Theater Near Me

Question: I want to find a theater near me. How can I get a list of theaters in my area? Also, can I just get a list of movies playing near me?

Answer: If you don’t know what movie theaters are located near you (or what movies are currently playing in your area), there are several ways you can search online.

Use terms like “movie theaters” or “movies” followed by your location (zip or city and state). So, for example if you are in Marina del Rey, California and you’re looking to see what theaters are in your area you can go to your favorite search engine (for this example we’ll use Google) and type in “movies 90292” and for comparison let’s try “theaters Marina del Rey” and see what kind of results we get.

The search for “movies 90292″ brings us results directly from Google that state “Showtimes for CA 90292″ and when we click on that the results page gives us the following movies and information…

• Dreamgirls — 2hr 5min - Rated PG-13 - Drama/Musical
• The Pursuit of Happyness — 1hr 56min - Rated PG-13 - Drama
• Code Name: The Cleaner — 1hr 24min - Rated PG-13 - Action/Adventure/Comedy
• Night at the Museum — 1hr 48min - Rated PG - Action/Adventure/Comedy
• Freedom Writers — 2hr 3min - Rated PG-13 - Drama
• Rocky Balboa — 1hr 42min - Rated PG - Drama

There is a lot more information and a whole bunch of movies listed but you get the point, you can get a lot of movie information by just typing the term movie or movies along with your ZIP code (if you know what ZIP code area you are in).

What was cool about the Google page was that there are also reviews on the movies, trailers so you can watch videos, and listings from the Internet movie database (IMDB).

When searching for “Theaters Marina del Rey” we got very different results. In fact, we didn’t get any direct Google information for movie showtimes at all. What we did get is a list of web sites related to the movie theater industry. Company pages for places like AMC, United Artists, UA Marina del Rey 6, were in the top 10 results.

Some of those sites brought up movie listings but not as good as what we got from the direct Google results. We’ll checked back on this topic again soon and see if there have been any changes.