Title | Year | Notes | Language |
They Call Us Misfits (Dom kallar oss mods)[10] | 1967 | Swedish documentary film, the first of a trilogy. | Swedish |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Director/actor Melvin Van Peebles appears in several real sex scenes. His son, Mario, performed in a simulated sex scene. Van Peebles contracted a sexually transmitted disease while filming and successfully filed for worker's compensation. While the sex scenes may have been explicit and the actor maintains that they were real, nothing is shown onscreen that could not have been faked. Nonetheless, after Peebles came up with the winning ad slogan "rated X by an all-white jury" the film's rating was reduced to R in 1974.[11] | English |
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | Director Dušan Makavejev explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich. Contains scenes of both various simulated sex acts and non-simulated manual stimulation of a penis.[12] | Serbo-Croatian
and English |
I Jomfruens tegn | 1973 | First film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
I Tyrens tegn | 1974 | Second film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
I Tvillingernes tegn | 1975 | Third film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
Der må være en sengekant | Sixth film in the Danish Bedside-series of erotic mainstream-comedies, and one of the two to have hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
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.[13] | Danish |
Une vraie jeune fille (English title: A Real Young Girl or A Real Young Lady) | female masturbation, close-up of male and female genitalia (including a man masturbating to ejaculation) and urination scenes[14] | French |
I Løvens tegn | Fourth film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
In the Realm of the Senses | Based on a true story of a Japanese prostitute, features fellatio and other non-simulated sexual acts.[15][16] | Japanese |
Agent 69 Jensen i Skorpionens tegn | 1977 | Fifth film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
Agent 69 Jensen i Skyttens tegn | 1978 | Sixth and final film in the Danish Zodiac-series of mainstream-comedies with hardcore scenes.[13] | Danish |
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.[17] | English |
Cruising | 1980 | Director William Friedkin spliced in single frames of gay anal intercourse during at least one scene, the first murder. The frames are barely detectable at normal speed but are visible when freeze-framed. Partially obscured sex acts, including fellatio and fisting, are observable being performed by extras in scenes set in gay leather bars. The film originally contained an additional 40 minutes of footage that Friedkin describes as "[a]bsolutely graphic sexuality....that material showed the most graphic homosexuality with Pacino watching, and with the intimation that he may have been participating."[18] Friedkin sought to restore the missing footage for the DVD release but it has been lost. He believes it has been destroyed.[19] | 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.[20][21] | Italian |
La Vie de Jésus (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"[22] | French |
The Idiots | 1998 | The film by Lars von Trier features penetration and group sex.[23] | Danish |
Romance | 1999 | Directed by Catherine Breillat, features male and female masturbation, penetration, ejaculation, and sadomasochistic bondage.[24] | French |
Pola X | "Pola X ... acquired international notoriety for unsimulated sex scenes between the characters played by [Guillaume] Depardieu and Yekaterina Golubeva, though body doubles were reportedly used for the more graphic shots."[25] | French |
Baise-moi | 2000 | Several actual sex scenes, including penetration and fellatio, involving Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson.[26] | French |
Intimacy | 2001 | Fellatio scene between actress Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance.[26] It is often falsely stated that actual coitus is performed between the two leads, but this rumor was dispelled by Fox's boyfriend, Alexander Linklater, who wrote an article for The Guardian about the making of the film.[27] | English |
Ken Park | 2002 | The film was banned in Australia, as the Office of Film and Literature Classification said it contained scenes of "child sexual abuse, actual sex by people depicted as minors and sexualised violence". Cunnilingus, auto-erotic asphyxiation, urination, and group sex acts involving characters that are supposed to be teens are shown explicitly, but the sex is simulated with the exception of one scene showing a young man masturbating. All actors were actually over 18.[28] | English |
The Brown Bunny | 2003 | This film by Vincent Gallo features a scene where Chloë Sevigny performs actual fellatio on Gallo.[29] | English |
Anatomie de l'enfer (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.[30] | French |
9 Songs | Several non-simulated sex scenes between actress Margo Stilley and actor Kieran O'Brien, including protected penetration, fellatio, cunnilingus and an on-screen ejaculation by the lead actor.[26] | English |
The Raspberry Reich | The picture is full of non-simulated heterosexual and homosexual (mostly homosexual) sex from beginning to end. There is onscreen heterosexual intercourse as well as gay oral and anal sex. The opening sequence in particular features an extended montage of sexual activity.[31] | English |
All About Anna | 2005 | The film-makers, Innocent Pictures, said that "Without the sex scenes, the film’s drama would fall apart. This was a particular challenge to the film’s cast, who had to cope with the traditional social and human traumas associated with having real sex in front of a camera. Fortunately the film’s actors and actresses managed to extent their dramatic performances way beyond the norm and truly managed to push the envelope, achieving new means of dramatic expression. The sex scenes were carefully planned and rehearsed prior to shooting, allowing the actors to stay in character through every embrace and caress."[32] | English |
Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo) | "Battle in Heaven," the second feature by the 34-year-old Mexican director Carlos Reygadas, is an anomaly among today's explicit art films, which often deploy sex more as a stunt than a subversion. In the languid, graphic scenes of fellatio that bookend his movie, what is startling isn't so much the frankness of the sex as the glaring disparity between the participants: Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), the attractive young daughter of a general, and Marcos (Marcos Hernández), a homely, obese, middle-age man who is the general's driver."[33] | Spanish |
Inside Deep Throat | This documentary includes the deep throat scene from the original Linda Lovelace motion picture. Approximately 30 seconds of the actual fellatio.[34] | English |
Shortbus | 2006 | Several actors in this American film, including Canadian TV personality, singer, and CBC national radio host Sook-Yin Lee,[35] perform real coitus and other sexual acts. Non-simulated sex acts include explicit masturbation by several characters, coitus, and heterosexual and homosexual fellatio.[26] | English |
Destricted | Seven short films by artists and film-makers commissioned to "explore the fine line where art and pornography intersect", it "contains strong, real sex".[36][37] | English |
