Whats the most sexually explicit and “visible” mainstream movie you have ever seen?

[u/Remote-Restaurant366]

[u/polivode]

Blue is the Warmest Color

[u/MikeArrow → u/polivode]

The only three hour movie that most people have only seen in thirty second increments.

[u/illaqueable → u/MikeArrow]

I watch it for the articles

[u/jtr99 → u/illaqueable]

You a "the" or an "a" man?

[u/MasonFunderburker → u/jtr99]

An an man

[u/Optimal-Fish-1421 → u/MikeArrow]

I'll be honest, I've seen the racy scenes of this movie but never the whole thing. I saw it was on Netflix last weekend (with the "leaving soon" tag under it), noticed it was three hours long and thought "huh, let's just see it to see it."
I didn't get 45 minutes into it before I turned it off. My takeaway was "the directors REALLY like closeups of Adele's face." I'm sure it's a great movie, but it isn't for me. And having learned a bit more about the racy scenes I feel a bit bad for the actresses. Adele is gorgeous though.

[u/mavhockeyfan → u/Optimal-Fish-1421]

Yeah, it's long and in French with subtitles. But, I found it really good...and the sex scenes incredibly hot. The wine and edible might also be influencing my opinion.

[u/fresh-dork → u/Optimal-Fish-1421]

yeah, it's basically got a porn segment in the middle - adele is gorgeous all over.

[u/NationalBee511 → u/polivode]

It's such an odd film. Because most of it is a really beautiful, nuanced, and oddly chaste coming of age love story. And then the sex scenes seem shoehorned in from a tonally totally different movie. Also while both the actresses are incredibly beautiful the sex scenes are kind of ugly and not remotely sexy because they look far too much like what they are: two visibly uncomfortable straight women reluctantly acting out a straight man's idea of what lesbian sex looks like. There's one scene at the beginning where Adele masturbates thinking about Emma that is incredibly hot because it feels real, and then all the rest are just awful and tonally totally wrong.

Funnily enough an edit where most of the sex scenes are cut out wouldn't just be a much better movie but a much hotter movie.

[u/-tyranosaure- → u/NationalBee511]

They look uncomfortable because the director made the shooting of this scene last for days. Days of being naked in front of the entire team, acting in a lesbian sex scene as imagined by a 50 years old heterosexual male director. They both talked about how they never want to shoot a scene like that again. It was not the first or last time the director was involved in a scene that was very exploitative.

Adèle Exarchopoulos talked about the movie's première at the Cannes film festival. She tried to convince her father to not go see the film, but it was a big moment for her as a young actress. So at the first screening, she sat right next to her father, they both discovered the movie together, and after that they NEVER talked about it again.

[u/Ravenser_Odd → u/-tyranosaure-]

From the Wikipedia entry:

Production began in March 2012 and lasted five months. Approximately 800 hours of footage were shot, including extensive B-roll footage, with Kechiche trimming the final cut to 180 minutes.

Sounds like the director shot an extra 797 hours of footage just for his 'personal archives'.

[u/Cuchillos_Adios → u/-tyranosaure-]

It's horrible how they turned a very sweet, sincere, heartbreaking coming of age story, written by a queer person into closest thing to porn in mainstream, made for the male gaze, movies in decades.

[u/Holiday_Poet_3483 → u/NationalBee511]

Saying “tonally totally” twice in a post is wild.

[u/Cuchillos_Adios → u/NationalBee511]

Because the story is based on a graphic novel called La Vie d'Adèle written by an actual queer person and the movie is just porn both actors have spoken out against the way it was directed by a man with allegations of sexual assault.

[u/PositionPlasticc → u/polivode]

and both leads later said the shoot was horrible, ten days on that one scene with a director they described as abusive, hard to rewatch it the same way after that

[u/Fun_Vacation_1690 → u/polivode]

That one really pushes the line between mainstream drama and outright explicit.

[u/ImpressionFeisty8359 → u/polivode]

Cinematic scissoring.

[u/ThisIsTheShway → u/polivode]

I’m pretty sure the director was a massive perv. 

Those sex scenes were straight up porn.

[u/STFUnicorn_]

I was at a station I worked at a few years ago and they decided to put on a movie. Requiem for a dream… I’d seen it, no one else had. I was like well it’s a bold choice to play while at work.

