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The River Oaks Theatre, located east of the River Oaks neighborhood in the River Oaks Shopping Center, is one of Landmark Theatres' two Houston, Texas theatres.

Landmark Theatres is the largest art house movie theater chain in the United States. The chain shows mostly first run independent, foreign film, and restored classics though some Landmark theaters also show more mainstream movies too. They also occasionally show digital movies, on digital projectors in place at most theaters. Their theaters are also known for selling gourmet concession stand offerings such as gourmet coffee, espresso drinks, fresh-baked goods, imported chocolate and candy offerings, etc. Landmark Theatres is the producer of the outrageous "Midnight Mass" movie event hosted by drag artist Peaches Christ.

Landmark Theatres (originally Parallax Theatres) was founded in 1974 by theater owner Kim Jorgensen. The first theater acquired by the chain was the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles. Jorgensen hired Steve Gilula and Gary Meyer in 1976, who later became stockholders, with the acquisition of the UC Theater in Berkeley, California. In the 1980s, Landmark acquired Santa Fe-based Movies, Inc. and Seattle-based Seven Gables. In the 1990s, Landmark Theatres was acquired by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Landmark Theatres continued to grow throughout the 1990s and developed multiplex theatres of its own in San Francisco; Cambridge, Massachusetts; St. Louis; Chicago; New York City, Indianapolis, and the largest one which opened on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles on June 1st. A Landmark Theater opened in downtown Baltimore's Harbor East neighborhood on November 2, 2007. Jorgensen later became a movie producer, selling out his interest in Landmark in 1989. Gilula and Meyer sold their interest in 1995.

Today, Landmark Theatres operates 241 screens in 61 theatres in 15 states and the District of Columbia. It is owned by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner through their 2929 Entertainment.

• Landmark Theatres Website