Bangkok has a handful of small cinemas and screening rooms outside the mall chains, plus rooftops that put a screen up for a few nights at a time. This page lists their screenings in English or with English subtitles: classics, documentaries and festival films, with the time, the price and the official place to book. No Marvel.
Source-check dates appear with each listing · All times are Bangkok time
The calendar below lists dated screenings at Bangkok's small cinemas and screening rooms: the arthouse rooms, a wine bar with a 25-seat screen, an art space with a free Sunday film, and the rooftops that put up a screen for a weekend. Every listing is a film in English or shown with English subtitles. Thai-only screenings and the mall chains' new releases are left out on purpose.
Three of the rooms change their programme every day or every week, so this page cannot list all of it. For those, the guide below says what the room shows and links to its own schedule. When one of them announces something in English worth a trip, it goes in the calendar.
The cinemas
Tap a pin for the room and a link to its entry. Doc Club is the far one, out at Punnawithi.
House Samyan, Samyan Mitrtown
Bangkok's arthouse cinema since 2004 (as House RCA), with three screens on the fifth floor of Samyan Mitrtown since 2019. Time Out put it at number 46 on its 2026 list of the world's best cinemas, the only Thai room on it. It shows a daily mix: festival films and restored classics alongside a few mainstream releases, and it is the Bangkok home of the Irish, Japanese, EU and Hong Kong film festivals and BKKIFF. Each film's page on housesamyan.com states its language and subtitles, so check before you book; a Bergman restoration there comes with Thai and English subtitles, a German release may have Thai subtitles only. Tickets are sold on the site and in the House Cinema app. MRT Sam Yan is under the building.
Doc Club & Friends, Cloud 11
Documentary Club's own 34-seat cinema, on the second floor of Cloud 11 at BTS Punnawithi (exit 6 has a skywalk into the building). It opened in 2026 after the Sala Daeng room lost its screening licence, and it runs the busiest programme of the small rooms: documentaries, restored classics, a monthly cult strand and festival shorts, several screenings a day. Tickets are ฿160, booked on docclubandfriends.com, where each film's page states its subtitles. Open daily 11:00 to midnight with a bar, Drink Club & Friends, at the door. The calendar on this page lists its English-subtitled screenings for the next fortnight or so.
Sala Saneha, Decho Road
A 25-seat cinema in a 70-year-old building off Silom, opened in March 2026, with a wine bar downstairs and a library of Southeast Asian books. The programme changes weekly and mixes Thai classics with English subtitles and recent English-language films with Thai ones. Doors open half an hour before, the film starts on time, and there are no adverts or trailers. Open Thursday to Monday from 18:00. Tickets are on Zipevent; the weekly line-up is posted on Instagram. BTS Chong Nonsi or Sala Daeng, then walk.
Cinema Oasis, Sukhumvit 43
A 48-seat non-profit cinema with a gallery upstairs, founded in 2018 by the filmmakers Ing K and Manit Sriwanichpoom so that films the censors had cut or banned had somewhere to play. It opens Thursday to Sunday and screens in bursts rather than daily. Its programme is announced on its Facebook page and cinemaoasis.com. Nothing dated was published when we checked on 21 October 2026, which is why nothing from it is in the calendar yet. BTS Phrom Phong, exit 3.
Alliance Ciné, Wireless Road
The Alliance Française's cinema on Wireless Road has a repertory programme of French, European and Thai films that is refreshed at the start of each month and runs with English subtitles. Weeknight screenings are at 18:00, with the odd family matinee at 14:00 on a Saturday. Tickets are ฿120, or ฿60 for members, booked on the Alliance's cinema agenda. MRT Lumphini.
The Friese-Greene Club, Sukhumvit 22
A private members' club for people who like films: a nine-seat screening room, a film library and a bar, open Tuesday to Sunday evenings. It shows classics and cult films most nights, usually in a weekly theme. The programme is posted on its Facebook page, and membership details are on fgc.in.th. Members only, which is why its nightly films are not in the calendar.
Lido Connect, Siam Square
The old Lido cinema reopened in 2019 as an arts venue with one of its three halls kept as a screen. In 2026 that screen has been used by festivals, the EU Film Festival in June among them, while the building's own calendar is live music. When a festival books it, the screenings go in the calendar here. BTS Siam.
Screening rooms that are not cinemas
Bangkok Kunsthalle, Charoen Krung
The art space in the old Thai Wattana Panich printing house runs Sunday Cinema, a free film every second Sunday at 17:30 until 20 December 2026, curated by Rosalia Engchuan. Seats are reserved on Ticketmelon and were all taken for the rest of the year when we looked on 21 October, so ask the Kunsthalle about returns. The dates with English subtitles are in the calendar.
