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. 44 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  2. 68 -

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    1931, in 7 top lists Check
  3. 278 -

    Kiss Me Quick!

    1964 — a.k.a. Dr. Breedlove, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 294 -

    La decima vittima

    1965 — a.k.a. The 10th Victim, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 349 -

    Electrosex 1975

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  6. 365 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  7. 369 -

    Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  8. 416 -

    Flesh Gordon

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 442 -

    Shivers

    1975, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 453 -

    The Man Who Fell to Earth

    1976, in 8 top lists Check
  11. 466 -

    Demon Seed

    1977, in 2 top lists Check
  12. 470 -

    Rabid

    1977, in 1 top list Check
  13. 488 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  14. 508 -

    Humanoids from the Deep

    1980 — a.k.a. Humanoids of the Deep, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 521 -

    Looker

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 543 -

    Liquid Sky

    1982, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 573 -

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
  18. 577 -

    Zapped!

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 610 -

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    1984 — a.k.a. 1984, in 3 top lists Check
  20. 615 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  21. 618 -

    Cocoon

    1985, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 627 -

    Lifeforce

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  23. 632 -

    Re-Animator

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  24. 635 -

    The Return of the Living Dead

    1985, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 673 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  26. 683 -

    Not of This Earth

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 708 -

    Frankenhooker

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 725 -1

    Delicatessen

    1991, in 15 top lists Check
  29. 729 -2

    Poison

    1991, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 748 -1

    The Lawnmower Man

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
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    Demolition Man

    1993, in 1 top list Check
  32. 812 -3

    Species

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 841 -4

    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
  34. 848 -4

    The Fifth Element

    1997, in 7 top lists Check
  35. 862 -5

    Starship Troopers

    1997, in 9 top lists Check
  36. 878 -5

    New Rose Hotel

    1998, in 3 top lists Check
  37. 883 -5

    Species II

    1998, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 927 -5

    Hollow Man

    2000, in 1 top list Check
  39. 982 -6

    Jason X

    2001, in 1 top list Check
  40. 1024 -7

    Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

    2003, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 1050 -7

    Species III

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 1117 -8

    A Scanner Darkly

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
  43. 1197 -11

    Hot Tub Time Machine

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 1198 -11

    Kaboom

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 1205 -12

    Splice

    2009, in 1 top list Check
  46. 1220 -14

    Melancholia

    2011, in 10 top lists Check
  47. 1245 -15

    Looper

    2012, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 1257 new

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 1266 new

    Under the Skin

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  50. 1280 new

    Space Station 76

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
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