Unsimulated sex
Unsimulated sex is the presentation in a film of sex scenes where the actors engage in an actual sex act, and are not just miming or simulating the actions. At one time in the United States such scenes were restricted by law and self-imposed industry standards such as the Motion Picture Production Code.[1] Films showing explicit sexual activity were confined to privately distributed underground films, such as stag films or "porn loops". Beginning in the late 1960s, most notably with Blue Movie by Andy Warhol, mainstream cinemas began pushing boundaries in terms of what was presented on screen.[2] Although the vast majority of sexual situations depicted in mainstream cinema are simulated (in early pornography, the main actors engaged in simulated sex, with inserts placed in the film), on rare occasions actors engage in real sex.[3] The difference between these films and pornography is that, while such scenes might be considered erotic, the intent of these films is not solely pornographic.[4]
Notable examples include two of the eight Bedside-films and the six Zodiac-films from the 1970s, all of which were produced in Denmark and had many pornographic sex scenes, but were nevertheless considered mainstream films (they all had mainstream casts and crews, and premiered in mainstream cinemas).[5] The last of these films, Agent 69 Jensen i Skyttens tegn, was made in 1978. From the end of the 1970s until the late 1990s it was rare to see hardcore scenes in mainstream cinema, but this changed with the success of Lars von Trier's The Idiots (1998), which heralded a wave of art-house films with explicit content,[6][7] such as Romance (1999), Baise-moi (2000), Intimacy (2001), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny (2003), and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs (2004). Some simulated sex scenes are sufficiently realistic that critics mistakenly believe that they are real, such as the cunnilingus scene in the 2006 film Red Road.[8]
Films with unsimulated sexual activity
The following mainstream films have scenes with verified real sexual activity, meaning actors or actresses are filmed engaging in actual coitus or performing related sexual acts such as fellatio and cunnilingus. This list does not include documentaries about pornography, which may contain unsimulated sexual activity. For example, Inside Deep Throat contains approximately 30 seconds of unsimulated fellatio.[9]
Title | Year | Notes | Language | |
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Gift | 1966 | One of the first Danish mainstream films with explicit and unsimulated sex scenes, although key sex scenes were blocked by censors during showings at the time in the United States.[10] | Danish | |
Blue Movie | 1969 | A 1969 film by Andy Warhol – the first film depicting explicit sex to receive wide theatrical distribution in the United States[11][12][13][14][15] – a seminal film in the Golden Age of Porn and, according to Warhol, a major influence in the making of Last Tango in Paris, an internationally controversial erotic drama film, starring Marlon Brando, and released a few years after Blue Movie was made.[13] | English | |
El Topo | 1970 | In his book about the film,[16] Alexandro Jodorowsky says about the rape scene: "When I wanted to do the rape scene, I explained to [Mara Lorenzio] that I was going to hit her and rape her. There was no emotional relationship between us, because I had put a clause in all the women's contracts stating that they would not make love with the director. We had never talked to each other. I knew nothing about her. We went to the desert with two other people: the photographer and a technician. No one else. I said, 'I'm not going to rehearse. There will be only one take because it will be impossible to repeat. Roll the cameras only when I signal you to.' Then I told her, 'Pain does not hurt. Hit me.' And she hit me. I said, 'Harder.' And she started to hit me very hard, hard enough to break a rib...I ached for a week. After she had hit me long enough and hard enough to tire her, I said, 'Now it's my turn. Roll the cameras.' And I really...I really...I really raped her. And she screamed." | Spanish | |
Stille dage i Clichy (English title: Quiet Days in Clichy) | 1970 | Film, directed by Jens Jørgen Thorsen, is based on the long-banned novel by Henry Miller and contains a graphic insert of hardcore sex early on.[17] | Danish, English | |
Cry Uncle! | 1971 | This film by John G. Avildsen shows unsimulated fellatio.[18] | English | |
