Bulk saving complex objects SQLAlchemy

association_table = Table("association_table",
                          Base.metadata,
                          Column("show_id", Integer(), ForeignKey("show_times.id"), primary_key=True),
                          Column("theater_id", Integer(), ForeignKey("theaters.id")))

association_table2 = Table("association_table2",
                           Base.metadata,
                           Column("show_id", Integer(), ForeignKey("show_times.id"), primary_key=True),
                           Column("movie_id", Integer(), ForeignKey("movies.id")))



class Movie(Base):
    __tablename__ = "movies"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    title = Column(String(), unique=True)
    plot = Column(String())
    duration = Column(String())
    rating = Column(String())
    trailer = Column(String())
    imdb = Column(String())
    poster = Column(String())
    summary = Column(String())

class Theater(Base):
    __tablename__ = "theaters"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    zip_code = Column(String())
    city = Column(String())
    state = Column(String())
    address = Column(String())
    phone_number = Column(String())


class Showtime(Base):
    __tablename__ = "show_times"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    date = Column(Date())
    theaterz = relationship("Theater", secondary=association_table)
    moviez = relationship("Movie", secondary=association_table2)
    showtimes = Column(String())

supposing we have movie objects:

movie_1 = Movie(title="Cap Murica",
              plot="Cap punches his way to freedom",
              duration="2 hours")

movie_2 = Movie(title="Cap Murica 22222",
              plot="Cap punches his way to freedom again",
              duration="2 hours")

and a theater object:

theater = Theater(name="Regal Cinemas",
                  zip_code="00000",
                  city="Houston",
                  state="TX")

how do we bulk save this into the show_times Model?

I've tried doing this:

movies = [movie_1, movie_2] # these movie objects are from the code snippet above

show_times = Showtime(date="5/19/2016",
                      theaterz=[theater],
                      moviez=movies)
session.add(show_times)
session.commit()

hurray the above works. but when i do it in bulk like this:

showtime_lists = [show_time1, show_time2, showtime3] # these are basically just the same show time objects as above

session.bulk_save_objects(showtime_lists)
session.commit()

it doesn't fail but the data also doesn't get persisted to the database.

I mean is there an alternative to adding each show_time to the session individually? A bulk insert would be better but I don't get why the data doesn't get persisted if done that way.