Don’t ever pay full price when you go to the cinema. I’ve rounded up ALL the deals for Odeon, Vue, Cineworld, Everyman, Picturehouse and more!
In this article you’ll find all the latest cinema ticket deals and offers. I’ve also added in my huge list of all the everyday offers you can get at all the major cinema chains, making this page the only cheap cinema ticket guide you’ll need!
The first offers to check are my top four multi-cinema deals. These are the tricks I use to save at Odeon, Cineworld, Vue and Picturehouse – you can even use more than one at the same time.
Then I’ve listed the individual offers and promotions for each specific chain.
Don’t forget to read my How to get cheap cinema tickets guide to always save when going to the movies.
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Watch my top hacks to bring down the price of your trip to the cinema
The best cheap cinema ticket deals
You can use these tricks as most of the big chains, and even some of the independent movie houses. They’re also some of the best ways to save when going to the cinema.
Two for one tickets every Tuesday and Wednesday with Meerkat Movies
Get Meerkat Movies, and a year of 2 for 1 codes, for just a few quid.
Compare the Market have replaced EE with the weekly two for one cinema tickets deal, and I’ve found a way to get this for around £1 (the lowest policy flexes between £1 and £2). You can get access to this deal with this cheeky trick. You also now get Meerkat Meals included.
Up to 40% off with free or £1 Tastecard+ and Gourmet Society trials
Cinema discounts with Tastecard+ and Gourmet Society
With Tastecard+ you can save up to 40% on Odeon, Vue, Picturehouse, Showcase, Cineworld, Empire and other independent cinemas.
It’s generally the same price for tickets depending where you live in the UK (so more in London), which means it’s important to check special offers and the price at your local box office in case it’s cheaper to buy direct. Tickets are all digital so you can use them instantly. I’ve written here about the prices you can expect from each chain.
Tastecard trial offers vary, but you can usually get between two and four months for free or £1, then a year for £35. Gourmet Society does essentially the same thing (it’s the same company as TasteCard), and I’ve included the offers in the link below.
Mubi Go membership
Mubi is an online streaming service. For £9.99 a month you get a classic, world cinema or art-house flick to watch, with the curated selection adding a new film every day. BUT you also now get a free cinema ticket every week.
Again, they aren’t going to be many mainstream blockbusters, but it’s had The Favourite and Suspiria in the past, and Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, alongside well-reviewed but smaller films. There’s a different film every week, and you can go to see that film once.
Of course, with many of the films being smaller, they’ll also have limited releases, so if you don’t live in a big city then there’s a good chance you won’t be able to take advantage every week as not all the films will be shown at all the cinemas. The only big chains included are Curzon and Vue.
It’s hard to find a list of participating cinemas, but on the app a list includes:
- Curzon 13 – locations (here’s a list of which ones)
- Showcase – 16 locations
- Vue – 80 locations
- Archlight (London)
- Barbican (London)
- BFI (London)
- Genesis (London)
- Prince Charles (London)
- ICA (London)
- Rio (London)
- Abbeygate (Bury)
- Arthouse Crouch End (London)
- Broadway Cinema (Nottingham)
- Chapter (Cardiff)
- Depot (Lewes)
- Dundee Contemporary Theatre
- Eden Court Theatre (Inverness)
- Filmhouse (Edinburgh)
- Glasgow Film Theatre
- Home (Manchester)
- Hyde Park Picture House (Leeds)
- Queen’s Film Theatre (Belfast)
- Showroom Workstation (Sheffield)
- Tyneside Cinema
I don’t live near any of these so I can’t give it a go. If you try it out, do let me know what you think.
Cheap cinema ticket savings – chain specific
The deals above are great, but there are plenty of ways to save at the different chains. If you always go to the same cinema – maybe you’ve no choice where to go! – these are the tricks and deals to look out for with Odeon, Vue, Cineworld, Picturehouse and more.
Cheap Odeon cinema ticket deals and offers
One of the best Odeon deals is via Groupon – but that doesn’t run as often as it used to. However when it is on, it’s listed below.
The rest of the time, Odeon is the place to really take advantage of a student discount. There’s also a new unlimited type card worth considering if you think you’ll go at least three times a month.
You can use Meerkat Movies at Odeon.
Five Odeon tickets for £20, two for £10
The popular Groupon deal is back. You can use the tickets in one go from 17th January or spread them out, as long as you use them all by 20th March 2020.
You can only redeem the vouchers online, and each comes with a 75p fee per ticket, which means the cheapest ticket with this offer really is £4.75 (when you buy five) – that’s still a really good offer though compared to prices at most cinemas.
