Why we built this

We are movie people, and we built this because going to the cinema in Hong Kong stopped being a casual decision.

Somewhere between the rent and the price of everything else, a cinema ticket turned into a thing you think twice about. Two people, a couple of drinks, and an evening screening in a mall in Central is real money now. The films did not get worse. The maths did.

What annoyed us was not the price itself — it was that the price was impossible to compare. The same movie, on the same day, can differ by more than 57% between one cinema and another twenty minutes away, or between the 11am show and the 8pm one at the same cinema. None of that is secret. It is just scattered across a dozen booking sites, each with its own calendar widget, each showing you only its own cinemas.

What this site does

We collect every public showtime in Hong Kong — right now 2,555 screenings of 66 movies at 22 cinemas across 16 districts — and put them in one list you can actually sort. Cheapest first, nearest first, tonight only, IMAX only, English subtitles only.

• Every screening, sorted by price. Tickets currently start at HK$50 and average HK$117. If you are flexible about when and where, that gap is yours to take.
• Where the cinemas actually are. Browse by district, because "cheapest in Hong Kong" is useless if it is an hour away.
• The premium formats, honestly costed. IMAX, 4DX and Dolby Atmos each carry a premium we show you as a percentage, so you can decide whether this particular movie is worth it.
• Subtitles, up front. Which showings have English subtitles, which are dubbed, and which are the original Cantonese — before you book, not after.

How we decide what is worth seeing

We do not write reviews. There are people who do that better, and a one-line verdict from strangers is not why you came.

What we do have is data. We show the IMDb score where one exists, how many people voted for it, the Hong Kong classification, the runtime, and — the number nobody else shows you — how full each screening already is. A screening at 15% capacity on a Friday night tells you something a rating cannot. So does one that is nearly sold out on a Tuesday afternoon.

We also track which movies and cinemas people here actually click through to book. That is what feeds our most popular movies and cinemas pages — not a critic's list, just where Hong Kong is genuinely going this week.

Where the data comes from

Directly from the cinemas: Broadway Circuit and its Palace, PALACE ifc and MOViE MOViE houses, MCL, Emperor Cinemas, and the independents. We refresh through the day, so a listing here should match the booking page it links to.

When a chain's feed goes down, we keep serving the last good data and retry — we would rather show you a slightly stale showtime than an empty page. Booking always happens on the cinema's own site. We never take your payment details, because we never take a booking.

The cheap seats, in short

If you take one thing from this site: go earlier. Morning and early-afternoon screenings routinely run around 40% below the same seat at 8pm, and most cinemas have a discount day midweek. We wrote up the full version in the cheapest way to watch a movie in Hong Kong, and if it has already left cinemas, where it goes next.

Contact

Found a wrong price, a missing cinema, or a showtime that does not exist? Tell us — that is the kind of thing we want to hear about, and it is the only way this stays accurate.