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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 44 movie theaters
Best movie theaters in Chennai
The 10 most notable movie theaters in Chennai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Audi Service Chennai
No D6, South Phase, Industrial Estate, Ambattur
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.449, percentile 100 of 44
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2
Rohini Silver Screens
141/2, Poonamallee High Rd
258 m from Koyambedu metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.404, percentile 97.67 of 44
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3
Albert Theatres
13/1, Wannels Road, Egmore
439 m from Chennai Egmore railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.354, percentile 95.35 of 44
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4
Ega Cinema
Anu Ega, 809 Phroad Kilpauk
252 m from Kilpauk Medical College metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.301, percentile 93.02 of 44
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5
Kamala Cinemas
156, Arkat Marg
269 m from Vadapalani metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.247, percentile 90.7 of 44
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6
Casino Cinemas
2, Blackers Rd
318 m from Government Estate metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.234, percentile 88.37 of 44
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7
AGS Cinemas
Coromandel Plaza 871 A, Navalur, Old Mahabalipuram Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.234, percentile 86.05 of 44
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8
Devi Cineplex
48, Mount Rd
438 m from Government Estate metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.219, percentile 83.72 of 44
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9
Luxe Cinemas
Phoenix Market City, Velachery Main Road, Velachery
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.209, percentile 81.4 of 44
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10
AGS Cinemas
No 11, Mettu Street, Villivakkam
589 m from Villivakkam railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.195, percentile 79.07 of 44
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).