Art, not pornography, 30 sensual films from around the world

Many controversial films have challenged the notion of 'art vs. porn'. Full nudity, sensual threesomes, money-making sex scenes—some of them are labeled as porn movies, but others are still shown at cinema complexes as works of art. Here are 30 sensual movies handpicked by Rolling Stone magazine.

*This article first appeared in Rolling Stone magazine on March 18, 2014.

High expectations, excessive publicity, leading actors appearing on official occasions with paper bags over their heads -- Lars von Trier's epic two-part "Nymphomaniac" runs for five hours. (produced in 2013/released in 2014) Volume 1 has been released in theaters. Danish director von Trier's "Nymphomaniac", which seems to be aiming for controversy rather than avoiding it, is an epic tale of a woman's sexual awakening, and it is everywhere in the work. Sprinkled with spankings, blowjobs, menage a trois, anal sex, masturbation and good old fashioned sex. While there are scenes in which sex-only stunts are used, in front of the audience, actors such as Charlotte Gainsbourg and Shia LaBeouf perform non-pseudo-sex that puts porn stars to shame. LaBeouf even sent homemade porn videos.)

Despite its plethora of sexually explicit images, von Trier's Nymphomaniac is not a pornographic film. Rather, "Nymphomaniac" is one of the countless works that pushes the boundaries of what "major" movies can express, and should be treated like a movie you watch online after entering your credit card information. isn't it. Movies like Nymphomaniac have top-notch casts, all from world-class directors. It is a work that should be screened in both cinema complexes and single theaters. Some of them were imported as first-rate foreign films, while others were produced and produced in Hollywood studios. However, the 30 books introduced this time have one thing in common. It's pushing the boundaries of what a major erotic movie can be. We hope you enjoy this reading list with your loved ones.

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1. "I am a Curious Woman - Yellow" (1967) Photo: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

The depiction of pubic hair wasn't the only reason why Swedish director Birgot Schaeman's melodrama about politics and sex, I'm a Curious Woman: Yellow, was hit by American censors in 1969. . The film developed into an obscenity case dealt with by the Supreme Court, and is still regarded as one of the most controversial films in film history. It definitely played a role in proving that the film stands apart from other foreign films.) The film, about a curious schoolgirl who has an affair with a married man, was censored because of a scene in which Nyman kissed her co-star's exposed penis. Criticism of the scene flooded in, but eventually the barriers of censorship were lifted, and the time came when more tolerant expression was permitted in cinema. None of the people who saw the film talked about the King Jr. footage, the anti-Vietnam war footage, or the witty anti-authoritarian humor, just the genital scenes. But curiosity and controversy resulted in a wider audience. You know the rest. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

2. "Kill America" ​​(1969) Photo: Courtesy of Everett Collection

Cinematographer-turned-movie director Haskell Wexler's woven together of fiction and non-fiction, "Slashing America" ​​(including footage of the riots that actually occurred at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention) is realistic. It is supported by the tension of watching the performances of actors who come in contact with each other in various situations. However, one scene was flagged by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) committee for being a little too graphic. In that scene, Robert Forster and Marianna Hill, who would later become Tarantino's favorites, had naked sex and ended up literally tangled in the sheets. The movie was rated X (for adults) because of the documentary-like rendezvous scene, but Wexler attributed the X rating more to the depiction of political anger in the film. claimed. Still, it's our opinion that the sex scene had some kind of cause. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

3. "Women in love" (1969) Photo: Copyright © Courtesy Everett Collection/Everett Collection

"Women in Love," directed by Ken Russell, a brilliant adaptation of the novel of the same name by British author, poet, and critic D.H. It has been regarded as one of the works. Except for the naked wrestling scene with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. For many, this scene was also the first time a man was fully nude in a major motion picture. There is an anecdote about this scene: Bates and Reed were reluctant to film, but one night they drunkenly went to the bathroom together, checked their lower bodies, and concluded that there was nothing to worry about. "I tried to make it look more meaningful by standing half-stand, and I was so desperate that all my girlfriends would say, 'Don't quit,'" he said, leaving the set between takes. Considering that, he may have actually cared.) This scene depicts a platonic bond between men, but even now it's clear that there are elements of homosexuality. It is a de facto man-to-man sex scene. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

