SceneF — San Francisco Movie Showtimes (MCP server)

Built by movie lovers, for movie lovers and their assistants.

San Francisco is one of the last great moviegoing cities — single-screenneighborhood houses from the 1920s, repertory calendars that change nightly,35mm and 70mm prints, midnight movies, and yes, the multiplexes too. SceneFputs every screen in the city on one board and verifies each showtime againstthe theater's own box office, so nobody ever drives to a dark theater.

Remote MCP server, streamable HTTP, no API key, read-only.

https://scenef.com/mcp

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http scenef https://scenef.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / any MCP client (.mcp.json / client config)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scenef": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://scenef.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Also listed in the official MCP registry as com.scenef/showtimes.

stdio-only client? The bundled Dockerfile runs a thinmcp-remote bridge to the hostedendpoint, or run it directly:

npx -y mcp-remote https://scenef.com/mcp

Tools

Tool	What it answers
`scenef_whats_playing`	Ranked films for tonight / tomorrow / the weekend / a date — opens with Notable tonight: scarcity facts with receipts (measured seat counts, final nights, lone 35/70mm prints, posted discounts, live events)
`scenef_search_showtimes`	Showtimes for one film, fuzzy-matched
`scenef_theater_info`	One theater: address, neighborhood, standing discounts, upcoming board
`scenef_film_details`	Year, runtime, ratings, cast, trailer, every upcoming showtime
`scenef_plan_movie_night`	Constraints in (time window, genres, formats, theaters), a plan out
`scenef_discounts`	The cheap nights, citywide
`scenef_coming_soon`	What's opening next
`scenef_now`	Right-now snapshot: what's catchable at this hour
`scenef_accuracy`	Our own verification record — checks run, failed, and unreachable

Every ticket link is a direct door to the theater's own box office. No ads,no pay-ranking; ranking is pure preference-scoring and nothing is everhidden. The repertory houses get the same billing as the chains — a lone35mm print at a neighborhood house is exactly the kind of thing this serverexists to surface.

Why trust it

Showtimes are read from each theater's own ticketing system or venue feedwhere one exists, and corroborated across independent sources where itdoesn't. Every screening carries confidence, sources, and verified_at.
The verification record is public — including the checks that failed:scenef.com/api/accuracy.
Same-day truth: an evening sweep pulls cancelled shows and flips sold-outboth ways between ingests.

Prefer plain HTTP?

The same data is served REST-style — seescenef.com/agents for the full contract:/api/listings ·/ask ·OpenAPI ·llms.txt

Contact

[email protected] · scenef.com

SceneF — San Francisco Movie Showtimes (MCP server)