In 2005, this documentary dug, um, well, deep, into the iconic 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat and its cultural impact. In the name of education, it contains 20 seconds of unsimulated fellatio courtesy of the source material, along with interviews a range of people including Linda Lovelace, Gore Vidal, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, and John Waters.
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Speaking of documentaries, 1968's They Call Us Misfit, followed two young hippies named Kenta and Stoffe and was notable (opens in new tab) for being the earliest example of non-simulated sex in a "legal" movie in Sweden.
In the movie, Emmanuelle is a filmmaker who debuts a scandalous, erotic film at Cannes. The original release of Emmanuelle 5 was met with some controversy due to speculation that director Walerian Borowczyk actually only directed the sexy film-within-a-film.
This 1969 movie was one of the first examples of the "women in prison" genre and there are reportedly four versions of it in existence, including Jesús Franco's director's cut and a French hardcore version released in 1974 that includes more than eight minutes of new, hardcore footage filmed by Claude Sendron.
This drama, also known by the title I Am a Groupie!, about groupie life in the rock music scene, was written by director Derek Ford and real-life former groupie Suzanne Mercer. The movie was originally released in 1970, but was re-released in 1974 with additional, hardcore scenes added in.
Think Downtown Abbey, but make it sexy/funny. This 1976 British sex comedy (also known as My Favorite Butler) follows the sexual adventures of the inhabitants of Cockshute Castle. A hardcore version featuring inserts filmed with body doubles also exists.
British sex comedy Keep It Up, Jack is about a struggling drag artist who inherits a brothel from his dead aunt (yep and stay with us, because the plot only continues down the path of WTF-ery), and then proceeds to impersonate her (that would be the dead aunt) in an effort to seduce the female clients of said brothel. A version of the film (opens in new tab) including explicit sex scenes was also released, but the hardcore scenes don't feature the credited cast.
This Jesús Franco film focuses on three women who share an apartment and occasionally freelance as sex workers to pay the rent. The Blu-ray release includes both the softcore and hardcore versions of the movie.
This is a sexploitation film, so it's not shocking that there's some real sex involved. The 1980 film (which was released in Brazil as A Prisão), is set in a women's prison and includes a handful of hardcore scenes.
This 2016 Spanish film by Edgardo Castro has a hyper-realistic aesthetic and lengthy scenes of unsimulated sex acts. The story focuses on Martin, a lonely man in this 40s looking for connection through sex.
This 1975 film spawned a long series of sequels, all focused on the gorgeous leading lady, who only goes by Emanuelle as a pseudonym. IRL, she's a journalist and photographer named Mae Jordan. In the first film in the series, "Emanuelle" takes an assignment working with a diplomatic couple and ends up embarking on sexual relationships with both of them. While the movie does feature hardcore scenes, they were filmed by body doubles.
This 2002 movie follows the lives of a group of teenagers in California. It was written by Harmony Korine (yes, of Spring Breakers fame) and was based on the real journals and memories of the film's director, Larry Clark. The unflinching look at teen life includes a mix of simulated and unsimulated sex scenes.
This 2005 movie is credited with being one of pioneers of the Mumblecore movement and features graphic depictions of sex, including a very graphic and very real scene of masturbation that leads to equally real ejaculation.
Described as a "pseudo-documentary," this early-70s movie dives deep into the occult, witchcraft, and black magic. And, just to give you an idea of how sexy things get within those topics, the movie was also released in a hardcore version, for the full XXX-factor.
Based on the 2008 novel of the same name, Wetlands (known in German as Feuchtgebiete) is your classic, brutally honest coming-of-age movie. The movie deals with a lot of big themes, like feminism and sexuality, but its 18-year-old protagonist is also the kind of girl who masturbates with vegetables and ends up in the hospital after an anal hair shaving experiment gone awry, so there's that.
Much Loved (also known as Zin Li Fik) is known for more than its unsimulated sex scenes. The 2015 French-Moroccan drama was one of the first movies to ever address the issue of prostitution in Morocco (where the movie is banned, FYI, over objections to its content).
Stranger by the Lake (or, as it's known in French, L'Inconnu du lac) is a bona fide critical darling. The 2013 French drama-thriller premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where its director, Alain Guiraudie, won Best Director. As if that weren't critical cred enough, the movie also won the Queer Palm award and earned a place on several top ten lists in 2014.
