Adult Movie Theaters

C. José María Morelos 435, Zona Centro, 44100 Guadalajara

This place gave me all the feels of 1980’s NYC Time Square seedy adult theaters of my youth.  

Once a movie house of enormous size, this place is great if you’re into anonymous public action with an audience.  

Walk up two flights off the street to a small ticket booth and enter what used to be a very large single screen theater.  Now missing a few seats here and there might not always be a movie showing, this centro location hotspot always has a crowd.

The lower main floor is a great place to gawk and stare.  A good amount of older straight guys with their presumably female friends, were getting serviced for public observation. At both visits a few guys seemed to organize an informal gang bang action with their gals. These both seemed organized in advance, but it was interesting that each time a gal tapped out after a few guys and left, the guys who didn’t get off wandered back not the predominately gay sections for some relief.  

The balcony was always full, both at 11am Thursday and the Friday evening I stopped by.  Maybe 50 guys each time.  The back walls lined with guys being serviced, and a few group circles with guys in the center covered in loads who seemed to be making a day of it. There was also a smaller dark room area in the back of the theater which both times was way too packed to get in. 

From watching the crowds, it’s very safe to say the locals loved the Gringos who were stopping in. There were also a good amount of local business men in suits who walked right to the back of the theater for a super quicky during lunch and took off.

In general a fun place if you like showing off for a crowd and putting on a show.  I highly reccomend this place.  Very retro cruising feel, there aren’t many huge movie theaters turned porn these days so it was a lot of fun.

Pros:   Crazy cheep, very mellow, always crowded.   A variety of ages, lots of local university students, sexy business men, and popular with tourists.   A great place to hang and chill and watch the crowd, folks seemed pretty normal, no crazies or druggies selling or using which was refreshing.  

Cons:  Even in November it was a bit warm inside although there were a few fans towards the back.  Locals shared it gets hot in the summer.  Not a great place to carry a jacket or backpack, cramped areas and I wouldn’t suggest sitting things down.  

Tips: Just leave things at your hotel.  As always, at least have zips on your pockets if you need to bring your wallet or phone. Grab a water at the Oxxo as none is sold there. Enjoy!!

Libertad 1047, Zona Centro, 44100 Guadalajara, Jal.

Cine de Paraiso is an interesting place in Centro. It feels like it was once a large restaurant with multiple dining rooms, with its grand tiled entrance and lobby.

Off the main lobby is a small admission register and some sodas and waters.  There are two “theaters” on either side.  One has about 20 seats and a 10x10 foot screen, the second a bit larger with an added dark area in the rear.

The smaller theater seemed to be for more “straight” tastes.   At one point 3 seriously hot middle aged Mexican guys were sharing one man’s lady friend.  It was like a crazy porno just a few feet in front of me.   This alone was well worth admission!

The slightly larger theater with dark area in the rear was definitely for the gay clientele and was also quite active.   No one overtly pushing, very relaxed, with lots of heavy action mostly in the dark rear.   Very sexy guys, again a good amount of university guys and at the 6pm hour  it was obviously some guys stopped in after work, a few uniformed blue collar construction types.

I highly reccomend this place, kinda weird retro interiors, and a hotbed for planned hookups.

Pros: pretty cool building inside, definite eye candy, and seems to be a swingers meetup place according to both my accounts and chatting with guys there that night.  The guy who runs it unlocks the gates for each person so it feels pretty safe and private.  Cheap and fun, what’s not to love!

Cons: none really, I highly reccomend stopping in!  Cool vibes, have fun!

Tips:  Try it a few times, lunchtime was fun, evenings had lots to watch, crowd varies but overall pretty safe feeling.  Travel light, avoid carrying wallets unless zipped up, as with any dark cruisy spot.

Av Juárez 133, Zona Centro, 44100 Guadalajara

An interesting place, you walk in and there are two entry price options.   For 30 pesos you can enter the downstairs which has 3 rooms showing movies (I think it was the same movie showing in all 3?) apparently this is the gay section.  For 50 pesos you can go upstairs, as well as downstairs.  They say upstairs is for couples, although when I asked for a 50p ticket there wasn’t an issue.