Pink Flamingos | 1972 | This film by John Waters was banned in Australia in 1997. The Board unanimously noted a scene which included "close up real depictions of actual fellatio....which unambiguously contravene R classification guidelines.".[19] | English | |
I Jomfruens tegn | 1973 | First film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
Thriller - en grym film (English title: Thriller – A Cruel Picture) | 1973 | The original Swedish cut of this film, directed by Bo Arne Vibenius, contains explicit hardcore inserts.[20][21] | Swedish | |
A Scream in the Streets | 1973 | Film by Carl Monson and several other directors contains a few seconds of actual penetration.[22] | English | |
The Devil in Miss Jones | 1973 | American Film directed by Gerard Damiano and reviewed favorably by Roger Ebert.[23] | English | |
The Obscene Mirror | 1973 | A number of versions of this film by Jess Franco exist: One version contains hardcore scenes, as well as Italian version (Lo specchio del piacere). There is also a French XXX version[24] | Spanish | |
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac | 1973 | This film by Jess Franco, also known as Le Journal intime d'une nymphomane exists in versions featuring hardcore sex.[25] | French | |
A Virgin Among the Living Dead | 1973 | A Virgin Among the Living Dead is one of the films from Jess Franco’s classic period and exists under a plethora of different versions, including both hardcore and edited versions.[26] | French | |
I Tyrens tegn | 1974 | Second film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
Score | 1974 | American film by Radley Metzger, based on an off-Broadway play that included Sylvester Stallone. It features a scene of unsimulated fellatio between Calvin Culver and Gerald Grant. [27][28][29] | English | |
Sweet Movie | 1974 | This film by Dušan Makavejev contains some unsimulated sex acts.[30] | English, French, Polish, Spanish | |
Immoral Tales | 1974 | This film, directed by Walerian Borowczyk consists of four stories, titled La marée, Thérèse philosophe, Erszébet Báthory, and Lucrezia Borgia, respectively. In the third story, there is a close up scene of vaginal pearl insertion performed by an actress Marie Forså.[31][32] The German Blu-ray edition of Immoral Tales contains a film clip from Borowczyk's A Private Collection. This clip features an unsimulated bestiality between a woman and a dog and hence, this material had to be pixelated in the German edition of the film.[32] | French, Italian, Hungarian | |
Sexcula | 1974 | Filmed during the Golden Age of Porn, Sexcula is "the first fully Canadian film to work with Gothic horror elements and pay unabashed tribute to the Universal monster movie cycle". Quite explicit in its nature, it features mostly softcore scenes, including two hardcore sequences.[33] | English | |
Countess Perverse | 1974 | Both the French theatrical version "Les croqueuses" and the Italian version (under the title SEXY NATURE) of this Jess Franco's film contain hardcore inserts.[34] | French | |
I Tvillingernes tegn | 1975 | Third film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
Der må være en sengekant | 1975 | Sixth film in the Danish Bedside-series of erotic mainstream-comedies, and one of the two to have hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
The Image | 1975 | This film by Radley Metzger, based upon the novel L'Image by Catherine Robbe-Grillet, features many unsimulated sex scenes including S&M, fellatio and lesbian cunnilingus.[35] | English, French | |
Black Emanuelle | 1975 | This film, directed by Bitto Albertini exists in both softcore and hardcore versions. Hardcore scenes were performed by body doubles. In Italy, it was released on DVD by Stormovie with the fully uncut hardcore print.[36][37] | Italian | |
Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline | 1975 | A German version of this film directed by Joe D'Amato, and titled Die Lady Mit der Pussycat contains hardcore footage featuring Brigitte Lahaie.[38][39] | Italian | |
The Hot Nights of Linda | 1975 | There are two different versions of this film directed by Jess Franco: softcore version and hardcore French version.[40] | French | |
Female Vampire | 1975 | There are at least three different versions of this film by Jess Franco (also known as Erotic Kill): A horror-version, A "Soft"-erotic-version and A Hardcore-version, which is actually the "Soft"-version with four additional hardcore scenes and may be found on the German DVD by Laser Paradise.[41][42] | French | |
