History of Sex in Cinema:
The Greatest and Most Influential
Sexual Films and Scenes
(Illustrated)
Part 47
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History of Sex in Cinema: Part 47 |
See also the multi-part Sexual and Erotic Films in Cinema, The Most Controversial Films of All-Time and the Best and Most Memorable Film Kisses of All Time in Cinematic History. Key to Icon Symbol:
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| Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes (chronological order, by film title) - Part 47 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 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 |
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| Mulholland Dr. (2001) |
Best Director-nominated David Lynch's surreal, mystifying, dream-like work about Hollywood fame told about two female characters: dark-haired, full-bodied amnesiac and mysterious femme fatale 'Rita' (Laura Elena Harring, the first Latina to win the Miss USA title in 1985) and wholesome, naive, pert blonde wannabe starlet Betty (Naomi Watts) newly arrived in Los Angeles; they engaged in two steamy, topless, hesitant and exploratory lesbian love scenes; in the first early scene, 'Rita' removed her robe, slipped into Betty's bed - and was asked the question: "Have you ever done this before?" followed by a kiss on the lips; in a second more explicit scene, a topless Betty (with denim cutoffs) joined a half-naked 'Rita' on a couch, until 'Rita' advised "We shouldn't do this anymore"; also Betty acted in a creepy but masterfully-acted audition scene in which she delivered a sexually-tainted script with a tanned and aging lothario Jimmy (Chad Everett) - as she whispered in his ear and bit his lip; she also engaged in a non-explicit scene of masturbation (dry and painful) inside her jeans pants |     
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Not Another Teen Movie (2001) |
Director Joel Gallen's debut film, an R-rated prurient teen comedy (along the lines of the romantic comedy She's All That (1999) with Freddie Prinze and Rachael Leigh-Cook) contained plenty of nudity - it was designed as a satirical, low-brow parody of high-school teen coming-of-age films mostly from recent years, but also from the 80s and 90s; the running gag was a perpetually-naked high school foreign exchange student provocatively named Areola (Cerina Vincent), who appeared unnecessarily naked in every scene she was in, and proclaimed to John Hughes High School principal Mr. Cornish (George Wyner) that she was the "object of lust for poor nerds who cannot get American pussy" - while she spoke (with an ever-changing accent throughout the film), the subtitles were deliberately moved to avoid obscuring her breasts; her character was a spoof of Shannon Elizabeth's Nadia in American Pie (1999); in one scene set at a party, another bare-breasted girl (Jesse Capelli/Jennifer Leone) observed angrily that Areola - who strolled by naked - had on the same outfit as she did, while her friend responded to console her: "It looks much better on you"; during an anticipatory prom musical number "Prom Tonight," Areola stood naked at her open window as an animated blue bird landed on her chest as she sang: "Look at me. My breasts are perky, yes?"; the film opened with an outrageous giant dildo scene with bookish outcast and female lead Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh) that set the tone for the rest of the film |       
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| Original Sin (2001) |
Director Michael Cristofer's steamy, R-rated romantic mystery thriller featured two attractive superstars: a 19th century Cuban coffee plantation owner Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) and his sexy, ravishing, beautiful mail-order bride Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie) from the US - both passionate and duplicitous, and often undressed; she turned out to be an imposter to defraud him of his money, although she engaged him in numerous steamy sex scenes in the bedroom and a metal bathtub to win his heart; the film was released in two versions (one steamier than the other) |    |
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Director Michael Haneke's provocative, harsh and disturbing film (originally titled "Let It Bleed"), although non-exploitative, won top honors as the Cannes Grand Jury Prize-winner; it told about a love-starved, sexually-repressed, and masochistic Vienna Conservatory piano teacher Prof. Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) in her late 30s who admitted: "The urge to be beaten has been in me for years"; she dressed androgynously and acted harshly toward her students; in one sequence, she visited a porn cinema peepshow (displaying a choice of four videos of hard-core fellatio and intercourse - blurred out) where she held a used, masturbatory tissue from a previous customer to her nose during viewing; in another shocking self-destructive scene of self-mutilation in her bathroom, she sat in a stark white bathtub - naked under her robe - and used a disposable razor on her vagina (viewed with an angled mirror between her legs) to cut herself; she ultimately developed an intensifying relationship (amour fou) with her admiring, unsuspecting pupil Walter Klemmer (Benot Magimel), in which she engaged in deviant sexual role-playing and sado-masochistic fantasies ("If you want to hit me, hit me"), macabre rituals, and dependency; her transmittals of depraved, arousing, sexual taunting, hand-written letters of unspeakable acts (or "instructions") to him led to an encounter in the school's restroom - then frustration when she masturbated him almost to climax and then stopped - and forbid him to climax; when he angrily confronted her at home about her sickness and her domineering mother (Annie Girardot) and delivered several blows to Erika's bloodied face, he also displayed some tenderness to her to atone for his punishing blows by attempting love-making - to which she responded disgustedly and emotionlessly; the film was released unrated, rather than with an NC-17 rating, and its US release was delayed due to its difficult subject matter |
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French director Bertrand Bonello's self-important film was an arthouse-style look at the French pornography industry; amidst the pretentious drama and storyline about reconnection with an estranged son, it contained one graphic sex scene in its story about a semi-retired porn film director named Jacques (Jean-Pierre Leaud) who returned to making a hard-core film (only because it was profitable, but lacking emotional depth) with two real-life French porn stars (Ovidie (as Jenny) and Titof (as Franck)); it included an 11-second climax-ejaculation 'money shot' that had to be censored before distribution | 
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| Prozac Nation (2001) |
Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg's coming-of-age film, his first English-language feature, starred Christina Ricci, who was known more for her early role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family movies (1991 and 1993); she starred as self-destructive Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel - the gifted, alienated and unhappy author of an autobiographical best-selling book about her own bout with depression while an aspiring, intense mid-80s Harvard student writer; this downer film experienced a delayed release, and was only widely available after its 2005 debut showing on the Starz! network and its release on DVD; the controversial Miramax film gained further attention by featuring Ricci's first feature-film topless scenes as the sexually-promiscuous and drug/alcohol abusing heroine |  |
| Sex and Lucia (2001, Sp.) (aka Lucía y el Sexo) |
Julio Medem's unabashedly sexy, erotic, intriguing and poetic art-house film (told with a twisting plot) was mostly a story about the passionate involvement between lusciously beautiful Madrid waitress Lucia (Paz Vega) and a suicidal novelist with writer's block named Lorenzo Alvarez (Tristan Ulloa) who had a secret past; when they first met in a public restaurant, told in a long flashback sequence, she told him how she was an adoring fan of his first novel and proposed: "The person I really want to live with is you….I'm completely in love with you. Madly, as you can see…With time, living together, you'll end up falling in love with me, of course" - he responded: "I think I just did. Let's go get drunk and celebrate"; when he took her back to his place later that evening, she encouraged him as she laid back: "Go ahead and undress me. Do whatever you want to me" although they both fell asleep; after she wandered naked around his apartment the next morning, she showered and thought: "A ray of sunshine Brought your love to me" and then began to caress the sleeping writer, even touching his aroused genitals (including a split-second view of Lucia holding his male erection in close-up in the unrated version), telling him: "Slowly. With love. We're just starting. Like that. So it lasts longer"; as they had intercourse, she screamed as she orgasmed: "I'm dying. I'm dying! My love. I'm gonna die!"; they took very intimate, sexy Polaroid pictures of each other during more unabashed, sensual love-making that they used to inflame their passion at an outdoor cafe; on a dare to do a striptease, she removed her black panties in public, and then playfully performed the panty-less, sexy strip back at his apartment singing: "I've got just what you want"; during more love-making games, he was blind-folded as she touched her finger, her elbow, her lips, her shoulder, and her breast's nipple to his lips, and then French-kissed him; then she got on her knees and straddled herself naked above his mouth and received tongue-flicks as she thrust her genital lips back and forth over him - then she was blindfolded as they made love, and told him: "Lorenzo, my love. I can't take anymore. So much love will kill me. I'm dying. I'm dying!" - later she asked: "Have you ever with another girl had better sex?" and then queried: "Which do you prefer? Wild sex with a stranger? Or sex with someone you know, someone you love, but also wild?...You have to choose" - he replied: "With you. I'd never imagined being so lucky. Girls like you never like guys like me. You're a gift" - and that was all in the first third of the film! |
      
