The 65 Best Porn Movies of All Time
From behind-the-scenes dramas to shocking big-budget productions, these are the kind of films that combine great sex with even greater stories.
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Go ahead and be honest: You landed here for a reason. Pornography is a universal interest and a booming business, something that pretty much everyone on the planet has some sort of experience with. It's no shock, then, that the subject has seen itself on the big (and small) screen over and over again. Sometimes movies about porn can be as sensuous and titillating as the real thing—especially since a handful of them have featured A-list actors willing to bravely bare all in front of the camera.
Movies about porn run the gamut from dark and gritty dramas, hijinks-heavy comedies, and documentaries about the entertainers themselves. Whatever your desire, here are a bunch of porn movies that perfectly sync great sex with great stories.
After Porn Ends
After Porn Ends 2
This sequel (!) follows even more porn stars, who reveal where their post-porn lives have taken them.
After Porn Ends 3
The Amateurs
Nothing brings a small town together quite like a challenge. Jeff Bridges stars as a lovable loser who enlists his neighbors to make a porno.
Boogie Nights
Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed, and starred in this film about a good-hearted New Jersey meathead struggling with intimacy thanks to an overpowering porn addiction.
The Dreamers
Starring Penny Dreadful’s Eva Green, The Dreamers is about an American tourist who visits France and has a sexual experience with a pair of siblings. How very French.
Elektra Luxx
Emmanuelle
A 1974 French drama based on the best-selling erotic novel of the same name, Emmanuelle’s success spurned nine sequels including Emmanuelle in Space. The softcore classic explores a woman who cheats on her husband for the first time as she plans on visiting him overseas. Sounds like the perfect time!
Finding Bliss
Flesh Gordon
A parody of the cult science-fiction film Flash Gordon, the aptly named Flesh Gordon proved that X-rated parodies could do everything the original could even on a much-smaller budget… and with sex.
The Girl Next Door
What happens when a former porn star moves in next door? You try to get her to go to prom with you.
Hardcore
Hot Girls Wanted
Rashida Jones produced this Netflix original documentary that explores young women who work in the porn industry and the working conditions that make their jobs...unique.
Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
Following the success of Hot Girls Wanted, Netflix launched this six-part docu-series that gives a more expansive view of how technology has changed the contemporary porn industry.
Humpday
Inserts
An X-rated film that follows a silent picture director that refuses to move on to “talkies,” Inserts stars Richard Dreyfuss and premiered in the same year as Jaws. He turns his Hollywood mansion into a massive porn studio and loses his mind as he churns out one erotic film after another. Fun!
Inside Deep Throat
This documentary looks at the most famous pornographic film in film history and its effect on both the adult entertainment industry and popular culture writ large.
The Jade Pussycat
Half XXX-rated porno and half heist film, The Jade Pussycat follows a man named Johnny Wadd who is searching for the priceless, titular art piece. Reportedly, Paul Thomas Anderson had the entire cast of Boogie Nights watch The Jade Pussycat before filming the famous Mark Wahlberg porn industry film.
King Cobra
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