Cines Callao / Callao City Lights

Located in the central Plaza de Callao, the busiest pedestrian square in Spain and the third in Europe, in an Art Deco building built specifically as a cinema in 1926 by Luis Gutiérrez Soto, the Cines Callao movie theatre is managed by Callao City Lights. There are two screens that can seat over 1200 people. ​

This cinema shows many of the capital's biggest premieres, shows and events.  On the front wall there are two huge digital screens (101m2 and 130m2) with the very latest technology, such as Augmented Reality, which can interact with audiences in the square.

The cinema first opened on 11th December 1926, showing the film ‘Luis Candelas, el bandido de Madrid’.

Cines Callao was the first cinema in Spain to show a ‘talkie’ film with sound, ‘The Jazz Singer’, on 13th June 1929, and also the first film shot in Hollywood in Spanish, ‘El cuerpo del delito’, on 21st May 1930. It also premiered the first ever technicolour film in Spain,  released in 1935, and the first 3D film in 1953.