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. 14 -

    Traffic in Souls

    1913, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 57 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  3. 66 -

    Dance, Fools, Dance

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 70 -

    A Free Soul

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 75 -

    Night Nurse

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 77 -

    The Public Enemy

    1931, in 13 top lists Check
  7. 101 -

    Scarface

    1932, in 16 top lists Check
  8. 105 -

    Three on a Match

    1932, in 1 top list Check
  9. 106 -

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932, in 17 top lists Check
  10. 120 -

    Ladies They Talk About

    1933 — a.k.a. Women in Prison, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 123 -

    Penthouse

    1933 — a.k.a. Crooks in Clover, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 127 -

    The Sin of Nora Moran

    1933, in 1 top list Check
  13. 153 -

    They Drive by Night

    1940, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 156 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  15. 166 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  16. 167 -

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 171 -

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  18. 176 -

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    1946, in 9 top lists Check
  19. 181 -

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  20. 183 -

    Caged

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 213 -

    To Catch a Thief

    1955, in 6 top lists Check
  22. 221 -

    The Violent Years

    1956 — a.k.a. Female, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 226 -

    High School Confidential!

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  24. 231 -

    Anatomy of a Murder

    1959, in 12 top lists Check
  25. 238 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  26. 242 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  27. 247 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  28. 257 -

    The Sinister Urge

    1960 — a.k.a. Hellborn, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 259 -

    Victim

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
  30. 264 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  31. 305 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  32. 317 -

    The Detective

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  33. 328 -

    The Thomas Crown Affair

    1968 — a.k.a. The Crown Caper, in 3 top lists Check
  34. 356 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  35. 365 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  36. 371 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  37. 378 -

    Shaft

    1971, in 10 top lists Check
  38. 382 -

    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

    1971, in 12 top lists Check
  39. 386 -

    Bluebeard

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 387 -

    Boxcar Bertha

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 395 -

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  42. 397 -

    Slaughter

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 401 -

    Coffy

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  44. 407 -

    Ricco

    1973 — a.k.a. Cauldron of Death, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 411 -

    Big Bad Mama

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 415 -

    Female Trouble

    1974, in 6 top lists Check
  47. 417 -

    Freebie and the Bean

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 427 -

    Capone

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
  49. 434 -

    Night Moves

    1975, in 6 top lists Check
  50. 445 -

    Des diamants pour l'enfer

    1975 — a.k.a. Women Behind Bars, in 0 top lists Check
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