Example

Chained Heat (1983)

Director Paul Nicolas' classic, trashy sex-ploitative 'women-in-prison' (or 'chicks-in-chains') film, popular with drive-ins, starred The Exorcist's Linda Blair as innocent, virginal offender Carol Henderson who was sent to jail for 18 months for vehicular manslaughter; besides showcasing nudity by Blair for the first time (in a shower scene with Sybil Danning), it included all the requisite scenes and elements for this genre of film (lengthy nude showers, assaultive guards, rape, lesbianism, racial/gang warfare behind bars led by white leader Sybil Danning (as Ericka) and black leader Tamara Dobson (as Dutchess), a corrupt and vile Warden Bacman (John Vernon) who raped Carol (Blair) and videotaped other inmates in his office's conveniently-placed hot-tub, and a stern prison matron Captain Taylor (Stella Stevens), etc.); it followed the same stereotypes and predictability of Caged Heat (1974) and was part of a new wave of these types of films in the 80s - a combination of blaxploitation and sexploitation

Flashdance (1983)

Adrian Lyne's MTV-style, feel-good hit with rock music by Giorgio Moroder showcased an independent-minded 18 year-old woman who had dreams of being a dancer; it popularized ripped off-the-shoulder baggy sweatshirts, aerobic dancing, break dancing, and other fashion trends; it included an erotic, opening scene of Pittsburgh welder and gorgeous erotic dancer Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals in her first lead role, although quite a few of her scenes were performed by body double/ professional dancer Marine Jahan) in a wet skimpy red outfit in a quasi-strip club named Mawby's Bar, and then a well-publicized scene of her removing her black bra from under her torn gray sweatshirt; later, there was a suggestive scene of her tantalizing boyfriend Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) during a lobster dinner - dressed in a black tux with just the front piece of a white shirt and cuffs without sleeves, she slowly nibbled and sucked soft pieces of seafood while asking: "What turns you on?...Do you like phone booths?...You probably just like doing it in bed, right?" as she moved her leg up under the table to tantalizingly touch his crotch with her toes

The Hunger (1983, UK)

Director Tony Scott's directorial debut film was this stylish, decadent and R-rated erotic film; it included a controversial, soft-focus lesbian vampires scene (with kissing and nipple-sucking) between seductively-elegant, centuries-old vampire queen Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) and new blood candidate/recruit - the butchy longevity scientist Dr. Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon); when Sarah spilled a blood-red droplet of sherry on her white T-shirt just above her breast, she was prompted to remove her clothing - leading to other Sapphic touches, love-bites, and the taking of the new lover by mingling with her blood; Miriam gave her a fatal bite with blood dripping from her lips, sending blood down the doctor's neck; this scene reportedly ushered in lesbian vampire chic, along with the earlier 'queer-horror' 70s films The Vampire Lovers (1970, UK), Daughters of Darkness (1971) (aka Les Lèvres Rouges), Vampyros Lesbos (1971), and Vampyres (1974) (aka Vampyres: Daughters of Darkness)

Raunchy Teen-Sex, Sexploitation Comedies of the 1980s

The late 70s and early 80s was a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy teen comedies with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and raunchy profanity, designed for horny adolescents, usually teenaged males with raging hormones and active fantasy lives who were looking for glimpses of naked girls and their first sexual conquest (a "Let's Get Laid" sub-genre); the smarmy trend signaled that theatrical films originally made for 'dirty old men' were now targeted at teenagers, with comedic laughs often directed at the semi-naked young stars; there were many representative films of varying quality (some pictured to the right):

- Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976) - a classic drive-in film
- Malibu Beach (1978) - with all the typical ingredients, such as booze, sexy lifeguards, wild summer nights, a non-stop soundtrack
- Private Lessons (1981) - with Emmanuelle's Sylvia Kristel as 30-ish sexy French maid/housekeeper Nicole with the 'hots' for teenaged boy Philip Fillmore (Eric Brown), advertised with the tagline: "The bedroom is a fun classroom - EMMANUELLE's star is the teacher" - the first in a series of Private... films by producer R. Ben Efraim - see earlier description
- Stripes (1981) - a ribald military comedy with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, bikini-clad mud wrestlers, and Murray's love-interest P.J. Soles
- The Beach Girls (1982) - see earlier description
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - see earlier description
- The First Time (1982)
- Goin' All the Way (1982) - with the tagline: "Sometimes there's only one thing on your mind..."
- The Last American Virgin (1982) - see earlier description
- Porky's (1982) - considered the first major example of the vulgar sex comedies of the early Reagan era; with its memorable voyeuristic locker room scene; followed by the sequels Porky's II: The Next Day (1983) and Porky's Revenge (1985)
- Zapped! (1982) - featuring Happy Days star Scott Baio as science student nerd Barney Springboro who acquired the power of telekinesis (similar to DePalma's Carrie (1976)) - used in the climactic prom scene in the school gym to strip off the gown of mean cheerleader prom-queen Jane Mitchell (then unknown star Heather Thomas); with the awful sequel Zapped Again (1989)
- Class (1983) - one of many controversial films about a male teenaged prep school student (Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan) being schooled by an older sexy temptress (Jacqueline Bisset as Mrs. Ellen Burroughs), his roommate's mother; also featured future stars Rob Lowe, John and Joan Cusack, Virginia Madsen, and Lolita Davidovich
- The First Turn-On! (1983) - Troma Entertainment's early entry in the teen sex-comedy genre (and featuring the screen debut of Vincent D'Onofrio)
- Getting It On! (1983) - another teen exploitation film with the tagline: "Don't Miss the Stripped Down Fun and Hot Wired Action," starring Martin Yost as horny teenager Alex Carson, with scenes featuring spy cams and a nude dorm room pillow-fight
- Joy Sticks (1983) - supposedly referring to a videogame arcade
- Losin' It (1983) - directed by Curtis Hanson, about four high-schoolers (including Tom Cruise and Jackie Earle Haley) crossing the border to Tijuana to find hookers, and instead finding a runaway, divorce-seeking housewife (Shelley Long)
- My Tutor (1983) - about young senior high school student Bobby Chrystal (Matt Lattanzi) amorously tutored in "French" by 30 year-old blonde Terry Green (Caren Kaye) who enjoyed nightly skinny-dips in the family pool; also co-starred Russ Meyer's favorite big-breasted Kitten Natividad as Ana Maria
- Private School...for girls (1983) - with a female shower scene, guys masquerading as girls to peep, and a memorable topless slow-motion horseback ride by Betsy Russell (pictured); the second in a series of Private... films by producer R. Ben Efraim
- Risky Business (1983) - see later description
- Screwballs (1983) - director Rafal Zielinski's teen comedy, a Porky's rip-off story about five male students at T & A High School who made a pact to see the last virgin in their class, icy blonde Purity Busch (Linda Speciale) naked by the homecoming dance - accomplished by the end credits; its inferior sequel was Screwballs II: Loose Screws (1985)
- Spring Break (1983) - another film about sex/sun in Ft. Lauderdale, semi-inspired by the 50s-60s beach party movies, and co-starring Corinne Alphen (Penthouse's 1982 Pet of the Year)
- Bachelor Party (1984) - an early Tom Hanks film, with Tawny Kitaen and Monique Gabrielle - see later description
