Adult Movie Theatres in Miami
Florida · last checked 24 September 2026
Miami is thinner than its reputation suggests. One shop with private booths, up on 167th Street, open around the clock. The cinemas are long gone, and the most interesting of them ran adult films for eight months before the city made it stop.
What is open right now
167 St Adult Book and Video Center
Booth arcade14 NE 167th Street, Miami, FL 33162
- Booths
- Private viewing booths
- Hours
- 24 hours, seven days
A shop with booths at the back rather than anything with seats in it, on 167th Street near the North Miami Beach line. It keeps the hours this trade is known for and almost nothing else in the county does any more.
Last checked 24 September 2026 · Listing refreshed June 2026
The eight months of the Holiday Theatre
The Holiday at 2116 North East 162nd Street in North Miami Beach opened on 25 November 1970 with Patton. It was a dollar house and it did well with the neighbourhood’s older residents, which is worth holding on to, because of what happened next.
In April 1987 the operator switched it to adult films. What nobody involved seems to have reckoned with was a restriction placed on the property back in 1972, fifteen years earlier, stating the theatre was never to show X-rated films. North Miami Beach’s code enforcement board found it in violation and started the clock.
The rate
$250
per day
Running from
10 June
to 11 December 1987
The bill
$45,750
operator and landlord
Inspectors came weekly. The fine ran against both R.D. Theatre Corp, which operated the cinema, and Jack Knap, who owned the building, so there was nobody to pass it to. On 11 December 1987 the Holiday stopped showing adult films and shut, and management told the papers it would be back with 99-cent movies inside a month or two.
It did come back, and it did not last. The Holiday closed for good on 5 July 1990, with The Hunt for Red October and Miami Blues on the bill.
Miami had others, and they went earlier and more quietly. The Little Adult Theatre in Little River had been a neighbourhood cinema since the 1940s before it turned adult on 18 September 1970; it lasted three years. The 79th Street Art Theatre ran adult films as a single screen, was split in two by the mid-seventies, and gave one of its screens over to gay films.
Sources
- Holiday Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- Little Adult Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- 79th Street Twin II Cinema, Cinema Treasures
- 167 St Adult Book & Video Center listing
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