L'Éventreur de Notre-Dame | 1975 | A film by Jess Franco exists in many different versions, including a version titled "Sexorcisme" with hardcore scenes.[43] | French, Latin | |
Barbed Wire Dolls | 1976 | This film by Jess Franco in its uncut version contains explicit scene of digital penetration which had to be removed from the UK DVD version by Anchor Bay in order to achieve an 18 classification.[44] | French | |
Emanuelle in Bangkok | 1976 | Directed by Joe D'Amato this film, in its uncut Italian DVD version, contains a hardcore shots of vaginal penetration by ping pong balls.[45] | Italian | |
Alice in Wonderland | 1976 | American film produced by William Osco and reviewed favorably by Roger Ebert.[46] | English | |
Sømænd på sengekanten | 1976 | Eighth and final film in the Danish Bedside-series of erotic mainstream-comedies, and one of the two to have hardcore scenes, including extensive clips from the short Color Climax #1283: Mail Order Sex (1973), watched on 8mm by the ship's crew.[10] | Danish | |
The Opening of Misty Beethoven | 1976 | American film by Radley Metzger, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, My Fair Lady) and considered, by award-winning author Toni Bentley, the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age of Porn.[28][29] | English | |
I Løvens tegn | 1976 | Fourth film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
In the Realm of the Senses | 1976 | This film has many experimental and avant-garde elements features hardcore sex scenes, showing genitals of actors. Based on a true story of a Japanese prostitute, features fellatio and other non-simulated sexual acts.[47][48] | Japanese | |
Through the Looking Glass | 1976 | This film by Jonas Middleton with many experimental and avant-garde elements features hardcore sex scenes, including fellatio.[49] | English | |
A Real Young Girl | 1976 | This film is Catherine Breillat's first feature film, shot in 1975, but banned for the next 25 years, mostly due to hardcore nature of its content. Some controversial scenes show: full frontal vagina, bodily fluids, urination and masturbation.[50][51][52] | French | |
L'Ange et la Femme | 1977 | This film by Gilles Carle contains some explicitly unsimulated sexual activity between its stars.[53] | French, English | |
Agent 69 Jensen i Skorpionens tegn | 1977 | Fifth film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
Barbara Broadcast | 1977 | American film by Radley Metzger released during the Golden Age of Porn features several scenes of unsimulated sex - some scenes present a surrealistic "Buñellian" atmosphere, according to one film reviewer.[54] | English | |
Nazi Love Camp 27 | 1977 | This film by Mario Caiano features actual penetration.[55] | Italian | |
Emanuelle in America | 1977 | A film by Joe D'Amato exists in both softcore and hardcore versions.[56] | Italian | |
Emanuelle Around the World | 1977 | The hardcore European version of this film by Joe D'Amato, prepared for the French market contains penetration, oral sex, and the bestiality scenes with the snake and the dog.[57] | Italian | |
Sister Emanuelle | 1977 | There is also the Danish DVD Version of this film by Giuseppe Vari with hardcore sex scenes.[58] | ||
Agent 69 Jensen i Skyttens tegn | 1978 | Sixth and final film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[10] | Danish | |
Behind Convent Walls | 1978 | The uncut version of this film by Walerian Borowczyk features hardcore scene of female masturbation by a wooden dildo.[59][60] | Italian | |
Blue Movie | 1978 | This film, directed by Alberto Cavallone, also exists in uncut 8mm version with hardcore material that includes fellatio and intercourse scenes.[61] | Italian | |
Immoral Women | 1979 | This film, directed by Walerian Borowczyk consists of three stories titled Margherita, Marceline, and Marie, respectively. In the first story, Margherita, there is an unsimulated intercourse scene.[62] | French, Italian | |
Caligula | 1979 | Uncut version of this film includes several authentic sex scenes, including penetration, fellatio and ejaculation during the six minutes worth of inserts shot by the film's producer, Bob Guccione. The sex shot by Tinto Brass in the rest of the movie, although very explicit, was simulated.[63] | English | |
Images in a Convent | 1979 | This film by Joe D'Amato contains many explicit sex scenes including hardcore sex in the rape scene..[64] | Italian | |
