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Regardless of social status, occupation or nationality, sex is one of the most important things for a person.
At a time when there was no “sex” in the USSR, erotic films were already being made in full swing in more liberated countries, which were released in wide distribution.
Today we will talk about the 10 best paintings on this topic, remembering both the classics of the 70-80s and more recent works.
10 Sex, lies and video | 1989
Steven Soderbergh’s debut film, which won the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a drama about human relationships, through the entire duration of which sexual overtones can be traced.
The plot tells about a group of people: John is a successful lawyer who has a beautiful wife, Ann, and a mistress, Cynthia, who is his wife’s sister.
A friend from college Graham comes to visit him, who at first is simply jealous of John, and then starts an affair with his wife. As a result, this love tangle of lies, cunning and passion entangles each of the heroes.
Despite being an independent film made for just $1.2 million, Sex, Lies & Video grossed $20 million in the US alone.
9. Lady Chatterley’s lover | 2015
The protagonist of this BBC film is a young, charming girl who wants to enjoy her youth by giving and receiving love, but is unable to because of her paralyzed husband.
Her conscience and innate nobility do not allow her to brazenly change and she makes every effort to overcome her sexual desires, but as a result, she still surrenders under the pressure of a handsome man played by Richard Madden (Robb Stark from Game of Thrones).
This picture clearly demonstrates that treason can not always be called an unequivocally bad deed. Yes, the heroine can be condemned from the moral side, but after watching you are unlikely to do so.
8. Eyes wide shut | 1999
The main roles in this film were played by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who at the time of filming were husband and wife. Thanks to this, they felt at ease in each other’s company, and the sex scenes did not cause them much discomfort, as often happens.
The last picture of Stanley Kubrick is perceived by people in different ways: some idolize it, praising the genius of Kubrick, while others complain about an overly long plot with a bunch of Freudian overtones. Be that as it may, it is definitely worth watching this work of the master.
7. Feather of the Marquis de Sada | 2000
The real Marquis de Sade believed that the main thing in life is the satisfaction of one’s own aspirations, and religion, public morality, and so on are secondary concepts. Now it would be called “to live in a high”, but a couple of centuries ago the world was different.
Geoffrey Rush plays the leading role in the film “The Feather of the Marquis de Sade”, who perfectly embodied the image of an elderly debauchee. A young Kate Winslet, as well as Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine, complement it perfectly, showing the other side of the life of the aristocracy of the early XNUMXth century.
6. Shame | 2011
The protagonist of the film named Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a sexaholic and erotomaniac who is unable to cope with his problems. He regularly visits nightclubs, sits in sex chats, knows the addresses of the best striptease bars in New York.
Thanks to his good looks and charisma, he manages to constantly find new girls for one night, but everything changes dramatically when his own sister decides to visit him.
The unnatural connection is given facelessly here: director Steve McQueen does not try to show the disgust of incest, nor does he try to whitewash such a relationship. It just shows two people with deep internal trauma who are trying to somehow cope with everything.
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona | 2008
And again a tape with an amazing cast: Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz. The latter even received an Oscar for her role, albeit for a minor role. Although, the main role here is assigned not to a person at all, but to the feelings that the characters experience for each other.
Two young girls arrive in Barcelona and meet an artist who makes no secret of his desire to sleep with both of them. One of them agrees to spend the weekend with him, and the second at first does not transfer him to the spirit, then hates, then admires, then passionately desires.
The full gamut of feelings embodied by such talented actors is worth spending an hour and a half watching.
4. Pianist | 2001
A French drama about the strange love of a middle-aged conservatory teacher and a young musician, she took all 3 awards at Cannes, which is a kind of record.
Isabelle Huppert appears as a teacher with whom a student falls in love: the story is banal, but only at first glance. A woman at the age of 40 is a virgin who prefers sadomasochism with elements of a fetish to classical sex, and even equipped an appropriate room at home.
At first, her young lover is not ready for this, and later she herself is not ready for violence and hard sex.
3. Nymphomaniac: Part 1 | 2013
Despite the fact that Lars von Trier’s film was released quite recently, he has already managed to acquire cult status in his genre.
The story of the growing up of a nymphomaniac, who was first interested in her vagina as early as 2 years old, is shocking in places, but shocking in a good way.
This film is definitely not for everyone, but if you are a fan of films in this niche, then the performances of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Uma Thurman and Stacey Martin should be appreciated.
2. Nymphomaniac: Part 2 | 2013
The second part of the film is not a sequel: the tape was simply crushed for greater effect. If in the first part most of the narrative is centered around the youth of the main character (up to 35 years old, the Gainsbourg character is played by Stacey Martin), then the continuation shows an already mature nymphomaniac with great experience, and also better reveals other characters.
1. Basic instinct | 1992
It cannot be said that Paul Verhoeven’s thriller is a film about sex. Sex, or rather its anticipation, dreams about it, are the driving force, but not the main character.
The characters themselves, brilliantly played by Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas, are only puppets and are completely at the mercy of this force.
It is difficult to find a person who has not watched this masterpiece, because this is a real must have for any movie fan.