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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 13 movie theaters
Best movie theaters in Baku
The 10 most notable movie theaters in Baku, 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
Nizami Cinema
20 Bulbul Ave
421 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.558, percentile 100 of 13
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2
28 cinema Platinum Movie Suites
Azadlıq Prospekti 28
187 m from Cəfər Cabbarlı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.332, percentile 91.67 of 13
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3
Azerbaijan Cinema
Əziz Əliyev Küçəsi 8
602 m from Icheri Sheher, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.318, percentile 83.33 of 13
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4
5 Doors Anticinema
63Б ул. Ибрагимпаша Дадашов
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.230, percentile 75 of 13
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5
CineMastercard
Gənclik Mall
117 m from Ganjlik, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.934, percentile 66.67 of 13
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6
Gənclik Cinema
Genclik Sinema
119 m from Ganjlik, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.919, percentile 58.33 of 13
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7
Salaam Cinema Baku
Süleyman Rüstəm Küçəsi 10
273 m from 28 May, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.913, percentile 50 of 13
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8
Hollywood Cinema Club
Yusif Məmmədəliyev Küçəsi 19
503 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.753, percentile 41.67 of 13
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9
Cinemaplus
16, 28 Mall, 21 Azadliq Ave
165 m from Cəfər Cabbarlı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.718, percentile 33.33 of 13
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10
Park Cinema Park Bulvar
Avenue Lounge, 58
490 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.671, percentile 25 of 13
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).