[u/kill-99 → u/STFUnicorn_]

An extremely bold choice, do you still work there..

[u/STFUnicorn_ → u/kill-99]

Yeah. Would’ve been interesting if the chief decided to wander into the crew room during certain scenes.

Nah live on the other side of the country now.

[u/UpperphonnyII → u/STFUnicorn_]

Aehss tu aehss!

[u/Capital-Aide-1006]

Lust, Caution. Its a fantastic movie as well

[u/AthleteUnhappy8899 → u/Capital-Aide-1006]

It was explicit, a bit messed up and terrific movie.

also i'm surprised not many people said the handmaiden (2016) by park chan wook

[u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

Team America

[u/Fun-Nothing2729 → u/[deleted]]

That scene went from ridiculous to completely unhinged so fast. I genuinely kept thinking they had to be done, and somehow they just kept going.

[u/WhosThisGeek → u/Fun-Nothing2729]

Didn't they actively make it more over-the-top every time the studio/censors complained?

[u/ModusPwnins → u/WhosThisGeek]

Yes. If you're watching the unrated cut with the scat, that's what was originally submitted to the MPAA, knowing they'd give it an NC-17. Then Trey and Matt cut the scene down to what they originally wanted, and got an R rating.

Having been fucked over royally when Orgazmo received its unwarranted NC-17, they learned how to play the game: give the MPAA something to cut, and they'll give you the rating you want.

[u/Gr8NonSequitur → u/WhosThisGeek]

Though I can't verify it, I'll believe it. That's completely on brand for Trey and Matt.

[u/swanson_theory → u/Fun-Nothing2729]

This is a core childhood memory of mine, when we were about 14 our friend's Dad let us watch the unrated version with him so he could skip any egregious stuff.

Come to that scene and we are laughing our asses off as he scrambles to fast forward but it only goes at 2x speed which only added to the hilarity of how many different positions there were. Good times.

[u/HammerDownRein → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

I took a lovely lady to see that movie as our first date. I knew it was by the South Park guys, but had no clue about the puppet sex or other explicit scenes.

We didn’t speak again for 3 years.

When we did match again, she had forgotten me at first, but I reminded her before our second first date. Which turned into a first second date, and eventually married for 17 years and counting.

[u/-PMYourTastefulNudes → u/HammerDownRein]

That ended better than expected

[u/ajaxandsofi → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

Now they're both puppeteers

[u/sharrostkrest37 → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

They had to tone down a puppet sex scene for the MPAA, which makes this answer even better.

[u/Financial_Medium8122 → u/sharrostkrest37]

The fact the mpaa just had to watch all of that makes it even funnier

[u/Gloomy_Ad5020 → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

Promise me you will never die.

[u/DoctorApollyon → u/Gloomy_Ad5020]

I promise, I won't die.

[u/Gloomy_Ad5020 → u/DoctorApollyon]

💦

[u/duvie773 → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

Jesus, this is a nice limo.

Yes, it is. Now suck my cock.

[u/kiwidude4 → u/[deleted]]

Did you mean to reply to this comment?

[u/pointblankjustice → u/kiwidude4]

TBF Team America is also a sort of love story and ALSO has 15 minutes of the most explicit sex scene in a non-porno.

[u/deeperest → u/[deleted]]

My parents-in-law were staying over to watch our newborn while my wife and I went out for a date. They had heard of the critically acclaimed Sideways, so threw it up in my home theatre. My wife and I walked in about 3s before the iconic "Her husband works a night shift or something, and he comes home and catches me on the floor with my cock in his wife's ass."

I was able to sputter out "I'm glad we came home to something else...kinda."

[u/alpacaMyToothbrush → u/[deleted]]

Not necessarily an explicit sex scene, but 'Not another teen movie' came on cable one night, my parents wanted to watch it cause it was a teen comedy. I knew what was coming so I chose that moment to go to the bathroom, and down the hall I just hear my mom go '...OH MY GOD!' and I died laughing

[u/LimeQuail → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

puppet sex that still haunts me

[u/SocialSuicideSquad → u/LimeQuail]

The puke scene still better/worse somehow

[u/Pedsy → u/SocialSuicideSquad]

The first time I saw that I thought I was going to pass out I was laughing so hard.

