Decider After Dark

10 Movies Where The Actors Had Real On-Screen Sex

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If these sex scenes look startlingly real, that's because they are. Find out which actors went all the way for their jobs.

Gray Diasy Productions

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The Brown Bunny
When The Brown Bunny premiered at Cannes in 2003, the audience was shown a film that guaranteed they would never forget who Chloe Sevigny is. In the film she gives her co-star Vincent Gallo an actual beej (that's short for blow job) and has since confirmed that it is indeed real.
[Where to watch The Brown Bunny]

Gray Daisy Films

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Lie with Me
If the sex in Lie with Me looks real, it's because it is. Lauren Lee Smith, who you may know from The L Word and Eric Balfour who has appeared in Haven and 24 confirmed that they really got it on for this movie.
[Where to watch Lie with Me]

Conquering Lion Pictures

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Caligula
Caligula, the 1979 film about the fall of the Roman emperor, was produced by a guy named Bob Guccione, who just happened to be the founder of Penthouse Magazine. That probably makes the fact that this movie features some pretty intense unsimulated sex on-screen just a little less surprising. While Helen Mirren and Malcolm McDowell star in the film, they aren't in the graphic sex scenes. Those were filmed in private and then edited into the film.
[Where to watch Caligula]

Penthouse Films International

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Shortbus
It was a team effort when it came to the authentic sex scenes in Shortbus, an erotic drama from 2006. Director John Cameron Mitchell encouraged the actors to have real orgasms in the provocative film about people who go to a sex saloon. In fact, he jumped into the action himself by going down on a woman in the final scene of the movie.
[Where to watch Shortbus]

Everett Collection

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Romance
1999's Romance is the first mainstream movie to feature a fully erect penis - schwing! It also contains lots of nudity, masturbation, and explicit oral sex, and is a film that is frequently pointed to as one that changed the way non-porno sex could be shown on screen. Thanks, Romance!
[Where to watch Romance]

Flach Film

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Intimacy
Intimacy has remained surprisingly mainstream since its release in 2001. The film features Kerry Fox providing some pretty serious fellatio to her co-star, Academy Award winner Mark Rylance.
[Where to watch Intimacy]

Everett Collection

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Love
Actors Karl Glusman and Aomi Muyock not only have actual, unchoreographed sex in the 2015 film but director Gaspar Noe decided to make it 3D, too. His intention was to arouse the audience and it's safe to say his mission was accomplished.
[Where to watch Love]

RT Features

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Little Ashes
Hey, it's still real sex even if you're having it with yourself. When portraying Salvador Dalí in 2008's Little Ashes, Robert Pattinson was for real jerkin' it. So yes, that is his Official O face.
[Where to watch Little Ashes]

APT Films

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9 Songs
Did you know there are nine live performances from bands in this 2004 movie directed by Michael Winterbottom? Oh, and there is also real intercourse, oral sex, and a major moment of ejaculation featuring actors Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley. Something for everyone! [Where to watch 9 Songs]

Revolution Films

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The Idiots
Good ol' Lars von Trier. The director is also responsible for the sexually explicit Nymphomaniac: Vol. I, which many speculated featured Shia LaBeouf having real sex, but instead, his face was CGI'd onto a body which was. In 1998's The Idiots, you can't see the actors' faces, but there is a scene during one of the orgies where there is certain penetration.
[Where to watch The Idiots]

Zentropa Entertainments