The Corner House, Talat Noi
The restored Chai Pattanasilp building on the corner of Charoen Krung 35 and the canal, with a pavilion on its top floor, where it runs film seasons such as House of Films. The Halloween edition is in the calendar. There is also a small cinema inside Such A Small World, the record cafe on the third floor.
Sala Chaloem Thani, Nang Loeng
Thailand's oldest wooden cinema, built in 1918 and reopened in 2025. The Thai Film Archive runs free weekend seasons of Thai classics there a few times a year and uses it for the city's January open-air festival. The films are mostly Thai without subtitles, so they are listed here only when the Archive says otherwise. There is no train nearby; take a taxi to Nang Loeng market.
Prince Theatre Heritage Stay, Charoen Krung
An old Charoen Krung cinema turned hostel that shows films on the original screen in its lobby. The last schedule we found was from 2024, so ask at the hotel before you plan an evening around it.
Rooftops and open air
Skyline Film is the one regular rooftop operator: a Taiwanese outdoor-cinema company that books a Bangkok rooftop for a few nights at a time, with deck chairs, wireless headphones and two films a night at ฿500 each. Its home is the fifth-floor roof of River City Bangkok in Talat Noi, and it has also used Dib Bangkok, the Siamscape roof garden and SAMA Garden at BITEC this year. Its next run is in the calendar; new dates appear on its Ticketmelon page and Facebook.
Golden Hour Cinema Club started in June 2026 on the ninth-floor terrace of the Moxy Bangkok Ratchaprasong hotel: a free, RSVP-only screening of a nostalgic American film on a Thursday evening, roughly monthly. The next date is announced on goldenhourcinema.com and booked on Megatix. Nothing was dated when we checked, so it is not in the calendar yet.
theCOMMONS Thonglor runs a Sunset Film Club on its top yard with Documentary Club in short seasons, and Cloud 11 put on its first outdoor weekend in its rooftop garden in March 2026. Krungthep Klang Plaeng, the city's free open-air film festival, runs on January weekends: the 2026 edition used the plaza outside BACC, Sala Chaloem Thani and the Asvin art space near Nang Loeng. When any of them announces dates with English subtitles, they go in the calendar.
What is not here, and why
The mall chains. Major, SF, Paragon Cineplex, Quartier CineArt, Icon Cineconic, Embassy Diplomat Screens and their siblings show the new releases, and you do not need a listings site to find a Marvel film.
Century The Movie Plaza at On Nut and Victory Monument is a small independent chain rather than a mall multiplex, but it shows the same new releases. It appears here only when a festival books it, as Doc Club's What the Doc festival did in September 2026.
The Thai Film Archive in Salaya has free daily screenings and a film museum, but it is in Nakhon Pathom, about an hour out, and most of its programme is Thai without subtitles.
Closed rooms that older guides still list: Scala in Siam Square (2020), Bangkok Screening Room in Sala Daeng (2021, its space became Doc Club & Pub, which has since moved to Cloud 11) and House RCA (2019, now House Samyan).
Quick answers
Which cinema shows films with English subtitles?
House Samyan and Doc Club & Friends state the subtitles on every film's page, and most of their non-English films carry Thai and English subtitles. Alliance Ciné runs with English subtitles throughout. Sala Saneha's Thai classics have English subtitles; its English-language films have Thai ones.
Where is the cheapest night?
Bangkok Kunsthalle's Sunday Cinema is free, as are the Alliance's festival screenings and Golden Hour's rooftop. Doc Club & Friends is ฿160, Alliance Ciné ฿120 and Skyline Film ฿500 with a drink.
Is there an open-air cinema in Bangkok?
Not a permanent one. Skyline Film puts a screen on the River City roof a few nights a month in the cool season, Golden Hour uses the Moxy terrace about once a month, and the city's free festival runs on January weekends.
The next five weeks
Calendar
October 2026 – November 2026
Weekly schedule and monthly schedule dates follow the organiser’s regular pattern; check the linked listing before travelling. “Announced date” means that specific date is published. Only upcoming dates are shown.
Screenings at Bangkok's independent cinemas, screening rooms and rooftops, in English or with English subtitles. Each listing gives the announced dates and the time for each one.
Photo: Skyline Film Bangkok
Punnawithi (Cloud 11)
Jason and the Argonauts at Doc Club & Friends
Next: · 15:45Next: · 18:15Next: · 19:50Next: · 15:40Next date to be announced
Don Chaffey's 1963 adventure with Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons, on a 34-seat screen. In English with Thai subtitles.
