sex scenes in movies

MS2020 · 15-12-20 00:01:02

These days frank depictions of nudity and sexuality seems to be in cable or streaming media series rather than feature films. One exception I can think of was 2018 indie film called Disobedience with Rachel McAdams and Rachel Wesiez. They had a scorching hot scene together in a somber little drama.

MS2020 · 13-01-21 01:02:07

This is probably the first depiction of a female orgasm on film. From the 1933 Czech drama with Hedy Lamar Ecstasy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqkxcLq6S-g

MS2020 · 25-01-21 01:41:01

MS2020 wrote:

This is probably the first depiction of a female orgasm on film. From the 1933 Czech drama with Hedy Lamar Ecstasy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqkxcLq6S-g

Did you check this one out Viva? I posted it with you in mind. Since I liked your thoughtful responses to those either other sex scenes posted. Though I haven't really watched this movie and don't know much about it. Check out Hedy Lamar though. She's maybe the only actress I've heard of with an invention patent to her name.

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viva · 25-01-21 04:26:19

wow absolutely stunning. sombre, tender and beautiful...

viva · 25-01-21 04:29:13

just listened to a snippet of a biography about her as well, woah. shes incredible.

Hangdog90 · 22-04-22 18:12:34

viva wrote:

just listened to a snippet of a biography about her as well, woah. shes incredible.

Hedy Lamarr was originally Hedwig Eva Kiesler, born in Vienna, Austria on November 9th, 1914 into a well-to-do Jewish family. An only child, Lamarr received a great deal of attention from her father, a bank director and curious man, who inspired her to look at the world with open eyes. He would often take her for long walks where he would discuss the inner-workings of different machines, like the printing press or street cars. These conversations guided Lamarr’s thinking and at only 5 years of age, she could be found taking apart and reassembling her music box to understand how the machine operated. Meanwhile, Lamarr’s mother was a concert pianist and introduced her to the arts, placing her in both ballet and piano lessons from a young age.

Lamarr’s brilliant mind was ignored, and her beauty took center stage when she was discovered by director Max Reinhardt at age 16. She studied acting with Reinhardt in Berlin and was in her first small film role by 1930, in a German film called Geld auf der Straβe (“Money on the Street”). In early 1933, at age 18, she starred in the movie Ekstaze, where she gained fame for a brief nude scene and for the first portrayal of an orgasm on a mainstream cinema screen.

Austrian munitions dealer, Fritz Mandl, became one of Lamarr’s adoring fans when he saw her in the play Sissy. Lamarr and Mandl married in 1933 but it was short-lived. She once said, “I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife … He was the absolute monarch in his marriage … I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own.” She was incredibly unhappy, as she was forced to play host and smile on demand amongst Mandl’s friends and scandalous business partners, some of whom were associated with the Nazi party. She escaped from Mandl’s grasp in 1937 by fleeing to London.

Here is the full Ekstase with English subtitles:

https://youtu.be/8Gfxcfn1qyw

It is worth a watch, to enjoy the devices used to suggest sex and orgasm. She swims nude in a lake and her horse runs off with her dress on its back. We see her running nude, but as a reflection in the lake, and then we see her naked from the waist up as she runs arfter the horse. The horse is attracted to another horse and then runs on to where her eventual lover takes it in hand. He sees the dress and eventially sees her hiding naked in the trees, and throws it to her. And so they meet. Later, there is the famous orgasm scene. But after, there is the striking of a match and then a close-up of her smoking. Is this first depiction of smoking after sex? And then there is a close up of her elegantly using a long spoon to stir ice cubes slowly in a tall glass, really anm erotic moment.

After she met Louis B. Mayer in Paris, he persuaded her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr and brought her to Hollywood. Lamarr made her American film debut in Algiers (1938), opposite Charles Boyer. According to one viewer, when her face first appeared on the screen, "everyone gasped—Lamarr's beauty literally took one's breath away."

Hedy made 18 films from 1940 to 1949. After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949. Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be jammed, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course. With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, she thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer, and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented. However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military—especially from a movie star.

Rather, Lamarr used her celebrity status to sell war bonds. Under an arrangement in which she would kiss anyone who purchased $25,000 worth of bonds, she sold $7 million worth in one night.

