Adult Movie Theatres in Nashville
Tennessee · last checked 16 October 2026
Nashville has no adult cinema and no video booths. Not downtown, not on Dickerson Pike, not anywhere in the metro. The shops that are left sell things and nothing more, and the one national chain in town says plainly that its Nashville store has no arcade. If a listing sent you here expecting a screen, the listing is wrong.
What is still open
Miranda’s Adult Superstore, 818 Rep. John Lewis Way S, (615) 326-1000, trades from 10am to 2am and is plainly alive: the owner was still answering reviews in February 2026. Seventeen reviews and a hundred photographs, and not one mention of a booth, an arcade or a theatre. It is a shop, and a late one, which in this directory counts for nothing.
Lion’s Den at 2807 Nolensville Pike has no arcade. That is the company’s own answer to a customer asking, not our reading of it. Asked where its arcades are, it points people at South Carolina.
The Purple Onion at 2702 Dickerson Pike is closed. The World’s Largest Adult Book Store name at 2531 Dickerson Pike now sits over a toy shop called Jenna’s. Those two addresses are most of why search engines still think this city has something.
The one we can prove
The Midtown Theatre, 719 Church Street. It took over the old Singer sewing machine store, four doors down from the Paramount, and it was running X-rated films around 1977. A 1968 photograph in the Metro Nashville Archives shows the Singer shop before the change.
Picture that stretch of Church Street as it was: the Tennessee, the Paramount, and between them an adult house in a converted shop. All of it is gone. The Midtown is recorded as closed and demolished, with no date given for either, which is itself the Nashville pattern. By the end of the century nearly every single-screen house in this city had been pulled down or turned into retail.
The list that is probably Memphis
Search hard enough and you will find the claim that Nashville had eight adult cinemas in 1974, with a tidy list of names and addresses: a Capri, a Pussycat, a Paris, a Lamar, a Cleveland Street house, a Sixth Avenue house.
Read the addresses. Poplar. Summer. Lamar. Madison. Those are Memphis thoroughfares. Another contributor said so at the time and the disagreement is still sitting there unresolved, which has not stopped the list being repeated as Nashville history.
We have not moved those venues onto our Memphis page either, because being fairly sure a list belongs to a different city is not the same as having checked it. It sits here, flagged, as the reason Nashville looks busier in the record than it was.
What we could and could not establish
- An adult cinema at 719 Church Street, around 1977established
The Midtown, in the old Singer store, four doors from the Paramount. Demolished.
- Nashville had eight adult cinemas in 1974disputed
The list names streets that run through Memphis. Challenged on the record by another contributor.
- Cinema South 4 on Nolensville Road showed soft-coreunverified
One person's recollection in a comment, with nothing behind it.
- Dickerson Pike as a vice stripunverified
Repeated by travel writing about the motels. No archive, no court record, no reporting we could read.
- Anything with a screen or a booth open todayno
Nothing. Not in the city and not in the metro.
If you know this city and can correct any row above, that is worth more to us than another page. Especially the Church Street dates.
Sources
- Midtown Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- Cinema South 4, Cinema Treasures comments
- Nashville movie theaters, Nashville Historical Newsletter
- Miranda's Adult Superstore, 818 Rep. John Lewis Way S
- Lion's Den, 2807 Nolensville Pike
- Purple Onion Bookstore, 2702 Dickerson Pike, closed
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