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. 29 -

    Back to God's Country

    1919, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 30 -

    Male and Female

    1919, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 32 -

    The Queen of Sheba

    1921, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 33 -

    The Sheik

    1921, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 37 -

    Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

    1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check
  7. 41 -

    The Son of the Sheik

    1926, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 80 -

    Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

    1931, in 11 top lists Check
  9. 90 -

    Bird of Paradise

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 102 -

    Shanghai Express

    1932, in 9 top lists Check
  11. 104 -

    Tarzan the Ape Man

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 108 -

    The Barbarian

    1933 — a.k.a. A Night in Cairo, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 119 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  14. 138 -

    Tarzan and His Mate

    1934, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 139 -

    China Seas

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 168 -

    To Have and Have Not

    1944, in 16 top lists Check
  17. 180 -

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  18. 186 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  19. 189 -

    Boy on a Dolphin

    1957, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 219 -

    Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald

    1956 — a.k.a. Liane, Jungle Goddess, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 232 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  22. 238 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  23. 242 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  24. 246 -

    Pagan Island

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 249 -

    Spartacus

    1960, in 19 top lists Check
  26. 264 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 276 -

    Tom Jones

    1963, in 13 top lists Check
  28. 277 -

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  29. 302 -

    One Million Years B.C.

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  30. 315 -

    Barbarella

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  31. 316 -

    Candy

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 339 -

    100 Rifles

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 384 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  34. 389 -

    Deliverance

    1972, in 15 top lists Check
  35. 398 -

    Street of a Thousand Pleasures

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 409 -

    Le guerriere dal seno nudo

    1973 — a.k.a. The Amazons, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 426 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  38. 465 -

    The Deep

    1977, in 1 top list Check
  39. 493 -

    Hanover Street

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 502 -

    The Blue Lagoon

    1980, in 1 top list Check
  41. 507 -

    Heaven's Gate

    1980, in 8 top lists Check
  42. 519 -

    Heavy Metal

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
  43. 528 -

    Tarzan the Ape Man

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 535 -

    The Beastmaster

    1982, in 3 top lists Check
  45. 563 -

    Deathstalker

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
  46. 603 -

    The Bounty

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 614 -

    Sheena

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  48. 617 -

    Barbarian Queen

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  49. 620 -

    The Emerald Forest

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 648 -

    8 Million Ways to Die

    1986, in 1 top list Check
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