It wasn’t until the 1950s that engineers began experimenting with ideas documented in Lamarr and Antheil’s system. Their work with spread spectrum technology contributed to the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

So, whenever anyone uses their cell-phone or GPS they should think of Hedy Lamarr - especially when they watch Ifeelmyself on WiFi as I'm doing right now, seeing other beautiful women in the throes of real orgasms.

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gss2018 · 18-06-22 15:10:23

As a connoisseur of onscreen nudity, I’d like to offer for everyone’s consideration two scenes from the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, which starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. The second of the two scenes contains the first of only two occasions when Russo did any nudity and the second one comes later in the film when she’s topless on a beach.

At the one hour mark, Brosnan and Russo have a sweaty, passionate sexual encounter that sees the two leads go at one another in the foyer of Crown’s townhouse, the stairs, and on the table in his library. Russo’s breasts are visible several times and there is a long distance shot of her ass while she’s on top of Brosnan. It immediately became one of my all time favorite love scenes and remains so today.

The scene that immediately precedes this masterpiece is actually hotter that the love scene itself. Russo arrives at a black and white ball wearing a tiny and almost entirely transparent black cocktail dress and she and Brosnan begin dancing a tango. It’s intended to be foreplay, quite obviously, and I’ve included the link to the YouTube video. Everything about this sequence — the lighting, the choreography, and especially the music — takes it far past foreplay. Brosnan and Russo are making love to each other on a crowded dance floor without any (simulated) penetration, minimal touching, and only one kiss at the very end.

Watch this video and try not to get all hot and bothered:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrq5v5cg1A

Hangdog90 · 19-06-22 04:07:45

gss2018 wrote:

As a connoisseur of onscreen nudity, I’d like to offer for everyone’s consideration two scenes from the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, which starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. The second of the two scenes contains the first of only two occasions when Russo did any nudity and the second one comes later in the film when she’s topless on a beach.
At the one hour mark, Brosnan and Russo have a sweaty, passionate sexual encounter that sees the two leads go at one another in the foyer of Crown’s townhouse, the stairs, and on the table in his library. Russo’s breasts are visible several times and there is a long distance shot of her ass while she’s on top of Brosnan. It immediately became one of my all time favorite love scenes and remains so today.
The scene that immediately precedes this masterpiece is actually hotter that the love scene itself. Russo arrives at a black and white ball wearing a tiny and almost entirely transparent black cocktail dress and she and Brosnan begin dancing a tango. It’s intended to be foreplay, quite obviously, and I’ve included the link to the YouTube video. Everything about this sequence — the lighting, the choreography, and especially the music — takes it far past foreplay. Brosnan and Russo are making love to each other on a crowded dance floor without any (simulated) penetration, minimal touching, and only one kiss at the very end.
Watch this video and try not to get all hot and bothered:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrq5v5cg1A

Thanks for sharing. For me, the most erotic dance scene in mainstream cinema is Hafsia Herzi's belly dance in the 2007 French film Cous Cous (La Graine et le Mulet).

The chemistry between Herzi and the musicians, the building excitement in the room, the music itself, and her amazing dance performance, are off the charts for hotness.

https://youtu.be/ZB6f9zXG5FI

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_redbird_ · 14-07-22 08:52:38

Ooh an intensely hot sex scene I saw this year was in Ammonite. I didn't even know that it had a really incredible lesbian sex scene in it, and initially watched the movie because I love fossils, period pieces, and Kate Winslet, but HOOOO BOY. Oh my. I can't think of a non-porn movie I've ever seen that included full on lesbian facesitting scene in it like Ammonite. Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet have incredible chemistry, and they have both talked at length about how much they enjoyed filming that scene. I feel a lot more comfortable enjoying sex scenes in movies when I know that the actors involved felt comfortable during the shoot, and I love that they are starting to have stricter regulations and intimacy coordinators now.

