page_title: Siam Square
section_title: Cinemas
hierarchical_section_title: Siam Square / Cinemas
caption_attribution_description: The Siam Theater in Siam Square, Bangkok. It's showing a Thai film, The Tin Mine by Jira Maligool.
context_page_description: Siam Square is a shopping and entertainment area in the Siam area of Bangkok, Thailand. The square is located at the corner of Phayathai Road and Rama 1 Road and is owned by Chulalongkorn University, managed by its Property Management Office, known as "Chula Property". The place is connected and link to other shopping centers and shopping districts by a skywalk or sky bridge, such as Siam Center, Siam Discovery, MBK Center, Siam Square One, Siam Paragon, Ratchaprasong shopping district, and Sukhumvit Road.
  In Siam Square, there are many shops and services, including many Thai businesses, tutor schools, restaurants, cafes, fashion, art, design, and many new emerging businesses. The customers vary from young-aged school and college students to office workers and foreign tourists. Siam Square can be equivalent to the 1:10 part of Bangkok that combines the diverse needs of people altogether. This area is one of Thailand's long history places that have and create many memories, notable events, and also stories.
context_section_description: Lido – a multiplex of three cinemas created out of a 1970s single-screen cinema; often runs independent films not screened elsewhere in Bangkok.
  Scala – built in 1967, with around 900 seats, the Scala is Bangkok's oldest single-screen cinema.
  A 1970s-era single-screen cinema called the Siam, along with its surrounding arcades, burnt down during the 2010 Thai military crackdown and the site is now replaced with Siam Square One Shopping Center.
caption: The Siam Theatre.
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