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Best movie theaters in Riyadh
The 10 most notable movie theaters in Riyadh, 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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VOX Cinemas - Riyadh Front
مطار الملك خالد الدولي،،،
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.536, percentile 100 of 10
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2
AMC Cinemas
Al Aqiq
766 m from King Abdullah Financial District, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.288, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Vox Cinemas The Esplanade
The Esplanade
699 m from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.103, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Reel Cinemas KSA
Granada Mall
671 m from Granadia, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.876, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
VOX Cinemas
1, Sahara Mall, King Abdulaziz Road Ground Floor, Gate
146 m from King Abdullah Road, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.752, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
Muvi Cinemas
Al Nakheel Mall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.638, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
Muvi Cinemas
Al Hamra Mall
129 m from Al Hamra, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.636, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Middle East Fiber Cable, Riyadh
RNSA4687, 4687 شارع 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.531, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
AMC Cinemas Riyadh Gallery 9
3005 Imam Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Mohammed Rd
342 m from King Fahad District 1, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.335, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
VOX Cinemas
Al Qaser Mall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.306, percentile 0 of 10
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).