Sex in Cinema: Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes

Sex in Cinema: In the following collection, excerpted from the Mini-History of Sex in the Cinema at this site, here are some of the most significant milestones, and most influential and memorable sexual/erotic scenes and films on the big screen through cinematic history. Most of these films, with portrayals of sex and/or nudity, were considered quite erotic, groundbreaking, unique and/or controversial at the time.

Sex in Cinema: In the following collection, excerpted from the Mini-History of Sex in the Cinema at this site, here are some of the most significant milestones, and most influential and memorable sexual/erotic scenes and films on the big screen through cinematic history. Most of these films, with portrayals of sex and/or nudity, were considered quite erotic, groundbreaking, unique and/or controversial at the time. 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 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 \|
Sex in Cinema: Part 49 Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes (chronological by film title) Milestone Films With Scenes That Were Especially Notorious, Infamous, Controversial, or Scandalous
Movie Title	Brief Scene Description	Example
In the Cut (2003)	Director Jane Campion's dark feminist sex film became noticed for its huge ad campaign touting clean-imaged Meg Ryan with her first major explicit sex scenes in a film - but the film was a box-office disaster nonetheless; it was considered a pretentious rip-off of Richard Brooks' Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977); this was a psychological thriller based on Susanna Moore's 1995 erotic thriller about a mid-30s English writing teacher and unattractive despairing divorcee named Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan) and her torrid, risky sexual liaison with a tough investigative NY cop named Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) who she noticed had a questionable wrist tattoo of the three of clubs; the film was erotically shocking for Mark Ruffalo's and Meg Ryan's full-frontal nudity, and for squeaky-clean Meg Ryan's performance of sex acts including masturbation face-down (while remembering seeing an explicit 'blow job' at a club performed by a woman (Heather Litteer) with green fingernails), oral sex (from behind), and the handcuffs-to-the-radiator scene as she straddled and had sex with the foul-mouthed cop; also released in other versions - unrated and uncut Director's Edition;
Monster (2003)	Glamorous and sexy South African-born star Charlize Theron scored another acting coup by winning the Best Actress award with her raw, convincingly-portrayed performance (and in a film with a similar title to Monster's Ball (2001)) in the true-life story of Aileen Wuornos, a white-trash prostitute executed in 2002 in Florida after being convicted of murdering seven men in 1989; the film required Theron to literally transform herself into a 'monster', and to establish a co-dependent lesbian bond with Selby (Christina Ricci)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)	In this tables-turned around romantic comedy by writer/director Nancy Meyers, 57 year-old Diane Keaton was notable for her Oscar-nominated role as sexy, mid-50s, divorced, successful playwright Erica Barry - especially in a scene where 63 year-old Viagra-taking record-company mogul Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) - who was dating younger women as girlfriends (including Erica's daughter Marin (Amanda Peet)): "I'm dating your daughter" - came upon a naked and embarrassed Erica in her Hamptons beach house - and soon took an interest in the more age-appropriate woman after suffering a mild heart attack
Swimming Pool (2003, Fr.)	François Ozon's psychological thriller (with a violent twist ending) and enigmatic art film set in the French countryside contained frequent exhibitionism and nudity in its tale of an emotionally-unbalanced, wildly promiscuous publisher's daughter named Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), who came to be in the presence of an unnerved, uptight mystery-crime novelist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling); the writer soon incorporated the events that occurred by the pool into her latest work - and became less repressed in the process
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)	Jonathan Mostow's blockbuster was the second sequel to the original Terminator franchise film of 1984; in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger time-traveled and appeared as a naked man amidst sparks and then casually strolled stark-naked into country-western bikers' hangout called The Corral; as waitresses and patrons turned their wide-open eyes toward him, his alphanumeric readouts calculated body outlines to estimate and analyze which one of the customers was deemed suitable for leather clothing and boots; as a counterpart, the first evil female terminator, called T-X or Terminatrix (Kristanna Loken), Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine to date, first appeared naked (under the credits) as she approached a parked Lexus on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills on a moonlit night	