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead | 1980 | This Joe D'Amato's film exists in two versions: explicit version with hardcore scenes (Hardcore Version) and a rated general release that removes all the hardcore scenes (Original Version).[65][66] | Italian | |
Hotel Paradise | 1980 | Both of softcore and hardcore versions of this film, directed by Edoardo Mulargia can be found on the Danish DVD by Another World Entertainment.[67] | Italian | |
Sex and Black Magic | 1980 | This, mostly softcore film by Joe D'Amato shows one brief hardcore insert.[68] | Italian | |
Bare Behind Bars | 1980 | A film by Oswaldo de Oliveira, features explicit sex scenes (mostly lesbian), and at least one hardcore hetero-sexual scene.[69] | Portuguese | |
Beast in Space | 1980 | There is also a hardcore version of this film by Alfonso Brescia.[70] | Italian | |
Cruising | 1980 | Director William Friedkin spliced in single frames of gay anal intercourse during at least one scene. Partially obscured sex acts, including fellatio and fisting. | English | |
Taxi zum Klo | 1980 | A film directed by Frank Ripploh features hardcore gay sex scenes.[71] | German, English, French | |
Spetters | 1980 | This film directed by Paul Verhoeven features explicit hardcore sex scenes, including oral sex.[72] | Dutch | |
Fruits of Passion | 1981 | This film by Shūji Terayama contains unsimulated fellatio.[73] | Cantonese, Japanese, English, French | |
Emmanuelle in Soho | 1981 | One of the last film in the British sex comedy era, directed by David Hughes exists also in hardcore versions. For example, a hardcore version was exhibited in Hong Kong's cinemas.[74][75] | English | |
Caligola: La storia mai raccontata (English title: The Emperor Caligula: The Untold Story, or Caligula 2 - The Untold Story) | 1982 | The uncut European version of this film, directed by Joe D'Amato, features penetration, ejaculation and fellato in an orgy scene.[76] | Italian | |
Scandale | 1982 | This film by George Mihalka contains both softcore and hardcore sex scenes.[77] | French | |
Apocalipsis Sexual | 1982 | A film by Carlos Aured exists in both softcore (Spanish DVD) and hardcore versions (Italian VHS).[78] | Spanish | French |
Emmanuelle 4 | 1984 | This film, directed by Francis Leroi and Iris Letans exists in at least two versions.The Canadian VHS contains 3 hardcore scenes, including oral sex and intercourse.[79] | French | |
The Alcove | 1985 | Film by Joe D'Amato contains a few real sex scenes.[80] | Italian | |
James Joyce's Women | 1985 | This film, directed by Michael Pearce, is based on James Joyce's Ulysses and shows about twenty minutes of real, on camera masturbation by Fionnula Flanagan, the main actress.[81] | English | |
Devil in the Flesh | 1986 | Features a short scene of fellatio, during which the man tells the woman about Lenin's return to St. Petersburg in 1917.[82][83] | Italian | |
Emmanuelle 5 | 1987 | This film, directed by Walerian Borowczyk, exists in at least three versions. A hardcore version was only released in France on VHS and contains scenes of intercourse, oral sex, masturbation and urination.[84] | French, English | |
Emmanuelle 6 | 1988 | A hardcore edit on VHS was released in France, making this version about 10 minutes longer than US DVD version.[85] | French | |
Hotel St. Pauli | 1988 | This film by Svend Wam shows unsimulated oral sex.[86] | Norwegian, Swedish | |
Kinski Paganini | 1989 | Klaus Kinski's directorial debut. According to one reviewer: "[...] it is really extremely bizarre, in moments brutal and almost experimental film with plenty of softcore and hardcore scenes [...]"[87] | Italian | |
トパーズ (Also known as: Tokyo Decadence and Topāzu) | 1992 | This film by Ryu Murakami about prostitution in Japan contains sexually explicit and graphic scenes, including explicit use of a vibrator and strap-on, as well as a urination scene. However, "Murakami didn't make this film to tickle people's libidos; he wanted to bring out the potential ugliness that can come through sex."[88] | Japanese, English | |
The Soft Kill | 1994 | The DVD version of this film, directed by Eli Cohen, features penetration.[89] | English | |
La Vie de Jésus (English title: The Life of Jesus) | 1997 | "In Life of Jesus, Dumont included extreme close-ups of penetration to emphasize the animal nature of the sex act."[90] | French | |
Idioterne (English title: The Idiots) | 1998 | This film by Lars von Trier features extremely brief penetration and group sex.[91] | Danish | |
