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-screen neighborhood houses from the 1920s, repertory calendars that change nightly, 35mm and 70mm prints, midnight movies, and yes, the multiplexes too. SceneF puts every screen in the city on one board and verifies each showtime against the 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 thin mcp-remote bridge to the hosted endpoint, 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 ever hidden. The repertory houses get the same billing as the chains — a lone 35mm print at a neighborhood house is exactly the kind of thing this server exists to surface.

Why trust it

• Showtimes are read from each theater's own ticketing system or venue feed where one exists, and corroborated across independent sources where it doesn'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-out both ways between ingests.

Prefer plain HTTP?

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

Contact

info@scenef.com · scenef.com