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Thirteen (2003) (aka 13)	Director/co-scripter Catherine Hardwicke's authentic R-rated coming-of-age film was well-received, with accolades for its acting and for its semi-autobiographical script that was co-written by teenaged star Nikki Reed (at age 13); Reed starred in the film at age 14 as the film's trouble-making instigator; the film followed the transformation of straight-A, honey-blonde Los Angeles 7th grader Tracy Louise Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood), who followed after persuasive Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed), into a world of rebelliousness against her divorced mother Melanie (Best Supporting Actress-nominated Holly Hunter), an at-home beautician, and also into a dangerous mix of random sex with boys, lesbian experimentation with each other, drugs, shoplifting, body-piercing, self-mutilating abuse and more; in one telling scene, Tracy revealed to her mother that she had both a belly-button piercing and tongue-piercing ("IT'S A BELLY-BUTTON RING! HOW ELSE CAN I SAY IT, I DON'T SPEAK NO OTHER LANGUAGES! Oh, and you wanna know what that is? (She sticks out her tongue)...That is a tongue ring"); both co-dependent, competitive girls pushed each other toward sexual conquest of boys, in a parallel or mirror-image sequence of an intense make-out session, as a way to get closer to each other
Twentynine Palms (2003, Fr/US)	French director Bruno Dumont's self-conscious and dispassionate arthouse film had a cast of two: Yekaterina Golubeva (as unemployed Russian-French girlfriend Katia), and David Wissak (as American photographer David); the uncommunicative couple drove a huge red Hummer through parts of the barren Southern California desert outside Los Angeles (around Joshua Tree) for almost the film's entire two-hour length, with various short passionate bouts of fighting and explicit love-making - next to some rock formations, in a motel room, in a pool, etc... ending with an abruptly-violent and gruesome finale when they were beaten up by young thugs and left to die in the sand
21 Grams (2003)	Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's stunning and compelling drama about raw emotional loss (told unconventionally with a non-linear presentation) was his English-language film debut; it told about how the lives of three separate strangers were interconnected by a cruel, random and fateful event - a hit-and-run accident; Oscar-nominated Naomi Watts starred in an unglamorous role as grieving mother Cristina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife with two young daughters devastated by a life-changing catastrophic incident and returning to her alcohol/drug abuse past to deaden the pain; the film opened without credits with a love-making scene between two of the troubled souls: widowed, grieving and bedraggled Cristina and mathematics college professor Paul (Sean Penn) - the recipient of the transplanted heart of her tragically-killed husband; the film's title referred to Paul's calculation of the amount of weight (21 grams) lost (a person's soul?) at the time of death (the equivalent of the weight of a hummingbird, a chocolate bar or a stack of five nickels)
Who's Your Daddy? (2003)	Writer/director Andy Fickman's predictable and sophomoric, American Pie-like, direct-to-video teen comedy (his debut feature film, released in both R and unrated versions, and taglined: "Schoolboy to Playboy") was about Ohio high school 'loser' senior Chris Hughes (Brandon Davis) who inherited an $87 million dollar adult-oriented company in Los Angeles known as Heaven - including a Playboy-style magazine and mansion (with nameless starlets as topless "Angels" centerfolds) run by Peter Mack (singer Wayne Newton) as the CEO; it was advertised with a teasing shot of Ali Landry (the famed Doritos ad girl) on the video/DVD cover who played cover-girl Elissa with strategically-placed soap bubbles during a bath scene
Young Adam (2003, UK)	Writer/director David Mackenzie's film, an adaptation of the 1954 novel by Alexander Trocchi about immorality, was controversial for its explicit nude scenes, including a full-frontal male unveiling (although not aroused); the inconsistent MPAA rated the realistically-sexual film as NC-17 for its explicit scenes of love-making between the main characters, although they weren't any more revealing than most R-rated films; Sony Pictures Classics released the film without further editing, and thereby limited its appeal to mainstream audiences; Ewan MacGregor portrayed an alienated young, working-class drifter named Joe Taylor in 1950s Glasgow, who was employed on a coal barge, named Atlantic Eve, that navigated the Clyde River and was owned by a sex-starved, frustratedly-married, wretched woman named Ella Gault (Tilda Swinton) - she was unhappily married to cuckolded husband Leslie (Peter Mullan); the illicit affair between Ella and Joe began when he rubbed his leg against hers under the family dinner table; included in the frank film's numerous sweaty sex scenes and couplings (usually obscured by covers or clothing), Joe offered Ella mostly-clothed oral sex as she passively laid back and spread her legs in a nighttime outdoor scene - the most contentious of the film's explicit scenes; Ella also manually aroused Joe, and they rested together in bed after having sex with a clear view of Joe's flaccid penis; one of the film's most startling post-coital images was of an errant black fly rubbing its legs together while walking around Ella's nipple; Joe also experienced flashbacks of his sexual relationship to deceased ex-girlfriend Cathie Dimley (Emily Mortimer) and in the film's kinkiest, erotically-violent encounter on a kitchen floor, Joe provided her with spanking by a wooden slat and from-behind sex with custard-tomato sauce for stimulation
