Albeit having full-front nudity, steamy sex scenes, threesomes, one for money shots, these 10 movies have pushed the limits and still played in multiplexes as main stream-films.
Nudity/sex scenes aren't quite new in mainstream movies, back in the pre-code era, movie makers like Alfred Hitchcock used to put incredible efforts into producing some blatant sexual innuendo within their movies, of course even showing a kissing scene so directly would give the sensor board some joyful time to vigorously sensor the scenes. Chances are that they wouldn't have believed what would happen in the coming era.
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Nowadays, not actually "nowadays", for, over decades and decades, we have seen and have been seeing some steamy softcore porn in so-called "mainstream" movies, depicted scenes as such as threesome would eventually be justified to hold on the sensor board by demanding "relevant to the story plot".
While sex scenes in certain movies are indeed relevant to the story, many times they are completely unnecessary, barely have some connection to the main story, mainly to steam up the viewers and to reach a larger audience. Sometimes, sex scenes are even "educational" in some movies, at least as they describe.
Sex scenes in movies can be conferred as "art." Well, it kind of is! Today we've made a list of 10 such movies, they all share one thing in common: They all come as close to being pornographic as mainstream films will allow.
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10. 'Henry & June' (1990)
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Philip Kaufman's adaption of the story by Anaïs Nin was the first-ever Hollywood movie to earn an NC-17 rating. This movie was meant to be artful erotica from the phonographic ghetto of the X-rating, it suddenly became the kiss of death. Many newspapers and magazines refused to even carry ads of this movie.
Storyline synopsis: A literary love triangle was explored in this movie. During the travel to Paris, author Henry Miller (Fred Ward), and his wife, June (Uma Thurman), met Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros). Sexual sparks started flying as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June was forced to return to the U.S., she gave Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then the story shifts, when June returns to France, a very unexpected, and sometimes contentious, "threesome" formed.
9. 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999)
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| Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise intimate scene in "Eyes Wide Shut" |
Stanley Kubrick's swansong turned away an NC-17 rating because of director-approved digital inserts that clouded explicit demonstrations during the much-examined Venetian-covered orgy sequence. The scene feels surprisingly filthy, however, the film's steamiest seconds would barely qualify as PG-13.
Storyline synopsis: After each enjoying extramarital teases at a luxurious occasion party, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman get high in their room and discusses their desire. Incited by her better half's skepticism that she might be explicitly enticed, Kidman parks on the floor covering in white skivvies and conveys a desire stirring up talk for the ages involving a summer getaway, a studly naval officer, and a purred vocal delivery. Regarding power, Cruise's resulting sexual odyssey fails to measure up.
8. 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' (2013)
Palme d'Or-winning cause celebre, Blue Is The Warmest Color, has gained both praises and criticisms for its unflinching, explicit sex scenes and its generally positive portrayal of a lesbian relationship. In any case, this touching look at young ladies falling all through adoration will be perpetually judged by one especially broadened extended sequence in which the actresses pleasure each other in various positions for a "looooong" time. This movie has left people confused and sometimes disgusted with an excessive amount of sex scenes, which seemed completely unnecessary. Even the actresses now admit they feel like "sluts" when they look back on this movie.
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Storyline synopsis: A French teen (Adèle Exarchopoulos) forms a deep emotional and sexual connection with an older art student (Léa Seydoux) whom she met in a lesbian bar. And things get extremely dramatic and overly sexual between them, eventually falling apart.
7. 'Crash' (1996)
Dirty in the most ideal sense, David Cronenberg's adaptation of J.G Ballard's not-so-distant future novel of vehicular desire surveys the wreckage of modernity and digs up taboos — car-accident fetishes? Inter-wound penetration? — that the majority of us didn't know existed. From fast, high-sway orgasms to investigating the erotic potential of leg braces, the sexual moments here figure out how to be both yucky and lamentably stimulating.
Storyline synopsis: Consummately seedy leading man James Spader is a bourgeois professional permanently perverted by a near-death experience, while character actor Elias Koteas turns in one of the randiest performances in film history as a slithering scar-faced Greasemonkey.
6. 'In the Realm of the Senses' (1976)
Pornography, as we as a whole know, played in seedy theaters full of dudes in dirty raincoats (prior to the video revolution, at least). Pornography didn't play at the New York Film Festival — so the way that the renowned occasion would program Nagisa Oshima's gander at a genuine homicide case including a house cleaner, her boss, and their all-devouring sexual craze implied it was not pornography, correct? Regardless of the NYFF's seal of endorsement and that one of Japan's greatest filmmakers had made this very explicit docudrama, the film's arrangements of entertainers especially captivating in copulation no hinders were still excessively "hot" for customs authorities, and the festival's later screenings were stopped. Legal battles would eventually see the courts ruling on the side of Senses being art and not smut, and the film is presently legitimately perceived as genuine wrongdoing exemplary. However, on the off chance that there was ever a film that tested the idea of workmanship versus pornography, it was this one.
