About Malaysia Showtimes
Malaysia Showtimes puts every cinema chain in the country on one page. Pick a film and you see its times at every cinema showing it, whichever chain runs the building, side by side. Pick a cinema and you see everything on there today. No chain's own site can show you that, because no chain lists its competitors.
It exists for one moment: you have decided what to watch and roughly when, and you want the nearest cinema with a good time. Tapping a time takes you to that cinema's own booking page. Nothing is sold here.
What it covers
Thirteen chains, from the national ones to single cinemas in Ampang and Sungai Petani: GSC, TGV, FST, Amerin, Mega, Paragon, TSR, AE Cinemas, One Cinemas, 10 Star, Blockbuster, Grand Cineplex and Dadi. Right now that is 139 cinemas across 14 states and territories, with 268 sessions listed for today. Listings run seven days ahead, or as far as each chain has released them.
How the listings are gathered
Once an hour, the site reads each chain's own published listings and merges them into one set. A film listed under three different spellings by three chains becomes one film; a cinema named in capitals by one chain and in sentence case by another becomes one cinema. Sessions that have already started are hidden by default. Where a chain marks a session as sold out, the time is shown struck through rather than removed, so you know the session exists and can look for the next one.
Each chain is stamped with the time it was last read. If one has not been read for more than two hours, the showtimes page says so at the top, because a listing that is quietly out of date is worse than one that admits it.
What is the site's own work, and what is not
Showtimes are facts: a session either exists or it does not, and the cinema is the authority on that. What this site adds is the part no cinema can offer: the same film compared across every chain, sorted by where you are or by which state you are in, with the premium formats picked out, the cast and director named, and a plain account of how widely each film is playing this week.
Posters and synopses belong to the films' distributors and are shown as the cinemas publish them, labelled as such. They are not rewritten, and the site adds no reviews or ratings of its own: it tells you where and when, and leaves whether to you.
How the news posts are made
The news section is the one place on the site that is written rather than gathered, and it is written to a rule: every fact in a post comes from a named source, and the source is named in the sentence that uses it. A post says that The Star reports a figure, or that a chain's own page gives a date, and links to where it read that. Nothing is quoted at length, nothing is reproduced, and no story is run that could not be traced back to an outlet the site trusts: the Malaysian press, the trade press, the box office trackers, the cinema chains, the distributors and the studios. What the site adds is its own: where each film is playing this week, at how many cinemas, in which halls, and what that means for someone choosing a session.
Twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday, this site compiles its own updates without waiting for anyone to press a button. The posts, and the updates that appear on individual film pages, are written with AI tools from the reports they cite, and three checks stand between a draft and a page. A piece with no named source, or a source outside the list above, is refused. So is any quotation over fifteen words. So is any figure that does not appear either in one of the cited articles or in this site's own listings, which is the check that catches a number nobody published. A draft that fails is dropped and reported, never published. They are not reporting of the site's own. They carry no reviews, no ratings and no claims the sources did not make, and each one lists its sources with their dates. When a source turns out to be wrong, or a session count has moved on, the post is corrected rather than quietly replaced; a correction to a post is welcome through the contact page like a correction to a listing.
When it is wrong
Cinemas change sessions during the day, and an hourly read can lag a change by up to an hour. The cinema's own page, which every time links to, is always the final word. If you find a film, cinema or time that is wrong here and right there, say so and it will be looked at.
Who runs it
Malaysia Showtimes is built and run by one person, independently. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or paid by any cinema chain or distributor, and it launched in August 2026. It is free to use. It carries one advertisement per page, placed away from the booking links, and takes no commission on tickets. What it stores in your browser, and how to switch measurement off, is on the privacy page.