When
Thu 22 Oct 15:45 · Sat 24 Oct 18:15 · Tue 27 Oct 19:50 · Tue 3 Nov 15:40
Where
Doc Club & Friends2nd Floor, Cloud11, 888 Sukhumvit Rd., Phra Khanong Tai, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260
Tickets
฿160. Members log in before booking for free tickets and 10% off.
Note
34 seats. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi exit 6 into Cloud 11 and go up to the second floor.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's 2026 documentary, Special Jury Prize at Venice, shot at night on Tel Aviv rooftops about the systems behind the killing in Gaza. In Hebrew and English with Thai and English subtitles. The 23 October screening with a talk is sold out.
When
Thu 22 Oct · 18:00
Where
Doc Club & Friends2nd Floor, Cloud11, 888 Sukhumvit Rd., Phra Khanong Tai, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260
Tickets
฿160. Members log in before booking for free tickets and 10% off.
Note
34 seats. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi exit 6 into Cloud 11 and go up to the second floor.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma at Sala Saneha
Next: · 19:00Next date to be announced
Jane Schoenbrun's 2026 horror comedy, which took the Queer Palm at Cannes. A director hired to reboot a cult slasher franchise falls for its original lead, played by Gillian Anderson. In English with Thai subtitles, in a 25-seat room above a wine bar.
When
Fri 23 Oct · 19:00
Where
Sala Saneha9/1 Decho Rd, Suriya Wong, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500
Tickets
Tickets through Zipevent. The price appears once you pick the screening.
Note
25 seats. Doors open half an hour before the film, which starts on time with no adverts or trailers. Open Thursday to Monday from 18:00.
Robert Bresson's 1971 Dostoevsky adaptation, four nights on a Paris bridge. In French with Thai and English subtitles. The 1 November round, with a reading event, is sold out.
When
Fri 23 Oct · 19:35
Where
Doc Club & Friends2nd Floor, Cloud11, 888 Sukhumvit Rd., Phra Khanong Tai, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260
Tickets
฿160. Members log in before booking for free tickets and 10% off.
Note
34 seats. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi exit 6 into Cloud 11 and go up to the second floor.
Masao Adachi's 1969 experimental documentary retraces the route of a 19-year-old who shot four people across Japan, filming only the landscapes he passed through. In Japanese with Thai and English subtitles.
When
Sat 24 Oct · 14:10
Where
Doc Club & Friends2nd Floor, Cloud11, 888 Sukhumvit Rd., Phra Khanong Tai, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260
Tickets
฿160. Members log in before booking for free tickets and 10% off.
Note
34 seats. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi exit 6 into Cloud 11 and go up to the second floor.
The Spirits of Maritime Crossing I & II: performance and screening
Next: · 17:00Next date to be announced
Apinan Poshyananda's two art films, made for the St. Moritz Art Film Festival and the Venice Biennale, trace journeys between Venice and Bangkok. The evening opens with a 20-minute live performance by Pichet Klunchun, Mutmee Pimdao Panichsamai and Amanda Coogan, then both films, a Q&A with the director and artists, and a reception.
When
Sat 24 Oct · 17:00
Where
Alliance Française Bangkok179 Wireless Road, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Tickets
Free. RSVP on Megatix.
Note
Performance 17:05, Part I 17:25, Part II 18:05, Q&A 18:45, reception from 19:00. The organiser's page is in English and Thai and does not say which language the films are in.
Run by
Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation with Alliance Française Bangkok
Next: · 17:30Next: · 17:30Next: · 17:30Next: · 17:30Next date to be announced
A free fortnightly film in the Kunsthalle's screening room, curated by Rosalia Engchuan. Coming up: Country Hotel, R.D. Pestonji's 1957 Thai noir, on 25 October; Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia on 8 November; Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera on 22 November; Wim Wenders' Perfect Days on 6 December. All four are in their original language with English subtitles. The 20 December film, The Village Boss, has no English subtitles, so it is not listed here.
When
Sun 25 Oct · Sun 8 Nov · Sun 22 Nov · Sun 6 Dec · 17:30
Where
Bangkok Kunsthalle599 Pantachit Alley, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok (the old Thai Wattana Panich printing house, Charoen Krung)
Tickets
Free. Reserve a seat on Ticketmelon. On 21 October every date through December showed as fully reserved; staff check bookings at the door, so ask the Kunsthalle about returns.
Philippe Béziat's documentary on the Paris Opera staging of Rameau's baroque opera with 30 hip-hop, krump and voguing dancers. In French with English subtitles, 1 hour 48 minutes. A round table on hip-hop across cultures follows at 18:00.
When
Mon 26 Oct · 15:30
Where
Alliance Française Bangkok179 Wireless Road, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Tickets
Free. Register on the Alliance Française site.
Note
Part of the Bad Vibes Festival. The Alliance is at MRT Lumphini.