[u/Jukeboxhero91 → u/LimeQuail]

Puppet sex that was only allowed to be in missionary according to the censors. Apparently any other position would have been too obscene.

[u/Rhongomiant → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

The piledriver makes me laugh every time.

[u/pug_fugly_moe → u/Rhongomiant]

It’s the poop on the chest that gets me every time.

[u/TheWhiteOwl23 → u/pug_fugly_moe]

I honestly thought I was having a mandela effect one time when I was watching Team America on tv, because during THAT scene the poop part was missing.

Turns out our tv network had removed the scene that included the poop, which is hilarious because they are fucking dolls...

[u/-joker-joker-joker- → u/TheWhiteOwl23]

Literally

[u/404BrainCells → u/-PMYourTastefulNudes]

lmao Team America is diabolical tbh

[u/MJPNFCdextergrif → u/404BrainCells]

You got dicks, pussies, and assholes chuck.

[u/Cantmakeaspell]

Love (2015) - Gasper Noe

I’ve watched a few of his films, they are always interesting. I dunno about this one though. Nothing left to the imagination here.

[u/JoelHenryJonsson → u/Cantmakeaspell]

Isn’t this one just straight up porn?

[u/Veteranis → u/JoelHenryJonsson]

On screen actual sex, filmed to show no faking. No different from straight porn in that respect. I wonder about the actors.

[u/ImpressionFeisty8359 → u/Veteranis]

He was just happy to cum first.

[u/Fabulous_Lynx1506]

Whatever movie you accidentally watched with your parents.

[u/HawaiianShirtsOR → u/Fabulous_Lynx1506]

Under Siege

Dad picked it. I was 9. When what's-her-name did her dance, I quickly turned away, very confused.

[u/dreadead → u/HawaiianShirtsOR]

Erica Elaniak

[u/petmoo23 → u/Fabulous_Lynx1506]

It's that one scene in True Lies, and it wasn't just my parents but also my grandparents.

[u/Karpattata → u/Fabulous_Lynx1506]

I watch horror movies with my mom because my gf won't watch them with me (sometimes she does, but it's not her thing) and my dad won't watch them with her. 

Infinity Pool had good reviews so we started watching it. But 30 minutes into the movie the main character is jerked off by some lady, with a zoom in on the tip of his cock up to and including the moment he dispatches his swim team. 

So we stopped there. But a few years before that we watched The Lords of Salem, which ends with a surreal montage that, among other things, features cultists and/or demons jerking off. And this was the end of the movie. We were invested. So we just sat through it. 

[u/krisko612]

Poor Things and Anora. I’m fully aware that there’s worse stuff out there, but both were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. and the latter actually won. Doesn’t get more mainstream than that!

[u/acidcrab → u/krisko612]

For some reason Poor Things felt scandalous to me. It made sense with the story but man is it sexual. Might be the quality of the performances that made it hit harder?

[u/warrioratwork → u/acidcrab]

Because it's either about a child in the body of a woman or a woman with severe brain damage being a prostitute.

[u/shogi_x → u/warrioratwork]

Yeah that's the part that really made me uncomfortable. At times it's hard to tell whether she's being manipulated/groomed or choosing freely.

[u/Strung_Out_Advocate → u/acidcrab]

I honestly think it's because nobody expected that performance from Emma Stone. I certainly didn't.

[u/DoctorDisceaux → u/acidcrab]

If I ever meet Emma Stone I won’t be able to make eye contact.

[u/airfryerfuntime → u/acidcrab]

Everything about it is over the top.

[u/seph200x]

When I first signed up for Netflix many years ago, the first thing I saw on the recommendations feed was Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Vol. I and II.

I was not prepared to see full frontal DP and Shia's Lil'Beouf.

[u/dodrugzwitthugz → u/seph200x]

Netflix used to have straight up softcore porn.

[u/Suspicious-Ear-5350 → u/seph200x]

I don't recall the DP as being full frontal. From behind. Totally explicit though.

[u/01010110_]

Nymphomaniac 

[u/melissa_fornow → u/01010110_]

That was simultaneously the most explicit and least erotic movie I've seen.

[u/barktwiggs → u/01010110_]

Weren't there 2 of them?