- Hardbodies (1984) - a brainless, soft-core beach-bunny exploitation sex comedy that was originally a Playboy TV movie, but was released as a feature film; it told about three divorced, middle-aged horny guys who rented a Venice Beach pad and then took lessons from local blonde beach bum/stud Scotty Palmer (Grant Cramer) on how to score with young "hardbodies"; commentator Joe Bob Briggs counted 44 breasts in the film; with an equally-inane sequel Hardbodies 2 (1986)
- Hot Moves (1984) - another archetypal teen comedy about pubescent males attempting to lose their virginity
- The Party Animal (1984) - a low-budget, exploitation flick about an obnoxious, redneck campus loser named Pondo Sinatra (Matthew Causey) who bargained his soul for the loss of his virginity, and received his wish (and more) - goddess Miranda (Susanne Ashley), with a love potion that made him sexually irresistible but exhausted from continual sexual pursuit
- Paradise Motel (1984) (aka New Kid in Town) - a sex comedy about horny teenagers using a motel's honeymoon suite as a "teenybopper whorehouse" (similar to the storyline of Wilder's The Apartment (1960), and an additional plot about two males (Robert Krantz as Mick and Gary Hershberger as Sam) competing over the attentions of Laura (Jonna Leigh Stack)
- Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - a typical low-brow college campus 80s comedy with the brainy nerds against the brawny jocks and their rich and bitchy sorority girlfriends (Julia Montgomery pictured as Pi-Delta-Pi sorority member and blonde cheerleader Betty Childs, and another unnamed coed (Colleen Madden pictured) who were spied upon by a hidden video camera with nerd Booger's (Curtis Armstrong) famous line: "We've got bush", and Takashi's (Brian Tochi) additional exclamation: "Hair pie!"); followed by three sequels in 1987, 1992, and 1994
- Where the Boys Are '84 (1984) - a remake of the innocent 1960 film about four college coeds (Lynn-Holly Johnson, Lisa Hartman, Wendy Schaal, and Lorna Luft) on spring break in Ft. Lauderdale, including a requisite "Hot Bod" contest
- The Big Bet (1985) - a sex comedy about a 'bet' between high school males about who would have sex first within a week with new blonde schoolgirl Beth (Kim Evenson, Playboy's September 1984 Playmate); the protagonist Chris (Lance Sloane), a perpetually sexually-aroused male (in the film's description on the video box) was given advice from pretty, knowledgeable, and experienced middle-aged neighbor Michelle (Emmanuelle's and Private Lesson's Sylvia Kristel)
- Fraternity Vacation (1985) - a stupid and frivolous spring break teen sexploitation film (set in Palm Springs, CA) with horny fraternity boys (including Tim Robbins in an early role as Larry "Mother" Tucker) in a contest to get laid by scoring with beautiful Ashley Taylor (Sheree Wilson); Barbara Crampton as Chrissie and Kathleen Kinmont as Marianne provided the requisite nudity by pretending to be willing to strip and have sex, and then announced that they had herpes
- Private Resort (1985) - with an early screen appearance by Johnny Depp (with a naked backside) and Rob Morrow in his screen debut; the third in a series of Private... films by producer R. Ben Efraim; an unamusing sex comedy about two sex-crazy guys spending a wild weekend in a luxury Miami resort hotel, featuring nude Hilary Shepard as crazy, Eastern religion-worshipping Jewish cousin Shirley, Police Academy's Leslie Easterbrook as trophy wife Bobbie Sue in a see-thru negligee, and sexpot Dana (Karyn O'Bryan)
- Tomboy (1985) - another sex comedy with Betsy Russell as a 'tomboyish' teen race-car driver and mechanic
- One Crazy Summer (1986) - with John Cusack, Demi Moore, and others during a summer on Nantucket Island
- Hot Times at Montclair High (1989) - a routine high school sex comedy
- Lauderdale (1989), aka Spring Fever USA