Storyline synopsis: A former prostitute (Eiko Matsuda), now working as a servant, begins a torrid affair with her married employer (Tatsuya Fuji).
5. 'Women in Love' (1969)
Ken Russell's lofty adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel was one of the outré chief's more dismal, "decent" films – save for the naked wrestling match between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, considered by numerous individuals to be mainstream film's first example of full-front nakedness. It's likewise the stuff of acting legend: Both entertainers continued attempting to pull out of doing the scene until one night they got smashed together and went for a joint pee, during which they had the option to look at one another and acknowledge there was nothing to feel unsure about. (Or maybe there was: Reed spent his time in between takes off to the side, as he put it, "trying to get a semi on so that it would look more purposeful and stop all my girlfriends saying ‘why to bother' and deserting me.") Seen today, the homoeroticism is undeniable regardless of the scene's supposedly platonic male-bonding intentions. It's a man-on-man sex scene in everything but name.
Storyline Synopsis: The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britain's industrial Midlands in the 1920s, as two free-thinking sisters try to balance passion with independence.
4. 'I Am Curious (Yellow)' (1967)
It wasn't only the pubic hair in plain view that got Vilgot Sjoman's political screed-cum-melodrama seized at customs when it was brought here in 1969, however at the focal point of a vulgarity case attempted by the Supreme Court and considered one of the more notorious films of its day. (Although the few scenes in which actors Lena Nyman and Borje Ahlstedt show off some hairy nether regions certainly helped distinguished this Swedish import from the usual foreign-film fare.) No, what put this story of an extreme understudy student having an affair with a wedded man in boiling high temp water was the grouping in which Nyman plants a kiss on her costar's penis in full view; that was sufficient to blend up a shitstorm that would wind up breaking down control obstructions and ultimately help introduce a time of cinematic leniency. Nobody discussed the interview film of Martin Luther King Jr., or film of genuine Vietnam War protesting, or the shameless rebelliousness of the film's anti-authoritarian humor. They zeroed in on the genital kiss. The interest and the discussion helped accumulate a more extensive crowd. And the rest is history.
Storyline synopsis: Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
3. 'Intimacy' (2001)
Patrice Chereau's 2001 film, given stories by Hani Kureishi, riffs on Last Tango in Paris and spotlights on a man and a lady who meet week after week to have anonymous (and unsimulated) sex, and whose lives are muddled when one begins to get familiar with the other. Like Tango, it likewise constrains you to reexamine both the idea of realness in intimate moments and how they work: After watching the crude, in-your-face nature of the plentiful sexual moments in the film, do you have a feeling that you find out about these characters or less? In any case, the scene in which Shallow Grave actress Kerry Fox fellates costar Mark Rylance onscreen immediately gained the film notoriety and arguably stalled her career. The actress still contends it's the best work she's ever done.
Storyline synopsis: A man (Mark Rylance) wants to know more about the nameless woman (Kerry Fox) with whom he has weekly trysts.2. 'The Center of The World' (2001)
Storyline synopsis: He (Peter Sarsgaard) is a computer genius who's made a mint working in Silicon Valley; she (Molly Parker) is a fascinating artist who he pays to go through three days and evenings with him in Las Vegas. She offers him lap moves, he employs his monetary worth like a staff, and director Wayne Wang regards the entire thing as a philosophical composition on the connection between capitalism and carnal demands. At that point, either the Deadwood actress or her body double —it's difficult to truly say — plays a game of hide-the-lollipop, and suddenly, the movie enters a whole other realm of sexed-up power games.
1. '9 Songs' (2004)
Often regarded as one of the most explicit movies, English movie producer Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart) refreshed the arthouse erotica of the 1970s for the mid-aughts by outlining this roughhewn heartfelt story as a concoction of contemporary indie rock and explicit penetrative sex.
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Featuring live performances by Franz Ferdinand, Elbow, The Dandy Warhols, Primal Scream, and others, the film is captivating, now and again in any event, illuminating thought of how the bend of a relationship can be set apart by its sexual experiences. Also, in contrast to the majority of its progenitors, 9 Songs is truly keen on female delight, lingering longest — and most powerfully — on actress Margo Stilley's mid-and post-coital face.
Storyline synopsis: A man (Kieran O'Brien) reminisces about his steamy affair with an American woman (Margo Stilley) he met at a rock concert in England.
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