Cinemas in Athens

Athens has a screen for every mood: historic halls in the centre, art-house regulars, big multiplexes and, from May to September, dozens of open-air cinemas. Here you can see every cinema in the city and what each one is showing.

The historic centre still holds some of the city's best-loved halls. Around Panepistimiou metro you'll find the Astor, tucked into the Korai arcade off Stadiou with its amphitheatre-style room, the Asty on Korai, a basement hall that hosts retrospectives and the spring Tainiorama festival, and Cinobo Opera on Akadimias, with three screens and a bar. Up by Victoria, the Trianon mixes European releases with Greek cinema seasons, while Studio New Star Art Cinema near Plateia Amerikis keeps an independent, cinephile programme. In Ampelokipi, the two-screen Danaos is the go-to for first-run quality films, and in Koukaki the Mikrokosmos on Syngrou leans towards art-house.

For classics and retrospectives, the Greek Film Archive (Tainiothiki) in Gazi screens all year in its Lais hall and moves up to an open-air screen in summer. If you want the new blockbuster in 3D or Dolby Atmos, the multiplexes sit outside the centre: Village at Athens Metro Mall in Agios Dimitrios, the twenty-screen Village Shopping and More in Rentis, and The Mall Athens in Marousi. That's also where most children's films play in their Greek-dubbed version.

Summer changes the map. Many indoor halls close or cut back and the city moves outdoors, from Thiseion under the Acropolis to Dexameni in Kolonaki and Riviera in Exarchia. Whatever the season, foreign films are shown in their original language with Greek subtitles, so English-language films are easy to follow if you don't speak Greek. On Mood you can see which cinemas are showing a film, every showtime and which screen is closest to you.