Cinema ticketing software for German cinemas

The typical German independent sells online through a widget on its own site and a listing on a consumer portal. That is cheap, and for a cinema that only wants online sales at no fixed cost it is a rational choice. It is also someone else's product with your programme in it: the portal is built to help a moviegoer choose where to go, which means it can show your customer the cinema down the road.

Filmgrail is the other trade. Your own website and native app sell only your programme, every visitor and every customer record is yours, and loyalty and push bring regulars back without a portal in between. The till does not move: Filmgrail reads programme, sessions, seats and prices from the box office and writes each sale back. See Filmgrail vs Kinoheld, Kinoheld alternatives, cinetixx alternatives, COMPESO alternatives and the COMPESO integration.

We will be straight with you: we do not yet have a German cinema live. The closest comparables are the cinemas German Programmkinos and kommunale Kinos resemble most. In Norway, Trondheim Kino, owned by the municipality since 1918, runs 19 halls on Filmgrail with its own apps, and Bergen Kino runs 18. In Sweden, Bio Bristol is an association-run quality film cinema, much like a German Filmkunsttheater, with website and ticketing on Filmgrail. In the US, Classic Cinemas runs around sixteen theatres, from restored single screens to multiplexes.

Festivals are the other proof point: BIFF and the Norwegian International Film Festival run on our festival platform. The first German cinemas get our full attention during setup.

Germany is one of Europe's largest cinema markets: €924 million in box office and 91.9 million admissions in 2025, up 6.4% and 2.1%, according to UNIC figures in our European cinema statistics. The circuits have their own apps and loyalty: CineStar runs 339 screens on 43 sites, CinemaxX 257 on 30 and UCI Kinowelt 188 on 21 (see the largest cinema chains).

Exhibitors meet at CineHamburg, from HDF KINO, and independents at the Filmkunstmesse Leipzig of AG Kino. We list 17 cinema industry events in Germany, and the leadership of HDF KINO, AG Kino and the circuits is in our who's who in cinema.

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). 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 provider we have not connected before takes about a month.

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.