On the Friday early evening I visited, I checked out the downstairs first.   Perhaps 15-20 guys moving between the rooms. A mostly older crowd of locals.  Some were there for a longer visit with a good number coming in an out for quick relief which was easy for them to find.  

The place was clean but obvious folks go there and smoke which filled the lower floor.  Although mostly masculine looking men, a cross dresser and an older woman did wonder around looking to earn a few pesos.

This is a good if you like to put on a show with an audience. A few crowded circles standing around some heavier action in two rooms were fun to watch.

I went upstairs into a cleaner more updated area with one movie going.   In the course of an hour there were two couples who came in.  One couple only wanted to be watched and the man kept others at a distance while putting in a show well worth alone the 50 pesos (about 2.50USD).

Later an older couple came in with the purpose of her taking on any stranger who was interested.  

I really liked this place.  Steady action, great place to be a voyeur, good if you like a 50+ crowd.  Not as pushy as the large theaters in the city where you can’t relax and hang out.  Great place to spend an afternoon although after 5pm it’s more crowded.

Pros:  super cheap, worth it to pay the 50p entry although it seems some single men were denied that ticket.  Good steady crowd, a variety of men and no rude or pushy guys during my visits.

Cons: none really, I liked this place. Smoking was a bit much but hey, it’s a porn theater, not a Broadway show…it is what it is.

Tips:  if you’re looking for mellow action,  lunchtime is great. Saturday early evening was more crowded but still a chill vibe.  Don’t bring a backpack or carry a jacket, they get in the way.  And as always keep wallet and phone in front pocket, zipped up if possible.  This place didn’t have a danger feel but any dark theater has pickpockets so just incase be careful.

I liked this place, give it a shot.  Get the 50p ticket if they let you.  Enjoy!

Calle Azucena 789, Las Conchas, 44460 Guadalajara

Cinema Toro is an older no frills theater near the Old Bus Station that is oddly located directly across from the Guadalajara Children’s Museum.  If you look up the address on the web many people will give the location of Cine Platino which is 3 blocks away, so make sure you’re heading to the right place… or hit both.

I visited Cine Toro twice, once on a Saturday afternoon at 2pm, and again on a Thursday night at 7pm.  Hours of operation are a mystery.  

You enter into a small off street lobby and pay the 50 pesos entry.   Off the lobby is a door on your right for the theater and a hallway with a bathroom at the far end.

There is only one theater, a single large room with maybe 125 seats with a 10 foot screen showing 70’s retro straight Mexican porn.  

There are no nooks or dark corners for any covert action and the seats are so small I can’t imagine anything is happening in those either.  Everything is visible and out in the open.  Aside from some back wall minor antics it all seemed pretty tame.  Any action at all took place in the form of men sitting on the isle with gentlemen callers standing unzipped alongside them. Damn lazy bottoms…

The crowd was a mix of elderly men over 70 with a spattering of middle aged guys who seemed to be making a brief pit stop at the theater to get serviced then quickly take off.  

I left the theater and took the hallway to the bathroom.  The hallway was lined with about 5 guys winking and nodding for you to follow them back to the bathroom.  At both visits the bathroom was somewhat hopping although seriously geriatric. 

In chatting with a few guys online who frequent the cinema they confirmed this is the usual scenario.  I was told that 1pm and 5pm weekdays it gets a small rush as men from the many automotive repair shops take advantage of a lunchtime/afterwork unloading.

I think the downfall of this cinema is there are no dark corners or places to go off to, but it serves it purpose and isn’t too bad for 50p. I don’t think I’d return with the many better places to hit in centro, but who knows.

Pros:  hey, not every place can be a hot and heavy buffet, this place is what it is, a low key place to hang and get a no frills very public quicky. Pretty clean too unlike Cinema Platino down the block.

Cons:  None, it is what it is.  Clean, cheap and if you’re patient and not too picky it gets the job done.

Tips:  Bring drink, it’s a little warm inside.  As with any similar place, keep your wallet zipped up or in your front pocket.

Have you had other experiences?  Let me know what you thought!