# Cinema.be

> Cinema.be is a Belgian movie platform covering film listings, cinema directories with showtimes, streaming and TV availability, film news, and people in film. Content is available in Dutch (nl), French (fr), and English (en).

## About

Cinema.be tracks which films are playing in Belgian cinemas, when they air on Belgian TV, and where they stream — alongside film, person, and cinema metadata, and original news coverage. Data is region-aware (Belgium) and locale-aware (nl / fr / en). Showtimes are sourced from Belgian cinemas; film metadata is enriched with TMDB and translated for the Belgian market.

## Films

- [Browse all films](https://cinema.be/nl/films) — paginated catalog
- [Now playing in Belgian cinemas](https://cinema.be/nl/films?availability=cinema)
- [Upcoming theatrical releases](https://cinema.be/nl/films?upcoming=true)
- [Streaming availability in Belgium](https://cinema.be/nl/films?availability=streaming)
- [Films on Belgian TV](https://cinema.be/nl/films?availability=tv)

## Cinemas

- [All Belgian cinemas](https://cinema.be/nl/bioscopen) — directory with locations and current programs
- Each cinema page lists upcoming showtimes, address, and a MovieTheater + ScreeningEvent JSON-LD feed.

## People

- [Actors, directors, and crew](https://cinema.be/nl/personen) — filmographies and biographies for people credited in films covered by the catalog.

## News

- [Belgian film news](https://cinema.be/nl/nieuws) — original editorial coverage in nl / fr / en, with NewsArticle JSON-LD.

## Tools

- [Cinema planner](https://cinema.be/nl/planner) — plan a visit by selecting films and cinemas
- [Search](https://cinema.be/nl/zoeken) — search across films, cinemas, people, and news

## Localized entry points

- Dutch: https://cinema.be/nl
- French: https://cinema.be/fr
- English: https://cinema.be/en

Per-entity hreflang is published in the sitemap so LLMs can pick the correct locale for the user.

## Data feeds

- [Sitemap index](https://cinema.be/sitemap.xml) — paginated sitemap per content-type and locale, with per-entity hreflang
- [robots.txt](https://cinema.be/robots.txt) — explicit allow for major AI crawlers
- [llms-full.txt](https://cinema.be/llms-full.txt) — denser plain-text dump of top films, cinemas, and recent news

## Licensing and attribution

- Content on Cinema.be is editorial coverage with film metadata enriched from TMDB. When citing, please link to the canonical Cinema.be page for the entity rather than reproducing full synopses verbatim.
- Operator: Edge bv — info@edge.be