[u/SurgeFlamingo → u/barktwiggs]

I’ve known a few

[u/BananaWayne1 → u/SurgeFlamingo]

Lucky human, I never met one

[u/01010110_ → u/barktwiggs]

Part one and part two, but it's one continuous story

[u/EmeraldJunkie → u/01010110_]

Is that the one where Willem Defoe had to use a prosthetic penis because his was too large?

[u/chaddieboy → u/EmeraldJunkie]

That was Antichrist, both directed by Lars Von Trier.

[u/JohnCavil01 → u/EmeraldJunkie]

It’s Antichrist and I believe the story is that they used a stand-in for a close up (who was a professional porn actor) because Dafoe’s penis was too large “to be believable” - y’know as opposed to male porn actors who are famous for their modestly-sized members.

I’m still convinced this story is bullshit and that they just wanted to use someone who was comfortable having an erection/unsimulated sex on camera (note nobody ever talks about that the female actor was also a stand-in) but that this started as a joke and has evolved into accepted lore.

[u/ImpressionFeisty8359 → u/01010110_]

Safe to say Lars is beyond fucked up.

[u/melekin]

Rochelle, Rochelle

[u/Bd0llar → u/melekin]

A young woman’s erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.

[u/IgnobleCampaign → u/melekin]

I thought this was a real movie for so long. I was a kid when Seinfeld was on so while I recognized them making pop culture references, I was too young to distinguish this from just another one of the references I didn't get.

I only realized it wasn't some obscure 90s movie a couple of years ago.

[u/NateHohl → u/IgnobleCampaign]

Yeah, and in fairness to you, Seinfeld had a mix of both real and fake movie references.

There’s the episode where George watches Home Alone at Jerry’s apartment (with generic sound effects since they obviously couldn’t get the rights), the episode where Jerry and his girlfriend make out during Schindler’s List, and the episode where everyone is fawning over The English Patient much to Elaine’s chagrin.

But then there are plenty of other “movies” that were entirely fabricated for the show like Chunnel, Sack Lunch, Prognosis Negative, Cry, Cry, Again, Mountain High, Firestorm, and of course Rochelle, Rochelle.

[u/pinkmeanie → u/NateHohl]

Fun fact: Prognosis Negative was the title of a screenplay Larry David was unable to sell

[u/wilyquixote → u/IgnobleCampaign]

I had the same feeling of betrayal with Sack Lunch. 

[u/JD_Blunderbuss → u/wilyquixote]

and Death Blow

[u/TheRottenestRay → u/JD_Blunderbuss]

I was intrigued by the possibilities of "Chunnel"

[u/sixtyshilling → u/IgnobleCampaign]

It was a reference to Emmanuelle and Rachel, Rachel.

[u/RoarOfTheWorlds → u/IgnobleCampaign]

On the flip side, I honestly thought Jujyfruit was a fake candy name.

[u/BillyPup → u/RoarOfTheWorlds]

I was devastated when I learnt the Mackinaw peach wasn’t a real variety

[u/pmalleable → u/melekin]

Yes, and Bette totally deserved the Macaroni Midler she won for her performance.

[u/Enocssa]

Exit to Eden. It’s a comedy my dad took me to go see when I was 12. To say it was inappropriate is an understatement.

[u/tazzy531 → u/Enocssa]

>Critical Response: The movie received universally negative reviews from critics, holding a 6% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics like Roger Ebert panned it as a slow and miscast comedy that struggled to balance its tone.

6%!?!

[u/PantsyFants → u/tazzy531]

Miscast is an understatement. Dana Delaney as a dominatrix and Dan Aykroyd & Rosie O'Donnell as undercover cops. It came out during the boom of 90s erotic thrillers but it's about as sexy as a Walmart checkout line. I think it's also supposed to be a comedy but they forgot to write jokes.

6% is generous

[u/uncleandyb → u/Enocssa]

The movie is technically based on a book, although the main thing it shares with the book is the title.

The book, authored by Anne Rice, is sexy as fuck. Not a comedy at all.

[u/Ghozer]

"y tu mama tambien"

[u/goldhelmet]

Caligula

[u/Ir0nWaffle]

Pirates - Technically cheating, but that movie was stupid popular in the 2000's after the pirates of the Caribbean craze. To the point where it had a rated R edit you could rent at blockbuster that had all the hardcore scenes removed.