4. "Last Tango in Paris" (1972) Photo: Courtesy of United Artists

Even if it wasn't as sensational as Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" (US film critic Pauline Kael famously praised it at the time), Bernardo Bertolucci's originality The classic Last Tango in Paris was a work that changed the tide of cinematic depictions of sexuality. Originally from Italy, Bertolucci wanted to cast two French actors, Dominique Sanda and Jean-Louis Trintignant, in the lead roles. However, Sanda had just become pregnant, and Trantignan was not allowed to be nude. So the director surprised people by hiring up-and-coming Maria Schneider and even Marlon Brando. Brando soon established a more compelling, deep and meditative image with Last Tango in Paris. In the film, Brando plays a widowed middle-aged man who is weary of life. This unnamed man seeks escape from the world in an athletic and largely creative encounter with a young woman he meets in an empty Parisian apartment. Audiences at the time weren't used to seeing big movie stars getting their fingers stuck in their anus. Watching it now, the film's sex scenes are rather understated, but it's still worth seeing for its exploration of how lust destroys boundaries. Watch it once and it will forever change the way you think about the phrase "get me butter". BILGE EBIRI

5. "Akai Kage" (1973) Photo : Copyright © Everett Collection/Everett Collection

Nicholas Roeg's blood-curdling supernatural thriller Red Shadow has one of the best sex scenes in cinema history. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie play a married couple who move to Venice after their daughter's accidental death. Sutherland and Christie take off their clothes and enjoy the couple's affairs before their daily life begins to unravel because of an English psychic woman who claims to be able to see the ghost of her dead daughter. Aside from the brilliant details (like the saliva wetting Christie's neck and the smiles they exchange as they change positions), what makes this scene so great is Rogue's intercut between and after sex. Switch. What part of this movie is pornographic? "You may be wondering." Sutherland later claimed that he actually made love to Christie on camera while filming this scene. The statement has been denied and substantiated over the years. Given all of this, I still feel the strange excitement of spying on someone else's sex. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

6. "The City of Sodom" (1975) Photo : Copyright © Everett Collection/Everett Collection

In the early 1970s, the Italian film director, poet, writer, and critic Piero Paolo Pasolini created what he called a "live trilogy"--a collection of classically humorous literary works. The Decameron (1972), The Canterbury Tales (1973), and the Arabian Nights (1974), which were made into films with explicit sex scenes, were sensational at the box office. But after a trilogy of lighthearted and lively films, Pasolini unleashed one of the most shocking and decadent works in cinema history, The City of Sodom. Set in northern Italy under Mussolini's short-lived regime, the film follows four powerful men who imprison, sexually assault, rape, torture, and then brutally murder young boys and girls. The film is a work that can't even be seen properly, but this is also the intention of director Pasolini. For Pasolini laid before the eyes of the audience with a terrifying allegory what he felt capitalism was doing to man. If you watch the sadism and masochism of thorough fear, you can fully understand the director's intentions. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

7. "Corrida of Love" (1976) Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection

You know, porn movies used to be shown in shady movie theaters full of men in dirty raincoats (at least before the AV era). No pornographic films were screened at the New York Film Festival (NYFF). The fact that this venerable film festival will screen director Nagisa Oshima's "Ai no Corrida", which is based on the "Abe Sada Incident" between a geisha and her employer, which caused a great deal of media attention at the time, is the same movie. is not a porn movie. Despite NYFF approval and the fact that Nagisa Oshima, one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, directed this extremely radical documentary-drama, the actors are shown to engage in non-stop sex acts. The film was deemed "too obscene" by customs officials and was later pulled from the NYFF. After that, it developed into a legal battle over "art or obscenity", and finally director Oshima was acquitted. Today, it is justly regarded as a masterpiece depicting a real crime case. If ever there was a film that challenged the notion of art versus porn, Corrida of Love is a prime example. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

8. "Caligula" (1979) Photo: Mary Evans/FELIX CINEMATOGRAFICA/PENTHOUSE FILMS

In the movie Caligula, the only movie produced by Penthouse Films International, owned by Bob Guccione, the owner of the American adult magazine Penthouse, the real Roman emperor Caligula (Malcolm McDagwell) wields tyranny and leads the Roman Empire to debauchery. is depicted. It's also a challenge to merge the slick historical film (scripted by Gore Vidal) with the "best of" pornography. But who won in the end? The main character, Caligula, has a top-notch cast of Helen Mirren, Sir John Gielgud, and Peter O'Toole chatting with Penthouse Pets, as well as meaningful excrement and semen productions. Other than making her think about how to use it, she repeats incest, rape, and necrophilia. To avoid a fiasco, Guccione also added six minutes of hard sex (mostly oral orgies). The result is a piece of blasphemy all rolled into one that would stop even the depraved Roman tyrant from stopping. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

