Angelika Film Center & Cafe Dallas

The Angelika name began with the Angelika Film Center in New York City, which opened in 1989 and which its owner, Reading International, calls one of the most influential art-house cinemas in the United States. Reading brought the brand to Texas as a chain of art and urban cinemas with cafes.

The Dallas house started as a lease signed by Reading Entertainment, Inc., for a cinema in Mockingbird Station, the development on East Mockingbird Lane. On September 22, 2000, Reading International acquired that leasehold interest for an 8-screen Angelika. Construction finished in 2001, and the Angelika Film Center & Cafe Dallas opened to the public on August 3, 2001. Cinema Treasures lists it at 5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, with 1,577 seats and a focus on independent film. Reading's annual report for 2001 described it, with the Manhattan and Houston Angelikas, as an art cinema offering a wider range of concessions than its conventional houses, and noted that the Dallas and Houston locations had cafes licensed to sell alcohol.

By 2004 Reading also ran an Angelika in Plano under a management contract, and its annual report for that year lists Angelika art cinemas in Manhattan, Dallas, Houston and Plano. Its report for 2010 named only Manhattan and Dallas among its Angelika art cinemas and referred to a "closed downtown Houston operation," which it planned to replace with a suburban Houston art cinema leased early in 2011.

The Dallas Angelika is now the company's only Texas cinema. In its annual report for 2025, filed in March 2026, Reading listed Angelika Film Center & Cafes in San Diego, Dallas and Fairfax, Virginia, and showed a single Texas cinema: one leased location with 8 screens operating under the Angelika name.