Alexander (2004)	Writer/director Oliver Stone's controversial costume-epic film documented the life of ambitious, bisexual Alexander the Great of Macedonia, known for his world domination and invasion-conquest of the Persian Empire in 331 BC; in the wedding-night bedroom scene, Alexander (a blonde-wigged Colin Farrell) had passionate, animalistic heterosexual relations (accompanied by wrestling, knife-fighting, clawing and cat-like hissing) with seductive, big-breasted newly-wed Bactrian wife Roxane (Rosario Dawson), even after she discovered his homosexual relationship with his battlefield commander Hephaistion (Jared Leto); strangely, there were no explicit male sex scenes (with caressing or kissing, although there was lots of innuendo and soulful gazes), given the obsession about Alexander's alleged sexual preferences with both Hephaistion and Persian slave boy-eunuch Bagoas (Francisco Bosch); Stone blamed "raging fundamentalism in morality" in America for the film's ultimate failure, claiming that the catchphrase "Alex is Gay" turned off potential audiences
Alfie (2004)	Writer/director Charles Shyer's film was a remake of the 1966 Michael Caine film of the same name, although now transported to New York City; it starred Jude Law as the commitment-phobic title character (a limo driver) and Sienna Miller as undemanding model Nikki - one of his womanizing conquests (among others including Jane Krakowski, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei, and Nia Long)
Anatomy of Hell (2004, Fr.) (aka Anatomie de l'Enfer)	This was another of the pushing-the-limits, controversial, provocative and sexually-graphic unrated films of writer/director Catherine Breillat, exploring previously forbidden, obscene and disgusting topics; this hardcore body-horror film, adapted from her novel Pornocracy, opened with an explicit oral sex scene (male-on-male) outside a gay nightclub disco; inside the club, an anonymous suicidal woman (model Amira Casar) met a homosexual hustler (Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi) in the nightclub's toilet and after he helped bandage her slashed wrist - she rewarded him with oral sex; she hired the gay man for four nights to watch and study her nude body (‘to watch me where I’m unwatchable’) in a beachfront house and perform various unusual acts to achieve "total intimacy" - she challenged his anti-female feelings, such as having him watch her masturbate, painting her anal opening with lipstick, violating her from behind with the wooden handle of a large garden rake, removing a used tampon - dipping it in a glass of water as an engorged teabag - and drinking the reddish liquid, inserting and re-inserting a 'stone' dildo, and having sex during menstruation and showing a blood-drenched penis; in the opening credits, it ironically stated that the numerous intimate female genital closeups (of labia) were provided by a body double
Bad Education (2004, Sp.) (aka La Mala Educación)	Writer/director Pedro Almodovar's very explicit and personal film was a Hitchcockian noir-melodrama about the friendship between Enrique and Ignacio - two sexually-abused schoolboys by Catholic priests, who during their adolescence in the 60s went to a movie theatre where they stimulated each other while watching 50s Spanish sex star Sarita Montiel (as Soledad) on screen in Esa Mujer (1969, Sp.); this film was rated NC-17 for this scene of mutual masturbation among young teen boys, among others, as well as explicit gay sex scenes and an erotic pool scene. [Note: All of the principal lead roles were male or in drag. The role of an adult pre-operative transsexual Ignacio was played by real-life transsexual Francisco "Fran" Boira.]
Birth (2004)	Maverick young filmmaker Jonathan Glazer's mysterious, metaphysical, unconventional and controversial film was about a 35 year-old widow named Anna (Nicole Kidman) and a 10 year-old boy (Canadian child actor Cameron Bright) claiming to be the 'reincarnation' of her dead husband Sean --ten years after his death; it was a box-office disaster after being accused of pedophilia and creepiness, with its sexually powerful and heavily-debated scenes (denounced at Cannes and other film festivals) including the one between Anna and the naked boy in a bathtub when he announced his identity, and the scene of their passionate kiss; another talked-about scene was at an orchestral concert (Wagner's Die Walkure) when conflicted emotions overtook Anna's face in an intense close-up; there was also the scene of Ann flirtatiously asking the boy over ice cream sundaes if he could really take care of her needs: "Have you ever made love to a girl?"
