Turkey Guide
İstanbul
Film
1 AFM Akmerkez Akmerkez Shopping Mall, Etiler 
0212/282 0505 The city's largest multiplex, surrounded by a vast food court and Akmerkez's palatial shops. Sound and screen quality is the best in town.
2 AFM Fitaş İstiklâl Cad 24–26, Beyoğlu 0212/292 1111 A popular ten-screen cinema not far from Taksim Square, showing the newest films, with a trendy pub upstairs and a vast range of CDs and books in the shop out front.
3 Atlas İstiklâl Cad 209, Beyoğlu 0212/252 8576 Newly restored cinema with an arty atmosphere in the adjoining bar. Offbeat Hollywood movies and homespun Turkish farces.
4 Emek Yeşilçam Sok 5, İstiklâl Cad, Beyoğlu 0212/293 8439 This huge atmospheric auditorium (875 seats) built in the 1920s is a popular venue during the International Film Festival.
5 Şafak Yeniçeriler Cad, at the Çemberlitaş tram stop 0212/516 2660 The closest cinema to Sultanahmet, buried in the bowels of a shopping centre, with seven screens showing the latest Western releases.
6 Yeşilçam İmam Adnan Sok 10 0212/249 8006 This retro, bohemian, single-screen basement cinema is the best place to see Turkish and foreign art-house movies, and is the cheapest in the area, too.