History Main / EroticFilm

* ''Film/ALAventure'' (2008): Sandrine, after satisfaction with her fiance, leaves him and then embarks on a sexual adventure with Greg. Two bisexual women, Mina and Sophie, join them in their pursuits.

* ''Film/{{Sirens}}'' (1993): An Anglican minister (Creator/HughGrant) is a guest in the house of a bohemian painter, and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) has a sexual awakening brought on by the painter's three lovely and frequently naked models. Second of two Australian erotic films inspired by the life of artist Norman Lindsay.

* ''Film/JeuneEtJolie'' (2013): The movie depicts the life of seventeen years old Isabelle who chooses to embrace a life of prostitution.

* ''Literature/LadyChatterleysLover'' (1955; 1981; 1993; 2006; 2022): The infamous novel by [[Creator/DHLawrence D.H. Lawrence]], banned for almost 35 years in the United Kingdom, has been filmed several times, but there is no definitive best-known version. The 1981 version starred Sylvia Kristel, the star of ''Emmanuelle''.

Despite being more prominent today erotic film is still subject to a lot of derision, disapproval, and misunderstanding. While EroticLiterature has gained some artistic recognition over the decades for leaving more to the imagination of the audience and having time for plot and character development, erotic films are often dismissed as being too much FanService, ExplicitContent for the sake of being explicit or PornWithoutPlot. Some directors have tried to elevate the status of the nudity or sex in their film, creating an eternal discussion of ItsNotPornItsArt that still goes on to this day.

Erotic films have [[OlderThanTheyThink existed since the invention of the medium near the end of the 19th century.]] Because of their nature, these pictures were [[ThinkOfTheChildren kept out of the mainstream]] and until TheSixties could only be seen in private collections or during stag parties. Don't think these were just innocent films with people showing their ankles underneath their skirts: they featured all the nudity and more explicit stuff that you see today. Throughout the first half of The20thCentury, films already had sex symbol actors and actresses and played with risqué content, but after UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode set in 1934 all movies were made more chaste until the early 1960s. As the sexual revolution swept through Western Europe during the 1960s and TheSeventies, many countries legalized erotic and pornographic films. This lead to more nudity and sex scenes in mainstream films than ever before, even bringing porn movies into major film theaters. The arrival of the home video by the end of the 1970s and Internet by the start of the 1990s made erotic films even more widely and instantly available.

Erotic films have [[OlderThanTheyThink existed since the invention of the medium near the end of the 19th century.]] Because of their nature, these pictures were [[ThinkOfTheChildren kept out of the mainstream]] and until TheSixties could only be seen in private collections or during stag parties. Don't think these were just innocent films with people showing their ankles underneath their skirts: they featured all the nudity and more explicit stuff that you see today. Throughout the first half of The20thCentury, films already had sex symbol actors and actresses and played with risqué content, but after UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode set in 1934 all movies were made more chaste until the early 1960s. As the sexual revolution swept through Western Europe during the 1960s and 1970s, many countries legalized erotic and pornographic films. This lead to more nudity and sex scenes in mainstream films than ever before, even bringing porn movies into major film theaters. The arrival of the home video by the end of the 1970s and Internet by the start of the 1990s made erotic films even more widely and instantly available.

Erotic films have [[OlderThanTheyThink existed since the invention of the medium near the end of the 19th century.]] Because of their nature, these pictures were [[ThinkOfTheChildren kept out of the mainstream]] and until TheSixties could only be seen in private collections or during stag parties. Don't think these were just innocent films with people showing their ankles underneath their skirts: they featured all the nudity and more explicit stuff that you see today. Throughout the first half of the 20th century films already had sex symbol actors and actresses and played with risqué content, but after UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode set in 1934 all movies were made more chaste until the early 1960s. As the sexual revolution swept through Western Europe during the 1960s and 1970s, many countries legalized erotic and pornographic films. This lead to more nudity and sex scenes in mainstream films than ever before, even bringing porn movies into major film theaters. The arrival of the home video by the end of the 1970s and Internet by the start of the 1990s made erotic films even more widely and instantly available.