Closer (2004)	Esteemed director Mike Nichols' sexually-frank R-rated film, a cinematically pungent version of Patrick Marber's 1997 play, featured characters played by against-type actors: unfaithful photographer Anna Cameron (Julia Roberts) - engaged in an affair with struggling writer Dan (Jude Law), Anna's perversely-dangerous dermatologist husband Larry (Clive Owen), and Dan's part-time stripper girlfriend Alice Ayres (Oscar-nominated Natalie Portman in her first truly adult role); all engaged in destructive behavior against others, including their brutally honest, insult-ridden, and gutter-talk dialogue --i.e., Larry: "What does it [his semen] taste like?" Anna: "It tastes like you, but sweeter"; the film also gained notoriety for editing out Portman's fully-nude private strip scene for the final release, leaving her topless and with a G-string, but only viewed from behind or in obscured shots
Club Dread (2004) (aka Broken Lizard's Club Dread)	Director Jay Chandrasekhar's film was a combination horror-comedy spoof, including elements of the murder-mystery Ten Little Indians, bloody Friday the 13th slasher films, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, stoner dialogue, a serious Scary Movie, low-brow raunchy comedies, Jimmy Buffett, and T&A of the Girls Gone Wild variety; it told about a Costa Rican beachfront vacation spot named Pleasure Island where rock star owner Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton) and staff were plagued by a series of machete-murders (committed by "fun police" officer Sam (Erik Stolhanske)); in the film's most talked-about scene, one of the resort's vacationers was a nervous blonde named Penelope (Jordan Ladd, daughter of TV's Charlie's Angels Cheryl Ladd, grand-daughter of actor Alan Ladd, and niece of Leigh Taylor-Young), who confessed to being a runaway Olympic gymnast ("I have spent my whole life in a gym. I just wanted to party like everyone else") - ably demonstrated by both forward and backward topless flips in her bedroom where she then had sex with staff swimming coach Juan (Steve Lemme)
A Dirty Shame (2004)	This censor-baiting film was a return to trashy cult form and perverse bad taste for director/writer John Waters - it was an incredibly sophomoric, nonsensical, silly film about sexual obsession and perversion as an allegory for the tale of Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles as magically endowed sex addicts (!) who became empowered to change the attitudes of sexually-conservative, anti-sex "Neuters"; it was given a questionable NC-17 rating (for its "pervasive sexual content") despite no real hard-core content, and could best be described as a gleeful nouveau "nudie-cutie"; there were many bizarre ideas, such as Baltimore trees with erections and labial bushes, a fetish for licking tires, or for dirt, or for scatalogically using a woman's purse, or for fondling raw meat in a supermarket; also, a cop wore baby clothes while having sex, and a couple admitted the practice of "roman showers -- vomiting on each other", while 'sploshing' or messy sex, as it was explained and demonstrated, was "the erotic urge to dump food in your private area"; it featured tiny Selma Blair as Caprice Stickles - a wayward nymphomaniacal daughter who had ludicrously large, balloon-shaped prosthetic breasts and continually was under arrest for indecent exposure, although she performed legal stripteases at a biker bar named Holiday House (with stripper name Ursula Udders); in another outrageous scene, repressed, middle-aged convenience store manager Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), who suffered a head concussion in a car accident and thereafter became an insatiable sex addict who continually demanded oral sex for herself ("Let's go down to the Holiday House and f--k the whole bar!"), picked up a water bottle with her "runaway vagina" while dancing the hokey pokey in a nursing home; she would confess to her daughter: ""I'm a cunnilingus bottom and I'm your mother"; and in the finale, self-proclaimed sexual healer Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville), with an elongated tongue who earlier performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a squirrel, ejaculated from his head and splattered semen on the screen
Down to the Bone (2004)	This low-budget, unrated, naturalistically-dramatic film (shot on high-def video) from first-time director Debra Granik had only a limited theatrical release; it starred Vera Farmiga (voted actress of the year by the LA Film Critics Association, and lauded at the Sundance Film Festival) as Irene, a desperate, coke-addicted blue-collar supermarket checkout cashier and mother with two sons (and an unsupportive husband Steve (Clint Jordan)) in upstate New York; she took a difficult and painful step in seeking rehabilitation, when she became involved in a co-dependent relationship with another recovering heroin addict and male nurse named Bob (Hugh Dillon) who promised her a new life with a house-cleaning business
