River Oaks Theatre

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The River Oaks Theatre is an arthouse cinema, paying homage to the theater’s rich history with the latest independent product, classic features such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and hosting various film festivals.

This August, we're breaking the law. Join us for a month of crime-soaked cinematic masterpieces as we screen some of the...
07/24/2026

This August, we're breaking the law. Join us for a month of crime-soaked cinematic masterpieces as we screen some of the grittiest depictions on life on the wrong side of the law.

LA HAINE - Sunday, August 2; Monday, August 3; and Wednesday, August 5
SN**CH - Sunday, August 2 and Thursday, August 6
NIGHTCRAWLER - Sunday, August 2 and Thursday, August 6
THIEF - Sunday, August 9
HEAT - Sunday, August 9
MEMORIES OF MURDER - Tuesday, August 11 and Thursday, August 13
ZODIAC - Wednesday, August 12
GOODFELLAS - Sunday, August 16
CASINO - Sunday, August 16
THE GODFATHER TRILOGY - Sunday, August 23
BELLY - Monday, August 24
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA - Sunday, August 30
MIKEY AND NICKY - Sunday, August 30

In BOYHOOD, the joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his p...
07/23/2026

In BOYHOOD, the joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his parents (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke) and his sister (Lorelei Linklater). Vignettes, filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years, capture family meals, road trips, birthday parties, graduations and other important milestones. Songs from Coldplay, Arcade Fire and other artists capture the time period.

Don't miss a 12th anniversary screening featuring a newly recorded post-screening reunion Q&A on Saturday, August 1. Tickets and showtimes are available on our website - link in our bio.

Philip Hartman’s NO PICNIC is a priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, with appearances by St...
07/22/2026

Philip Hartman’s NO PICNIC is a priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, with appearances by Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Luis Guzmán, and other fixtures of the Downtown music and art scenes. The winds of change were in the air during the film’s production in the summer of 1985 as Hartman raced to capture his neighborhood in all its squalid glory. Hartman’s neo-noir comedy follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars, and derelict streets of the Lower East Side in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress.

NO PICNIC was showered with praise (Manohla Dargis called it “the genuine article” in the Village Voice), Peter Hutton won a Sundance prize for his gorgeously evocative black-and-white cinematography, and a theatrical run at Anthology Film Archives broke box-office records. Hartman recalls, “Peter Hutton and I moved fast with a nimble crew—including Emmy-award winning director Mike Spiller as assistant cameraman and animator Lewis Klahr as boom operator—using an old VW bus as our production van. We tried to grab images, from Adam Purple’s Garden to the ‘86 Club’ to the St. Mark's Cinema, that seemed to be vanishing before our eyes."

Don't miss a special screening on Saturday, August 1 at 5 PM. Tickets available on our website - link in our bio.

This August at the River Oaks Theatre, we're screening films about criminals and cats and, in some cases, criminal cats....
07/21/2026

This August at the River Oaks Theatre, we're screening films about criminals and cats and, in some cases, criminal cats. From HEAT to GOODFELLAS to ROAR to THE CASSANDRA CAT, you're going to find something purrfectly fun to watch next month at the River Oaks.

Our programming this August at the River Oaks Theatre promises to be the cat's pajamas. Presenting CAT FANCY, a monthlon...
07/21/2026

Our programming this August at the River Oaks Theatre promises to be the cat's pajamas. Presenting CAT FANCY, a monthlong series of films celebrating cinema's greatest cool cats.

THE ARISTOCATS - Saturday, August 1 at 11:45 AM
CAT PEOPLE (1982) - Saturday, August 1 at 10 PM
ROAR - Saturday, August 8 at 10 PM
THE CAT RETURNS - Saturday, August 15 at 10:30 AM
CATS DON'T DANCE - Saturday, August 22 at 12:15 PM
THE CASSANDRA CAT - Saturday, August 22 at 9:30 PM
GAY PURR-EE - Saturday, August 29 at 11:45 AM

Tickets and showtimes are available on our website - link in our bio.

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs an...
07/20/2026

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly q***r but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world – issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation.

Don't miss MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD when it opens on Friday, July 31 at the River Oaks Theatre.

Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her.

Showtimes and tickets available at our website - link in our bio.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Is he playing at the River Oaks Theatre? Listen, bud; tickets and sh...
07/19/2026

Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Is he playing at the River Oaks Theatre? Listen, bud; tickets and showtimes for SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY are now on sale at our website - link in our bio.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket (Alexandre ...
07/18/2026

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood. José "Zé" Pequeno (Leandro Firmino da Hora) is an ambitious drug dealer who uses Rocket and his photos as a way to increase his fame as a turf war erupts with his rival, "Knockout Ned" (Seu Jorge).

Don't miss two screenings of CITY OF GOD on Wednesday, July 29 at the River Oaks Theatre. This screening is part of CINEMÁS, a monthly program by HLFF! Bringing you MORE independent Latinx films at River Oaks Theatre throughout the year! CINEMÁS is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Our Road Tripping series continues this weekend with more screenings of our favorite movies about epic journeys, in hono...
07/17/2026

Our Road Tripping series continues this weekend with more screenings of our favorite movies about epic journeys, in honor of Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY.

AN AMERICAN TAIL - Saturday, July 18
STARMAN - Saturday, July 18
DELIVERANCE - Sunday, July 19 and Tuesday, July 21
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO - Sunday, July 19 and Wednesday, July 22
SORCERER - Two shows on Monday, July 20
THE BLUES BROTHERS - Tuesday, July 21
NORTH BY NORTHWEST - Thursday, July 23
THE DARJEELING LIMITED - Saturday, July 25 and Thursday, July 30
AMERICAN POP - Saturday, July 25
PAPER MOON - Sunday, July 26
STALKER - Sunday, July 26 and Wednesday, July 29
STAND BY ME - Monday, July 27
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS - Tuesday, July 28

Tickets and showtimes are available on our website - link in our bio.

A new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his team in this coming-of-age movie set in th...
07/16/2026

A new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his team in this coming-of-age movie set in the summer of 1962. Together, they get themselves into many adventures involving rival teams, lifeguards, and a vicious dog.

Don't miss a screening of THE SANDLOT on Saturday, July 25 at 11:30 AM. Tickets and showtimes are available on our website - link in our bio.

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2009 West Gray Street
Houston, TX
77019

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 10pm
Tuesday 10am - 10pm
Wednesday 10am - 10pm
Thursday 10am - 10pm
Friday 10am - 10:30pm
Saturday 10am - 10:30pm
Sunday 10am - 10pm

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