The following films are excluded when they’re first released:
- 1917 valid from 20 January only
- Bad Boys for Life valid from 26 January only
- Sonic valid from 21 February only
- Birds of Prey and the fabulous emancipation of Harley Quinn valid from 24 February only
- Dolittle valid from 24 February only
- Invisible Man valid from 2 March only
- Onward valid from 16 March only
You also can’t use the vouchers at Odeon Leicester Square, Dine Islington or BFI Imax Waterloo, or combine them with other offers.
The last chance to buy was meant to 6th March 2020 but it’s still running!
Two for one weekend vouchers with Times+
Subscribers to The Times newspaper become members of Times Plus. With this you can get a 2-4-1 Odeon voucher to use every Saturday, Sunday and Monday. New codes are released each Monday and you can only use the code once each week. You also get a free Rakuten movie rental worth £3.50 each month.
There’s often a a three months for £3 trial, but currently a one month free trial. Usually the offer is £8 for eight weeks. Make sure you cancel before you get charged the full price.
Up to 40% off with Tastecard + and Gourmet Society
Tastecard and Gourmet Society members can also save up to 40% on all tickets at Odeon. Prices are either £7.07 a ticket or in London they seem to be £9.02 a ticket. Odeon Leicester Square and BFI Imax are excluded.
Tastecard and Gourmet Society both regularly have free or £1 trials so you can give it a try, but be aware both will auto-renew if you don’t cancel.
Discount days & cut-price mid-week tickets
It’s worth checking out your local Odeon as many have a “Bargain Day” with lower than normal prices. Some even do this Monday to Thursday.
10% online booking discount
If you join MyOdeon you can save 10% when you book in advance. However there is also a 75p booking fee per ticket! Still it’s free to join and if you are booking online it will save you cash.
Odeon Limitless
Odeon Limitless is an annual membership which allows you to see as many films as you like in Odeon cinemas. You pay monthly. It’s £17.99 outside of London and £19.99 in London.
You can also get a big discount of 27% on a non-London pass through my “work perks” hack.
Extra 25% discount with an NUS Totum card
This gives you an extra 25% off student tickets from Monday to Thursday, which are already reduced.
Odeon Premier Club
Join the Premiere Club and earn points for free tickets. You earn 10 points for every £1 you spend on tickets and snacks. 600 points will get an off-peak adult ticket, 1,200 a peak ticket. You have to pay to join and there are different options.
- £1.99 gets 100 points
- £4.99 gets 500 points
- £9.99 gets 1,000 points and double points for your first month
Family ticket
You get four tickets all at child prices for the same film with a family ticket, though there’s a max of two adults.
Odeon Kids
Saturday and Sunday kids screenings are the same cheap price for adults and kids. Most cinemas sell tickets at £2.50, though some charge as low as £1.
Child & teen tickets
Many cinemas charge more for over 12s but Odeon has a teen price too.
Cheap Vue ticket deals and offers
I can’t promise it’ll work for everyone, but I’ve managed to pay as little as £2 a ticket for Vue in Central London by combining a student discount, Super Tuesday and Meerkat Movies (see top of page). Bargain!
But with all of these it’s worth checking the price at your local as some charge as little as £4.99 every day for every film.
Two 2D tickets for £9.99 or five for £20.80
This offer on Living Social is currently finished, but I’ll update when it returns. It’s usually £9.49 for two tickets or £20 for five, though Living Social adds an admin fee to your booking. You can buy as many as you want. As always with these kinds of offers some films are partially or completely excluded, so do check the fine print when you buy the vouchers.
Two tickets for £7 with Vodafone loyalty app
Vodafone’s loyalty app for customers is called VeryMe, and every week you can now claim two Vue tickets for £7 (for the first year it was Odeon). These can be used any day of the week. PayAsYouGo customers must have topped up by £10 in the last six weeks to access the offers. Here’s more about the scheme and how to get it, even if you’re not with Vodafone.
Six free tickets via Lloyds Bank
Anyone who opens a Club Lloyds bank account not only gets 2% interest on savings (read my guide to getting the best bank account offers), they can also choose six adult Vue tickets. You get new tickets every 12 months.
Up to 40% off with Tastecard +
Tastecard members can also save up to 40% on all tickets at Vue. Adult prices are either £4.50 to £7 to £8.50. Vue West End is excluded.
Get Vue tickets with Nectar points
The fantastic summer deal where you can exchange 1,000 points for two 2D Vue tickets sadly didn’t return 2018 or 2019.
