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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 42 movie theaters
Best movie theaters in Kolkata
The 10 most notable movie theaters in Kolkata, 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
Prachi Cinema
115-D Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road
332 m from Sealdah 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 2.421, percentile 100 of 42
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2
Navina Cinema
85, Prince Anwar Shah Rd
743 m from Tollygunge 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 2.392, percentile 97.56 of 42
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3
Menoka Cinema
5 Sarat Chatterjee Avenue
431 m from Lake Gardens 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 2.346, percentile 95.12 of 42
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4
Ajanta Cinema
23-A Diamond Harbour Road
51 m from Taratala 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 2.304, percentile 92.68 of 42
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5
Udayan Cinema, Sheoraphuli
38A G T Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.245, percentile 90.24 of 42
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6
SVF Cinemas Chinsurah Hooghly
KPS MALL
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.200, percentile 87.8 of 42
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7
Jaya Cinemas: City Mall Barasat
City Mall
534 m from Hridaypur railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.198, percentile 85.37 of 42
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8
Ashoka Cinema
905/2, Diamond Harbour Road, Behala
578 m from Behala Bazar 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 2.197, percentile 82.93 of 42
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9
Puspashree Cinema Howrah
158/3, Belilious Road, Kadamtala
602 m from Tikiapara railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.178, percentile 80.49 of 42
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10
Sangam Multiplex
Block F Plot No. 53 to 56, near Railway Station
234 m from Kalyani railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.168, percentile 78.05 of 42
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).