Hangdog90 · 14-07-22 21:06:06

_redbird_ wrote:

Ooh an intensely hot sex scene I saw this year was in Ammonite. I didn't even know that it had a really incredible lesbian sex scene in it, and initially watched the movie because I love fossils, period pieces, and Kate Winslet, but HOOOO BOY. Oh my. I can't think of a non-porn movie I've ever seen that included full on lesbian facesitting scene in it like Ammonite. Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet have incredible chemistry, and they have both talked at length about how much they enjoyed filming that scene. I feel a lot more comfortable enjoying sex scenes in movies when I know that the actors involved felt comfortable during the shoot, and I love that they are starting to have stricter regulations and intimacy coordinators now.

The chemistry between Kate and Saoirse was superb. In real life, the age gap was 10 years but Kate is 46 and Saoirse 26, and some reviews incorporated this into criticism, in what I thought was an unwarranted way. For example Emma Madden in the Guardian wrote :

" Starring Kate Winslet as Mary Anning and Saoirse Ronan as her young and wealthy lover Charlotte Murchison, Ammonite, like the films that came before it, relies on a narrative of difference. In this case, Mary is old and Charlotte is young. Mary is poor and Charlotte is rich. Mary leads a life of work and Charlotte a life of leisure. In the tradition of the lesbian film, these differences are often reconciled with an oedipal undercurrent, or “mummy issues”, to put it crassly.

Although not so explicit as the lesbian mother-daughter dynamic in recent films such as 2016’s The Handmaiden (in which the protagonist Sook-hee says she wishes she could give her lover Hideko her milk, as they suck one another’s nipples), nor Carol, in which the eponymous character’s lover is styled to look uncannily like her daughter.

Much of the detail in Ammonite is derived from this kind of maternal melodrama: romance kindled through caregiving,. "

Madden's whole article suggested the film was a cliché in how it depicted romance between women, and considered that the whole film was structured as leading up to that sex scene, so that it placed the sex at the heart of the story.

Your post indicated that you were drawn to the film because of your interest in fossils, so did it work for you as the story of Mary Anning?

_redbird_ · 22-07-22 07:01:44

I find that review to be quite reductive. Despite the age difference, I never felt any kind of maternal or "mummy issues" vibes from it at all, nor did I from the other two movie examples she gives. Mary Anning as a character in this movie is distinctly NOT maternal. She's as brusque and harsh as her surroundings, and Charlotte is clearly meant to be the opposite of this. Mary is gradually softened by Charlotte as they develop feelings for each other.

The main thing I took away from this film was Mary's frustration at her situation, but being unwilling to give up her living habits and career because it's something she's truly passionate about.

From Wikipedia -

"There is no evidence as to Anning's sexuality in real life, and the film's historical accuracy has been questioned. Two of Anning's distant relatives were reported as having differing views on the decision to depict her as a lesbian, with Lorraine Anning supporting the film, but Barbara Anning criticizing the choice.

Lee defended his decision, saying in a series of tweets, "After seeing queer history be routinely 'straightened' throughout culture, and given a historical figure where there is no evidence whatsoever of a heterosexual relationship, is it not permissible to view that person within another context? Would these newspaper writers have felt the need to whip up uninformed quotes from self-proclaimed experts if the character’s sexuality had been assumed to be heterosexual?" Some reviews also criticized the choice. A piece in The Guardian read, "No one knows if Mary Anning had lovers. But what a new film does get right is the vital role women played in her life"."

Hangdog90 · 22-07-22 18:45:49

_redbird_ wrote:

I find that review to be quite reductive. Despite the age difference, I never felt any kind of maternal or "mummy issues" vibes from it at all, nor did I from the other two movie examples she gives. Mary Anning as a character in this movie is distinctly NOT maternal. She's as brusque and harsh as her surroundings, and Charlotte is clearly meant to be the opposite of this. Mary is gradually softened by Charlotte as they develop feelings for each other.
The main thing I took away from this film was Mary's frustration at her situation, but being unwilling to give up her living habits and career because it's something she's truly passionate about.

