Average cinema ticket price in Spain 2007-2022

In 2022, the average price of a movie ticket in Spain amounted to 5.98 euros, slightly down from 6.1 euros a year earlier. Attendance at movie theaters in Spain grew slightly in 2022, yet it fell behind half of the figures seen before the pandemic.

Greatest blockbusters in Spain

Director James Cameron enjoys a history of commercial success at the Spanish box office. The Canadian filmmaker created the two most-viewed foreign films in Spain of all time. Altogether, "Titanic" (1998) and "Avatar" (2009) sold more than 20 million tickets across the European country. Among the most-viewed domestic movies in the history of Spain's cinema, the comedy "Spanish Affair" (2014) and the horror thriller "The Others" (2001) sold around 9.4 million and 6.4 million tickets, respectively.

Is moviegoing a habit in decline?

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the share of people in Spain going weekly to the movies surpassed 10 percent. Since 2008 - a year marked by the Great Recession - the figure fell behind five percent. Still, it reached an all-time low in 2021, at 1.6 percent. According to another source, cinema was the medium with the lowest penetration rate in Spain in 2022, at 2.3 percent.