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Capitol Cinema
The Capitol Cinema (constructed 1920, demolished 1970) was the largest movie theatre ever built in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was the city's only true movie palace. Opened in 1920, the 2530-seat cinema was regarded as one of the best cinemas...
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Phoenix Theater
The Phoenix Theater is an all-ages club located in Petaluma, California which has been in existence since 1905, and has been subject to many changes in both structure and purpose, mostly due to severe damage caused by multiple fires.
The Phoenix...
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Stanley Theatre
The Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (formerly the Stanley Theatre) is a landmark theatre at 12th and Granville Street in Vancouver, British Columbia which serves as the main stage for the Arts Club Theatre Company. The Stanley first opened as a...
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Capitol Building, Singapore
The Capitol Building is a historic building at the junction of North Bridge Road and Stamford Road in the Downtown Core of Singapore.
The building was completed in 1933 by the architectural firm Keys & Dowdeswell, and built on the existing structure...
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Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin
The Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand, was opened on December 8, 1914 as the "King Edward Picture Theatre". It is owned by the Dunedin Opera Company and serves as a 400 seat venue for live performances for a number of local community groups and...
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Sunrise Theatre
The Sunrise Theatre (also known as the Sunrise Building) is a historic theater in Fort Pierce, Florida. It is located at 117 South 2nd Street. Built in 1924 by builder C.E. Cahow, the Sunrise Theatre was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style...
Standalone movie theaters of the Philippines
Art Deco theaters of the Philippines are theaters constructed the 1930s to 1950s built in the style of Art Deco or a branch of the style like Streamline Moderne in the Philippines. The construction of these early theaters in Metropolitan Manila and...
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Broadway Cinematheque
Broadway Cinematheque (Chinese: 百老匯電影中心) is a cinema in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, run by Broadway Circuit. Located in Prosperous Garden, a private housing estate, the cinema provides a wider spectrum of films than other cinemas in Hong Kong. The cinema...
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Lee Theatre
Lee Theatre (Chinese: 利舞臺) was a prominent theatre in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Once one of the premier performing venues in Hong Kong, the theatre was demolished in the 1990s and replaced with an office building and a shopping...
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Yaumati Theatre
Yaumati Theatre (Chinese: 油麻地戲院), once the largest theatre in Kowloon, is located at the junction of Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street, in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong. It is classified as "Grade II Historic Building" The abandoned building is the only...
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The Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema is a cinema complex in Hong Kong. It is located in the Elements Mall at Kowloon MTR station. Opened in 2007 with 12 screens and 1,600 seats, it is Hong Kong's largest multiplex cinema. It has an "active", "infrasonic" sound system....
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Cathay Building
The Cathay Building (Chinese: 国泰大厦) was opened in 1939 by Dato Loke Wan Tho as the headquarters for the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation. Located at 2 Handy Road in the Museum Planning Area of Singapore, it was most known for its air...
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Yishun 10
GV Yishun (formerly Yishun 10) is Asia's first multiplex, opened on 28 May 1992. It is operated by Golden Village, one of Singapore's leading cinema operators. As the name suggests, it has ten halls. The multiplex is located adjacent to Northpoint...
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Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Cathay Cineleisure Orchard (Chinese: 国泰乌节电影娱乐城) is an urban mall located at Grange Road, Singapore. The building is managed by Cathay Organisation Holdings Limited, under its subsidiary company of Cathay Cineleisure International. Cathay Cineleisure...
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The Cathay
The Cathay is a mixed-use 17-storey cinema, shopping mall and apartment building located at Handy Road and Mount Sophia in the Museum Planning Area of Singapore. Owned and managed by Cathay Organisation, the building originally opened in 1939 as...
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Singapore Omni-Theatre
The Singapore Omni-Theatre is an observatory and IMAX film theatre located in the Science Centre, Singapore in the city-state Singapore, South-east Asia. It opened in 1977. The Science Centre house more than 850 exhibits, mostly interactive; the...
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Major Cineplex Ratchayothin
Major Cineplex Ratchayothin (Thai: เมเจอร์ ซีนีเพล็กซ์ รัชโยธิน) is an entertainment and shopping complex on Phahonyothin Road in Lat Yao subdistrict, Chatuchak district, Bangkok. Operated by Thailand's largest movie-theater chain, Major Cineplex,...
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Esplanade Bangkok
The Esplanade is a shopping and entertainment complex on Ratchadaphisek Road in Din Daeng district, Bangkok, with a second branch on Rattanathibet Road in Nonthaburi.
Anchored by the Esplanade Cineplex, the shopping mall opened in December 2006. The...
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Coliseum Cinema
The Coliseum Theatre is a movie theater in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. One of the oldest movie theaters in the country, it was built in 1920 by the Chua family led by Chua Cheng Bok. The Art Deco-style building is capable of seating 900 people and also...