Fiona | 1998 | This film directed by Amos Kollek features a brief oral sex scene.[92] | English | |
Seul contre tous (English title: I Stand Alone) | 1998 | The film is Gaspar Noé's first feature-length production and features several actual sex scenes. | French | |
Jezus is een Palestijn (English title: Jesus is a Palestinian) | 1999 | Director Lodewijk Crijns: "From the beginning I swore that there would be a visual penetration in my film. [...] Eventually that scene made it into the film and also in a way which I think is very surprising."[93] | Dutch | |
Romance | 1999 | Directed by Catherine Breillat, features male and female masturbation, fellatio, penetration, ejaculation, and sadomasochistic bondage.[94] | French | |
Pola X | 1999 | "Pola X gained infamy world wide for its unsimulated sex acts between Guillaume Depardieu (Pierre) and Yekaterina Golubeva (Isabelle). Although body stand-ins were used for the most explicit parts."[95][96][97] | French | |
La donna lupo (English title: The Man-Eater) | 1999 | Film by Aurelio Grimaldi contains a scene of actual fellatio.[98] | Italian | |
Guardami | 1999 | Based on the life of Italian porn actress Moana Pozzi, this film directed by Davide Ferrario shows real oral sex.[99] | Italian | |
Vampire Strangler | 1999 | A film by William Hellfire shows real fellatio by an actress Erin Brown.[100] | English | |
Giulia (English title: Julia) | 1999 | This film by Roy Stuart shows scenes of fellatio, cunnilingus and intercourse performed by actress Anna Bielska.[101] | French | |
Humanité | 1999 | A film by Bruno Dumont contains sex and nudity, including three hardcore scenes.[102] | French, English | |
Baise-moi | 2000 | Several actual sex scenes, including penetration and fellatio.[103] | French | |
Scrapbook | 2000 | This film by Eric Stanze includes non-penetrative sex acts and an actor urinating on an actress.[104] | English | |
Scarlet Diva | 2000 | A semi-autobiographical film about Italian actress and director Asia Argento's life as an actress, it contains many non-simulated sex scenes according to Argento herself.[105] | English, Italian, French | |
Intimacy | 2001 | Features fellatio.[106] | English | |
Le Pornographe (English title: The Pornographer) | 2001 | This film by Bertrand Bonello shows many hardcore sex scenes, including penetration.[107] | French | |
Lucía y el sexo (English title: Sex and Lucia) | 2001 | This film by Julio Medem contains several real sex scenes, including penetration and fellatio from the porn movie made by one of the film's characters as well as manual stimulation of an erect penis and cunnilingus performed by and on another film's character.[108] | Spanish, English | |
Hundstage (English title: Dog Days) | 2001 | The first fictional feature film by director Ulrich Seidl contains a hardcore orgy scene.[109] | German | |
The Center of the World | 2001 | A film by Wayne Wang contains "the graphic sex of Triple-X videos".[110] | English | |
La novia de Lázaro (English title: Lazaro’s Girlfriend) | 2002 | This film by Fernando Merinero features about a minute-long scene of explicit fellatio.[111] | Spanish | |
Le loup de la côte Ouest (English title: The Wolf of the West Coast) | 2002 | A Hugo Santiago film with recognizable stars James Faulkner and Anna Mouglalis features unsimulated sex scenes.[112] | French, English | |
Sud sanaeha (English title: Blissfully Yours) | 2002 | This film, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, contains a scene of explicit fellatio.[113] | Thai | |
Choses secrètes (English title: Secret Things) | 2002 | A Jean-Claude Brisseau film about female sexuality that shows many explicit sex scenes, including public masturbation by a female character and a hardcore orgy scene. The first film of a trilogy.[114] | French | |
Ken Park | 2002 | Directed by Larry Clark, this film shows both simulated and unsimulated sex scenes, such as a male masturbation and ejaculation scene.[115] | English | |
The Brown Bunny | 2003 | This film by Vincent Gallo features a scene of fellatio.[116] | English | |
Fallo! (English title: Do It! or Private) | 2003 | Film directed by Tinto Brass contains real fellatio.[117] | Italian, French, English, Spanish | |
Rossa Venezia | 2003 | This film by Andreas Bethmann features many hardcore sex scenes, mostly lesbian.[118] | German | |
The Principles of Lust | 2003 | Film by Penny Woolcock shows an orgy scene with several unsimulated sex acts, including oral sex.[119] | English | |