I agree that review I linked in my last post was reductive. Perhaps this one from Vanity Fair captures the weaknesses of the film, while pointing up the passion of that sex scene and wishing there had been more of that kind of passion throughout.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20 … n-the-cold

Neo4516 · 08-08-22 17:22:46

I remember one film scene but don’t know the film it’s his first time he didn’t bring a condom so she said only the tip but he ended up filling her up. Wish I knew the film was a US film 90s

Norway_man · 19-08-22 13:20:03

Interesting thread!

my pick:
Tango Lessons (1997, UK-Argentina)
I so love the scene where Sally Potter, then 48, looks at three younger men dancing, and she certainly was not just interested in dancing. They then start to dance an amazing fourway tango. One of the most erotic scenes I know.

Hair dressers husband (1990, France)
Like in the movie, my sexual awakening happened at the hairdresser. I was 12, she in her twenties. She was pale, smoked and had rather cold fingers and a very gentle touch. When she cut my hair I got shivers up my spine, not to mention when her fingers occasionally touched my ears or the back of my neck. I had very short hair at the time, which my parents was very happy about.

Rocky Horror (1975)
Also one of my favorites. At 15 I managed to get my class and teacher to see the stage version. Some were shocked, but I got a revelation.

Betty Blue (1986, France)
The start scene, I so love to see a woman who really seem to get good sex in a movie, it was rather rare at the time.

Notorious (1946)
That kiss!

Monday (2000, Japan)
The dance scene in the Yakuza club. Weird funny, and very erotic.

Crash (1996)
Before this movie I had never seen anything connecting car crashes to sex.

Kissed (1996, Canada)
One of the most romantic movies I know. Impossible love and necrophilia. A rare gem.

Secretary (2002)
Maggie Gyllenhaal is incredible in this movie!

Matador (1986, Spain)
One of Almodovar´s early movies. It more or less builds up from the first scene towards the climatic end.

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Fredrikali · 21-08-22 10:07:48

Norway_man wrote:

Interesting thread!
my pick:
SNIP
Crash (1996)
Before this movie I had never seen anything connecting car crashes to sex.
SNIP

I was fascinated but not aroused by Crash. Good film, but to me it's not about sex at all: The nudity and sex plays out in juxtaposition with artificial technology, big city planning, motorized life and technocracy, showing us why we humans drift ever further apart from each other: technology and large scale society alienate us from each other.

Today it would be easy to show this theme by sticking a mobile phone in every actor's hand and have them interact with their screens without looking at other actors. A familiar sight.

[EDIT: By the way, have you seen any more movies connecting crashes to sex, since then? Fight Club may be a 'cousin', perhaps, connecting a crashing society (including its buildings) with sex?]

As for sexy scenes in mainstream movies that aroused me, my wife reminds me that I enjoy woman-to-woman scenes, and she's right I guess. That would suggest films like "Blue is the Warmest Colour", but then again, whenever a watch this film which I like very much, I always skip the love-making scenes, so I guess they don't speak to me.

(Blue is the Warmest Colour https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/)

For my own part, the only arousing love-making scene I have been able to remember is the love scene of Robert Altman's movie The Player from 1992 with Greta Scacchi and Tim Robbins. I really should post the entire sequence to show you guys, because a still from it is rather pointless:

(The Player https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/)

Throughout the love-making scene we only see their faces. I think this makes for a better love scene than showing it all – at least it is easier to make a love scene this way, and I think it may also be more suggestive and better movie making, like your 'Notorious' kiss.

It's not a perfect love scene because it suffers a little from the male gaze prerogative: The viewer is, as usual, supposed to identify with the male character watching June (Greta) filled with pleasure from the virile Tim/Viewer, while we don't get to see much of his enjoyment. Also, Altman has sprayed both actors with excess oil to make them look like sexual athletes at the Sex Olympics.

As for erotic kisses, this blow-kissing image in the original theatrical release of Picnic at Hanging Rock really turned me on, or made me feel love (I think it has been edited out of the now Butcher Director's Cut available, by which the movie director ruined his own wonderful film).

Your post was the key to my now being able to actually come up with a list proposed by another forum member in another thread: movies that shaped our view on sexuality, love and relationships. Initially, I found I couldn't think of films that did shape my view of these things, because I tried to think of "sexy" or romantic movies that shaped my view. Now I realise my feelings about these things have been shaped by movies that usually were not about love or sex, and Crash is one of them.