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Cinema Impero
The Cinema Impero (English: Cinema Empire) is an Art Deco-style Cinema built by the Italians in Asmara (Eritrea) in 1937.
Cinema Impero was the largest movie theater constructed in Asmara during the last period of the Italian colony of Eritrea. It...
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Walker Street Cinema - North Sydney, New South Wales
Walker Street Cinema was an independently-run repertory cinema located at 121 Walker St, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It opened in March, 1978 under the partnership of Ian Dale, Ross Barnard and Adrienne McKibbins. McKibbins left the...
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Valhalla Cinema, Melbourne
The Valhalla Cinema was a repertory and arthouse movie theatre in Melbourne, Australia. Noted for audience participation films, it was named for Valhalla, the "Hall of the slain" in Norse mythology.
The cinema opened its doors on June 10, 1976 at a...
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Capri Theatre
The Capri Theatre is a cinema in Goodwood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, built in the Art Deco style.
It is owned by the Theatre Organ Society of Australia (South Australian Division) Inc, which bills the cinema as a "Unique Entertainment...
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Cygnet Cinema
Cygnet Cinema is located at 16 Preston Street, Como, Western Australia. It was the first purpose built sound cinema in the suburbs immediately south of the city in the inter-war period. The Cygnet Cinema opened in 1938 and was built by local...
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Astor Cinema
Astor Cinema is located at 659 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia. It comprises a single, two and three-storey masonry Inter-war Art Deco style theatre and retail building.
The building was originally known as the ‘Lyceum Theatre’ and...
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The Astor Theatre
The Astor Theatre is a classic, single-screen cinema located in the inner Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, that has a long and illustrious history.
The site at 1-3 Chapel Street was first used for public entertainment in 1913 when Thomas Alford...
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Nova Kinosenter
Nova Kinosenter is a cinema located in the city of Trondheim in Norway. It is one of Norway’s most modern cinemas, and in September 2004, six new auditoria were added to the existing five. In its current form, Nova can accommodate 1314 people.
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Colosseum cinema
The Colosseum Kino in Oslo, Norway is the largest cinema in Northern Europe and the largest THX cinema in the world. It is distinguished by its large spherical dome.
Colosseum has hosted several premiere parties and long-running movies, notably My...
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Auckland Civic Theatre
The Auckland Civic Theatre is a large heritage theatre seating 2,378 people in central Auckland, New Zealand. First opened on 20 December 1929, it was reopened in 2000 after a major renovation and conservation effort. It is a famous example of the...
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St. James Theatre
The St. James Theatre, (previously known as His Majesty's Theatre, and the Westpac St. James Theatre from 1997–2007) (shortened to "St. James" by locals) is a stage theatre located in the heart of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. The present...
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Regal Cinema
The Regal Cinema is an Art deco Movie theater located at Colaba Causeway, in Mumbai, India. Built by Framji Sidhwa, the first film to be aired at the Regal was the Laurel and Hardy work The Devil's Brother in 1933.
The Regal Cinema was built during...
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Metro BIG Cinemas
Metro BIG Cinema (earlier Metro Adlabs (2006–2008), previously Metro Cinema (1938–2006)) is an Art Deco Heritage grade IIA multiplex Movie theater in Mumbai, India built in 1938. It was built and originally run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the...
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Utopolis Kirchberg
The Utopolis Kirchberg is a multiplex cinema in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, owned and operated by the Utopia Group. It is located on the Avenue John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the Kirchberg quarter, in the north-east of the city. With a...
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Krugovaya Kinopanorama
The Krugovaya Kinopanorama or Circular Kinopanorama (Russian: Круговая кинопанорама) - is a cinema in Moscow of Russia which plays Krugorama, a type of cinema presentation in which film is projected on a circular screen with a horizontal 360° view....
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ByTowne Cinema
The ByTowne Cinema is a one screen repertory movie theatre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1947, the cinema is one of Ottawa's oldest movie theatres and the city's main venue for independent and foreign films. The 670 seat cinema is...
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Canon Theatre
Ed Mirvish Theatre is a historic film and play theatre in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was initially known as the Pantages Theatre, then became the Imperial Theatre and later the Canon Theatre, before it was renamed in honour of Ed Mirvish,...
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Capitol Theatre
The Capitol Theatre (French: Théâtre Capitol) in Downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada is an 800 seat, restored 1920s-era vaudeville house on Main Street that serves as the centre for cultural entertainment for the city. Having been converted to a...
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Capitol Theatre
The Capitol Theatre is located in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, and is the last fully restored atmospheric movie theatre still in operation in Canada. Constructed in 1930, the interior of the auditorium was designed to resemble a walled medieval...
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Dollar Cinema
The Dollar Cinema, in Montreal, Canada, is a twin screen movie theater that shows second run films at low-cost. Contrary to its name, admission is currently $2.50.
The theatre is in the Decarie Square Mall, on the outskirts of Côte-des-Neiges.
It...
