents the life of its lea...

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• Wed 13 Nov
• 90 minutes

The beloved cinematic version of Sholem Aleichem’s ultimate shtetl experience is back for one merry screening in the former Jewish heartland of London – or more specifically, the Rio Cinema in Dalston...

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• Thu 14 Nov
• 180 minutes

Doc'n Roll Film Festival UK Premiere In the mid-2000's and with the help of MySpace, several composers from different countries spontaneously started an underground music scene that the Internet...

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• Fri 15 Nov
• 78 minutes

In the words of Mae West/Divine-inspired sea-witch, Ursula, “Life’s full of tough choices, isn’t it?” But at least there’s only one place in the world you could possibly be on Friday night... at this ...

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• Fri 15 Nov
• 85 minutes

Dive into the LSD- and acid-fuelled exuberant chaos of the gender-exploding revolutionaries who erupted out of San Francisco in the 1970s. In their two-and-a-half-year existence, The Cockettes created...

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• Sat 16 Nov
• 99 minutes

MIDNIGHT EXCESS is a film programme from SUPAKINO that brings back the thrill of weird and wonderful late-night movies to London’s historic Rio Cinema. For November’s edition of Midnight Excess, we...

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• Sat 16 Nov
• 85 minutes

“I am not only a casualty,” wrote Audre Lorde in her Cancer Journals, “I am also a warrior.” This documentary revisits the words of Lorde’s book to offer a fresh queer feminist critique about how illn...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 98 minutes

We The Peoples Film Festival presents - The Nobel Laureate: defied Beijing, died in jail Liu Xiaobo's long awaited interview adds another dimension to China's celebrations to mark its 70th anniver...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 75 minutes

When Freddy Kruger slashed his way into our nightmares in 1984, audiences just couldn’t get enough of the demonic child killer. The first of the inevitable sequels, was 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Stree...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 99 minutes

London Palestine Film Festival 2019 Chronicle of a Disappearance In an investigation of the twilight zone between narrative, history and autobiography, CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE transgresses t...

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• Wed 20 Nov
• 84 minutes

It's Crystal's LIVE Drag Race UK Grand Finale Screening Event! Watch the Grand Finale of RuPaul's Drag Race UK on a cinema screen!

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• Thu 21 Nov
• 240 minutes

MIDNIGHT EXCESS is a film programme from SUPAKINO that brings back the thrill of weird and wonderful late-night movies to London’s historic Rio Cinema. For November’s edition of Midnight Excess, we...

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• Sat 23 Nov
• 107 minutes

The only London show of It’s Morning, a film and live music collaboration featuring Mercury-nominated band Led Bib, combines film, song and improvisation to full cinematic effect. Led Bib, known fo...

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• Sun 24 Nov
• 120 minutes

Recorded live from The Old Vic, Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward’s provocative classic comedy, a giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness. As he prepares to embark o...

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• Sun 1 Dec
• 150 minutes

THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2019) returns for its 16th year with a mammoth 10-day (November 29 – December 8) celebratory feast of f...

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• Wed 4 Dec
• 75 minutes

THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2019) returns for its 16th year with a mammoth 10-day (November 29 – December 8) celebratory feast of f...

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• Thu 5 Dec
• 68 minutes

MIDNIGHT EXCESS is a film programme from SUPAKINO that brings back the thrill of weird and wonderful late-night movies to London’s historic Rio Cinema. Join us for 2 nights of Ringo Starr in wild c...

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• Sat 7 Dec
• 88 minutes

The Rio Cinema is proud to welcome director Matthew Cullen and actor Jim Sturgess, who will be introducing a very special screening, plus director's Q&A London Fields is based on Martin Amis’ much-...

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• Wed 11 Dec
• 165 minutes

MIDNIGHT EXCESS is a film programme from SUPAKINO that brings back the thrill of weird and wonderful late-night movies to London’s historic Rio Cinema. Join us for 2 nights of Ringo Starr in wild c...

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• Sat 14 Dec
• 96 minutes

On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life...

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• Sun 15 Dec
• 94 minutes

Fire up your imagination and join us for a thrilling night of adventure. Watch a brand new collection of short films on the big screen – stories of human endurance, breathtaking environments and so...

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• Wed 11 Mar
• 150 minutes