Blue Movie / Caligula

Blue Movie

This 1969 film was directed by Andy Warhol and was the first film featuring explicit sex to get a wide-release in the U.S.

As you might expect from a movie with Warhol's name on it, Blue Movie is experimental. It solely revolves around two lovers in a New York City apartment discussing the Vietnam movie and having unsimulated sex.

Warhol has said the film was around how we should all focus on love instead of war, which is and interesting way to justify filming a ton of sex scenes.

Caligula

This classic biopic about the titular Roman emperor stars Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, but they don't engage in the sex scenes. Instead, Penthouse Pets were cast for the film's group sex scenes, which are unsimulated.

The Penthouse connection happened because Bob Guccione, the magazine's founder, was a producer. He actually stepped in to film the explicit scenes when director Tinto Brass refused to take part in it.

The Films of Lars Von Trier

Lars Von Trier's film's are notorious for their challenging imagery and explicit nature. Three of his films in particular stand out for their use of unsimulated sex during filming.

In The Idiots, there's an orgy that features penetration. In Antichrist, Williem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg go on an insane journey of loss that ends with a graphic rape and genital mutilation scene. The two actors don't participate in the unsimulated scenes, but body doubles do (minus the mutilation).

There's also sex in Nymphomaniac, as you might expect form its title. Some might think actors like Shia LaBeouf actually participated in the scenes, but they'd be wrong. Starring actors simulated sex, then porn stars came in as body doubles and had real sex on camera. Actors' faces were then CGI-ed onto the porn stars, making it seem like they actually participated.

The Brown Bunny / 9 Songs

The Brown Bunny

This controversial film is on this list for one big scene. After a journey to find himself, the male lead (Vincent Gallo) reunites with his ex lover (Chloë Sevigny). She then performs oral sex on him, which is unsimulated.

9 Songs

This 2004 film intertwines musical moments and explicit sex scenes. Actors Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley engage in authentic sex through the film, which includes penetration, oral sex and even on-camera ejaculation.

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Romance

Shortbus

Love

It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.

Little Ashes

Starlet

Marfa Girl

Killer Bitch

Lie With Me

Kissing on the Mouth

Baise-moi

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The Principles of Lust

Story of the Eye

Scrapbook

The Center of the World

Scarlet Diva

James Joyce's Women

Cruising

You're Driving Me Crazy

Come Play With Me

Barbara Broadcast