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. 27 -

    Tarzan of the Apes

    1918, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 101 -

    Scarface

    1932, in 16 top lists Check
  3. 104 -

    Tarzan the Ape Man

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 138 -

    Tarzan and His Mate

    1934, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 139 -

    China Seas

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 180 -

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  7. 238 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  8. 246 -

    Pagan Island

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 264 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  10. 277 -

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  11. 289 -

    Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

    1965 — a.k.a. The Leather Girls, in 8 top lists Check
  12. 294 -

    La decima vittima

    1965 — a.k.a. The 10th Victim, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 332 -

    Cherry, Harry & Raquel!

    1970 — a.k.a. Megavixens, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 362 -

    The Big Doll House

    1971 — a.k.a. Bamboo Dolls House, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 363 -

    Billy Jack

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 378 -

    Shaft

    1971, in 10 top lists Check
  17. 397 -

    Slaughter

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 398 -

    Street of a Thousand Pleasures

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 401 -

    Coffy

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  20. 407 -

    Ricco

    1973 — a.k.a. Cauldron of Death, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 409 -

    Le guerriere dal seno nudo

    1973 — a.k.a. The Amazons, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 411 -

    Big Bad Mama

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 412 -

    Caged Heat

    1974 — a.k.a. Caged Females, in 1 top list Check
  24. 417 -

    Freebie and the Bean

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 423 -

    Thriller - en grym film

    1973 — a.k.a. Thriller: A Cruel Picture, in 5 top lists Check
  26. 432 -

    Mandingo

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  27. 493 -

    Hanover Street

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 496 -

    The Lady in Red

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  29. 535 -

    The Beastmaster

    1982, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 556 -

    Breathless

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 557 -

    Chained Heat

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 563 -

    Deathstalker

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 573 -

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
  34. 574 -

    Blade Violent - I violenti

    1983 — a.k.a. Women's Prison Massacre, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 581 -

    Losin' It

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 596 -

    Angel

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 603 -

    The Bounty

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 612 -

    Savage Streets

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  39. 614 -

    Sheena

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  40. 615 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  41. 617 -

    Barbarian Queen

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 620 -

    The Emerald Forest

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 648 -

    8 Million Ways to Die

    1986, in 1 top list Check
  44. 649 -

    Howard the Duck

    1986, in 1 top list Check
  45. 662 -

    Lethal Weapon

    1987, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 668 -

    No Way Out

    1987, in 1 top list Check
  47. 671 -

    Action Jackson

    1988, in 1 top list Check
  48. 673 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  49. 695 -

    Lethal Weapon 2

    1989, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 747 -1

    The Last of the Mohicans

    1992, in 9 top lists Check
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