Eurotrip (2004)	This mostly unfunny teen sex (raunchy) comedy from the writing team of Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer (the director), producers of Road Trip (2000) and Old School (2003), was chock full of bare breasts; it told about four American teens, including high school senior Scott Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz), who have traveled to Europe for Scott to finally meet his pretty Berlin Germany penpal Mieke (Jessica Boehrs); along the way in one of the film's many gratuitous sex scenes, the group encountered a nude/topless beach with dozens of female extras sprawled around sensuously, with two of the young ladies (Edita Deveroux and Petra Tomankova) mutually enjoying a massage - this scene was preceded with a view of a beach with fully-nude males; before the Eurotrip in a hot-tub scene during a graduation party, Candy (Molly Schade) also appeared pointlessly topless (only in the un-rated film version full of added nude scenes), rubbing an imagined dirt smudge or spot on her right breast while horny student Cooper (Jacob Pitts) advised her
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)	Up and coming Swedish-born star Malin Akerman had a bit role in this comedy as Liane, tow-truck driver Freakshow's (Christopher Meloni) attractive blonde wife; she enticingly invited Harold (John Cho) to reach out and fondle her breasts as she opened her top and asked: "Do you want to play with them?", although they were interrupted by her husband; she would soon go on to appear as Juna in HBO's short-lived series The Comeback (2005) and in 2006 in the role of Tori on the Emmy award-winning HBO original series Entourage, and star in The Farrelly Brothers' comedy remake The Heartbreak Kid (2007) as the newlywed bride Lila
Head in the Clouds (2004, UK/Can.)	Writer-director John Duigan's WWII melodrama was noted as the post-Oscar 'glam' film for Charlize Theron after winning Best Actress for Monster (2003) - it was a romantic (and erotic) melodrama set in 1930s England, Paris, and Spain in which she played the part of a young American heiress, photographer and hedonistic libertine named Gilda Bessé who shared her Parisian apartment with idealistic Anglo-Irish schoolteacher Guy (Charlize Theron's real-life love Stuart Townsend at the time) and limping Spanish model, ex-stripper, nursing student and refugee Mia (Penelope Cruz); the film included scenes of bisexuality in a hot two-girl tango sequence in a Parisian nightclub during a romance with Mia (a scene paying homage to the famous dance in Bertolucci's The Conformist), threesomes (in which Gilda bedded both roommates in one scene), S & M, and a sexy topless bathtub scene in which Gilda wore only a hat and a man's tie
Jersey Girl (2004)	Writer/director Kevin Smith's uncharacteristic PG-13 comedy-romance received mixed reviews; it starred Ben Affleck as NYC music publicist Ollie Trinke who was recently widowed and devastated by the death of his lover/fiancee Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez) during childbirth, and left caring as a single parent for their precocious daughter Gertie (Raquel Castro); after moving to Jersey and taking a job as a streetcleaner, his first-grader (after the fast-forward) was fast learning about the birds and the bees with a young neighbor boy with his pants pulled down: (Gertie: "That's what it looks like?" Bryan: "I guess. What does yours look like?" Gertie: "Not like that." Bryan: "Yeah? Let me see." Gertie: "All right"); she encouraged her father to rent movies (often in the adult section), and he met video-store clerk/graduate student Maya Harding (Liv Tyler) - an amazingly-frank, free-spirited and appealing young woman; in a diner scene over coffee (that originally gave the film an R-rating, but on appeal was reduced), "tight-ass" Ollie was embarrassingly confronted by Maya about why he rented porno films, presumably to masturbate to, and then to calm him, she freely admitted with frank dialogue that she masturbated twice a day herself, with a "healthy sexual appetite": ("If it makes you feel any better, I mean, I do it, like, twice a day...What can I tell ya. I get bored easily," and when he exclaimed: "Good God!" and cautioned against carpal tunnel, she quipped back: "Don't get all judgmental with me. You're no slouch yourself"; when he confessed that he'd rather hang out with his kid than get laid, she divulged: "l'm kinda crushin' on you right now, Trinke"; then when he told her that he hadn't had sex in seven years since his wife died, she replied: "You gotta get back on the horse, man!"; she flirtatiously encouraged him with a forward invitation to go to his place "for some sex..really short casual sex" -- "l'm just talking about two consenting adults having some casual sex" - and then logically tried to persuade him: ("You rent porn and touch yourself, right?...lf you're not sweating how your wife would feel about you and porn, then you shouldn't sweat what l'm proposing 'cause it's the same thing. Only somebody else is doing the touching and you're saving a $2 rental fee. Come on, stud. Man cannot live on porn alone")
