Adult Movie Theatres in Chattanooga
Tennessee · last checked 23 October 2026
Cinema One opened as an adult cinema on 26 November 1970 and it is open this morning. Fifty-six years, which makes it the oldest one in this directory, and it is also the best-liked by a distance. The reason is not the films. It is the two men who run it, whose names keep turning up in reviews written by people thanking them.
What is still open
Cinema One
Theatre4100 Rossville Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37407
- Opened
- 26 November 1970, as an adult cinema
- Each visit
- $18, by two separate accounts
- Membership
- Reported at $25 a year, but see below
- Has
- A shop at the front, a theatre, a couples room, single booths, and a dark room at the back
- Busiest
- Friday and Saturday evening
- Hours
- 10am to midnight, to 3am on two nights, and from noon on one day
- Phone
- (423) 867-8013
Four rooms and a shop. The main theatre, a couples room you can take somebody into, a run of single booths for one person, and a dark room at the back which the reviews describe as the gay end of the building. The gift shop sells condoms at a dollar.
On the money, carefully. The company is registered as Cinema One Club, Inc. and describes itself as a private club as well as a bookshop and a cinema. The figure everybody agrees on is $18 a visit.
The membership is the uncertain part. One customer said in November 2025 that membership is $25 a year and that each visit is $18 on top. The same man, answering questions on the same listing, said that they charge $18 for each visit member or not, single or married, and separately gave the prices as membership $18. Those three statements do not agree with each other and they are all from one person. Take the $18 door as solid, treat the $25 as reported rather than confirmed, and ask at the counter what the membership actually buys.
The hosts are the product. Two names appear again and again in reviews spanning years, and people thank them directly. A couple who drive trucks and have been to adult cinemas all over the country said this one is top notch and that the owners go above and beyond. A crossdresser who came in full fem in November 2023 said the staff were friendly to everybody and made sure she had what she needed. A gay customer in November 2025 bought a membership and listed the prices out for strangers. That tone does not appear on any other page of this site.
Saturday between seven and eleven is when the couples room works, by the account of the first person who ever reviewed it. A regular answering a couple’s question last month put it slightly wider: Friday and Saturday evening, but he has seen couples in almost any day and time. A visitor in May 2026 wished there were more couples and said that on a first visit you do not know where to look first.
Two cautions. The listing is unclaimed, so nothing on it comes from the business. And nine months ago somebody asked publicly whether Cinema One was still in business because he had driven over and found it shut. Nobody answered him. The reviews since are positive and the hours are posted, but phone before you drive.
Last checked 23 October 2026 · Membership and prices itemised 24 November 2025; visited again 24 May 2026
Not counted. Miranda’s Couples Superstore and Allure are both shops, and so is Babylon over at Cleveland, Tennessee. Fifty miles north there is nothing in Knoxville at all.
Fifty-six years, and it never changed its mind
Almost every surviving venue in this directory started as something else. A neighbourhood cinema that lost its audience. An art house importing European films. A shop that put booths in the back. The respectable name came first and the programme changed underneath it.
Cinema One opened on 26 November 1970 as an adult movie theatre and has been one ever since. No pivot, no renaming, no art film period. It is the oldest venue in this directory and the only one that has only ever been this.
Until this page, Cinema 309 in Wilkes-Barre held that title here. It opened on 10 February 1971, four months later, and it opened with an ordinary Hollywood picture before turning. That page has been corrected.
What a door costs in America
At eighteen dollars a visit Chattanooga is the dearest door in this directory, and the only one that also mentions a membership.
| City | What it costs to get in |
|---|---|
| Chattanooga | $18 a visit, plus a membership reported at $25 a year |
| Biloxi | $15 a head, no in and out |
| Albany | $15 a head, discounted for couples at the counter |
| Atlantic City | $13, and women no longer free |
| Camden | $10 to $13 at a door, booths charged again inside |
| El Paso | $10 for the film, $20 deposit for a private room |
| Pittsburgh | $10 minimum, which buys a code for the booths |
What the membership is for, we genuinely cannot tell you. The one customer who has written about it contradicted himself, and if the eighteen dollars is charged member or not, then whatever the subscription buys is not entry. The reviews suggest what it might buy instead, which is standing: these are people who know the owners’ names, tell strangers the prices, answer each other’s questions about which nights are worth coming, and in one case tried to arrange a Saturday with other reviewers through the review page itself.
Compare the customer in Biloxi who asked his venue to start an email list so people would know when anybody worth turning up for was in. He was asking to be told when the room is worth the drive. In Chattanooga the customers have built that for themselves, on the listing, for nothing.
What we could not pin down
Chattanooga’s wider adult cinema history is barely recorded. A contributor mentions a Cinema Art Theater further up Rossville Boulevard, at number 2410, and is not sure whether it was a different building. A listing elsewhere refers to a Rivervue that opened in the early 1970s as an adult theatre, and we found nothing more about it.
The business’s own page says it has served Chattanooga for thirty-nine years, which does not agree with the 1970 opening date in the cinema record. We have used the cinema record and flagged the difference rather than picking the one we preferred.
The Chattanooga Times and the News-Free Press from 1970 onwards would settle all of it. We have not been through either.
Sources
- Cinema One, Cinema Treasures
- Cinema One, 4100 Rossville Boulevard
- Cinema One Club, Inc., Better Business Bureau profile
- Chattanooga movie theaters through the ages, Times Free Press
- Tivoli Theatre, Chattanooga, Wikipedia
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