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The 2012 French comedy-drama film centers on a family who gather to open up about their sexual experiences when the youngest son in the family is caught filming himself masturbating in class. There are two versions of the movie: the Sensual version (which is softcore) and the Sexual version (yep, hardcore).
Paradise: Faith is the second movie in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy. The movie focuses on Anna Maria, a devout Catholic woman, who is thrown into conflict when her estranged Muslim husband, who is partially-paralyzed returns home and demands her love. The movie made waves for including unsimulated scenes of masturbation and fellatio.
Don't let the title fool you: This 2005 movie is not a sequel to 1999's 8mm. In fact, the movie's original title was The Velvet Side of Hell. Still, it features lots of unsimulated and pornographic scenes, if that's what you're looking for.
This 2004 French erotic drama explores the darker sides of sexuality, complete with unsimulated sex scenes. The movie tells the story of a lonely woman who pays a gay man to spend four days locked away with her in an isolated house to explore all aspects of sexuality.
Another Bruce LaBruce entry on the list, Otto; or, Up with Dead People is a queer cinema horror film about a zombie who ends up in an underground filmmaker's zombie porno film. The sex is real, the gore, thankfully, is not.
Although this movie was made in 1976, it was so controversial it wasn't released in theaters until 2000. The source of the controversy? The film's use of unsimulated sex as well as scenes in which the lead, Charlotte Alexandra, exposes her breasts and vulva. Although Alexandra was 20 when the movie was filmed, she was playing a 14-year-old character.
Good ol' Shortbus! This 2006 comedy is one of the better-known movies of this particular subgenre, and for good reason: it's legit great. The film centers on the happenings at an artsy sexual salon in Brooklyn, and chronicles one woman's very explicit adventures in trying to achieve orgasm. (FYI, actress Sook-Yin Lee was almost fired from her radio gig because of this movie, but kept her job thanks to the support (opens in new tab) of A-listers like Gus Van Sant, Francis Ford Coppola, and Yoko Ono.)
If you like your unsimulated sex with a side of hipster angst, look no further than 2004's 9 Songs. The film is essentially about a couple who a) attend concerts by aughts bands like Franz Ferdinand and The Dandy Warhols, and b) have a ton of sex. And it's very, very real.
This circa-1980 thriller by William Friedkin stars Al Pacino as a cop who's trying to find a serial killer targeting gay men. The film's original version featured footage of gay sex, and while some frames remain visible in the final cut, a lot was deleted to nab an R rating. (Upon its release, this movie caused quite a bit of drama, and was protested by gay rights activists who felt stigmatized.)
In the Realm of the Senses is about real-life Geisha Sada Abe, who's famous for having killed her lover before cutting off his penis and testicles. The film's unsimulated sex scenes were so X-rated that it was originally banned in the United States. "The trickiest problem we faced was finding actors," director Nagisa Oshima said (opens in new tab). "I anticipated that the fact that we would be asking them to have actual sex in front of the camera would be a huge obstacle. Contrary to my expectation, however, finding women to audition turned out to be easy: they came in great numbers, saying if sex was required, well, that was no big deal. In the end, even my wife, the actor Akiko Koyama, said that if no one else would do it, then she would be willing."
Many people consider Pink Flamingos to be one of the most disturbing movies ever made. The 1972 John Waters film stars drag queen Divine who, in one scene, performs oral sex on the actor playing her son in the movie. Unsurprisingly, the film was banned in several countries.
Scarlet Diva is a 2000 film by Italian writer, director, and actress Asia Argento. The movie is a semi-autobiographical account of Argento's life as an actress. Argento confirmed after the film's release that many of the sex scenes were not simulated.
The movie, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, gained notoriety for featuring a 13-minute long, unsimulated oral sex scene, in which a man goes down on the character Ophélie (played by Ophélie Bau).
The movie, which is a sequel to 2012's Marfa Girl, focuses on a young mother from Marfa, Texas, who leans on her family while trying to recover after suffering domestic abuse. Critics made (opens in new tab) note of the film's unsimulated sex and the movie's firm stance "sex is just another way of communication."
The 2017 Romanian drama follows Ana (played by Diana Cavallioti) and Toma (played by Mircea Postelnicu), who end up having (apparently quite real) sex after a hearted debate babout Nietzche's philosophy (you know, as you do) and later have to grapple with Ana's anxiety attacks and mental health issues. 2ff7e9595c
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