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. 13 -

    Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room

    1905, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 21 -

    Behind the Screen

    1916, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 26 -

    The Chief Cook

    1917, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 38 -

    Ella Cinders

    1926, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 43 -

    It

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
  6. 51 -

    Our Modern Maidens

    1929, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 56 -

    Glorifying the American Girl

    1929, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 58 -

    Animal Crackers

    1930, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 63 -

    Madam Satan

    1930, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 74 -

    Monkey Business

    1931, in 1 top list Check
  11. 78 -

    The Smiling Lieutenant

    1931, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 81 -

    Runt Page

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 82 -

    War Babies

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 83 -

    The Pie-Covered Wagon

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 84 -

    Glad Rags to Riches

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 85 -

    Kid in Hollywood

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 86 -

    The Kid's Last Fight

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 87 -

    Polly Tix in Washington

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 88 -

    Kid 'in' Africa

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 89 -

    Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 93 -

    The Dentist

    1932, in 1 top list Check
  22. 100 -

    Red-Headed Woman

    1932, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 106 -

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932, in 17 top lists Check
  24. 110 -

    Convention City

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 111 -

    Design for Living

    1933, in 6 top lists Check
  26. 114 -

    Female

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 115 -

    Flying Down to Rio

    1933, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 116 -

    Footlight Parade

    1933, in 5 top lists Check
  29. 117 -

    Gold Diggers of 1933

    1933, in 11 top lists Check
  30. 118 -

    I'm No Angel

    1933, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 122 -

    Our Betters

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 125 -

    Roman Scandals

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 126 -

    She Done Him Wrong

    1933, in 8 top lists Check
  34. 132 -

    Hips, Hips, Hooray!

    1934, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 133 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  36. 142 -

    Klondike Annie

    1936, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 143 -

    My Man Godfrey

    1936, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 145 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  39. 155 -

    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
  40. 157 -

    Two-Faced Woman

    1941, in 1 top list Check
  41. 158 -

    Andy Hardy's Double Life

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 163 -

    The Gang's All Here

    1943 — a.k.a. The Girls He Left Behind, in 3 top lists Check
  43. 164 -

    The More the Merrier

    1943, in 4 top lists Check
  44. 165 -

    The Outlaw

    1943, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 168 -

    To Have and Have Not

    1944, in 16 top lists Check
  46. 187 -

    Era lui, sì, sì!

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 188 -

    Due notti con Cleopatra

    1954 — a.k.a. Two Nights with Cleopatra, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 190 -

    Ieri oggi domani

    1963 — a.k.a. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 193 -

    Calamity Jane

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
  50. 194 -

    The French Line

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
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