Run by
Alliance Française Bangkok with Bad Vibes Festival
Alexander Abaturov's 2022 documentary about a Siberian village fighting the 2021 wildfires on its own after the state leaves it to burn. Shown for Bangkok Climate Action Week in the Alliance's repertory cinema, which runs with English subtitles.
When
Wed 28 Oct · 18:00
Where
Alliance Française Bangkok179 Wireless Road, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Tickets
฿120, or ฿60 for Alliance members. Register on the Alliance Française site.
Note
Weeknight screenings start at 18:00. The Alliance is at MRT Lumphini.
Teller's 2013 documentary about a Texas inventor who builds the optical rig he thinks Vermeer used, then paints a Vermeer with it. Part of the Doc Refill series. In English with Thai subtitles.
When
Thu 29 Oct · 16:35
Where
Doc Club & Friends2nd Floor, Cloud11, 888 Sukhumvit Rd., Phra Khanong Tai, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260
Tickets
฿160. Members log in before booking for free tickets and 10% off.
Note
34 seats. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi exit 6 into Cloud 11 and go up to the second floor.
Scorsese's 1985 one-night-in-SoHo comedy, which won him best director at Cannes. Griffin Dunne goes downtown to meet a woman and cannot get home. In English with Thai subtitles.
When
Thu 29 Oct · 19:00
Where
Sala Saneha9/1 Decho Rd, Suriya Wong, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500
Tickets
Tickets through Zipevent. The price appears once you pick the screening.
Note
25 seats. Doors open half an hour before the film, which starts on time with no adverts or trailers.
House of Films: Halloween Edition at The Corner House
Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next date to be announced
Five horror films over three nights in the top-floor pavilion of a restored 1920s corner building in Talat Noi. Friday 30 October: A Ghost Story at 18:30, then Shaun of the Dead at 20:22. Saturday 31 October: The Lighthouse at 18:30, then Alien at 20:39. Sunday 1 November: The Witch at 18:30. All five are English-language films.
When
Fri 30 Oct · Sat 31 Oct · Sun 1 Nov · 18:30The second film starts at 20:22 on Friday and 20:39 on Saturday. Sunday has one film.
Where
The Pavilion, 4th floor, The Corner House Bangkok51 Chaipattanasin 35, Charoenkrung Road, Talad Noi, Samphanthawong, Bangkok 10100
Tickets
฿250 a film, with a drink and a snack. Book through the Google form on the organiser's post (it asks you to sign in to Google).
Note
Show your ticket for a free portrait with hardcopy.info during the run.
Six Frights: Bangkok Horror Film Festival shorts at Doc Club & Friends
Next: · 11:30Next: · 17:50Next date to be announced
The finalists of the Bangkok Horror Film Festival 2026 in two programmes of Thai horror shorts, with Thai and English subtitles. Programme 1 runs 75 minutes, programme 2 78 minutes.
When
Sat 31 Oct 11:30 · Tue 3 Nov 17:50Those are programme 1's times. Programme 2 is at 13:10 on 31 October; its 3 November time is on Doc Club's site.
Where
Doc Club & Friends2nd Floor, Cloud11, 888 Sukhumvit Rd., Phra Khanong Tai, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260
Tickets
฿160. Members log in before booking for free tickets and 10% off.
Note
34 seats. Take the skywalk from BTS Punnawithi exit 6 into Cloud 11 and go up to the second floor.
Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next: · 18:30Next date to be announced
Two films a night on deck chairs on the River City roof, with wireless headphones and the Chao Phraya behind the screen. 13 November: 10 Things I Hate About You, then La La Land. 14 November: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, then The Dark Knight. 15 November: 13 Going on 30, then Twilight. 20 November: The Proposal, then Me Before You. 21 November: Singin' in the Rain, then Good Will Hunting. 22 November: Trainspotting, then Whiplash. All in English.
When
Fri 13 Nov · Sat 14 Nov · Sun 15 Nov · Fri 20 Nov · Sat 21 Nov · Sun 22 Nov · Doors 17:30, shows at 18:30 & 21:00Doors 20:30 for the 21:00 film. On 22 November Whiplash starts at 20:50, doors 20:20.
Where
River City Bangkok, 5th-floor rooftop5F River City Bangkok, 23 Soi Charoen Krung 24, Talat Noi, Samphanthawong, Bangkok 10100
Tickets
฿500 a film on Ticketmelon, with a drink. Popcorn and more drinks on sale. No refunds; if rain stops a screening the ticket carries over to the next event.
Note
Unreserved deck-chair seating, first come first served, and staff may ask you to shuffle up. Take the escalators to the fifth floor. From BTS Saphan Taksin take the express boat to Si Phraya pier.