9. Cruising (1980) Photo: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

"Cruising" predictably draws you deeper into New York's gay subculture, where Al Pacino's cop infiltrates New York's gay subculture in pursuit of a serial killer who hooks men up at S&M clubs. Allegedly, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) forced William Friedkin to cut 40 minutes of the film, switching it from the original X rating to an R rating. Still, Friedkin didn't want to cut a lot of scenes that mimic male-on-male action scenes. It was inundated with criticism from the gay community for its inaccurate portrayal of homosexuality and New York gay culture. As a result, "Cruising" ended in disaster as soon as it was released. However, it has recovered some of its notoriety and is now seen as a time capsule about the underground subculture of downtown New York in the late 1970s. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

10.Kerrell (1982) Photo : Triumph Releasing/courtesy Everett Collection

Reiner Werner Fassbinder's last film, Kerel, is one of the director's most personal and one of his most notorious films, with its flashy artificiality and Tom Of. The Finnish-inspired set set irritated even Fassbinder's die-hard followers (look at that giant penis prop! ). However, based on French author Jean Genet's novel "Brest thugs", the stage-oriented and stylized work is extremely profound and sad, and the intense same-sex relationships that unfold in the play. The sex scenes create an otherworldly atmosphere. Rather than a film adaptation of Genet's novel, it is more like a dream and wet dream of director Fassbinder who has finished reading the original. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

11. "Henry & June The Man and Woman I Loved" (1990)Photo: Etienne George/RDA/Getty Images

"Henry and June: The Man and Woman I Loved" directed by Philip Kaufman, which is now more famous for its publicity than its content. The film, which is based on the memoirs of French writer Anais Nin, is the first major film to be designated as NC-17 (not for viewing under the age of 17). The NC-17 designation, which was supposed to free technical erotica works from the pornographic curse of the X designation, quickly turned into a disaster. Many newspapers refused to run ads for the relatively tasteful (and boldly sexual) film. "Henry & June The Man and Woman I Loved" tells the story of Henry Miller, a sexually curious writer played by Fred Ward, and Nin (Maria de Medilos), who is gradually liberated into the world of sex. It is a literary love story. Moral wardens condemned the ecstatic screams and gasps of obscenity, but a young Uma Thurman, who played Miller's wife (and Nin's mistress) naked, was later credited with authenticity. It didn't stop me from becoming a movie star. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

12. "Crash" (1996) Photo : Fine Line/courtesy Everett Collection

If Crash, director David Cronenberg's film adaptation of British author J.G. Set in the near future with the theme of sexual pleasure obtained from the impact of a car accident, this work examines the remnants of modernity and taboos that we didn't even know existed, such as car accident fetishes and insertion into wounds. dug up. From high-speed, high-impact climaxes to Gypsum's exploration of erotic possibilities, the sex scenes are both jarring and bewildering and heart-pounding. The supremely dubious lead actor, James Spader, played a bourgeois film producer turned perverted by a near-death accident. Meanwhile, actor Elias Koteas gives one of the sexiest performances in movie history as a car mechanic with a scar on his face. Crash won the Special Jury Prize at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996 for its "boldness". CNN founder Ted Turner decided that the film was decadent and went to great lengths to prevent it from being released. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

13. Idiots (1998) Photo: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

Long before he released The Antichrist (2009) and Nymphomaniac, director Lars von Trier mocked society and decency. The Idiots, the only film in the Danish film movement Dogma 95 started by von Trier, brought the director into controversy for the first time. It's a hopeless black comedy about a group of adults who pretend to be mentally handicapped to free themselves from the complacency of the bourgeoisie and confront it head-on. As part of their provocation, they engage in group sex, which is, of course, a von Trier-styled resolute depiction (there are scenes of erect penises, but they were digitally processed for the US release). ). That led to ratings troubles in some countries, but compared to the standards of subsequent von Trier films, it looks like a Disney movie. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

14. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Photo : Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

