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Rialto Cinemas Elmwood is Berkeley's Only Independent Movie Theatre!

We feature a diverse mix of films including the best quality films from Hollywood and a wide array of independent and foreign films from around the world.

10/22/2026

FJORD, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, opens FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood!

A Norwegian woman (Renate Reinsve) and her devout Romanian husband (Sebastian Stan) relocate with their five children to a remote, close⁠-⁠knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond with a neighboring family as unease begins to simmer around their rigid beliefs. When allegations of abuse emerge, they are forced to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice.

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10/21/2026

🗿WILD HORSE NINE is coming soon to theaters and you can see it a WEEK EARLY at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 at 6PM!

WILD HORSE NINE is the new film from writer/director Martin McDonagh, known for In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, & The Banshees of Inisherin. Set shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, Wild Horse Nine follows CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell), who are dispatched from Santiago, Chile to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways. WILD HORSE NINE also stars Parker Posey, Steve Buscemi, and Tom Waits.

10/20/2026

🧺 WICKER, starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, and Peter Dinklage, opens this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood!

An audacious comedic fable about s*x, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention, WICKER tells the wholly original love story of an ostracized fisherwoman (Colman) who commissions a husband to be made by the local basketmaker (Dinklage). When her wicker husband (Skarsgård) proves more spectacular than she ever imagined, his soulful spirit and unique prowess awaken something inside her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination, and upheaval that threatens the very fabric of village life.

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10/19/2026

This SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 at 11AM, join us for a special screening of the new documentary ONE IN A MILLION, followed by a Q&A with Director Jack MacInnes and film subject Israa!

ONE IN A MILLION is a profound cinematic odyssey filmed over a decade. A portrait of the coming of age of a Syrian girl in exile, the film won Sundance’s Documentary Competition Audience and Directing awards. When we meet Israa, she’s 11 years old, hustling to help make money for her family. A refugee from Aleppo, Syria, she has only just embarked on a journey across countries, cultures and bureaucratic barriers to find asylum in Europe. Once she settles into her adopted home of Cologne, however, life offers different challenges: a new language and culture to learn, and newfound Western freedoms clashing with her family’s traditions. Finally returning to Aleppo a decade later as an adult and witnessing the devastation that lingers, Israa reflects that, for all the immediate hardships of war, “it’s not as hard as what comes after.”

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10/15/2026

👁️ YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING starts today at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood. Get your tickets online or in person at our box office.

10/14/2026

Noël Coward's FALLEN ANGELS comes to Rialto Cinemas Elmwood next THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 at 6:30PM, with an encore show on OCTOBER 25 at 1PM!

Sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent, FALLEN ANGELS, Noël Coward’s champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners, shocked and delighted audiences at its 1925 premiere. Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface in this intoxicating romp from one of theatre’s comedy masters. Starring Golden Globe-winner Rose Byrne and Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara, with Tracee Chimo, Mark Consuelos (making his Broadway debut), Christopher Fitzgerald and Aasif Mandvi, this new Roundabout Theatre and Tony Award-winning production is ‘pure escapist fun’ (The New York Times).

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10/12/2026

After 55 years of secrecy and censorship, Ken Russell's legendary 1971 film THE DEVILS arrives in cinemas fully restored and remastered. The film begins this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, with an advance screening Thursday night at 8:25pm.

THE DEVILS remains one of cinema’s most transgressive and incendiary provocations, a feverish account of the Loudun possessions witchcraft trial in 17th-century France. Oliver Reed stars as Urbain Grandier, a wildly charismatic libertine priest who defies Cardinal Richelieu’s consolidation of power. Vanessa Redgrave’s Sister Jeanne is a s*xually repressed, hunchbacked Abbess obsessed with Grandier with an intensity that ignites accusations of demonic possession among her convent’s nuns. Already a target for reprisals due to his political resistance, Grandier’s promiscuity eventually lands him on the wrong side of a powerful family.

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10/09/2026

Do you have strong feelings about concrete?

John Wilson's THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE is NOW PLAYING at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood!

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10/07/2026

"Through raw testimony from Israeli military personnel, NAZA is heartbreaking but essential viewing, questioning the systems that cause and quantify civilian death in modern warfare." -Toronto Star

"A shattering inquiry into Israel’s military actions in the war in Gaza... The new documentary NAZA is tough to watch, and impossible to ignore." -New York Times

"As a work of cinema, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism, it is inarguable. As a document, it is an indictment." -Time Out

NAZA, the new documentary from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, opens this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood.

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10/06/2026

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, the new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opens THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood! Tickets are on sale now!

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING.

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Address

2966 College Avenue At Ashby
Berkeley, CA
94705

Telephone

+15104339730

Website

http://www.rialtocinemas.com/elmwood

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