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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 64 movie theaters
Best movie theaters in São Paulo
The 10 most notable movie theaters in São Paulo, 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
Cinesala
R. Fradique Coutinho, 361
356 m from Fradique Coutinho, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.281, percentile 100 of 64
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2
CineSesc
R. Augusta, 2075
358 m from Consolação, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.274, percentile 98.41 of 64
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3
Cinemark Shopping West Plaza
Avenida Antártica, 544
627 m from Perdizes (São Paulo Metro), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.270, percentile 96.83 of 64
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4
Cinemark Shopping Cidade São Paulo
Avenida Paulista, 1230
275 m from Trianon-Masp metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.267, percentile 95.24 of 64
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5
Cinemark Shopping Center Norte
Travessa Casalbuono, 120
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.263, percentile 93.65 of 64
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6
Reserva Cultural
Avenida Paulista, 900
434 m from Brigadeiro, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.260, percentile 92.06 of 64
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7
Cinemark Shopping Cidade Jardim
Shopping Cidade Jardim, Avenida Magalhães de Castro, 12000
634 m from Estação Berrini, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.258, percentile 90.48 of 64
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8
Cine-Teatro Denoy de Oliveira
R. Rui Barbosa, 323
402 m from Bela Vista (São Paulo Metro), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.255, percentile 88.89 of 64
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9
Cinemark Golden Square Shopping
Avenida Kennedy, 700
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.255, percentile 87.3 of 64
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10
Cinemark Mooca Plaza Shopping
Rua Capitão Pacheco e Chaves, 313
431 m from Ipiranga (CPTM, São Paulo Metro), rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.248, percentile 85.71 of 64
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).