Rustaveli Cinema, Movie theater on Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Rustaveli Cinema is a movie theater on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, located directly opposite the Parliament of Georgia. The four-story building features Corinthian pilasters and a rusticated ground floor, with the main hall and additional screening areas inside.

The Rustaveli Cinema opened in 1939 in a building designed by architect Nikolay Severov, with an original capacity of 1200 seats. It was renovated and reopened on 11 July 1999 with 415 seats. The building is listed as a cultural heritage monument (No. 3934).

The sculptures by Valentin Topuridze and Shota Mikatadze sit in arched niches at second-floor level: Topuridze's on the Rustaveli Avenue side, Mikatadze's on the A. Purtseladze Street side. They depict different social groups, a common device of Soviet-era public architecture.

The cinema stands at 5 Rustaveli Avenue, directly opposite the Parliament of Georgia, so it is reached on foot from the avenue's pedestrian stretch. The entrance is at street level; the four floors above hold the foyer and screening rooms. The building is a cuboid with a rusticated ground floor, so the sculpted niches sit at second-floor level and are best seen from across the street.

The four upper floors are divided by giant Corinthian pilasters, while the ground floor is rusticated and the top is finished with an overhanging cornice. In the arched niches at second-floor level stand sculptures by Valentin Topuridze on the Rustaveli Avenue side and Shota Mikatadze on the Purtseladze Street side.