Tim Dirks' The History of Sex in Cinema

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The following listing of these influential, memorable and classic sex scenes and films (chronologically by year) takes into account all of the available surveys of this type of material, and attempts to provide an informed, detailed, unranked grouping of the most influential and groundbreaking films and scenes. It also considers other films with sex-related scenes, including portrayals of sex and/or nudity, and factors in a film's (or scene's) notoriety and infamy and the stars involved. 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.

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  1. 248 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  2. 510 -

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
  3. 154 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 365 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  5. 488 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  6. 946 -5

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  7. 230 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  8. 734 -2

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  9. 159 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  10. 206 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  11. 767 -2

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  12. 961 -5

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  13. 184 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  14. 414 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  15. 174 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
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    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  17. 242 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  18. 887 -5

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  19. 238 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  20. 179 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  21. 644 -

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  22. 403 -

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  23. 615 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  24. 150 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  25. 166 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  26. 928 -5

    Fa yeung nin wah

    2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check
  27. 309 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  28. 325 -

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  29. 939 -5

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  30. 863 -5

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  31. 156 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  32. 1194 -11

    Black Swan

    2010, in 12 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  34. 119 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  35. 426 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  36. 305 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  37. 479 -

    Halloween

    1978, in 17 top lists Check
  38. 133 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  39. 977 -6

    Amadeus

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  40. 245 -

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  41. 454 -

    Network

    1976, in 14 top lists Check
  42. 1257 new

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 1267 new

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    2013, in 13 top lists Check
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    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
  45. 1111 -8

    Das Leben der Anderen

    2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check
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    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
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    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  48. 573 -

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
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    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
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    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
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