A revival house or repertory cinema is a

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that specializes in showing classic or notable older

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s (as opposed to

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). Such venues may include standard repertory cinemas, multi-function theatres that alternate between old movies and live events, and some first-run theatres that show past favorites alongside current

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List of revival houses

Canada

* Hamilton, The Westdale * London, Hyland Cinema * Montréal, Cinéma du Parc * Montréal, La Cinémathèque québécoise * Montréal, Dollar Cinema * Montréal, Cinéma Moderne * Ottawa, ByTowne Cinema * Ottawa, Mayfair Theatre * Saskatoon

Broadway Theatre Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''T ...

* Toronto,

Bloor Cinema The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema (formerly the Bloor Cinema and the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema) is a movie theatre in The Annex district of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at 506 Bloor Street West, near its intersection with Bathurst Street ...

* Toronto,

Revue Cinema The Revue Cinema is a cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies. When news of its closure became public, ...

* Toronto,

Royal Cinema The Royal Cinema is an Art Moderne event venue and cinema in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada a ...

* Vancouver,

Rio Theatre The Rio Theatre is an independent, multidisciplinary art house in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Built in 1938, the Rio served East Vancouver primarily as a movie theatre until 2008, when new owner, Corinne Lea, began to add live music and multimedia a ...

* Vancouver, The Cinematheque * Winnipeg,

Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

United States

* Atlanta, Plaza Theatre * Baltimore, The Charles Theatre * Brooklyn, NY,

Spectacle Theater Spectacle Theater is a collectively run, independent movie theater that operates out of a small space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York, United States. History Spectacle Theater opened in September 2010 at 124 S. 3rd Street in Brooklyn in ...

* Brooklyn, NY, Nitehawk Cinema * Boston, Brattle Theatre * Boston, Coolidge Corner Theatre * Boston,

Harvard Film Archive The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film, the HFA houses ...

* Chicago,

Gene Siskel Film Center The Gene Siskel Film Center, formerly The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and commonly referred to as The Film Center or The Gene Siskel, is the cinematheque attached to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I ...

* Chicago,

Music Box Theatre The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theater at 239 West 45th Street ( George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1921, the Music Box Theatre was designed by C. Howard Crane in a Palladian-inspir ...

* Chicago, Doc Films * Dallas,

Texas Theatre The Texas Theatre is a movie theater and Dallas landmark located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It gained historical significance on November 22, 1963, as the location of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest over the suspicion he was the ...

* Denver
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* Detroit,

Redford Theatre The Redford Theatre in Detroit, Michigan has served as an entertainment venue since it opened on January 27, 1928. It is owned and operated by the Motor City Theatre Organ Society (MCTOS), a 501(c)(3) organization. Architects Ralph F. Shreive alo ...

* Houston, Brown Theater * Lexington, Kentucky Theater * Los Angeles,

Grauman's Egyptian Theatre Grauman's Egyptian Theatre is a historic movie theater located at 6706 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California. Opened in 1922, it is an early example of a lavish movie palace and is noted as having been the site of the first-ever Hollywood ...

* Los Angeles, New Beverly Cinema * Manhattan, NY,

Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.Film Forum Film Forum is a nonprofit movie theater at 209 West Houston Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. It began in 1970 as an alternative screening space for independent films, with 50 folding chairs, one projector and a $19,000 annual budget. Kare ...

* Manhattan, NY,

IFC Center IFC Center is an art house movie theater in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. Located at 323 Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) at West 3rd Street, it was formerly the Waverly Theater, an art house movie theater. IFC Center is ...

* Manhattan, NY,

Metrograph The Metrograph is an independent two-screen movie theater at 7 Ludlow Street in the Dimes Square neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It opened in 2016 with two theatres, a bookstore, a "curated" concession stand, and a restaurant. ...

* Minneapolis, Trylon Cinema * Omaha, NE,

Dundee Theater The Dundee Theater is an historic movie theater located at 4952 Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska. Now operated by the nonprofit Film Streams, the Dundee is the longest-surviving neighborhood cinema in Omaha. History The Dundee Theater opened to ...

* Palo Alto, CA,

Stanford Theatre The Stanford Theatre is a classical independent movie theater in Palo Alto, California. It was designed and built in the 1920s as a movie palace styled in neoclassical Persian and Moorish architecture. Today it specializes in films produced betw ...

* Pittsburgh, PA, Row House Cinema * Philadelphia, PA, Lightbox Film Center * Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Film Center * Philadelphia, PA, Roxy Theater * Raleigh, NC, Colony Theater * Rochester, NY, Dryden Theatre * Saginaw, MI, Temple Theatre * Santa Monica, Aero Theatre * San Francisco,

Castro Theater The Castro Theatre is a historic movie palace in San Francisco that became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976. Located at 429 Castro Street in the Castro District, it was built in 1922 with a California Churrigueresque faça ...

* Seattle, Grand Illusion Cinema

Europe

United Kingdom

* Glasgow,

Glasgow Film Theatre The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is an independent cinema in the city centre of Glasgow. GFT is a registered charity. It occupies a purpose-built cinema building, first opened in 1939, and now protected as a category B listed building. History ...

* London,

BFI Southbank BFI Southbank (from 1951 to 2007, known as the National Film Theatre) is the leading repertory cinema in the UK, specialising in seasons of classic, independent and non-English language films. It is operated by the British Film Institute. His ...

* London,

Prince Charles Cinema The Prince Charles Cinema (PCC) is a repertory cinema located in Leicester Place, 50 yards north of Leicester Square in the West End of London. It shows a rotating programme of cult, arthouse, and classic films alongside recent Hollywood relea ...

* London, Regent Street Cinema * London, Close-Up Film Centre * Coventry
Warwick Student Cinema

France

* Paris, * Paris,

Le Champo Le Champo, in full Le Champo – Espace Jacques-Tati, is an arthouse cinema in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It is notable for being a favorite haunt of important figures in French cinema history. History Situated on the corner of Rue des Écoles ...

* Paris,

Cinémathèque Française The Cinémathèque Française (), founded in 1936, is a French non-profit film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world. Based in Paris's 12th arrondissement, the archive offers ...

* Paris, La Filmothèque * Paris, Le Grand Action * Paris, * Paris, Le Studio Saint-Michel

The Netherlands

* Rotterdam,

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Russia

* Moscow,

Poland

* Warsaw,

Romania

* Bucharest, Arhiva Nationala de Filme - Cinemateca

Australia

* Adelaide,

Mercury Cinema Mercury CX, formerly Media Resource Centre (MRC), is a not-for-profit film and television training organisation based in the Lion Arts Centre on the corner of Morphett Street and North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, which aims to give scr ...

(Adelaide Cinémathèque) * Hobart
Rewind Cinema
* Melbourne,

The Astor Theatre The Astor Theatre is a classic, single-screen revival movie theatre located in the inner Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, that has a long and illustrious history. The site at 1-3 Chapel Street was first used for public entertainment in 1913 when ...

* Melbourne,

Sun Theatre The Sun Theatre is an eight-screened cinema located in Melbourne, Australia, in the inner-west suburb of Yarraville. History The Sun Theatre originally opened in 1938 as a single-screen cinema seating 1,050 patrons. The Theatre was very popula ...

* Sydney, Randwick Ritz

Africa

South Africa

* Gardens, Cape Town, Labia Theatre * Johannesburg, The Bioscope Cinemas and movie theaters Repertory cinemas {{film-term-stub