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* The 1980 version of ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]'' features lots of underage nudity and sex. It's also a powerful romance and a very educational examination of human nature that delves into love and marriage, ethics and morality, religion and theology, and sociology. It was [[Movie of the Book|based on a well-written novel]] from a serious author, after all.
* [[David Lynch]] is fond of this. ''[[Blue Velvet]]'' contains [[Rape Is Love|quasi-consensual]] BDSM & voyeurism as major themes, but used them as building blocks for a [[Mind Screw]] film noir. ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'' had some pretty hardcore lesbian scenes, but in service to a tragically romantic psychological thriller, not to mention ''[[Wild at Heart]]''...
* 1976's ''[http://www.reverseshot.com/article/opening_misty_beethoven The Opening of Misty Beethoven]'' is a sexually-explicit version of ''[[Pygmalion]]''/''[[My Fair Lady]]''. Unlike later porn "parodies", it is intelligent, witty, and made on a reasonable budget; it's also so well-written and -performed that some viewers feel that the explicit sex gets in the way of the story. It cleverly makes use of its explicit nature not only to titillate, but also to lead the viewer into drawing uncomfortable conclusions about Eliza Doolittle in the original.
** Sort-of similarly, 1975's ''Eskimo Nell'' is on the surface the tale of an attempt by a group of schlocky British film-makers to produce a big-screen version of the legendary epic porn comedy poem (featuring an Amazonian heroine who wears down the over-sized manhood of one thug to a thread and then shrugs off his vengeful accomplice's repeated firing of his six-gun up an intimate portion of her anatomy), but in reality is more a genuinely funny and insightful look into British low-budget film-making of the time (leading cast member and writer Michael Armstrong was a real-life veteran of this side of the industry), glossed with some very soft-core sexual shenanigans.
** This appears to have been the next wave in the '70s; in 1976 the world saw ''Alice In Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Comedy,'' starring Playboy Playmate ''cum'' mainstream actress (now retired) Kristine DeBell. It was produced as a mainstream adult film, and has production values to match: solid (though not particularly memorable) musical numbers, actual choreography and a reasonable attempt at acting on the part of most of the players. In fact, most of the hardcore footage was removed for a broadcast-friendly softcore version. [[Roger Ebert]] gave it a favorable review.
* In the same way that big summer blockbusters inspire hack movie-makers to make schlocky knockoffs in the hopes that confused grandmothers will buy the wrong one as a Christmas gift, they also inspire pornographies. To complement the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movies, there came out a movie ''Pirates XXX'' (basically, a ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' porn). Where it gets hilarious is that it was then edited into a softcore version for sale to cable networks that didn't run hardcore pornography. It is also [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477457/ among the most expensive adult films ever made.]
** And then they made [[wikipedia:Pirates II|a sequel...]]
* ''Shortbus'' and ''Nine Songs'' are both borderline cases. They are both critically well regarded, but are marketed around featuring real sex.
** They both also differ from similar art-house movies that the sex is simply there, and not a way to create more drama.
* There is an ''X-Files'' porno where Mulder and Scully investigate a murderous cult that reveres Lilith. Aside from the porn, it actually sounds like a real episode of ''[[The X-Files]]''. The pornfilm is appropriately titled ''The Sex Files''.
* The [[Show Within a Show]] of ''[[Boogie Nights]]'' is the director's attempt to make a movie so compelling that his audience won't leave when they're "finished".
* ''Alien Sex Files 3: She Alien'', starring Jenae Alt, features a woman who is really an advance scout for an [[Alien Invasion]]. She sides with the human race after experiencing sex and love. The ending is also a pure [[Visual Effects of Awesome]].
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* ''[[Baise Moi]]''
* In a very sick and twisted way, [[Exploitation Film|exploitation films]] ''[[The Sinful Dwarf]]'' and ''[[Thriller - A Cruel Picture]]'' would both qualify. Same goes for films that deal with the more disturbing paraphilias, like ''[[Nekromantik]]'' or ''Feed''.
* Surprisingly, ''[[Showgirls]]'' was SUPPOSED''supposed'' to be this... It... fell a little short of their dreams.
* There is a porn parody of ''[[Scooby -Doo]]'' simple titled ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Scooby-Doo A XXX Parody]]'', which doesn't include the titular dog (thanksthank god, that could have only ended up badly). What's weird about this movie is how PERFECTLY''perfectly'' they managed to capture the whole essence of the show. Not only does each porn actor playsplay their rolesrole accordinglyaccording to the characters, but they even resemble them physically! The plot is nothingnot unlike thean original ''[[Scooby -Doo]]'' series' episode, and they [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|even run through different doors while escaping at one point]].
** Many porn parodies, especially the ''Star Trek'' ones, actually work rather well as parodies.
{{quote|'''Captain:''' (escorting the hot alien chick around the ship) As you can see, the rumors that we just walk through the exact same corridor over and over just to make it look like a bigger ship are completely false.}}
* ''[[Emmanuelle]]'' and its various sequels and reimaginings like the ''Emmanuelle in Space'' and ''Emmanuelle Through Time'' series. ''Emmanuelle in Wonderland'' is a musical. One film featured the title character trying to help out a poor guy who mistook a one night stand for true love and was about to get his heart broken. Another featured the cast having a deep discussion about the portrayal of [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]] in the media.
** The original ''Emmanuelle'' was in fact the fictionalized biography of a real woman, and published as a mainstream book in France; the film adaptation was not intended as porn, at least not in Europe.
* ''[[The Dreamers]]'', in which a guy gets into a relationship with a brother-sister duo amidst the 1968 Paris Riots.
* ''[[Deep Inin The Valley]]'', where two friends (one a [[Nice Guy]] and the other a porn-obsessed pervert) get [[Trapped in TV Land|sent into a porno]]. It's funny and deconstructs some porn stereotypes. Also, one of the girls in the porno is tired of meaningless sex and wants to experience true love.
* ''[[Virtual Girl]]'' (1998). A man enters virtual reality and has a tryst with a simulated woman. He tries to break off the relationship, but she turns out to be: sentient, a [[Yandere]], and can affect the real world.
* ''[[Virtual Vegas]]'' (2001). A woman creates a virtual reality system for sex with simulated people. Her [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] boss fires her so he can keep the profits for himself, then hires thugs to try to kill her. The woman warns that the device needs to be properly tested before it is marketed, which is proven when one guy who uses it goes into a coma. Also, a guy who uses it gets chewed out by his girlfriend for cheating on her, which he tries to claim that it's not cheating because the women are not real.
* ''[[Room in Rome]]'', a woman from Spain and a woman from Russia meet in Rome and have an affair. The women discuss art, literature, and their lives, but it soon becomes clear that one or both is lying.
 
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