[u/PirateKilt → u/Ir0nWaffle]

Fun fact... they rented the ship, the Bounty II, a replica of HMS Bounty, from the owners under the guise of them filming an "educational" movie.

The ship owners were LESS THAN PLEASED with what was actually filmed on their ship...

[u/ohheyisayokay → u/Ir0nWaffle]

"Last night I dreamt that my cock was a three masted Spanish galleon!"

To me that guy will always sound like Zap Brannigan.

[u/spartanspy85 → u/Ir0nWaffle]

I actually remember seeing that version at a Blockbuster and thought it was the normal one lol

[u/ObGynKenobi841 → u/Ir0nWaffle]

I may be wrong (and this is before my time) but pretty sure Deep Throat was released in normal theaters back in the late 60s or early 70s when it came out and America was trying to figure out how it felt about porn. And per another post I saw at some point Debbie Does Dallas was or is available for free online, I think the whole thing is just posted on Wikipedia?

[u/ActualWhiterabbit → u/ObGynKenobi841]

The entire movie is on the wikipedia page

[u/anishk123]

The dreamers (2003). A wierd movie but i liked it.

[u/EthelTunbridge]

Nine and a half weeks. They were both soooo hot.

[u/Strongest-There-Is → u/EthelTunbridge]

There are 3

[u/BlacklightChainsaw]

Caligula

[u/AXPendergast → u/BlacklightChainsaw]

But was it really mainstream? When it was first released, it served to only be in XXX theaters.
Still...great pull.

[u/afifthofaugust → u/AXPendergast]

I bet it was

[u/Koen1999 → u/BlacklightChainsaw]

In school, we always used to beg our teacher to have us watch a movie instead of having an actual class. At some point one of our peer classes convinced their Latin teacher it was time for a movie, on the condition it would be educational too. The teacher thought a movie about a Roman emperor named Caligula would be a good idea. Well, it wasn't, they didn't watch a movie after all...

[u/brookswift → u/Koen1999]

That sounds like the time a teacher accidentally went to whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov back when the first was a porn site

[u/TheRealJoeyTribbiani → u/brookswift]

dicks.com wasn't the sporting goods store for a long time.

[u/LustLochLeo → u/brookswift]

back when the first was a porn site

Now it's an election betting (scam?) site. So basically what the real White House does as well.

[u/KnobbsNoise → u/brookswift]

lol—I did that at my first job.

[u/checkpointGnarly → u/Koen1999]

I had a teacher in grade 5 that let us watch a movie every Friday afternoon, one Friday she pops in a movie and left the classroom to do something quick.

She must have mixed up the movie she rented for herself that weekend with the movie she planed on showing cause we all watched like the first 10-15 mins of seven. She came back in when the gluttony scene was on.

[u/Incon4ormista]

Is Kids mainstream?

[u/RadioKALLISTI → u/Incon4ormista]

It was in theaters.

[u/Glibglob12345 → u/Incon4ormista]

That movie was not a good watch as a kid with parents in the room

Still traumatized 

[u/TheDocBee → u/Incon4ormista]

I'd say it was mainstream. When we were teens it's was the movie that caught the vibe of the moment. A few copies on VHS floated around the school and we watched it on many occasions. It wasn't as much "talk of the town" as it was just a humming in the background. Everybody had seen it most people could quote pieces from it.

Didn't feel too scandalous either it was just how life was,just a little bit more extreme.

[u/pm_me_ur_demotape → u/TheDocBee]

Just how life was?
jfc, glad it wasn't just how life was in my neck of the woods

[u/lilgumbythemonkeygod]

Crash

Not the 2004 one

[u/chewycat34 → u/lilgumbythemonkeygod]

Unbelievably bent movie But a great watch

[u/SnooRegrets5283]

I Want Your Sex (2026) with Olivia Wilde

[u/mojambowhatisthescen → u/SnooRegrets5283]

I would also like hers

[u/Roadkill997 → u/SnooRegrets5283]

There was so much sex that I forgot it was a who done it.

[u/BennyRhythm]

Boogie Nights

[u/Amazing_Karnage]

I think it'd be either Showgirls or Nymphomaniac.

