River Oaks Theatre, Art Deco movie theater in River Oaks, Houston, United States.

River Oaks Theatre is a movie theater in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas, housed in a 1939 Art Deco building with an ornate main auditorium and a smaller upstairs screening room. Both spaces have been fitted with modern projection and sound equipment while keeping the original decorative details of the interior.

River Oaks Theatre opened on November 28, 1939, the last of the deluxe neighborhood movie theaters built by Interstate Theatre Corporation, with Bachelor Mother as its first film. Trans-Continental took over in late 1975 and Movie, Inc. in 1977, shifting the program to classic, foreign and cult films; Landmark ran it from 1976. It closed on March 25, 2021, after its lease with Weingarten Realty expired, and reopened on October 3, 2024 under Culinary Khancepts.

The theater programs independent films, foreign-language titles, and documentaries that rarely appear in chain cinemas, drawing a crowd that treats a night out here as something more than entertainment. The lobby often feels like a meeting point where regulars linger and talk after screenings.

The theater is in the River Oaks Shopping Center in the Neartown area, east of the River Oaks subdivision. It has one large downstairs screen and two smaller upstairs screens, with a total of 546 seats. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The upstairs balcony was converted into two mini-theaters of 125 seats each during the mid-1980s renovation, when the owners also spent $400,000 and replaced the 1939 carbon-arc projectors with platter systems. The downstairs auditorium was reseated to 546 places after seats were removed for a projector.