The Avon Cinema is an independent movie theater near Brown University on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island.

[1][2] The theater primarily screens independent, art house, and foreign films.

[3] The theater soon closed and possibly served as an amateur theatre or gymnasium with parking garage for a few years.

[3] The Dulgarian family purchased the theatre in 1938, advertising it as devoted to "the showing of unusual pictures.

[2] In 1937, Louis Gordon Theatres Inc. leased the property from the Dulgarian Brothers with the intention of turning it back into a theater.