Greatest Recent Sexual or Erotic Films:
La Dolce Vita (1960, It.)
Peeping Tom (1960, UK)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Lolita (1962)
Repulsion (1965)
Blow-Up (1966, UK)
Belle de Jour (1967, Fr.)
The Graduate (1967)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Women In Love (1969)
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Deep Throat (1972) and sequel Deep Throat Part II (1974)
Heat (1972)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
The Big Feast (1973)
The Night Porter (1974)
Emmanuelle (1974-1977)
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
The Story of O (1975)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Jp.)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (1976)
Equus (1977)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1978, Braz.)
Pretty Baby (1978)
Hardcore (1979)
10 (1979)
American Gigolo (1980)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Body Heat (1981)
Little Darlings (1980)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Tattoo (1981)
Cat People (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Breathless (1983)
The Hunger (1983)
Risky Business (1983)
Bolero (1984)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, UK)
About Last Night... (1986)
Betty Blue (1986, Fr.)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) (aka 9 1/2 Weeks) (sequels in 1997, 1998)
Angel Heart (1987)
The Big Easy (1987)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Siesta (1987)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Two Moon Junction (1988)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
Sea of Love (1989)
sex, lies and videotape (1989)
Wild Orchid (1989)
Henry and June (1990)
The Hot Spot (1990)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
Flirting (1991)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991, Fr.)
Whore (1991)
Basic Instinct (1992)
The Lover (1992)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Single White Female (1992)
Body of Evidence (1993)
Boxing Helena (1993)
Jamon, Jamon (1993, Sp.)
Sliver (1993)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Color of Night (1994)
Sirens (1994)
The Specialist (1994)
Jade (1995)
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Showgirls (1995)
Species (1995)
Bound (1996)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Crash (1996)
Fear (1996)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Devil's Advocate (1997)
Lolita (1997)
The Pillow Book (1997)
Happiness (1998)
Out of Sight (1998)
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Wild Things (1998)
An Affair of Love (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Romance (1999, Fr.)
American Psycho (2000)
The Center of the World (2000)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Malena (2000)
Quills (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Road Trip (2000)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000, Fr.)
Baise-Moi (2001, Fr.)
Fat Girl (2001, Fr.)
Intimacy (2001, Fr.)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Original Sin (2001)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001, Jp.)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Mex.)
Irreversible (2002)
Ken Park (2002)
Secretary (2002)
Unfaithful (2002)
The Brown Bunny (2003)
The Dreamers (2003)
In the Cut (2003)
Swimming Pool (2003)
Anatomy of Hell (2004, Fr.)
9 Songs (2004, UK)
Havoc (2005)
Lie With Me (2005)
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Shortbus (2006)
The Last Mistress (2007)
Teeth (2007)
Incendiary (2008)
After.Life (2009)
Antichrist (2009, Denm.)
Chloe (2009)
18 Year Old Virgin (2009)
Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
Blue Valentine (2010)
Elena Undone (2010)
Love & Other Drugs (2010)
Room in Rome (2010, Sp.)
Tuesday, After Christmas (2010, Rom.)
Nobody Else But You (2011, Fr.) (aka Poupoupidou)
Q (2011, Fr.) (aka Desire)
Shame (2011)
Sleeping Beauty (2011, Australia)
See Sex in Films
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