These are theaters that charge maybe $3-$5 for tickets and show movies that are 3-6 months old. I don't know of any that are "big chains" like AMC.
I've heard them described as "discount theaters", but I also feel like (or remember?) there's a slightly more poetic, wistful term for them. Almost as if you were describing the location of your first date in the beginnings of high school
Best Answer
Discount cinema or discount theater, and other terms given by wikipedia:
"dollar theatres, dollar movies, second-run theatres, and sub-run theatres"
although why wikipedia insists on using the spelling "theatre" in all the terms besides the main one is beyond me, since not all such theaters use that spelling. Unless it is to give it a wistful feel, as in the time you went to the Lake District, England for a view of Windermere as a high schooler.
For a real a wistful place, try the drive-in theater.
And, by the way, big chains such as Cinemark do operate discount cinemas.