Stanley Kubrick's posthumous film Eyes Wide Shut is NC- 17 escaped designation. This scene is beautifully erotic, but the smuttiest scene in the film barely qualifies as a PG-13. After enjoying a little flirtation with each other at a lavish Christmas party, a couple played by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman get high in their bedroom and talk about their desires. Provoked by Cruise that his wife should never be sexually tempted, Kidman slips into white underwear and whispers sweetly a monologue about a sexy naval officer he met on a summer vacation, exuding her husband's jealousy. stir your heart. When it comes to sexual prowess, Cruise's subsequent sexual adventures pale in comparison to Kidman's. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

15. "Pola X" (1999) Photo : Winstar Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection

Pola X is a heartbreakingly personal adaptation of American author Herman Melville's novel Pierre, directed by Leos Carax. It tells the story of a depressed young man (Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gérard Depardieu) who withdraws from the life of high society in order to live as a bohemian Parisian bohemian and a novelist despite his poverty. When a jet-black haired beauty (Katerina Golubeva), who claims to be her older sister, emerges from the forest and casts a spell on the impoverished main character, everything heats up. Carax rose to prominence as an up-and-coming young French director in the late 1980s, but burned out while making Lovers of Pont Neuf (1991). In "Pola X", which is also a comeback work, Director Carax demanded from the actors a seemingly gentle but greedy real sex. The bodies writhing in the darkness of the squalid room are obscured, blurring the line between art and cruelty. It skillfully expresses a drama that is full of wildness and is more tense than any other work. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

16. "Bese More" (2000) Photo : Film Fixx/Courtesy Everett Collection

"This is not a movie for masturbation," said one of the two French directors, Virginie Depante and Coralie Tran Thi, who have directed the revenge thriller Behze More. "It's not a porn movie, after all." I see. Director Coralie Tran Ti made this assertion, but she, as well as the other stars, Karen Lancome and Rafaela Anderson, had previously appeared in pornographic films. , is a person who has added flowers to French pornographic films. Seeing Lancôme and Anderson engaging in explicit oral sex and sexual intercourse in the film, some viewers may be confused, thinking, "Isn't that still pornography?" Filmed in a vintage lo-fi style and featuring a soundtrack ripped from Epitaph Records' back catalogue, the violent and hilariously mediocre story is the quintessential pornography of male fantasy. Rather, it's closer to a punkish B-movie (our film critic Peter Travers said, "Thelma and Louise has sex scenes!" rice field). But the film is still banned in some countries, and the sheer amount of on-screen sex scenes makes it a fine line between a highly nihilistic pornographic film. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

17. "Red Room Lovers" (2001) Photo: Mary Evans/ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT/REDEEMABLE FEATURES/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

The man (Peter Sarsgaard) is a Silicon Valley billionaire who has made a fortune through online trading, and the woman (Molly Parker) is a stripper. A man hires a woman and spends three days with her in Las Vegas. Women perform lap dances in front of men, and men brandish their wealth like magic wands. All of this director Wayne Wang treats like a philosophical treatise on capitalism and lust. As soon as Parker himself (or a sex-only stunt) in the HBO western TV series Deadwood starts playing the lollipop-hiding game, Lovers in the Red Room is complete. Enter a different dimension of sex power game. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

18. "Intimacy" (2001) Photo : Empire Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

The 2001 film "Intimacy" directed by Patrice Chéreau revisits the theme of "Last Tango in Paris" based on the work of British author Hanif Kureisi. The film focuses on weekly (non-simulated) sex between a man and a woman who don't know each other's identities. Their lives get more complicated as they get to know each other. Like Last Tango in Paris, it makes you rethink the concept of authentic sex scenes and how they work. Do you get to know the characters better after watching the rough and intense sex scenes unfolding before your eyes? "Or is it the other way around?" In any case, the thriller Shallow Grave (1994) gained notoriety when Kerry Fox gave a fellatio to co-star Mike Rylance in the film, and Fox's career stalled. . Still, Fox continues to claim he gave the best performance ever in the film. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

19."The Mouth of Heaven, the End of Paradise." (2001) Photo: IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection

Before exploring outer space with Cerro Gravity (2013) and experiencing the wonder of long takes with Tomorrow World (2006), director Alfonso Cuarón directed the 2001 blockbuster Heaven. Mouth of the end of paradise. explored the mathematical possibilities of erotic threesomes. Ana López Mercado's voluptuous bust is certainly an attractive trap for the audience and the two sexually aroused young traveling companions, but the young men's desire for each other is the goal of the film. It is the driving force behind erotic and cathartic group sex. Thanks to its long climax, the film was released without an MPAA rating, avoiding the infamous NC-17 rating. Not only that, but the two lead actors have established themselves as movie stars. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

