Theme: Erotica and Pornography

This is not a topic that is concerned with love scenes or gratuitous nudity in numerous films or discussions on how sexuality is portrayed – for which see Sex in Fantastic Cinema. Rather this list is focused on genre films made with the primary purpose of providing sexually explicit scenes. Content can be either hardcore (sexually explicit acts and penetration shots) or softcore (rarely more than bare breasts and occasional pubic glimpses)

The pornographic film emerged in the 1970s and graduated to video in the 1980s. Before this was the nudie. By the 1990s, softcore erotica became a niche on the cable market and theatrically released erotica had almost completely died away.

There have been numerous genre derivations on classic stories including the erotic adventures of Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde and The Invisible Man, even zombie erotica. There has also been a steady stream of porn films that parody the titles of familiar mainstream releases but with an X-rated spin.