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Sex in Cinema: |
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HISTORY OF SEX IN CINEMA - INDEX (chronological by film title) Intro | Part
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Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes (chronological by film title) Notorious, Infamous, Controversial, or Scandalous |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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): 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. |
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Young Doctors in Love (1982)
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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 |
![]() Young Doctors in Love (1982) ![]() Easy Money (1983) ![]() Back to School (1986) |
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Deathstalker (1983) |
One-time model/singer Barbi Benton (and part time regular on TV's Hee Haw) - the girlfriend of Playboy's Hugh Hefner in the 70s, starred in a few cult-style B-films, including The Naughty Cheerleader (1970), Hospital Massacre (1982) and this tacky, sexist sword-sorcery fantasy from producer Roger Corman that was a ripped-off nude version of Conan the Barbarian (1982) with Arnold Schwarzenegger; Lana Clarkson was also featured in this film (that spawned three sequels) with an unbelievable breast-baring costume for her role as blonde warrior Kaira -- tragically, legendary record producer Phil Spector was later charged with her murder in 2003 |
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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 |
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One Deadly Summer (aka Été Meurtrier, L') (1983, Fr.) |
Isabelle Adjani starred in this erotic thriller and dark family drama as gorgeous 20 year-old sexpot Elaine/Elle who moved to a small S. French village in the mid-1970s with her crippled father Gabriel (Michel Galabru) and her German mother (Maria Machado).- she soon became the center of attention with her see-through dresses and skimpy attire; seen in flashback in part, her motive was to avenge the 20 year-old brutal rape of her mother by infatuated local mechanic Pin-Pon's (Alain Souchon) now-deceased father and two other men; Elle feigned pregnancy in order to trap him into marriage and settle the score; the traumatized and unstable seductress was often naked in the film, both voluptuous and with evil intent by using sex as a weapon |
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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 |
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Star 80 (1983) |
Writer/director Bob Fosse's final film was a realistic and unsettling biography (told with flashbacks and a portrayal of Hugh Hefner by Cliff Robertson) of Miss August 1979 centerfold and Playboy's Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten (by look-alike Mariel Hemingway enhanced with breast implants); it was a tragic account of the aspiring, beautiful, naive and sexy actress who brutally lost her life (on August 14, 1980) at age 20 in a double murder-suicide to her lunatic, exploitatively controlling, and jealous hustler-promoter-manager husband Paul Snider (Eric Roberts), after she was estranged from him and dating Peter Bogdanovich (portrayed in the film as fictionalized director Aram Nicholas (Roger Rees)), who directed her in They All Laughed (1981) |
![]() Mariel Hemingway ![]() Dorothy Stratten |
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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 |
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Videodrome (1983) |
David Cronenberg's "body horror" (or bio-horror) film involved kinky sexuality, extreme S&M and orgiastic mutilation, including the famous scene in which self-help radio guru Nicki Brand (rock star Deborah Harry or Blondie) burnt a lighted cigarette on her breast; other sexual imagery included a vaginal-like slit or womb-wound opening in cable TV programmer Max Renn's (James Woods) abdomen, in which he was both "raped" and "programmed" by the villains forcefully inserting videotapes inside his body to "play" him; inanimate objects like video cassettes, speakers and televisions also undulated and moaned as if sexually-aroused, and in one early scene, Max was sucked into a giant pair of seductive red lips on his TV screen as he tried to kiss them |
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Women's Prison Massacre (1983), aka Blade Violent, Emanuelle in Prison (UK), and Emanuelle Fuga Dall'Inferno (It.) (Emmanuelle Escapes From Hell) |
This trashy Italian women-in-prison (WIP) or "women behind bars" sub-genre, grindhouse sexploitation film from Italian director Bruno Mattei was actually unrelated to the series of "Black Emanuelle" films, although it starred Laura Gemser (who was clothed throughout the film) as Emanuelle; it contained the requisite soft-core lesbian sex and women's shower scene (with a naked and slutty Irene (Antonella Giacomini) and her lesbian lover Laura (Maria Romano)), and a rough and infamous razor-in-the-crotch scene in which Laura took revenge in a seduction/rape scene with a razor-slashing, escaped male convict named Helmut 'Blade' von Bauer (Pierangelo Pozzato) by inserting the razor into a cork and then into her vagina before enticing him with intercourse - although she was still choked to death |
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Amadeus (1984) |
In this PG-rated Best Picture winner, Elizabeth Berridge portrayed playful Constanze Mozart whom the musical prodigy Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) chased lustfully around and under the food table during his entrance in the film; in the R-rated Director's Cut version (for its brief nudity and mild profanity) released by Milos Forman in 2002 with 20 minutes of additional footage, the same character briefly displayed topless nudity in a non-sexual context |
![]() Amadeus (1984) ![]() Amadeus (2002) |
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Angel (1984) |
Writer-director Robert Vincent O'Neill's film was a wildly-successful New World Pictures' production raking in $23 million - the first in a series of trashy sexploitation films (followed by lesser films Avenging Angel (1985) with Betsy Russell, Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988), and Angel 4: Undercover (1994)); this infamous film was one of the most popular teen prostitute tales ever made, although it was very tame; it teased with the tagline: "High School Honor Student by Day, Hollywood Hooker by Night -- Her two worlds are about to collide. It's her choice. Her chance. Her life"; it starred 25 year old Donna Wilkes in the title role as an innocent-faced, flat-chested, pig-tailed teen prep school student named Molly Stewart/Angel who was abandoned and masqueraded as a Hollywood prostitute and vigilante (against a necrophilic serial killer (John Diehl) dressed like a Hare Krishna), but was protected by well-meaning, off-beat street eccentrics including transvestite hooker Mae (Dick Shawn), her foul-mouthed bull dyke landlady Solly Mosler (Susan Tyrell), and B-movie actor-turned-street-roaming cowboy Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun); for a film of this kind, there were basically no sex scenes or nudity from the main star - the only nudity was in two gratuitous girls' locker room scenes |
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HISTORY OF SEX IN CINEMA - INDEX (chronological by film title)
Intro | Part
1 | Part 2 | Part
3 | Part 4 | Part
5 | Part 6 | Part
7 | Part 8 | Part
9 | Part 10 |
Part 11 | Part
12 | Part 13 | Part
14 | Part 15 | Part
16 | Part 17 | Part
18 | Part 19 | Part
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Part 21 | Part
22 | Part 23 | Part
24 | Part 25 | Part
26 | Part 27 | Part
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Part 31 | Part
32 | Part 33 | Part
34 | Part 35 | Part
36 | Part 37 | Part
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Part 41 | Part
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44 | Part 45 | Part
46 | Part 47 | Part
48 | Part 49 | Part
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