20. "Dreamers" (2003) Photo : Fox Searchlight/courtesy Everett Collection

Few years after challenging existentialism with Last Tango in Paris, director Bernardo Bertolucci looks back on France's Nouvelle Vague and the 1968 May Revolution, looking back on it with surprising generosity. Produced the sex-immersed film The Dreamers. In the film, Michael Pitt, who plays an American exchange student, begins living together in a Paris apartment with sexy (and somewhat incestuous) twins played by Eva Green and Louis Garrel, and indulges in all manner of imaginative sex. As befits Bertolucci's work, the sex possibilities in the film -- both liberating and terrifying -- seem endless, but the chaos of the outside world pulls everyone back to reality. Although the film did not achieve the same box office success as Last Tango in Paris, the production and distribution studio FOX Searchlight Pictures (now Searchlight Pictures) could do financial damage. It's notable as a rare instance of green-lighting a movie rated -17. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

21.『KEN PARK』(2002)Photo : Courtesy Everett Collection

One of Larry Clark's most controversial films, KEN PARK, was not officially screened in the United States because of non-simulated sex (including fellatio) between teenagers, threesomes, bondage, and incest. Because it was too provocative, depicting incest and even shocking violence? Or is it simply a matter of handling the rights to the master record of the song? The answer is forever in the dark, but the Harmony Korine-scripted, dark middle- and low-income suburban film explores the relationship between various skater-punk teenagers and their parents. It reflects complex (more precisely, "messed up") relationships. It's a twisted film, even by Clarke and Colin's standards. When the man who sleeps with his girlfriend's mother is the most decent character in the film, it shows that Ken Park is not normal. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

22. "Brown Bunny" (2003) Photo: Mary Evans/KINETIQUE INC/VINCENT GALLO PRODUCTIONS/WILD BUNCH/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

Aspiring filmmakers should remember the following: It doesn't matter if you spend most of the movie's run time doing virtually nothing to the main character, and you can be more narcissistic than anyone in the entertainment industry -- as long as you end the movie with a blowjob from the lead actress. That's the whole point of The Brown Bunny, a pet project starring director and writer Vincent Gallo himself. The main character, a motorcycle racer, does nothing in the play except to think. Still, the film is talked about (aside from the intense feud between Gallo and film critic Roger Ebert), when co-star Chloe Sevigny says Gallo is "Galla". It's because I shoved the The fact that Gallo was probably using a prosthetic penis during filming doesn't make this scene any less awkward to watch, and it doesn't change the fact that this scene has (somehow) purpose in this major production. do not have. Audiences witness a world-famous talented actress demean herself in one cut. You'd be better off watching a real porn movie instead. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

23. Nine Songs (2004) Photo: Mary Evans/REVOLUTION FILMS/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

British director Michael Winterbottom of "Mighty Heart" (2007) brings 1970s art erotica to the 2000s through raw romantic stories, contemporary indie rock, and racy sex scenes. updated to suit. Featuring live performances by artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Elbow, The Dandy Warhols and Primal Scream, 'Nine Songs' is an excellent work, showing how relationships sometimes evolve through sexual encounters. It teaches you a new way of looking at Unlike its predecessors, Nine Songs is an all-out pursuit of female pleasure, and its impression is the longest and most powerful in the ecstatic face of actress Margo Stilley during and after sex. engraved. ERIC HYNES

24. "Short Bus" (2006) Photo: Think Film/courtesy Everett Collection

You can't make a sex-affirming movie without a sex scene, and it's not as sexual as "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (2001) followed by John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus." There are no positive films. In this work, which depicts the love life of people who gather at the salon "Shortbus" in Brooklyn, New York, all kinds of sex openly unfolds. Unlike many of its kind, Mitchell's erotic ensemble comedy doesn't treat characters' pranks as shocking tropes. Sex and sucking are equally valuable in the film. Certainly, audiences unfamiliar with scenes in which men ejaculate all over their bodies or continue to cunnilingus may feel awkward, but the atmosphere of group therapy that Director Mitchell describes is actually a different kind of person. It makes you feel like you're watching sex. Mitchell has created a feel-good template that almost resembles a pornographic film. (Writer: DAVID FEAR)

