Today we look at a list of films where actors actually has sex, for real!
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Filmmaking combines the arts of writing, directing, acting, and every once in a while, lovemaking
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Today, we're counting down the top 10 movies where the actors actually had sex, as voted on by you, the viewer
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Written, produced, and directed by Michael Winterbottom, Nine Songs is a romance film that tells the story of a relationship of two characters over the course of a year
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It features stunning performances from bands like Elbow, The Dandy Warhols, and Franz Ferdinand
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However, it's the sex scenes that have garnered the most attention. The film's stars Kieran O'Brien and Margot Stiley had real intercourse and oral sex
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And there's even a scene featuring, shall we say, an on-screen completion
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Unfortunately, other than these details, the film isn't particularly well-remembered. Acclaimed director Lars von Trier has made many an uncompromising film in his time
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However, the first film he made after his notorious call to arms, the Dogma 95 Manifesto, was The Idiots
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It follows a group of Danish teens who decide to act on their innermost idiot impulses
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The movie features several scenes of unsimulated sex. It also features large orgy sequences that are simulated because, you know, organizing actual massive orgies is really hard
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The John Waters film Pink Flamingos has become infamous in the years since its release
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Heralded at the time as the filthiest film to ever have been made it featured some of the most extreme gross moments ever The film centers on a criminal played by now drag queen Divine in hiding living with their mentally ill mother and good son
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In the film, Divine eats real excrement and has oral sex with an actor playing their son
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The film has gone on to develop quite a legacy. In fact, it nearly spawned a sequel titled Flamingos Forever
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Melvin Van Pebbles was a man who didn't like taking orders. So much so that he walked away from a studio contract in order to make his own film
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One where the African-American protagonist didn't have to die in the end. He used his own money, as well as wrote, directed, starred, and had real sex for the film
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It's a hard-hitting crime film about an urban Robin Hood. The film was so successful that it essentially birthed the blaxploitation genre
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Lars von Trier made a little movie called Antichrist. It stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Maybe you've heard of it. It follows a couple as they attempt to come to terms with the death of their child
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It's not an easy movie to watch. Following in the tradition of Von Trier, the film features unsimulated sex
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While it is the Dafoe and Gainsbourg characters engaging in these acts, it's not actually them
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It's body devils. Maybe someday Von Trier will get a major star to be as committed to the act of filmmaking as he wants
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But it wasn't this film. Vincent Gallo is an auteur. His film Buffalo 66 is a staggering achievement The film which is about a man who kidnaps a woman and forces her to pretend to be his wife upon returning home from prison is uncompromising He was heralded as the next Orson Welles
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And then he made Brown Bunny. And everyone turned on him. Brown Bunny, co-starring Chloe Sevigny, follows a motorcycle racer who is adrift in his life
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The film crescendos into a sequence where Gallo and Sevigny engage in unsimulated oral sex
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The fallout of this being, Gallo didn't direct another movie until 2003's Promises Written in Water
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Rumors have swirled that Chloe Saminye was blacklisted from many big-budget productions
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Thankfully, those turned out to be false. It would have been a massive shame to lose an actress of her caliber just because a couple of studio execs are prudes
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Caligula, the historical figure, has something of a reputation. You know, the whole sex party thing
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Penthouse Magazine founder Bob Guccione has something of a reputation, too. So, you know, why not throw them together
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Two great tastes that taste great together, right? That's exactly what Mr. Guccione thought as well
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He decided to make an epic historical fiction film that would tell the story of Caligula featuring an all-star cast
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Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, Malcolm McDowell, and legions of other stars turned up for the film
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While they didn't actually have sex on screen, many other performers did in actual orgy sequences
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Little Ashes follows the life and romance of the iconic painter Salvador Dali
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during his time in Madrid The film stars Javier Beltran Matthew McNulty and Robert Pattinson Yeah didn see that one coming did you Purportedly during a scene where Dolly is having some good times
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Pattinson touched himself to make the climax of the scene as real as possible. When asked about
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it, Pattinson said, faking the scene just doesn't work. My face is recorded for eternity
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Gasper Noe is an extreme filmmaker. In fact, he's one of the founding members of the French
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new extremist movement. He's directed films like Irreversible and Enter the Void. Well
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in 2015, he decided to make a film in 3D about sex, featuring real sex called love
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The film stars Carl Glessman and Omi Muyak, who at the time of filming were a real-life couple
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The ultimate result of the film feels more like Mr. No was more interested in filming sex scenes
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in 3D than in making a cohesive narrative. However, if that's what he was going for
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he absolutely succeeded. And here we are, the granddaddy of them all, Nymphomaniac
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Our old friend Lars von Trier's sexual epic has landed at number one
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The film stars Stacey Martin. It follows a woman over the course of her life and details her various sexual relationships
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This movie has loads of real sex. During the press tour for the film, Shia LaBeouf said that he participated in said unsimulated sexual encounters
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Ultimately, it came out that he wasn't actually involved in them. his body was CGI'd on top of other performers
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Even so, he's undeniably the most famous person to be involved in a sequence like this