Balancing out the teen-sex comedies were some of writer-producer-director John Hughes' films which took a more sensitive look at adolescent issues, in films such as Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). Other more realistic teenage-oriented films included Tex (1982) with Matt Dillon, Baby, It's You (1983) with Rosanna Arquette, and director Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl (1983) with Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. See Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies.

Young Doctors in Love (1982)
and
Easy Money (1983)
and
Back to School (1986)

These early 80s films were raucous, mildly funny comedies --

(1) Young Doctors in Love (1982) by director Gary Marshall was an example of a pre-Farrelly Brothers film (a cross between Airplane and the soap General Hospital); it was set in a hospital filled with horny young interns and nurses - including many reputable stars (Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Hector Elizando, and Pamela Reed)

(2) Easy Money (1983) by director James Signorelli was a seminal Rodney Dangerfield comedy (after his success in Caddyshack), with the comic starring as a 'black sheep' character who had to shed his vices (philandering, drinking, gambling, etc.) to inherit millions

(3) Back to School (1986) was Dangerfield's follow-up comedy film in which he headlined as Thornton Melon - a leering millionaire tycoon who improbably attended college (for carousing and romancing) with his son

The nudity quotient for the first two films was partially fulfilled by Kimberly McArthur (Playboy Playmate January 1982) - as a barely-costumed Santa Claus and as a topless sunbathing neighbor, and by Leslie Scarborough (Leslie Huntly) in the third film as a startled sorority Co-ed #1 in the shower

Deathstalker (1983)

The Key (1983, It.) (aka La Chiave)

Italian erotic director Tinto Brass' film, based on Junichiro Tanizaki's novel Kagi, was banned by the Catholic church for its torrid soft-core tale set in pre-WWII Venice; it told about a kinky, aging, cross-dressing husband Nino Rolfe (Frank Finlay) and his younger, sexually-repressed wife Teresa (Stefania Sandrelli) who wrote their fantasies in separate diaries to revive their sex lives after 20 years of marriage; Nino discovered that Teresa was secretly attracted to their daughter Lisa's (Barbara Cupisti) fiancee, Laszlo (Franco Branciaroli), and so schemed to push his wife slowly into an affair with their future son-in-law to sexually liberate her and reignite her (and his) libido - resulting ultimately in his stroke from over-indulgence

One Deadly Summer (aka Été Meurtrier, L') (1983, Fr.)

Risky Business (1983)

Director Paul Brickman's effective and well-received teen sex comedy equated the rewards of sexuality and successful capitalistic enterprise; it opened with a fantasy-dream sequence in which affluent college-bound, high-school senior Joel Goodsen (Tom Cruise) saw a strange young girl (Francine Locke credited as "Shower Girl") soaping up in a steamy shower in his neighbor's house (and non-chalantly requesting: "I want you to wash my back") while he was three hours late to his college board SAT exam; other sexy scenes included his first steamy encounter with heart-of-gold Hollywood hooker Lana (Rebecca DeMornay) when she entered his living room and enticingly asked: "Are you ready for me...?" - he helped remove her dress from the bottom up and revealed she was naked underneath - and as they kissed, the wind blew the patio doors open (a fantasy masturbatory dream sequence gone awry) and they made love on the stairs; also sexy was the scene of their daringly-exhibitionist (and risky) late-night, elevated CTA subway ride in an empty car while seated and making love to the tune of electronic music provided by Tangerine Dream; in the film's most famous exhibitionist-karaoke scene, Joel made a floor-sliding entrance into his living room where he danced in his tight white cotton underwear and long-sleeved pink-striped shirt and lip-synched to the tune of Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" with an air-guitar; the film was also noted for Miles' (Curtis Armstrong) repeated advice to Joel when his parents were away: "Every now and then say, 'What the f--k.' 'What the f--k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future"; Joel proved his business prowess by film's end by both coming-of-age and by setting up a successful brothel in his parent's home, aided by Lana

Star 80 (1983)

Trading Places (1983)

John Landis' popular nature vs. nurture lampooning comedy told about a homeless con artist Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) who 'traded places' with Wall Street commodity broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) as part of a bet; the film was best remembered for the topless nudity displayed by young Jamie Lee Curtis as a sympathetic hooker with a heart of gold named Ophelia - she befriended the un-street-smart downcast loser and unsuspecting victim, and allowed him to stay at her place

Videodrome (1983)

Women's Prison Massacre (1983), aka Blade Violent, Emanuelle in Prison (UK), and Emanuelle Fuga Dall'Inferno (It.) (Emmanuelle Escapes From Hell)

Amadeus (1984)
and
Amadeus (2002)

Angel (1984)