History ShirtlessScene / FIlm

* Creator/WillFerrel seems to almost insist that every movie he is in have some shot of him shirtless, at best. In worst case scenarios, he's flaunting around in wet bikini style briefs. Always assume you will see the latter in a movie starring him.

* ''Film/MissFishersAndTheCryptOfTears'': When Phryne gets [[QuicksandSucks trapped in quicksand]], Jack strips off his shirt and uses it as a rope to pull her out. Phryne ends up collapsed on top of him, [[ShipTease with her head on his naked chest]].

* ''Reign of Fire'', [[http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/12/13/Reign_071213090513988_wideweb__300x375,1.jpg Christian Bale's shirtless scene]]

* Comes up several times in ''Stomp the Yard''. The training sequence that occurs just before the climactic championship faceoff ends with the hunky protagonist and his equally ripped team members jogging up a mountain in nothing but their shorts. When they reach the top, the team stands on the peak staring off into the sunrise for a good couple of seconds, to give the audience a moment to fully enjoy it.

* Disney's ''Swiss Family Robinson'' has the four Robinson men - including the youngest son - shirtless several times throughout the film. Fritz and Ernst almost go into WalkingShirtlessScene territory during their time exploring the island.

* Will Ferrel seems to almost insist that every movie he is in have some shot of him shirtless, at best. In worst case scenarios, he's flaunting around in wet bikini style briefs. Always assume you will see the latter in a movie starring him.

* Only ''after'' Sendhil Ramamurthy had joined ''It's A Wonderful Afterlife'', Gurinder Chadha wrote a completely gratuitous shirtless scene for his character. "When I signed up for the movie, that scene was not in there. My mother was ''thrilled'': Can't you keep your clothes on in ''something''?"

* In ''Walk Like A Man'', there's a deleted (?) scene where Colleen Camp is in the backyard being pampered by two smooth chested, blond and buff young men while three other smooth chested, blond and buff guys next door look on.
* Sebastien Guy doesn't wear a shirt for longer than 10 seconds in ''Close Enough to Touch''.

* ''The Balcony'', the 1963 adaptation of the Jean Genet play, featured a pre-[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] Creator/LeonardNimoy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEBN_0MdDvU shirtless in a prison cell.]] [[FemaleGaze I said goddamn,]] ''[[Film/PulpFiction goddamn!]]''

* ''Ekipazh'' (''Flight Crew''): You'd think the very handsome and hunky star of this adrenaline-packed airplane action thriller, Danila Kozlovsky (as maverick ex-military pilot trainee Alexey), would get at least one of these, especially with all the heat generated by that erupting volcano; but [[AvertedTrope he remains firmly encased in his increasingly battered pilot's uniform shirt]] for the whole film. Instead it's the heroic flight attendant Andrey (Sergey Kempo) who gets to show his defined torso toward the end. It's while they're patching people up and he's a bit battered, but it's there, and it's the only skin in the film.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Return of the King'' has Frodo shirtless during his capture in the Tower of Cirith Ungol in which Sam rescues him - where you can see some of the horrific injuries he's received throughout the trilogy such as the stab-wound from the Morgul blade and the very recent paralysing sting from Shelob.
** In the book, he was ''completely naked''.
** Then there's Gandalf being resurrected in ''The Two Towers'', though we don't get to see much of it.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' had its fangirl-drool-inducing scene with a shirtless Orlando Bloom getting flogged.

* In ''Walk Like A Man'', there's a deleted (?) scene where Colleen Camp is in the backyard being pampered by two smooth chested, blond and buff young men while three other smooth chested, blonde and buff guys next door look on.

* In ''Walk Like A Man'', there's a deleted (?) scene where Colleen Camp is in the backyard being pampered by two smooth chested, blonde and buff young men while three other smooth chested, blonde and buff guys next door look on.

* The 1936 ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]]'' film serial has many, many scenes with Flash shirtless (or [[ClothingDamage nearly so]]), especially while fighting, being whipped/tortured, or working up a [[strike: sweat]] olive-oil coating. Basically, the whole series seems built on pulp sci-fi, YellowPeril, and multiple varities of {{Fanservice}}.

* In ''Film/HandsAcrossTheTable'', Ted needs look like he was in Bermuda, so Regi gets a tanning lamp from the barbershop. He’s then shirtless for a long period. However, Regi doesn’t seem to mind.

* ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' gave us more than enough of Creator/DanielCraig's massive pectorals, massive shoulders, and complete lack of neck. He's also completely expressionless. Creator/DanielCraig is often called "''Casino Royale'''s BondGirl".
** Not to mention his instantly-legendary walk out of the ocean in those little blue swim trunks. Blatant, blatant FanService.
*** That was an accident. According to the script, he was supposed to just swim around and lock eyes with the woman. Then he hit a sandbank and was forced to get up just as the camera started rolling. The director liked this.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' is the only MCU film to date that completely averts this trope, but it still makes sure to give the audience plenty of sequences in which Steve and Bucky get to show off their muscles.

** [[spoiler: In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', this is PlayedForLaughs. Thor gets a shirtless scene again, but this time it's after [[FanDisservice five years of depressed binge eating and drinking.]]]]

** [[spoiler: In Film/AvengersEndgame, this is PlayedForLaughs. Thor gets a shirtless scene again, but this time it's after [[FanDisservice five years of depressed binge eating and drinking.]]]]

** [[spoiler: PlayedForLaughs in Film/AvengersEndgame. Thor gets a shirtless scene again, but this time it's after [[FanDisservice five years of depressed binge eating and drinking.]]]]

* In ''Film/TheDesrter'', all of the squad expect Kaleb are shown shirtless when Kaleb orders them to strip so they can experience the direct heat of the desert sun.

* Count the number of times in Film/BeyondTheLights that Kaz removes his shirt. Special shout out to the time he rips his clean white shirt off to stop the bleeding in Noni's hand.

* Franchise/TheMonkees' film ''Film/{{Head}}'' features a long (and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]) scene with Micky Dolenz shirtless in a desert; also a scene with Davy Jones as a boxer fighting Sonny Liston.

** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' shows Kylo Ren shirtless while communicating with Rey across the galaxy, though this is PlayedForLaughs as well as FanService, as he's not thrilled to be having a conversation while half-dressed, and she frustratedly asks him if he has anything he can put on.

* ''Film/Siren 2010'': Ken spends much of his time on the island shirtless and, when he does put a shirt on, he usually doesn't button it up.

** Craig is not the only Film/JamesBond to do it. All the others (except possibly Dalton) did too.
*** Dalton had one in ''Film/LicenceToKill''

* Film and stage performers were doing the shirtless scene long before the invention of television. The ur-example of modern times has to be Creator/ClarkGable in the 1934 film ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''. Gable's rugged good looks and rough charisma had already made him a star. Here, he is wearing the standard garb of an early 20th century middle-class male: white shirt, suit, tie, and fedora. When he "takes it off" in a motel room in front of Claudette Colbert, the audience learns that, beneath those mundane clothes, Gable is... not wearing an undershirt. Gable in an unbuttoned shirt with his buff, manly chest showing has been claimed to have caused sales of men's undershirts to crash in America. (''{{Website/Snopes}}'' doubts [[http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/gable1.asp it]].) It allegedly took World War II and/or the acceptance of T-shirts as outerwear for the T-shirt industry to recover.

* The 1996 film adaptation of ''[[Film/ThePhantom1996 The Phantom]]'' offers [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/28/article-2672440-1F3677B800000578-143_634x508.jpg a nice long scene]] early on the Skull Cave with a buff and shirtless Billy Zane, under the pretext of his manservant treating a recent minor stab wound. The scene is long enough for him to have two separate conversations. After that, it's up to your imagination.

--> '''Director Simon Wincer:''' Before every scene he'd be there with weights and push ups, while legendary actor Patrick [=McGoohan=] ''[[who played The Phantom's ghost father]]'' would just roll his eyes.

--> '''Director Simon Wincer:''' Before every scene he'd be there with weights and push ups, while legendary actor Patrick McGoohan ''[[who played The Phantom's ghost father]'' would just roll his eyes.

** Thor once again in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''
** In ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', going shirtless is a standard part of ritual combat - meaning T'Challa, M'Baku and Erik Stevens / [[spoiler: N'Jadaka]] all get a turn. We specifically see Erik removing his shirt before facing T'Challa - which made one girl in the audience ''snap her retainer.''