Rio Cinema

11/06/2026

LE***AN SPACE PRINCESS, Awarded LGBTQIA+ cinema’s highest honour at Berlin, this rip-roaring comedy Screening at The Rio from June 19th! Tickets on sale now:

Showing from Fri 19 Jun

11/06/2026

RIO FOREVER/NEVER EVER: GEMINI SEASON on Friday 12th June 23:00PM

A late night double bill of SISTERS X ALMOST DEAD. Presented by horror film club Category H

Brian DePalma’s iconic SISTERS (1972). After a reporter witnesses a murder in the apartment opposite hers, she contacts the police but is met with indifference by law enforcement. Frustrated, she decides to take matters into her own hands and investigate the case herself, leading her down a dark rabbit hole and into the underbelly of the world around her. In classic DePalma style, SISTERS pays homage to Hitchcock while incorporating unique directorial choices, such as a split diopter, in order to create a neo-noir horror which oozes with atmosphere. 

After a short break, we return to the screen for the incredibly strange ALMOST DEAD (1994). Starring Shannen Doherty (Heathers, Charmed) and Costas Mandylor (Saw franchise), ALMOST DEAD is the bizarre tale of a psychiatrist who specializes in researching twins being haunted by the ghost of her mother. The plot thickens when she enlists the help of a police detective and discovers the body of her mother is missing from its grave. 

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11/06/2026

On Tuesday 16th June we are beyond honoured to have Director of Girlfriends for a virtual Q&A following Rio’s Film Feminists screening of Girlfriends.

Rio Film Feminists returns to 1979/80 to shine a light on the Rio’s first feminist film season, organised in association with Hackney and Islington Socialist Feminist Group, Hackney Black Women’s Group and Women in Entertainment. We have picked to re-screen American writer/director Claudia Weill’s landmark feminist indie Girlfriends (1978), which was presented in a late-night double-bill with Rapunzel: Let Down Your Hair (1978) by The London Women’s Film Group. 94 tickets were sold for a ‘benefit screening’ for the National Abortion Campaign. The Rio’s feminist film culture was alive!

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Showing from Tue 16 Jun

11/06/2026

A full house for a very special screening of 7 DAYS IN MAY starring MAC DEMARCO & RYAN PARIS. Screening was introduced by musicians Mac DeMarco and Ryan Paris alongside filmmakers Joseph Bird Jr, Raf Fellner

Thank you to everyone who came🎸

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09/06/2026

Pink Palace ***rfilmclub presents Vegas in Space on June 11th 19:30PM

One of the first truly q***r midnight movies, VEGAS IN SPACE is a campy, psychedelic, and loving homage to 1950s and ‘60s B-movie sci-fi with an all-drag cast! An oasis of glamour in a sea of mediocrity!

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09/06/2026

The Varda Film Club are happy to announce an extra special screening of Faces, Places featuring a guest appearance by Rosalie Varda, Agnès Varda’s daughter.

Agnès Varda teams up with artist and photographer JR to tour rural France, photographing the people they connect with along the way, and creating large-scale murals of their new friends, leaving a lasting impression on them and their communities. It’s not one to be missed on the big screen.

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Showing from Sat 13 Jun

08/06/2026

Slacker Shakespeare: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO Loosely-based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Gus Van Saint’s 1991 movie is a q***r classic featuring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. On Sunday 21st June 14:00PM Tickets on sale here: https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2572948

08/06/2026

SLACKER SHAKESPEARE: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO On June 21st 14:00PM

Gus Van Saint’s 1991 q***r classic featuring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as a pair of gay hustlers who travel from grungy Portland, Oregon to Italy on a journey of s*x, drugs and self-discovery.

Screening as part of SLACKER SHAKESPEARE, a season of 1990s indie cult movie classics, inspired by the world of William Shakespeare.

These events are part of and are sponsored by FIVE POINTS Brewing. 

This screening is introduced by season curator, author and cultural commentator Travis Elborough.

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08/06/2026

MARE’S NEST + Q&A on June 11th 18:30PM

Responding to a world that seems evermore surreal, disastrous, and doomed by the day, the latest speculative feature from Ben Rivers immerses us into an unsettling natural terrain entirely devoid of adults. We follow a girl called Moon (an astonishing Moon Guo-Barker, then 9 years old), who adventures alone through the uncanny landscapes, encountering a turtle and other children along the way. 
The film invokes our present climate catastrophe and human division, and features Don DeLillo’s one-act play “The Word for Snow”. Shot in a tactile mix of colour and B&W Super 16mm, the images we see are supernal, and consistently imbued with wonderment. An important contribution to work made with children and a meaningful exploration of the ways in which stories can be formed, told, and transmitted, Mare’s Nest is all at once a film of plants and animals, of car graveyards and caves, of games and imagination.

This screening will be preceded by a live in-person Q&A with director, Ben Rivers.
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08/06/2026

DISCLOSURE DAY from Friday 12th June

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? When meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) finds herself at the centre of a bizarre on-set incident, she crosses paths with cybersecurity expert Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) who claims to understand what happened to her – and to have proof that we’re not alone in the universe.

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