So here are a few movies that shaped my notion of romance, love and long-lasting relationships possible and something good and desirable, and a few ones that shaped a notion of impossibility or undesirability of relationships.

Good vibrations:

Le Mans https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067334/
$ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068152/
Picnic at Hanging Rock https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/
All Creatures Great and Small https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075472/
Monsters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/

Bad vibrations:

The Looking Glass War https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066001/
Zabriskie Point https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066601/
Candyman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103919/
Crash https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/

(People usually regard Candyman as a horror movie but I see it as a tragedy drama of a woman falling into severe mental illness. I wonder how much Virginia Madsen's character resembles Clive Barker's mother.)

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Norway_man · 22-08-22 09:21:51

Good points, Fredrikali!

I know the intent with Crash and have also read the novel by Ballard. But never the less, I think many scenes in the movie is arousing. I like the whispering conversation the emotion detached couple in the movie have, as well as their frantic search for more and more extreme ways to find pleasure and feel emotions.

A theme in my list is sex coupled with death and destructive patterns. Only "tango lessons" and "rocky horror" could be said to be exceptions. Probably since many of the most emotional engaging movies delves into the territory of dark emotions. I guess it is challenging to do an erotic comedy that also manage to arouse people, I have at least seen few of those.

That said, even if I love dark movies with erotic content, I just cannot stand any movie scene that includes rape. I just can´t! I close my eyes and hold for my ears, until it is over. My partners have found that a bit embarrassing at a cinema. Almodovars "Matador" includes a rape attempt (featuring Antonio Banderas and Eva Cobo) that is depicted as both clumsy and comical, but even that is too much for me.

Funny thing how movies can influence people differently. "Picnic at hanging rock" freaked me out when I saw it 14 years old. It was for many years the scariest move I have ever seen, much more so than traditional horror movies.

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Fredrikali · 22-08-22 13:59:13

Norway_man wrote:

I know the intent with Crash and have also read the novel by Ballard.

Yes I have read it too, but I found it too extreme for my taste and I think Cronenberg improved on it, or at least made its points clearer, at least to me he did. The opposite is true for his novel High Rise, which as a film became totally pointless, to my mind.

Norway_man wrote:

That said, even if I love dark movies with erotic content, I just cannot stand any movie scene that includes rape. I just can´t! I close my eyes and hold for my ears, until it is over. My partners have found that a bit embarrassing at a cinema

You and I both. I can't watch such things. I had a girlfriend with whom I saw Nicole Kidman's and Sam Neill's Dead Calm. I just crouched when "that" was about to happen. My girlfriend turned to me and half-smiled, half-scoffed at me. Embarrassed? Or thinking I was cute to react as if I had been a girl with personal experiences of such violence? I don't think we talked about it, but I really never could stand it. I used to be able to watch other forms of violence, like gun violence but with age I've come to avoid as much of that as possible.

Instead, give me any ifm video, anytime!

I know the dark sides to human nature and to sexuality is interesting and I understand why people are fascinated byu it or want to explore those dark sides. After all, we all have a shadow, and as psychologist Jordan Peterson says, we do best integrate our shadow side with our conscious efforts and interactions with people, but often I find mainstream movies made by mainstream directors who would rather do or act porn (Like Michael WInterbottom and his 9 Songs https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411705/) , must emphasise the darkness to have their films passed as art or as culturally relevant. The worst example of bad dark sexuality movie making I've found is Lars Trier's Nymphomaniac
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1937390/.

Therefore porn can be a more nice film experience because people at least act happy and express joy. But I also like a film like the French Baise-Moi https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249380/. It's not so much about dark sides to sexuality, but to dark sides of porn and violence.

Thanks to you I felt I had to stop and think what dark side erotic themed dramas I find sort of sexy.
These, I guess, in no particular order:

The Girlfriend Experience Season 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3846642/

Voice Over https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162757/

36 fillette https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094596/

Beyond the Clouds https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114086/

The Dangerous Thread of Things https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343663/

The Dreamers https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309987/

One Two Another https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486751

My Summer of Love https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382189/

Young & Beautiful https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2752200/ (albeit with a positive, light and bright touch!)

Immoral women https://www.imdb.com/title/

Check to the Queen https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166789/