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| Spider-Man (2001) |
Director Sam Raimi's comic-book blockbuster included a much-imitated and spoofed upside-down kiss between masked superhero Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) in the downpour rain, after she has been saved by muggers in an alleyway - he allowed her to peel back the lower part of his mask for their prolonged kiss |  |
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Controversial film-maker Todd Solondz's third feature film was rated "R" instead of NC-17 only after the director agreed to visually 'censor' an explicit, discomforting sodomy scene with numerous and vigorous thrusts during rear-entry intercourse; in the scene, nude white female university student Vi (Selma Blair) with pinkish-blonde hair was instructed to "turn around" - she faced a wall when her black, Pulitzer Prize-winning creative arts professor Mr. Gary Scott (Robert Wisdom) pulled down his underwear and entered her from behind; during intercourse, he repeatedly forced her to yell the N-word: ("Say N---er, f--k me hard") which she reluctantly obeyed, with each word accentuated by his physical thrusting and increasing in tempo and volume; when they were finished, she dressed and told him: "I'm tired, that's all"; the image in the scene was blocked out with a prominent red box in the US release - the scene was un-censored in foreign prints and in the DVD |   
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| Swordfish (2001) |
Director Dominic Sena's R-rated, plot-twisting crime story and action film was noted mostly for super-star Halle Berry's gratuitous, expensive topless revelation (reportedly for which she was contractually paid $500,000) from behind a book while topless sunbathing at poolside - she played the sexy character of temptress Ginger opposite once-jailed computer hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) and ruthless maniac bank thief/spy Gabriel Shear (John Travolta) |  |
Vanilla Sky (2001)
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Writer/director Cameron Crowe's film was a remake of Open Your Eyes/Abre los Ojos (1997, Sp.) by Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar; it was a Hollywoodized version of a story about formerly handsome, 32 year-old wealthy playboy David Aames (Tom Cruise), a publishing firm heir, who was charged with the crime of murder; he wore a latex facial mask to cover a disfigurement as he related his dreams and life story to psychologist McCabe (Kurt Russell); in flashback, the film showed how he became acquainted with his best friend Brian Shelby's (Jason Lee) recent acquaintance - a beautiful brunette named Sofia Serrano (Penelope Cruz), who warned: "We'd better watch out" but then kissed him; David was attempting to ditch his possessive blonde lover Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz) at the same time; enraged and jilted, she revealed her obsessive jealousy to him: "You f--ked me four times the other night, David. You've been inside me...I swallowed your cum. That means something" and then asked: "Do you believe in God?" before she deliberately caused an automobile accident, killing herself and severely injuring David as a result; in this plot-twisting film about the nature of reality, he 'awoke' from a drunken night lying in a New York City street (from here on, the film was an "artificial perception" or dream provided by a cryogenics company following his suicidal death) - awakened by Sofia's whispered words "Open your eyes"; she quickly became his lover and they made love in a fantasy love scene after she removed his post-operative mask and told him his face was "perfect"; she asked: "Do you love me? I mean, do you really love me? Because if you don't, I'll just have to kill you"; in a silly sequence of dialogue, he pointed to a mole between her breasts and suggested living there; she also asked, tellingly: "Is this a dream?" and he answered: "Absolutely" as they kissed |
      
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001, Jp/Fr.) (aka Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu) |