[u/frankrizzo24 → u/Amazing_Karnage]

That pool scene 😂

[u/gingerstgermain → u/frankrizzo24]

The literal dolphin fountain from that scene was located in the parking lot of my old job (in the PNW no less). Made me think of that movie every day on the way in. No one I knew had seen the movie either, so I was all alone knowing those dolphins had damn near witnessed a drowning in the name entertainment.

[u/thatweirdvintagegirl → u/Amazing_Karnage]

I’m 95% sure I actually saw Elizabeth Berkeley’s butthole at one point

[u/bigpoppa973]

The Dreamers

[u/Murky_Examination144 → u/bigpoppa973]

Aaaah Eva!

[u/Rhongomiant]

Unfaithful starring Diane Lane

[u/NateDogTX → u/Rhongomiant]

Unfaithful starring Diane Lane

Looked it up on Amazon Prime:

A middle aged wife and mother has an affair with a handsome younger man, but her husband murders him when he finds out about the affair, and husband and wife must reckon with what happened.

Unless that happens within the first 15 minutes, that's one hell of a spoiler, WTF Amazon?

And Google says it's in the final act. Why would you put that into a synopsis? I didn't even click "More..." or anything, jesus f'ing christ.

[u/bstyledevi → u/NateDogTX]

The Usual Suspects: a man lies to police in order to get out of trouble.

[u/DontShoot_ImJesus → u/bstyledevi]

Bruce Willis is a ghost who councils counsels a child who can speak to the dead.

[u/MurderSheScrote → u/Rhongomiant]

That scene next to the stairs is very memorable

[u/SaveFerris_Bueller → u/MurderSheScrote]

So hot! Diane Lane is so sexy in that scene.

[u/Fine-Statistician876]

shortbus

[u/alexandrelt44 → u/Fine-Statistician876]

I unawarely took my former girlfriend to see it at the movies for our first date. It was certainly a choice

[u/callisstaa → u/alexandrelt44]

Here in China Obsession was released recently on the Qizi Festival which is basically a lovers’ festival. They marketed the movie as a cute romantic movie to watch with your sweetheart. A lot of people were traumatized and there was a huge pushback against it.

[u/Taskerst → u/Fine-Statistician876]

I’m an albino!

[u/evrybodyknws]

In the Realm of the Senses _ Nagisa Oshima

[u/Scary_Compote_359]

9 songs

[u/SouthboundPachyderm- → u/Scary_Compote_359]

Yep, basically a low budget porno with some great live music scenes.

Good movie, watch it for the "plot" I guess

[u/ElectronicLungCancer]

Antichrist with Willem Dafoe

[u/Material-Nose6561]

Boogie Nights

[u/IamRider → u/Material-Nose6561]

Wahlberg's best performance of his career: playing a stupid dumb kid

[u/2sdrowkcaB]

Caligula

[u/Kestras]

Original Sin with Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas. There's two versions and when I first rented it I didn't realize it. It's not a great movie but I still really enjoy it. They are both gorgeous in it.

[u/First-Scientist216]

Wild things

[u/Ass_feldspar]

We showed In the Realm of the Senses at the museum I worked for in the 1980s. A fine Japanese film with details like a non simulated blow job. There was no blowback anyway, pre internet. I don’t think it would happen today

[u/STUPIDNEWCOMMENTS]

I’m surprised no one mentioned Angel Heart. Lisa Bonet got a lot of grief for that at time it came out.

[u/3DSFreak]

Sausage Party

[u/Cold_Art5051]

The Lover (1992). It was all downhill from there for Jane March

[u/xgabipandax]

Is Clockwork Orange mainstream? because if it is that's the most sexually explicit and visible mainstream movie i have ever seen

[u/Dry-Source-9789 → u/xgabipandax]

The sexual content is not casual or glamorous; it is deliberately tied to violence, power, and degradation, which is why the film caused such a huge controversy and was restricted or pulled in various markets.

[u/Stock_Mousse6951 → u/Dry-Source-9789]

We watched this movie in my sociology class in 1988.

[u/fund2016 → u/Dry-Source-9789]

Just the droogies partaking in a bit of the ultra violence...

[u/fiat_to_fey → u/xgabipandax]

Viddy well little brother, viddy well.

[u/Evening_Risk7127]

9 songs

[u/Wrathwilde]

Deep Throat (1972), it was supposedly the 3rd highest grossing film of the year. (equivalent to about $770 million today). The $5 ticket price was equivalent to about $38 today.

