Cinema ticketing software for Dutch cinemas

Dutch filmtheaters are well served at the till, and Cineville brings a loyal, high-frequency audience through the door. What most cinemas still lack is a brand of their own on the phone: in our crawl of 1,189 cinema websites only 7% linked to one.

Filmgrail puts a branded website, a native iOS and Android app and a checkout in your colours on top of your kassasysteem, reads films, sessions, seats and prices from it and writes each sale back. The circuits already sell to your audience through channels of their own; this is how you get onto the same phones. See cinema ticketing software alternatives and Vista alternatives.

We will be straight with you: we do not yet have a Dutch cinema live. The closest comparables are cinemas with the same profile as a Dutch filmtheater. Bio Bristol in Sweden is an association-run quality film cinema with website and ticketing on Filmgrail. In Norway, Vega Scene in Oslo programmes film alongside theatre and stage, and Trondheim Kino and Bergen Kino run 19 and 18 halls with their own native apps.

For festivals, BIFF and the Norwegian International Film Festival run on our festival platform. The first Dutch cinemas get our full attention during setup.

Dutch cinemas and filmtheaters sold just over 28 million tickets in 2025, 3% fewer than in 2024, for €308 million in box office, down 1%, according to NVBF and NVPI Film. Filmtheaters bucked the trend: 3.9 million visits, 12% more than a year earlier. The audience growing fastest is exactly the one that most values a cinema with its own identity.

Exhibitors are represented by the NVBF, whose chair Ron Sterk is in our who's who. The sector meets at the NVBF general assembly, the Bioscoop 10-Daagse promotion and IFFR Pro in Rotterdam; we list 5 cinema industry events in the Netherlands.

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.