In this fanciful and eccentric tale (a sexual allegory), a remarkable woman named Saeko Aizawa (Misa Shimizu), who lived in an old wooden house by the Noto Peninsula that overlooked a red bridge spanning a river, had an unusual sexual power -- when water built up inside of her in a magical spring, she could only release or vent it by doing something wickedly immoral, like stealing (shoplifting), or more fully through a climaxing orgasm; this caused a gushing flood and amazed her lustful male partner Yosuke (Koji Yakusho); the water actually flowed into the river, where it sustained life and attracted a special kind of fish (and fishermen) and seagulls | 
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| Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Mex.) (aka And Your Mother Too) |
Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón's unrated tale of sexual discovery included multiple explicit scenes of both male and female nudity and sexuality in a coming-of-age, sensual journey film; it told about a road trip by two hormone-challenged 17 year-old Mexican boys (Gael Garcia Bernal as Zapata, and Diego Luna as Tenoch Iturbide) with sexy and wise 28 year-old Spanish beauty and estranged wife Luisa Cortes (Maribel Verdu) to find a make-believe, idyllic beach named Heaven's Mouth; she taught the two vulgar lads lessons about life, enticed and had sex with both of them - separately and together, although they expressed jealous sexual rivalry; in one three-way scene in a hotel room after she danced with them in a cantina to the sound of a jukebox, she provided the catalyst for them to experience something entirely different between themselves; as they eagerly stripped her down and kissed her, she reciprocated with oral sex - as they both kissed and embraced each other |    |
| About Schmidt (2002) |
Director Alexander Payne's R-rated drama included a landmark, infamous, much-talked about nude hot tub scene in which divorced, sexually liberated, free-spirited, middle-aged, and overweight Roberta Hertzel (Kathy Bates) - retired actuary Warren Schmidt's (Jack Nicholson) daughter’s future mother-in-law, casually stepped into a hot tub with him -- her real-life, plump, 'earth mother' body type was a strong and courageous contrast to the slim young ones usually exhibited on the screen |  |
Adaptation (2002) |
Director Spike Jonz' brilliant but often bewildering, twisting and turning comedy/drama opened with the sped-up scene of the evolutionary creation of the cosmos and man from Hollywood (from Four Billion And Forty Years Earlier) to the present which concluded with the close-up of a childbirth; also in a fantasy scene, struggling screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) had the key-lime pie waitress Alice (Judy Greer) open her top for him out behind the restaurant; also in another scene, insomniac Kaufman masturbated while imagining having sex with New Yorker writer Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) from her picture on her book cover (while adapting her book for the screen) and taking her advice ("I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size"); and the obviously-doctored (and imagined?) topless photograph of Susan Orlean appearing on the pornography website of orchid thief John Laroche (Chris Cooper); and Meryl Streep's against-type character snorting lines of mind-altering, ghost-orchid green extract, getting high and committing adultery with Laroche in his Florida Everglades home, and at one point screaming at Charlie: "YOU FAT PIECE OF S--T!...YOU LOSER. You've ruined my life, YOU FAT F--K" with his reply: "F--K YOU, LADY. You're just a lonely, old, desperate, pathetic DRUG ADDICT" |
   
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| Auto Focus (2002) |
Greg Kinnear starred in director Paul Schrader's compelling dramatic biography and cautionary tale of mid-60s "Hogan's Heroes" TV star Bob Crane, whose life spiraled out of control due to his rapid stardom and a compulsive addiction to sex, leading in part to his unsolved murder in 1978; in one scene, Crane photographed a sexual encounter with a young fan (Kitana Baker) at a hippie party, taking her picture and saying "Schmile!" as she lifted her blouse to reveal herself to him; the film was edited in post-production to avoid an NC-17 rating; one of the film's memorable quotes expressed Crane's obsession with breasts: "I'm a normal, red-blooded American man. I like to look at naked women. I love breasts, any kind. I love 'em! Boobs, bazooms, balloons, bags, bazongas. The bigger, the better. Nipples like udders, nipples like saucers, big pale rosy-brown nipples. Little bitty baby nipples. Real or fake, what's the difference? I like tits. Who's kidding who? Tits are great!" |  |
8 Mile (2002) |
Curtis Hanson's gritty semi-autobiographical biopic told about a struggling rapper in the Detroit area named Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith, Jr. (white song artist Eminem); in the film's extremely graphic sex scene, Rabbit and aspiring model Alex (Brittany Murphy) found themselves at lunchtime in his deserted auto factory plant - although clothed, she opened up her blouse to show her black bra and panties - and they engaged in sex standing up, with plenty of hot kissing and other action; as part of the preparation, Alex licked her hand and then locked her hips with his |   