[u/MPD1987]

Blue Is The Warmest Colour

[u/Spiley_spile]

Maybe, Bound? (1996, w/Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly)

[u/hds85]

Poor Things or Eyes Wide Shut

[u/Random-Cpl → u/hds85]

Eyes Wide Shut was pretty tame honestly

[u/CrotasScrota84]

( Rape me ) on Shudder. It shows full penetration and oral sex. It’s absolutely insane it’s even allowed I couldn’t even watch it because it’s a shitty movie but was shocking seeing that on regular streaming service

[u/99thLuftballon → u/CrotasScrota84]

The French movie, Baise Moi? You're right, it's a rubbish movie. Even the graphic but trashy, uninteresting sex scenes don't make it interesting.

[u/Opbergvakje]

Requiem for a dream. Don’t watch it. You’ll see the world a bit sadder

[u/evrybodyknws → u/Opbergvakje]

Shush! Requiem is a great movie.

[u/brookswift → u/evrybodyknws]

its perfect to watch once

[u/GomiBoy1973 → u/evrybodyknws]

It is a great film. You will still be sadder after watching it.

[u/ebb_omega → u/evrybodyknws]

It's an absolutely brilliant piece of art that I never want to see again.

[u/DisillusionedPatriot → u/evrybodyknws]

A great movie that can only be watched once, maybe twice if you're with someone who's never seen it. Don't recommend watching alone, but to each their own.

[u/Googlepug]

Short bus

[u/Mr_CAI]

Irreversible

[u/jdjps]

9 Songs

[u/mallocfailure]

Pillion. I'm not sure if it fits your definition of mainstream, but it's pretty explicit. It's also excellent!

[u/culturejelly → u/mallocfailure]

This entire thread seems to have some absolutely wild ideas of what is considered mainstream so who knows.

[u/night_breed]

There is a whole subreddit devoted to this

[u/Banjo2523]

Eyes wide shut

[u/GeneralNitemare]

Antichrist. Willem Defoe and his wife having real onscreen sex. Fucked up movie mind you.

[u/Beautiful_Bar7247]

The Wolf of Wall Street made some awkward family movie nights.

[u/PM-me-ur-sphynx → u/Beautiful_Bar7247]

Some? So you watched it with your family more than once?

[u/WhyWorry1030]

In a college art class we watched 'A quest for fire' which was basically Soft caveman porn lol. The teacher was a stand in for our main art teacher who was on a sobatical to Europe.

[u/Dolust → u/WhyWorry1030]

I remember that movie, and I watched it for the first time in class too. It was introduced as the finest recreation of prehistoric life. After the first 10 minutes the teachers left and we were alone for the rest of the movie. It was cute because you could see overprotected kids with pure naivety asking lots of questions and high exposure and more experienced kids answering honestly, no judgement whatsoever, in a considerate and sensible way. Some girls began to ask why the girl switched positions and for some reason they did not get it so we stopped the movie and re-enacted the situation, but it wasn't obscene, it was just kids trying to make sense. It's a beautiful memory of my childhood.

[u/HailSatanWorshipD00M]

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

[u/madmoravian → u/HailSatanWorshipD00M]

Well, it was rated-X.

[u/HailSatanWorshipD00M → u/madmoravian]

It's the film that caused enough controversy over the X rating that they went and created the NC-17 rating for films that were harder than R but aren't porn.

[u/slakethythirst → u/HailSatanWorshipD00M]

Have a bit of the cock, Harold. They say it's a delicacy and you know where it's been.

[u/dolliifairy]

Shortbus or Nymphomaniac for sure. They didn't even bother using fake props for most of those scenes, it was just straight up unsimulated. Honestly surprised both got actual theatrical releases.

[u/tishimself1107]

Showgirls

[u/Belgand → u/tishimself1107]

That's pretty much it. It was an attempt to actually make the NC-17 rating something mainstream. Unlike most of these films, it played in mainstream suburban chain multiplexes, not just art theaters. It was widely promoted in mainstream media. And it was a huge flop that meant nobody wanted to do that again. Was it trashy and campy on purpose? Most likely, but that did not play well in middle America and instead convinced everyone that this is exactly why they didn't make mainstream NC-17 films.

Was it the most explicit? No. But it was definitely the most mainstream.