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IFC's 50 Greatest Sex Scenes in Movies

The Independent Film Channel recently released this list, and it’s incredibly hard to argue with.

See "the complete list":http://www.ifc.com/news/article?aId=20710 (with pics!).
1. Don't Look Now
by Nicolas Roeg
  
2. A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series)
by David Cronenberg
  
3. Mulholland Drive  
4. Risky Business
by Paul Brickman
  
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Criterion Collection
by Philip Kaufman
  
6. Betty Blue (Unrated Director's Cut)
by Jean-Jacques Beineix
  
7. My Beautiful Laundrette
by Stephen Frears
  
8. Secretary  
9. The Big Easy
by Jim McBride
  
10. Young Frankenstein  
11.
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 Ecstasy (1933)
by Gustav Machatý
  
12. The Night Porter - Criterion Collection
by Liliana Cavani
  
13. Y Tu Mama Tambien
by Alfonso Cuarón
  
14. Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)  
15. Get Carter
by Mike Hodges
  
16. Coming Home
by Greg Carson
  
17. Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
by Lawrence Kasdan
  
18. Unfaithful (Widescreen Edition)
by Adrian Lyne
  
19. Sex and Lucia (Unrated Edition)
by Julio Medem
  
20. Bound
by Larry Wachowski
  
21.
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 The Kiss (1896)
by William Heise
  
22.
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 The Wayward Cloud
by Ming-liang Tsai
  
23. Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition)
by Ang Lee
  
24. The Cooler
by Wayne Kramer
  
25. Female Trouble
by John Waters
  
26. Out of Sight (Collector's Edition)
by Steven Soderbergh
  
27. Boys Don't Cry  
28. Henry & June
by Philip Kaufman
  
29. 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version
by Michael Winterbottom
  
30. Me and You and Everyone We Know  
31. Storytelling  
32. Being John Malkovich  
33. The Last Seduction
by John Dahl
  
34. The End of the Affair
by Neil Jordan
  
35. Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Sidney Lumet
  
36. Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
by Paul Thomas Anderson
  
37. Shaft  
38. Shortbus (Unrated)  
39. The Piano
by Jane Campion
  
40. The Lover
by Jean-Jacques Annaud
  
41. High Fidelity  
42. High Art
by Lisa Cholodenko
  
43. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
by Pedro Almodóvar
  
44. Poison
by Todd Haynes
  
45. Breaking the Waves
by Lars von Trier
  
46. sex, lies, and videotape
by Steven Soderbergh
  
47. The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
48.
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 Fur  
49. Laurel Canyon
by Lisa Cholodenko
  
50. Ken Park (Uncut Uncensored Director's Version - Import)  
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Created by stonejunction on Aug 06, 2007.