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Cinema & Film Guides
What's on at the cinema, the best open-air summer screens, film festivals and showtimes across Athens, Thessaloniki and Greece - from the Mood team.
Greece has one of the densest open-air cinema cultures in the world, and Mood tracks it - the historic screens, the neighbourhood gardens, the festivals and the double features that run all summer. These guides cover what's on, where to sit, and which screenings are worth crossing the city for, in Athens, Thessaloniki and beyond.
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Los Angeles: Dine-In Seats and Repertory Programming
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown Los Angeles is a dine-in movie theater in the Financial District where food and drinks are served at the seat during the film, alongside a strict no-talking policy the chain has enforced since its 1997 Austin origins. In Mood's data, the venue carries 113 upcoming screenings across 59 films, and at least 55 of those screenings, spanning 38 titles, are repertory or revival bookings rather than day-and-date new releases - everything from Akira and Ghost in the Shell to Terminator 2 and Beetlejuice sharing a calendar with current theatrical titles. Mood tracks the full schedule.
Premium Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX Guide
A premium-format movie theater is built around one specific technology - IMAX's taller image, 4DX's motion seats and environmental effects, or ScreenX's panoramic wraparound picture - rather than a standard screen and fixed seating. Los Angeles runs twelve of these rooms in Mood's tracked cinema data: two Cinepolis IMAX locations (Inglewood and Westlake), one CinemaWest complex in El Segundo combining 4DX, ScreenX and a giant screen, and nine Cinemark theaters built around the XD format, stretching from Carson and Downey to North Hollywood. Together they carry 1,376 screenings against 12,258 tracked citywide across 170 Los Angeles movie theaters. Mood maps every one of these formats by neighborhood, alongside the city's standard multiplexes and independent screens.
Laemmle Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: A Guide to All Six Locations
Laemmle is Los Angeles's dedicated arthouse movie theater chain, a family-run operator founded in 1938 that specializes in independent, foreign-language and documentary releases. In Mood's data, six Laemmle locations - NoHo 7, Glendale, Monica Film Center, Town Center 5, Royal and Newhall - carry 350 confirmed upcoming screenings between them, split unevenly: NoHo 7 alone runs 98, well ahead of Glendale's 64, while Newhall's published calendar is currently the thinnest and shortest-range of the six. Programming varies room to room, from Glendale's documentary-and-music lean to Newhall's rare mainstream studio bookings. Mood lists every Laemmle screening in Los Angeles.
Greek Classic Films at Athens' Open-Air Cinemas This Summer
Athens keeps around 70 open-air, "therina" cinemas running through the summer, and this season Cine Paris in Plaka is showing two Oscar-nominated Greek classics from the 1960s alongside its usual mix of new releases and foreign revivals. The Red Lanterns screens on August 26th and Blood on the Land on September 2nd, both directed by Vasilis Georgiadis. Mood tracks the wider open-air programme too, from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey - the most-screened film across the city's open-air cinemas this month - to dozens of smaller neighbourhood venues, giving visitors a full picture of what is actually playing before they pick a night out.
Independent and Historic Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Screens
Los Angeles has the deepest repertory and independent movie theater culture in the United States - a network of historic movie palaces, nonprofit arthouses and revival theatres that screen far more than the week's new releases. In Mood's data, more than 3,200 screenings run across 89 LA movie theaters, from the Disney-run El Capitan and the single-screen Vista to revival houses like Vidiots and the Academy Museum. The repertory depth is the giveaway: classics such as Terminator 2, Spirited Away and It's a Wonderful Life recur across the calendar alongside tentpoles like Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Mood pulls every LA movie theater and screening into one place.
Outdoor Movies in Los Angeles: Rooftops, Cemeteries and Summer Screens
Outdoor movie screenings in Los Angeles are the city's summer tradition of watching films under the sky - on Downtown rooftops, cemetery lawns and open-air lots where the setting is half the point. In Mood's data the two anchors are Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA, the most-programmed open-air screen in the city with more than 80 upcoming screenings, and Cinespia, which projects classics onto a mausoleum wall at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It is a seasonal, atmosphere-first layer on top of LA's year-round movie theater calendar, concentrated in the warm months and prone to selling out. Mood pulls the outdoor screenings into the same calendar as the rest of the city's movie theaters.
What's Playing in Los Angeles Movie Theaters: September 2026
Los Angeles movie theaters run 12,336 screenings across 155 venues in September 2026, split between a crowded new-release slate and a deep revival calendar. Coyote vs. Acme leads the month with 1,021 showings across 96 movie theaters, just ahead of Insidious: Out of the Further and The Dog Stars, while Spider-Man: Brand New Day, August's dominant title, falls to 1,171 showings as its run winds down. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey still performs like a new release two months in. The revival calendar's clearest thread is a full run through all seven Harry Potter films across the city's independent theatres, alongside holdover classics like Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Mood tracks every movie theater and showtime in one place, refreshed each month.
Family Movies at Athens Open-Air Cinemas in September 2026: What's Still Playing
Athens's open-air cinema season opened September at the same scale it closed August - 98 cinemas running the first weekend, per Mood's data - but confirmed showtimes fall off fast after that, with only two cinemas' schedules stretching further into the month. Minions & Monsters is September's most-screened film, playing 91 times across 44 cinemas, ahead of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and the drama Fjord. Family and comedy titles dominate the closing stretch, though a wide classics strand - Psycho, Trainspotting, Conversation Piece - is still running. Full listings are on Mood.
Open-Air Cinemas in Thessaloniki 2026: The Complete Summer Guide
Open-air cinemas - the therina sinema - are a fixed part of a Thessaloniki summer: garden and rooftop screens that run films under the night sky from late May to September, often with the Thermaic Gulf or the city lights in the frame. Mood lists more than ten open-air cinemas across Thessaloniki for 2026, from waterfront landmarks like Natali and Ellinis to Cine Avra in Kalamaria and the hillside Panorama screen. The summer programme runs from new releases like Toy Story 5 to later-night revivals. The full list and showtimes are on Mood.
Open-Air Cinemas in Athens 2026: The Complete Summer Guide
Open-air cinemas - the θερινά σινεμά - are Athens's summer ritual: rooftop and garden screens that run films under the night sky from late May to September, often with the Acropolis or the sea in the frame. Mood lists more than 60 open-air cinemas across Athens for 2026, from landmark venues like Cine Paris in Plaka and Thision below the Acropolis to neighbourhood and coastal screens in Vouliagmeni, Nea Smyrni and beyond. The summer programme runs from new releases like Toy Story 5 to revivals of Amélie and Psycho. The full list and showtimes are on Mood.
Where can I watch open-air cinema in Athens?
Athens has one of the densest open-air cinema scenes in the world - more than 100 screens across the city, from historic venues like Cine Paris in Plaka and Cine Thisio under the Acropolis to neighbourhood gardens. Mood tracks what's screening at each across the summer season.
When is the open-air cinema season in Greece?
Greek open-air cinemas (therina) run from late May to early October, peaking in July and August. Screenings usually start around 9 PM and many venues run a double feature on weekends. Indoor cinemas operate year-round.
Does Mood cover film festivals in Greece?
Yes. Mood covers major Greek film events including the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Athens Open Air Film Festival, and one-off screenings and retrospectives across the cities it tracks.