The best you can get now with your points is to swap 500 points to save £2.50. These Nectar points aren’t boosted at Vue, they’re simply face value. But that does give you a discount if you’ve got some saved up.
Vue Super Monday
Most Vue cinemas offer up to a third off standard adult tickets once you’ve signed up to their Super Mondays scheme. Student tickets will work out cheaper in most cases. It says it’s not valid with any other offer, though you can of course combine it with a discounted gift card.
Mini Mornings
Most Vue cinemas offer £2.49 tickets for adults and children on selected movies every Saturday, Sunday and school holiday mornings as part of Vue Mini Mornings.
Vue Family tickets
Everyone pays child prices when you buy a Family Ticket at Vue. It’s only valid on U, PG and 12A films. You must have at least one adult (over 19) and one child or teen in the group, but you can keep adding more adults and children to the ticket and still get the discount price.
Cheap Cineworld ticket deals and offers
Cineworld also accepts Meerkat Movies for 2-4-1 tickets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and you can combine these with your gift cards.
Cineworld’s IMAX Film Fest 2020
On the 22nd February you can pick up an IMAX ticket for just £3. You can pick from four big hits from 2020 – Spiderman: Far From Home; Avengers Endgame; Joker; and The Lion King. More details and booking on the Cineworld website.
MyCineworld booking discount
Register for MyCineworld Plus and you get a 10% discount on all online bookings. However the cost is £5.95 a year. But if you book six or so tickets online you’ll probably make the money back.
However there’s still a booking fee on top, making it cheaper to book in person at the box office.
Cineworld Unlimited Card
If you go frequently to a Cineworld, its Unlimited Card lets you go as much as you want (2D only). The minimum subscription is 12 months at £17.40 a month. It’s more expensive in London at £19.90 a month, which adds Haymarket, Leicester Square, Fulham Road and Chelsea. There’s no discount for paying for the full year upfront.
Members also get invited to preview screenings and 10% off food and drink. If you continue your subscription for a second year, the pass then includes 3D films and the food discount goes up to 25%.
There’s a referral scheme where you get an extra month for free if you get a mate to sign up. Or you can use my “work perks” hack to save 23% on the annual cost.
Tesco Clubcard Cineworld deals
Tesco Clubcard sells vouchers to use at Cineworld. You get £1.50 for every 50p of points you use. It’s not a bad deal, but I think there are better uses of Tesco Clubcard points – here are my top picks.
Six free tickets via Lloyds Bank
Anyone who opens a Club Lloyds bank account not only gets 2% interest on savings (read my guide to getting the best bank account offers), they can also choose six adult Vue tickets. You get new tickets every 12 months.
Up to 40% off with Tastecard +
Cineworld isn’t listed on the main website but once you sign up you can buy cheaper tickets via Tastecard or Gourmet Society +. All tickets seem to be £6.60, which is more expensive than direct at places such as Bradford, but a lot cheaper than screenings in places like Greenwich. It excludes Leicester Square.
Family ticket
You might make a slight saving if there are two adults and two children.
Movies for Juniors
Cut-price tickets for specific films at the weekend.
Picturehouse cinema deals and offers
I love Picturehouse (it was my local for years when I lived in London) and it can be incredibly cheap, especially if you’re a member.
Meerkat Movies is accepted at Picturehouse, and you can buy tickets via a Tastecard (more on these at the top of the page).
Picturehouse Memberships
Picturehouse memberships offer great value for money. You get free tickets and a discount at any Picturehouse cinema, though the free tickets are sometimes restricted to your member cinema. It’s best to save the free tickets for the weekends when prices go up!
- Full membership represents good value. It’s recently gone up in price to around £45, and £55 in London, but you get four free tickets and £2 off future tickets. It’s more for the Picturehouse Central.
- Joint memberships with someone you share an address with are even better value. It’ll cost less than getting two individual memberships and comes with eight free tickets.
Members also get a 10% discount on food and drink, free previews, no online booking fees and occasional other freebies.
Cheap movie days
The day varies depending on each cinema, though largely seem to be Monday or Tuesday. If you go on this day, the student membership price can be as low as £4!
Up to 40% off with Tastecard +, including Picturehouse Central
You’ll pay £8.65 a ticket outside London and £9.50 a ticket inside London with a Tastecard + membership. This is marginally less than a peak adult ticket in most of the Picturehouse cinemas, but much more than off-peak or member prices.
You can also save at the Picturehouse Central in London. It’s a lovely cinema, but it’s also not cheap if you aren’t a member. Here a ticket will cost you £13.70, again it cheaper than peak time adult tickets.
