High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, USA that is famous for its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinemagoing etiquette. It has screens in nine locations across Texas in addition to one in Winchester, Virginia and another in Kansas City, with five more to be built in San Francisco, New York City, Yonkers, New York, Littleton, Colorado, and Ashburn, Virginia. Its headquarters is located in Austin.