Cinema ticketing software for France

En français : Filmgrail pour les cinémas en France — logiciel de billetterie, site web et application, tarifs.

In France the box office is not optional infrastructure you can swap on a whim: tickets are issued by a billetterie approved by the CNC, and that system feeds the admissions reporting the whole industry relies on. Filmgrail does not touch it. We read films, sessions, seats and prices from your box office and write each online sale back, so your CNC reporting stays exactly where it is.

What we replace is the layer your audience sees. In our crawl of cinema websites, 58 of the 112 French sites linked to The Boxoffice Company, whose group Webedia builds many French cinema sites. If that is you, read The Boxoffice Company alternatives and Filmgrail vs The Boxoffice Company. Circuits on Vista can start from our Vista integration and Vista alternatives.

France is Europe's largest cinema market. The CNC reports a 2025 box office of €1,158.1m, 156.2m admissions and 6,401 screens (see our global box office figures); UNIC puts admissions down 13.6% on an exceptional 2024 (see European cinema statistics). Pathé Cinémas, the largest French circuit, runs 1,308 screens on 129 sites in eight countries (see the largest cinema chains).

French moviegoers pay online with cards on the Cartes Bancaires network, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and young people can spend the government's pass Culture on cinema tickets through their cinema's box office. We integrate your payment provider rather than forcing ours on you.

The exhibitors' federation FNCF, chaired by Richard Patry since 2013, holds its annual congress in Deauville; art et essai cinemas meet through AFCAE's Rencontres nationales, and the industry gathers at the Marché du Film in Cannes. We list 29 cinema industry events in France, and the people who lead its circuits and associations in who's who in cinema.

We do not yet have a French cinema live, and we would rather say so. The closest comparables are in Norway and Sweden, where municipal, associative and independent cinemas look a lot like France's. Bergen Kino runs 18 halls with its website, native apps and online ticketing on Filmgrail, and Trondheim Kino runs two cinema centres and 19 halls on the same platform. Bio Bristol, an association-run cinema in a 1939 building near Stockholm, is the nearest thing we have to a French cinéma associatif.

For circuits, Ster-Kinekor, southern Africa's largest circuit, runs its website, ticketing and loyalty on Filmgrail. For festivals, BIFF and the Norwegian film festival in Haugesund run their festival websites and ticketing on our festival platform.

Pricing is published and flat: from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, per screen, with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). Prices are in US dollars. A mid-size film festival pays about $5,000 a year. If we already integrate your box office and payment provider you can be live in a few weeks; a system we have not connected before takes about a month, and we confirm the scope in writing before anything is signed.

See your own cinema on it before you talk to anyone: the free cinema website prototype builds a version of your site from its current address. Then book a demo against your real programme.