Anatomie de l'enfer (English title: Anatomy of Hell) | 2004 | By director Catherine Breillat, it features "actual sex, high-level sex scenes and high-level themes" according to the Australian Classification Review Board.[120] | French | |
9 Songs | 2004 | Several non-simulated sex scenes, including penetration, fellatio, cunnilingus and ejaculation.[103] | English | |
Story of the Eye | 2004 | Based on the novel Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, this film, directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney contains many hardcore sex scenes.[121] | English | |
Kärlekens språk 2000 | 2004 | A Swedish sex educational film directed by Anders Lennberg shows many unsimulated sex scenes.[122] | Swedish | |
All About Anna | 2005 | A film directed by Jessica Nilsson, featuring intercourse performed both by Eileen Daly and Gry Bay and male actors, fellatio with ejaculation performed by Eileen Daly on Mark Stevens, cunnilingus performed by Ovidie on Gry Bay.[123] | Danish | |
8mm 2 | 2005 | A film directed by J. S. Cardone, featuring various erotic scenes that include complete nudity, group sex, female masturbation, oral stimulation, authentic pornography frames, and lesbian cunnilingus.[124] | English | |
Kissing on the Mouth | 2005 | Film by Joe Swanberg contains a real scene of masturbation with ejaculation.[125] | English | |
天邊一朵雲 (English title: The Wayward Cloud) | 2005 | This film directed by Tsai Ming-liang features fellatio and penetration.[126][127] | Mandarin | |
Princesas | 2005 | This film by Fernando León de Aranoa contains a scene of explicit fellatio.[128] | Spanish | |
Lie with Me | 2005 | A film by Clement Virgo, based on the novel of the same title, contains "medium-to-hardcore sex".[129] | English, Spanish | |
Shortbus | 2006 | Several actors perform real sexual acts including explicit masturbation, autofellatio, coitus, and heterosexual and homosexual fellatio.[103][130] | English | |
Taxidermia | 2006 | This film, directed by György Pálfi features actual penetration.[131] | Hungarian, English, Russian | |
Les Anges Exterminateurs | 2006 | The second Jean-Claude Brisseau film that explores female sexuality. It shows unsimulated female masturbation.[132] | French | |
Auftauchen (Also known as Amour fou) | 2006 | Felicitas Korn's feature film debut shows several authentic sex scenes.[133] | German | |
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. | 2007 | This film directed by David Brothers and Crispin Glover contains actual penetration.[134] | English | |
L'histoire de Richard O. (English title: The Story of Richard O.) | 2007 | This film by Damien Odoul shows numerous real sex scenes.[135] | French, Finnish | |
Import/Export | 2007 | The second fictional feature film by Ulrich Seidl contains several authentic sex scenes, including female masturbation and anal fingering. The authenticity of the fellatio scene is debatable.[136] | German, Slovak, Russian, English | |
El Búfalo de la noche (English title: The Night Buffalo) | 2007 | This film by Jorge Hernandez Aldana contains an explicit fellatio scene.[137] | Spanish | |
Serbis (English title: Service) | 2008 | Directed by Brillante Mendoza, it shows explicit fellatio.[138] | Filipino, Tagalog | |
Tropical Manila | 2008 | This film, directed by Sang-woo Lee, contain several explicit sex acts, including real fellatio.[139] | Filipino, Korean | |
À l'aventure | 2008 | The third film by Jean-Claude Brisseau about female sexuality contains many explicit sex scenes, including authentic female masturbation and orgasm.[140][141] | French | |
Amateur Porn Star Killer 2 | 2008 | This film by Shane Ryan includes explicit scenes of penetration and oral sex. The second film of a trilogy.[142] | English | |
Antichrist | 2009 | This film by Lars von Trier features a scene of penetrative vaginal intercourse, and also includes graphically violent sexual imagery. Body doubles were used to make the film.[143] | English | |
Enter the Void | 2009 | This film, directed by Gaspar Noé contains some unsimulated sexual activity.[144] | English, Japanese | |
The Band | 2009 | This film directed by Anna Brownfield features numerous sequences of unsimulated sex.[145] | English | |
Dogtooth | 2009 | A film by Giorgos Lanthimos. "The brief real sex is used to establish the unusual and dysfunctional lifestyle that results from the isolation orchestrated by the dictatorial father, including incest."[146] | Greek | |
