Now there are sadly none, although there is some promise of the former New Victoria on Clerk Street, which is currently owned by the G1 Group, being reopened to include a cinema.
Southsider Lisa Sibbald, the author of a new book: Edinburgh’s Southside – History, People, Memories, takes us on a tour of the district's lost film houses.
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. The Classic/La Scala
Exterior of the Classic cinema in Nicolson Street Edinburgh. Opened in 1912 as La Scala, by March 1986 the Classic was showing mostly adult films and closed in 1987. Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
. The Cinema House
Situated on Nicolson Street, The Cinema House was in a long, low building in the back court of tenements next to the Royal College of Surgeons. It opened in 1903 as the North British Electric Theatre and closed as The Cinema House in 1930. Photo: ALBERT JORDAN
9. The Roxburgh Picture House
Straddling Roxburgh Street and Drummond Street, this cinema opened in January 1920 and was generally known as The Roxy. It closed around 1931. Photo: Jayne Emsley
10. Silver Cinema House
Located on NIcolson Square, this cinema opened in September 1913 and described itself as "the most elaborately furnished and decorated house in the city". It closed as The Lyric in 1931. Photo: Google