Kinsey (2004)	Bill Condon's biopic of controversial, Midwestern human sexuality researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) (its tagline: "Let's talk about sex") stirred up protest about the impact of his pioneering work, interviews and publications on morality and behavior - including his Kinsey Report (aka Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) in 1948 and its follow-up Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953); the non-erotic, non-exploitative, and non-prurient film was attacked by morality extremists for its candid and frank drama about the famous Indiana University doctor's obsessive life-work; it illustrated how Kinsey's own wife Clara McMillen (Oscar-nominated Laura Linney) had painful sexual problems with her inexperienced husband during their honeymoon, and then later was engaged in an extra-marital affair with her husband's bi-sexual assistant Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard) - who also had a homosexual encounter with Kinsey and appeared nude in a full-frontal scene
Mango Kiss (2004)	Director Sascha Rice's debut feature was this acclaimed but quirky romantic comedy set in the year 1993 - it was a love story between two lesbian friends: butchy Lou (Michelle Wolff) and femme blonde Sassy (Daniele Ferraro), and their permissive experimental delvings into the San Francisco lesbian subculture; they became intimate and then overindulged by developing a non-monogamous, open relationship with daddy/princess role-playing (as Daddy Lou and Brat Princess Sassafrass), including S/M, kinkiness and multiple-partner sex
9 Songs (2004, UK)	Maverick director Michael Winterbottom's ultra-graphic love story of a romance was composed of the recollected memories of a male's affair while flying over the snowy wastes of Antarctica; artistically shot in digital chiaroscuro, it consisted almost entirely of real-time, unsimulated sex scenes of sexual intercourse (often in closeup), including oral sex (both male and female), masturbation, penetration, and ejaculation; the film was told from a single viewpoint, recalling the adventurous physical encounters over time between the young couple, 31 year old young glaciologist Matt (Kieran O'Brien) and slim, attractive 21 year-old American vagabond exchange student Lisa (Margo Stilley) in London, interspersed with nine live-concert songs (the film's title); this sexually-explicit mainstream British film brought up the main question: "Is this porn or cinematic art?"
Seed of Chucky (2004)	This horror/black comedy film (titled with a reference to the evil doll's ejaculate, and the fifth in the long-running series) featured an outrageous series of scenes; it was noted as the first doll masturbation scene in film history, when Chucky used the visual aid of Fangoria Magazine to produce sperm, that was then placed in a large turkey baster to impregnate an unconscious Jennifer Tilly (Herself); the doll Tiffany also lowered her blouse to reveal large, very anatomically correct breasts, and it also had an opening credits sequence with animated sperm swimming down a vagina to fertilize an egg; the film heavily referenced Tilly's lesbian scene with Gina Gershon in Bound (1996)
Taking Lives (2004)	In this Warner Bros' thriller, Angelina Jolie starred as Illeana Scott - a psychic FBI profiler sent on special assignment to Montreal, Canada during a serial killer investigation; the serial killer (named Martin Asher) assumed the identity of each of his victims to avoid capture; in the film, she was first introduced with a close-up of her famously-pouty lips while lying in a grave to sense the feelings of the latest victim; predictably, in an erotic scene, Jolie passionately romanced murder witness and local art dealer James Costa (Ethan Hawke) by exposing her bare chest to him when he backed her against a wall; as he laid her down on a table, he broke glassware behind her as she steadied her balance by extending her foot for leverage; he then carried her over to the nearby bed where they finished having sex with their clothes on; he was improbably discovered by film's end to be the actual murderer; in the climactic confrontation scene about seven months later, she pretended (as a decoy) to be pregnant with twins with a huge belly (due to having had sex with Costa earlier) - and stabbed her attacker to death in the heart with a pair of scissors during a fierce struggle
Team America: World Police (2004)	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) director Trey Parker's puppet comedy satire ran into censorship problems and a possible NC-17 rating; in order to secure an R-rating, the puppet defecation scene had to be cut, but was restored on the DVD version; it contained a humorous scene of intensive sex between puppets/marionettes Gary and Lisa (without genitalia) in various sexual positions (starting out with regular missionary positions, but then including oral sex from behind, hardcore '69' sex, and an offensive scene of a golden shower onto the female's face and defecation onto the male's face!)