Best Non-Naked Boobs in Movies

Ten famous chests from the movies, all fully clothed. One was on fire.

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  1. A 1980s home computer on a teenager's desk with lightning outside the window and two white bras hanging on a lamp like hats.

    10. Weird Science: Lisa

    John Hughes · 1985

    Two teenagers build the perfect woman on a home computer during a thunderstorm while wearing bras on their heads for reasons never explained. Kelly LeBrock shows up and spends the movie raising their confidence instead. The bras were the most realistic part.

  2. Twin pistols in leg holsters, a backpack and a tank top laid out on an ancient tomb floor, vines and a stone idol behind.

    09. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

    Simon West · 2001

    Video game Lara was built from polygons by a design team that kept adjusting one measurement. Angelina Jolie got padding to match the game. It grossed $274 million and is still among the better video game movies, which is not a high bar.

  3. A long black gown with a plunging neckline on a dress form in a creaky Victorian house, a candelabra and a poodle-shaped shadow.

    08. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

    James Signorelli · 1988

    Cassandra Peterson takes her horror-host character to a small town where the neighbors want her gone because of the dress. She wins them over with a talent show. It flopped, became a cult classic, and the black gown has stayed in business for 40 years.

  4. A legal desk buried in case files and water samples in jars, a pair of high heels and a leopard print top on the chair.

    07. Erin Brockovich: The Wardrobe

    Steven Soderbergh · 2000

    Julia Roberts wears push-up tops and miniskirts to a law firm, gets told to dress differently, and declines. Then she builds a $333 million case against a utility. Roberts won Best Actress. The real Erin Brockovich has a cameo as a waitress.

  5. An office desk with a typewriter, a cowboy hat, a coil of rope and a 1980s wall clock reading five o'clock.

    06. 9 to 5: Doralee

    Colin Higgins · 1980

    Dolly Parton's first movie. Her boss chases her around his desk, so she and her two coworkers hogtie him and run the company better. Parton also wrote the title song and got an Oscar nomination. She has spent her career doing the jokes about herself before anyone else could.

  6. A sequined red evening gown on a dress form on a smoky 1940s nightclub stage, a single microphone and long red gloves draped over a chair.

    05. Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Jessica Rabbit

    Robert Zemeckis · 1988

    A cartoon nightclub singer in a sequined red gown who explains she is not bad, she was just drawn that way. Kathleen Turner did the voice, uncredited. Animators had a full design team for one dress. Legally not naked, physically not real.

  7. A row of three pink go-go boots and a dress form in a 1960s mod lair, two smoking gun barrels sticking out of its top, lava lamp behind.

    04. Austin Powers: The Fembots

    Jay Roach · 1997

    Dr. Evil's robot assassins in matching go-go outfits whose bras turn out to be machine guns. Austin defeats them by dancing until their heads explode. A 1960s spy cliché taken literally, then shot at the audience.

  8. An engineer's drafting table with aircraft-style blueprints of a bra, a slide rule and a model airplane, a cowboy hat hanging on the lamp.

    03. The Outlaw: The Engineered Bra

    Howard Hughes · 1943

    Howard Hughes, an aircraft engineer, designed a bra for Jane Russell. She said it was so uncomfortable that she wore her own and never told him. Censors held the movie up for years over her neckline anyway. The only plane Hughes built that never got off the ground.

  9. A 1990s kitchen stove with flames on one burner, two pot lids on the counter and a smoking floral apron hanging on the oven handle.

    02. Mrs. Doubtfire: The Kitchen Fire

    Chris Columbus · 1993

    Daniel tries cooking dinner in full disguise, leans over the stove and sets his prosthetic chest on fire. He puts it out with two pot lids, then answers the door. It won the Oscar for Best Makeup. The only entry here with a fire extinguisher problem.

  10. A brass metal two-piece costume on a dress form in a desert sand barge, a heavy chain coiled at its base and twin suns overhead.

    01. Return of the Jedi: The Metal Bikini

    Richard Marquand · 1983

    Leia spends a third of the movie chained to Jabba in a brass two-piece, then strangles him with the chain. Carrie Fisher said it was hard metal, it did not move when she did, and she would have to be checked between takes. It is the most famous costume in the franchise anyway.

Honorable mentions

  • A pink tank top with two round holes cut in the chest hanging in a high school locker, scissors on the shelf.

    Mean Girls: The Cut-Out Tank Top

    Mark Waters · 2004

    Cady cuts two holes in Regina's tank top to humiliate her. Regina wears it anyway and the whole school copies it by Monday. A sabotage that became a trend.

Dishonorable mentions

  • A red bikini top draped on the edge of a backyard swimming pool diving board, a red stamp reading DISQUALIFIED in the corner.

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High: The Red Bikini

    Amy Heckerling · 1982

    The most famous swimsuit scene of the 1980s. Disqualified from this list on a technicality: the top comes off.

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