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| 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
A notable erotic scene in this flat and mostly unfunny film was the one in which web designer Matt Sullivan (Josh Hartnett), who had vowed to abstain from sexual activity for 40 days and nights for Lent, blew flower petals across the naked body (down her stomach and then across her panties) of laundromat dream girl Erica (Shannyn Sossamon) lying on her back - causing her to writhe with pleasure and experience an "immaculate" orgasm without being touched - although it seemed highly improbable; in other scenes during his abstinence period, he imagined various women semi-nude (on a bus and in a street scene) |    |
Femme Fatale (2002)
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Brian DePalma's erotic thriller opened with the blonde title character Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) reflected in the TV glass as she watched (in the nude from her hotel bed) the French subtitled broadcast of the film noir Double Indemnity (1944) - with its classic 'femme fatale' (Barbara Stanwyck) about ready to double-cross her male counterpart in the film's conclusion; she then participated in a spectacularly sexy heist during the screening of the film Est-Ouest at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival; one of the film's guests was Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), wearing a see-through gold-plated "amazing top in the shape of a serpent" encrusted with 500 diamonds worth over 10 million dollars; the statuesque Laure posed as a photographer and whispered in Veronica's ear to meet her in the ladies room before the show began; there during a hot bisexual tryst of kissing, stand-up sex and stripping scored to Ravel's "Bolero", the heist of nearly-nude Veronica's serpentine gold-plated bodice took place; the theft wasn't everything that it appeared to be as the plot twisted and became more complex; seven years later, the double-crossed partners tracked down Laure and the stolen diamonds - by now, she had taken the name of young suicidal, look-alike bereaving mother Lily Watts (as the married wife of the American ambassador to France (Peter Coyote), living in Paris); she became involved with long-haired, in-debt Spanish paparazzo Nicolas Bardo (Antonio Banderas) when he took her picture without her permission and sold it to tabloids for distribution; to conceal her former identity and to seek revenge, she manipulated and enticed him, first by non-chalantly stripping to her skimpy underwear in her Sheraton Hotel room in Paris (he asked: "Are you flirting with me?" and she replied: "You're so damn lovable") while setting him up for charges of stealing her car, and a second kidnapping-for-ransom accusation by the police; she also enticed him ("Let's go do somethin' fun, want to?") into joining her in a sleazy bar; she asked him: "Hey, how come you're the only man in this room that doesn't want to f--k me?", and then performed a strip-teasing dance to arouse his angry jealousy in the basement pool-room, before making vigorous love to him (she told him as she bent over: "You don’t have to lick my ass...just f--k me"); she 'awakened' in an overflowing bathtub from the film's major 'dream' when thrown from a bridge into the cold waters of the Seine River and became revived - completely naked, and then recalled how she and Veronica had skillfully plotted to steal the diamonds with a bait-and-switch tactic |         
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| The Heart of Me (2002, UK/Germany) |
This richly-appointed BBC drama by director Thaddeus O'Sullivan was based on Rosamond Lehmann's 1953 novel The Echoing Grove, and set in mid-30s London; it starred Helena Bonham Carter as Dinah - the sensual, free-spirited and eccentric sister of the prim, dispassionate and proper Madeleine (Olivia Williams), who began a sizzling, volatile, all-consuming and destructive affair over a decade's time (told in flashback) with her sister's handsome husband Rickie (Paul Bettany) - her brother-in-law |  |
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Frenchman Gaspar Noe's hard-hitting, graphic and violent film about rape revenge, was told in reverse-order - it was noted for its excruciatingly-long, shrieking, painful-to-watch nine-minute real-time beating and anal-rape sequence of beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) in a Parisian underpass tunnel lit by a reddish glow, by rapist/pimp Le Tenia/Tapeworm (Jo Prestia), in which she begged: "Let me go, please"; as he raped her, he threatened with a knife: "You gonna shut up, little whore?", and afterwards beat her into a coma; later, the scene showed preceding flirtations by Alex in a sexy dress while dancing, renewing the question of her perceived erotic sexuality; also earlier in the chronology was a love-making scene of Alex with boyfriend Marcus (Vincent Cassel, Bellucci's real-life husband); besides that, there was the horrific, violent and vengeful scene of a man getting his head beaten to a pulp with a fire extinguisher in a gay S&M night-club bar called The Rectum |