Now & Later | 2009 | The film contains an unsimulated oral scene and a simulated sex scene.[147] | English | |
Bedways | 2010 | This film by Rolf Peter Kahl shows real sex scenes, including a three-minute-long scene of masturbation.[148] | German | |
The Bunny Game | 2010 | This film directed by Adam Rehmeier contains an explicit scene of fellatio.[149] | English | |
Killer Bitch | 2010 | Controversial in many aspects, this film by Liam Galvin contains real sex scenes according to executive producer John Fleming.[150] | English | |
Año bisiesto (English title: Leap Year) | 2010 | Film by Michael Rowe features unsimulated sex scenes.[151] | Spanish | |
Gandu | 2010 | An Indian film, directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee, that contains actual sex scenes.[152] | Bengali | |
LelleBelle | 2010 | This film by Mischa Kamp contain the images of unsimulated penetration.[153][154] | Dutch | |
Q (English title: Desire) | 2011 | A 2011 French film, directed by Laurent Bouhnik, which features several graphic unsimulated depictions of sex.[155] | French | |
Hotel Desire | 2011 | This short film directed by Sergej Moya contains an unsimulated sex scene between the actors Saralisa Volm and Clemens Schick.[156] | German | |
愛很爛 (English title: Love Actually... Sucks!) | 2011 | A Hong Kong film, directed by Scud, features fellatio.[157] | Mandarin, Cantonese, English | |
Caged | 2011 | A 2011 Dutch film directed by Stephan Brenninkmeijer, it contains several explicit hardcore sex scenes.[158] | Dutch | |
Léa | 2011 | This film, directed by Bruno Rolland, contains an unsimulated scene of cunniligus.[159] | French | |
Starlet | 2012 | This film by Sean S. Baker contains a scene of penetration.[160] | English | |
Marfa Girl | 2012 | A film by Larry Clark with content similar to his cult film Ken Park.[161] | English | |
Nymphomaniac | 2013 | A two-part drama by Lars von Trier, the third of his loose "Depression" trilogy. To produce scenes of simulated sex, von Trier used digital compositing to superimpose the genitals of pornographic film actors onto the bodies of the film's actors.[162] Producer Louise Vesth explained during the Cannes Film Festival: "We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital impose the two. So above the waist it will be the star and the (sic) below the waist it will be the doubles." Gainsbourg and Martin further revealed that prosthetic vaginas and closed sets were used during filming. | Danish | |
Pornopung | 2013 | A 2013 Norwegian film, directed by Johan Kaos, that features a scene of explicit fellatio.[163] | Norwegian | |
Stranger by the Lake | 2013 | Directed by Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake contains scenes of unsimulated sex that were shot using body doubles.[164] | French | |
Wetlands | 2013 | Film by David Wnendt contains a real scene of masturbation and ejaculation by several men on twenty pizzas. The hired porn stars were used for shooting the scene.[165] | German | |
Pasolini | 2014 | A film by Abel Ferrara, about the final day in the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, shows several actual sex scenes, including fellatio.[166] | English, Italian, French | |
Love | 2015 | This film by Gaspar Noé features scenes of unsimulated sexual activity and is notable as being a 3-D release.[167] | English | |
Paris 05:59 | 2016 | The film opens with an 18-minute unsimulated gay orgy scene at a Paris sex club.[168][169] | French |
Pornography films re-edited for mainstream release
Prior to the advent of home video, a number of hardcore pornography films were released to mainstream cinemas. In most cases, scenes of penetration were either cut out or replaced with alternate shots. One exception to this was Deep Throat, which was released uncensored.
Examples of this type of hybrid release include Alice in Wonderland (1976), shot as X-rated, but first released as an R-rated version—afterwards, the uncut version was released;[170] Café Flesh (1982)—the R-rated version of this science fiction porn film was released to mainstream cinemas;[171] Stocks and Blondes (1984), originally available as Wanda Whips Wall Street;[172] and Droid (1988), originally released as Cabaret Sin in 1987.
References
Notes
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- ↑ Corliss, Richard (29 March 2005). "That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic". TIME. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
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