Special Clubs for students, kids and over-60s
Students can join for free to get invites to monthly free screenings with Slackers Club. Sign up in the cinema with your student card.
Kids’ Club screenings are most weekends and tickets are reduced for adults and children.
The Silver Screen Club is for over-60s and the discounted tickets come with a free cup of tea.
Look out for discounts for the unemployed, parents with toddlers and people with autism.
Bring your old 3D glasses to save
Picturehouse lowers the cost of 3D screenings if you bring your old glasses. Worth remembering!
Everyman cinema deals and offers
You can’t use Meerkat Movies at Everyman cinemas.
Everyman Memberships
There are a few options here, though the basic one (i.e. cheapest) allows you to take a friend for free on Mondays. You also get seven free tickets for the £95 cost.
The next level up costs £300 a year, and comes with 24 free tickets. After this you can spend £600 and get unlimited tickets for two for a year.
More on how cinema memberships compare here.
Curzon cinema deals and offers
Curzon doesn’t accept Meerkat Movies.
Curzon Every Membership (London)
For £60 (£50 concessions) you can get an annual “Classic” membership. This comes with four free tickets and a further discount for you and a guest. You’ll also get 15% off drinks and snacks.
If you go to a Curzon a lot, there is a £350 “Cult” option which gives unlimited free entry, or a £950 “Complete” membership which gives free entry for you and a guest.
Curzon Local Membership (Outside London)
The “Classic” deal is the same but the price is £45, down to £35 for concessions. This is for Ripon, Canterbury, Wimbledon, Sheffield and Knutsford Curzons.
The “Cult” unlimited membership is £200 and “Complete” Local is £600.
Off-peak discounts
You can get cheaper tickets until 5pm on weekdays.
Cheap Showcase ticket deals and offers
Showcase Insider Loyalty Scheme discounts from Sunday to Tuesday
Join the Insiders Loyalty Scheme for free and get £7 tickets Sundays after 7pm and all day Monday and Tuesday. There are also free preview screenings. You can also earn 10% of your spend back to use however you want on your next visit- so tickets, popcorn, drinks etc.
Tastecard + up to 40% discounts at Showcase
Tastecard+ members can save up to 40% at Showcase. You can often get £1 trials or discounted memberships. See the top of this page for the latest offers. At a standard showcase an adult ticket will set you back £7.70, while at a De Lux location it’ll be £9.05.
> The latest Tastecard trials and offers
Empire Cinema deals and offers
Saver Tuesday
Usually on a Tuesday though it varies depending on where you are, all tickets are reduced as low as £3.40 a ticket. Terms state it can’t be used with Meerkat Movies.
Last chance to see Thursdays
Most Empire cinemas offer cut price tickets on selected movies.
Other London independent cinemas ticket offers
If you live in London there are a few little gems which can get you cheap tickets to new releases and classics all through the week. Here’s my pick
Barbican Monday Madness and Student Tuesday
Every ticket is £6 on Mondays, £8 for 3D at the Barbican. Students pay £5 on Tuesdays.
Prince Charles membership offers
Members at the Prince Charles Cinema (just off Leicester Square) can save at least £2.50 off every ticket, and there are £1 screenings every week.
It costs just £10, or £7.50 for concessions.
Rich Mix ticket deals
If you’re between 15 and 25 years old, films are £5 every day.
Rich Mix members get two free tickets and £2 discounts on further tickets for £30, or £45 joint.
Peckham Plex – less than a fiver every day
Tickets are a bargain £4.99 for everyone all the time at the Peckham Plex.Genesis Cinema discounts
The Genesis in Mile End is super cheap on Monday and Wednesdays, with adult tickets just £4.50.
Stratford Picturehouse in East London offer £7 film tickets every single day and £5 for Picturehouse Members. The membership is £25 with 4 free tickets to use at Stratford Picturehouse only, but will get you the usual discounts at all the Picturehouse Cinemas (£2 off tickets and 10% off food and drink).
Yes, love Stratford Picturehouse. It’s my local, though I’ve got a backlog of gift cards at the mo for other chains so not been there for a while. I’m thinking of getting a Picturehouse Central membership this year though
Also if your a Barclays Bank account holder,check to see if you qualify to be a premier account holder which gives you a years free picturehouse cinema membership annually as long as you continue to qualify
Thanks for this David! A good one to add
How many % is vue’s student discount? You said it works out cheaper than vue’s Super Mondays
It does depend on the cinema so always worth checking the prices at your local
Tastecard+ has resumed support for Cineworld as of today (wasn’t available last night). 6.60 for an adult 2D ticket compared to the regular price of 11.70.
Vodafone no longer running the offer