Adult Movie Theatres in Tampa
Florida · last checked 2 November 2026
Tampa has four places with rooms, and the fullest is Hot Flixx on North 50th Street: two theatres, private booths and a thirty-channel arcade on one twenty-dollar ticket, with the next day thrown in if you buy after seven. Paradise on North Lois Avenue reopened under its new name early in 2026 with new screens in the booths. Fantasyland has private rooms, and Xtreme Book & Video, just outside the city limits, has an arcade and a theatre.
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Hot Flixx
Theatre1715 North 50th Street, Tampa, FL 33619
- Has
- Two theatres, private video booths and a 30-channel video arcade
- Admission
- $20, or $25 for a couple, for both theatres and the arcade until closing
- Longer passes
- $30 for two days, $80 for seven
- After 7pm
- The next day is free until 10pm
- Re-entry
- Leave and come back on the same ticket, by a January 2026 account
- Discounts
- Military, fire and law enforcement
- Hours
- 11am to 11pm daily; the booths and theatres close at 10pm; closed Christmas and Thanksgiving
- Phone
- (813) 315-4133
Its own site calls it gay-owned and inclusive, and the cleanest store ever. A customer in December 2025 described the back as a big living room with a few closets and some booths off it.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · Its own site, updated in June 2026, lists the theatres, booths, prices and hours
Paradise Adult Superstore
Theatre4829 North Lois Avenue, Tampa, FL 33614
- Has
- Video booths and a theatre
- Also listed as
- X-Mart Adult Supercenter
- Phone
- (813) 443-0078
The old X-Mart reopened as Paradise early in 2026. A customer in April 2026 found the booth area cleaned up, four big screens added and the bathrooms open again. On later visits he found half the videos not working, two of the four screens out and the air conditioning off in the back. Another, in November 2025, rated the theatres highly.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · Video booths and a theatre described by a customer on 24 April 2026
Fantasyland Adult Supercenter
4715 North Lois Avenue, Tampa, FL 33614
- Has
- Private rooms and video booths
- Also
- An X-rated theatre and a pool room, in accounts of July and October 2025
- Entry
- $34 by card on the posted price in June 2026; one customer was charged $36
- Phone
- (813) 873-7564
Staff gave a first-time visitor a guide round the building in August 2026. No drinks or snacks are sold, by a July 2025 account.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · Private rooms described by a customer on 9 August 2026
Xtreme Book & Video
Theatre1212 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33612
- Where
- Unincorporated Hillsborough County, outside the city limits
- Has
- An arcade and a theatre
- Phone
- (813) 558-0112
Clean and comfortable, by that December 2025 account. Entry to the back is on a key fob you load with money, and in 2023 the arcade did not take cards.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · Arcade and theatre described by a customer on 21 December 2025
Adult World, 5225 North Lois Avenue, (813) 414-0928, is an adult shop. A customer’s account has it trading on 9 May 2026. Checked 2 November 2026.
Cinema 69 and the Nebraska Avenue houses
Downtown tried X-rated films briefly. The Lincoln Theatre, a 700-seat house at 1117 Central Avenue, ran daily advertisements for them in January 1969 and stopped after February. It was last listed in the city directory in 1970.
The houses that stayed came two years later. Cinema 69 opened at 319 North Dale Mabry Highway on 12 March 1971 and was renamed Adult Cinema in 1981. On 8 August 1971 the Roxy, a 440-seat house at 8133 North Nebraska Avenue in Sulphur Springs that had opened in 1936, reopened as the Northside Adult Theatre.
Its neighbour on Nebraska Avenue, the 797-seat Springs Theatre at 8029, had opened in 1944. By one account it advertised adult films from July 1972, and people who worked and went there remember it running them for years, on 16mm. By 1977, by another, the Kennedy Adult Theatre at 1729 West Kennedy Boulevard was showing gay films.
The Adult Use Ordinance of 1982
Operators of bookstores and convenience stores challenged a city ordinance on displaying sexual material where anyone under 17 could see it, and on 15 June 1978 a federal court struck the ordinance down as too vague.
The city’s Adult Use Ordinance, Ordinance 8068-A, came into force on 1 October 1982. It set out where adult bookstores, adult theatres and special cabarets could be, and gave those already open that did not meet it until 1 October 1987.
In February 1984 the city brought adult uses into a new zoning code. The Hillsborough circuit court found that code’s adult-use provisions improperly adopted, and on 2 August 1990 the city adopted its zoning code again.
In December 1999, after a public hearing at the Tampa Convention Center that ran for thirteen hours, the council voted unanimously, at nearly two in the morning, for a six-foot rule aimed at dancers in the city’s clubs. It was the longest council meeting in the city’s history, and the mayor signed the ordinance that morning.
In September 2006 Hillsborough County adopted ordinances on sexually oriented businesses, and on 18 September 2008 the Eleventh Circuit upheld them.
Sources
- Hot Flixx, its own site
- Paradise Adult Superstore, listed as X-Mart Adult Supercenter, Yelp, account of 24 April 2026
- Fantasyland Adult Supercenter, Yelp, account of 9 August 2026
- Xtreme Book & Video, Yelp, account of 21 December 2025
- Hillsborough County Property Appraiser, parcel records
- Adult World, Yelp, account of 9 May 2026
- Lincoln Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- Cinema 69, Cinema Treasures
- Roxy Theatre and Northside Adult Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- Springs Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- Kennedy Adult Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, 15 June 1978, 451 F. Supp. 952
- City of Tampa Code, section 27-302
- United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, 5 February 1996, 916 F. Supp. 1222
- Tampa Bay Times, 6 June 2019, on the December 1999 council vote
- Hillsborough County Code, Part A, chapter 10, article VII
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 18 September 2008, No. 07-14955
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