25. "Last, Caution" (2007) Photo : Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection

In an attempt to prevent the Empire of Japan from occupying its homeland of China, a group of radical students trap and kill a high-ranking official of the Japanese military's puppet government named Mr. Yi (Tony Leung). Hire Wang Chia Qi (Tang Wei) as a spy. Everything goes according to plan, but Yi and Wan fall in love so passionately that it threatens to ruin their plans. Ang Lee, director of Brokeback Mountain (2005), details their affair so rigorously that their physical impulses are terrifying. The film was rated NC-17 due to its unusual length for such a scene and its portrayal of pleasurable sex with flushed-cheeked actors. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

26. "Enter the Void" (2009) Photo : UNIMEDIA EUROPEWILD BUNCH

French genius Gaspar Noé's VR epic "Enter the Void" depicts an afterlife adventure in a state of hallucination. The soul of the dead drug-addicted brother leaves his body and floats in the neon-lit streets of Tokyo, but in order to fulfill his promise to be with him forever, his younger sister (Pas de La) works as a stripper in Tokyo while exposing her naked body.・He returns to this world to watch over Huerta. As appropriate for Noe's work, the brother's soul is revived in the form of a close-up of the male genitalia inserted into the female genitalia and a journey to the cervix (filmed from the inside of the female genitalia). (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

27. "SHAME" (2011) Photo: Copyright Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved./Courtesy Everett Collection

Before making "19 Years a Slave" (2013), director Steve McQueen directed "SHAME," a dark drama about a man with a sex addiction (Michael Fassbender) who works on Wall Street. and depicted the daily life of a man searching for the ultimate pleasure. Unfortunately, the looks of Michael Fassbender make it easy for men to have meaningless sex, and the show is full of such scenes. Between one-night stands, brothel visits, and porn-watching lunchtime masturbation, this poor man tries and fails to bond with someone to heal his wounds. Through his unique style, McQueen never loses sight of the peculiarities and textures of this world, revealing sex and nudity (including Fassbender's buttocks, nicknamed "Fassmember") one after another. It is a work that has nothing to do with the feeling of fun. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

28. "WEEKEND" (2011) Photo : Courtesy of IFC Films

Before Andrew Hay directed HBO's hit comedy "Looking," he directed "WEEKEND," about two men who become intimate over a long weekend. As what they thought was a one-night stand turned into something more personal, the pair candidly confessed that they didn't want a serious relationship, but through a series of confidations they felt an unmistakable sense of kinship. embrace Along with that, the sex scene becomes more and more racy, and the scene where a man ejaculates all over his body leaves no room for the imagination of the audience. These scenes are dense and euphemistic, and the audience witnesses the expression of the growing bond and desire of the two men. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)

29. "Adele, blue is a hot color" (2013) Photo: Sundance Selects/Courtesy Everett Collection

"Adele, Blue is a Hot Color," which won the Palme d'Or at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in 2013, tells the story of a young French woman named Adele (Adèle Exarchopoulos) who is a more experienced lesbian than herself. Draw a figure that grows through encounters with (Lea Seydoux). The film ventured into explicit sex scenes and a generally positive portrayal of lesbian relationships that drew mixed reviews. Is "Adele, Blue Is the Hot Color" an honest portrayal of the love and eventual catastrophe between two young women? Or is it compromised when it comes to using a male director and two heterosexual actresses to create a rousing sex scene (could it be both?) ? In any case, the gentle glances exchanged by the two lovers will forever be the subject of evaluation, especially for the long scene in which the two leading actresses endlessly enjoy themselves in various positions. (Writer: BILGE EBIRI)

30. "The Stranger in the Lake" (2013) Photo : Strand Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection

In Alain Guiraudy's slow thriller The Stranger on the Lake, set mainly on the shores of a lake in the south of France, a young man named Franck (Pierre Deradonchamp) plays an attractive man with a mustache (Christophe Marie). Pau) is drawn. Is this man the killer, Frank? I doubt. What's radical and exhilarating about the film is how it portrays male nudity and male-to-male sex as normal, even more mundane. That's not to say hidden sex in the bush isn't thrilling, or that the film is stingy with sex scenes in secluded locations. For some reason, it's much more thrilling to be shown such a scene as part of the local landscape, rather than the exotic, unexplored nature. (Writer: ERIC HYNES)