Grand Illusion Cinema, Independent movie theater in University District, Seattle, United States.

Grand Illusion Cinema is an independent movie theater featuring vintage details like wooden ceilings and a velvet curtain in its 30-seat screening room in the University District. The space maintains the character of a classic, intimate film house.

The Movie House opened in spring 1970 on the second floor of an early 20th-century building, in a space that had been a dentist's office; Randy Finley founded it and an annual December screening of It's a Wonderful Life began in 1971. Paul Doyle took over in 1979 and renamed it The Grand Illusion after Jean Renoir's 1937 film. The Northwest Film Forum rescued it in 1997, and in 2004 it passed to investors including staff members.

The cinema's name honours Jean Renoir's 1937 film La Grande Illusion, chosen by owner Paul Doyle in 1979. Weekend "late nights" regularly screen horror, sci-fi and exploitation films, and an annual December showing of It's a Wonderful Life has run since 1971.

The cinema left its second-floor space at 1403 NE 50th St. after the final 35mm screening on January 31, 2025, and pop-up screenings are being held at the Northwest Film Forum and other venues until it reopens in the former Varsity Theatre under a 10-year lease.

In 2008 Paste magazine named it one of the best movie houses in America, alongside the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin and Film Forum in New York. It is the only non-profit cinema in the United States run entirely by volunteers. Its last screening at 1403 NE 50th St. was a 35mm print of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator on January 31, 2025.