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Friday the 13th, Jason X (2002)
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In one sequence, mindless cyborg killer, Uber-Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) was tricked into entering a virtual reality, or holodeck simulation of "Camp Crystal Lake, circa 1980" (the setting of Friday the 13th (1980)) that was designed to distract him with new victims; there he encountered VR Teen Girl # 1 and 2 (Tania Maro and Kaye Penaflor) - programmed to be stereotypical "horny girls" who teasingly asked him: "Hey, do you wanna beer? Or do you wanna smoke some pot? Or we could have premarital sex?" before removing their tops and giggling: "We love premarital sex!"; after they climbed into their sleeping bags, he beat them to death by bashing their sleeping bags together, and smashing one of them against a tree; the scene appeared to spoof the Puritanical idea in the entire series of slasher films that sex led to death; in an earlier sequence in the film, android KAY-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder) was having nipples positioned onto her prosthetic breasts, but they fell to the floor. She asked love-interest Tsunaron (Chuck Campbell): "Do you like them?" Her responded: "Why do you want those things, anyways?...I like you just the way you are. I think you're perfect." As in all the films, the act of sex awakened Jason's murderous impulses - in this film, two horny students Stoney (Yani Gellman) and Kinsa (Melody Johnson) stripped down to have sex in his cabin - as Stoney tongued down the length of her body and heated her up by removing her panties before intercourse, Jason was also thawing in a nearby lab from over 400 years of cryostasis, and would shortly later murder Stoney (within Kinsa's sight) with an autopsy machete |     
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This was another controversial film from co-director Larry Clark, in which the director was accused of exploiting young teens and lasciviously filming unsimulated sex - it was banned in Australia, and never issued in wide release in the US; its plot was about four dysfunctional, abusive families in Visalia, California and their teenaged skateboarders, with themes of teenage suicide and wild sexual experimentation; in one of the scenes, Shawn (James Bullard) provided oral sex for his girlfriend Hannah's breast-enhanced mother Rhonda (Maeve Quinlan) when he told her she intimately smelled like her daughter - the familiar image was often displayed, in part, on the film's video/DVD cover and poster; the film also included other scenes of graphic oral and masturbatory sex and nudity, violence, suicide and incest; in one controversially-graphic scene of auto-erotic self-asphyxiation designed to increase his own sexual arousal, death-obsessed, masturbation-addicted, sociopathic teenager Tate (James Ransone), who wore a T-shirt saying "Keep it Simple," choked himself with a long green scarf tied to a doorknob while he pleasured himself (to climax) watching Anna Kournikova playing tennis (he had earlier killed his grandparents that he was living with - murdering them also for purposes of sexual arousal); the film ended with an idyllic sex orgy scene between a trio of teenagers (Tiffany Limos as Peaches, Stephen Jasso as Claude, and Shawn) in which they were in both give-and-take positions - seeking refuge from their troubled lives |
    
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Introduction: In the following illustrated compilation are some of the most significant films in the history of sex on the screen. The influential film milestones and their memorable sexual/erotic scenes are thoroughly described. Including portrayals
of sex and/or nudity, these films were often considered quite erotic, groundbreaking,
unique and/or controversial at the time. The following listing of these influential, memorable and classic
sex scenes and films takes into account all of
the available surveys of this type of material, and attempts to provide
an informed, detailed, unranked, chronological (by film title) grouping of the
most influential and groundbreaking films and scenes. Some of the most notorious (or infamous) films are quite
mediocre, usually made as an excuse to display nudity or eroticism of a star performer.
- Milestone Films With Scenes That Were Especially Notorious, Infamous, Controversial, or Scandalous