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Elgin Theatre
The Elgin Theatre was a historic movie theatre located at the corner of Lisgar and Elgin Street in Ottawa, Canada. The 750 seat cinema opened in 1937, with the first film shown being Stand-In. For several decades it was one of Ottawa's premier...
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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden Theatre is seven stories above the Elgin Theatre.
They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. The pair were...
Entertainment Centrum
Entertainment Centrum refers to a type of entertainment complex in Canada developed by Pen Equity. There are four Entertainment Centrums. The Oakville, Mississauga, Whitby, and Kanata Entertainment Centrums. These plazas have movie theatres, fitness...
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Ex-Centris
eXcentris (formerly Ex-Centris) is a performing arts center and cinema located on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal, Quebec.
The complex was conceived by Daniel Langlois as a laboratory for digital media production as well as a state-of-the-art...
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O'Brien Theatre
The O'Brien Theatre is a historic cinema in the town of Arnprior, Ontario. Arnprior's first cinema opened on the site in 1906, and the current building dates from 1919. It was originally both a cinema and venue for vaudeville performances. With the...
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Runnymede Theatre
Runnymede Theatre was a playhouse located in Bloor West Village, an affluent west end Toronto neighbourhood. In 1999, it ceased its operations as a movie theatre to become a Chapters bookstore. Its original address, before Chapters' takeover, was...
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Uptown Theatre
The Uptown Theatre was a historic movie theatre in Toronto, Ontario which was demolished in 2003. The entrance to the theatre was located on Yonge Street just south of Bloor. Like many theatres of the time (including the Elgin & Winter Garden...
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Revue Cinema
The Revue Cinema is a film theatre located at 400 Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies....
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Ouimetoscope
The Ouimetoscope was the first Canadian theater dedicated exclusively to showing movies.
Inaugurated on January 1, 1906 at the corner of Saint Catherine and Montcalm Streets, in Montreal, Canada from a converted cabaret with 500 seats and a small...
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Nickel Theatre
The Nickel Theatre was the first movie theatre in Newfoundland. Part of the five-cent picture show craze that brought daily movies to almost every city and town all across North America, the Nickel opened in the Benevolent Irish Society's St....
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Seville Theatre
The Seville Theatre was a movie theatre on Sainte-Catherine street West between rues Lambert-Closse and Chomedey in Montreal, Canada, in a district now known as Shaughnessy Village. After closing in 1985 the theatre was shuttered and remained...
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Park Theatre
The Park Theatre is a neighbourhood movie house on Cambie Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Opened in 1941, it has passed through several owners, including Odeon Theatres, Famous Players and Alliance Atlantis Cinemas, and in 2005 was renovated...
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Rialto Theatre
The Rialto Theatre is a former movie palace located on Park Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada.
Constructed in 1923-1924 and designed by Montreal architect Joseph-Raoul Gariépy, who specialized...
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Snowdon Theatre
The Snowdon Theatre is a former Streamline Moderne cinema in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located on Décarie Boulevard in the neighbourhood of Snowdon, in what is now the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
The cinema opened in February...
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The Music Hall
The Music Hall is a theatre on Danforth Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Originally constructed as a movie theatre in 1919, the building was first known as the Allen's Danforth, after its owner the Allen Theatre Chain. Promoted as "Canada’s First...
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Screen Cinema
The Screen Cinema is a three-screen cinema in Hawkins Street, Dublin, Ireland.
The cinema has been operating since 1984, showing world cinema, and independent and Irish films. The Screen Cinema, originally named The New Metropole, opened on 16 March...
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Savoy Cinema
The Savoy Cinema is the oldest operational cinema in Dublin, and it is the preferred cinema in Ireland for film premières.
The cinema was built in 1929 on the site of the old Granville Hotel. The luxurious auditorium, housing 2,789 seats, opened to...
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Tuschinski
Pathé Tuschinski is a movie theater in the Netherlands in Amsterdam commissioned by Abraham Icek Tuschinski in 1921 at a cost of 4 million guilders. The interior and exterior are a spectacular mix of styles, as designed by Hijman Louis de Jong;...
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Toneelschuur
De Toneelschuur is a theater in Haarlem, Netherlands.
The building has two theaters and two movie theaters. In the latter more alternative movies are shown (no Hollywood blockbusters). The name Filmschuur is often used to indicate the movie theaters...
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Patria Cinema
The Patria Cinema, located at 12-14 Bulevardul Magheru, is among the best-known movie theatres in Bucharest, Romania. It is housed in Horia Creangă's modernist 10-story ARO building (named after the insurance firm that had it built), designed in...
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Cine TAM
Cine TAM is a Brazilian cinema owned by the parent company of TAM Airlines.
The cinema opened in the Morumbi Shopping no Brasil center in the Santo Amaro neighborhood of Sao Paulo on April 19, 2007. TAM took the former Cine Shopping Morumbi theater...
