Controversial Sexy Films From Around the World Share this article: It is the nature of our society that films with strong sexual content provoke controversy. These nine movies tested the limits of what mainstream critics and audiences deem acceptable.
Director Bernardo Bertolucci said he developed it from his own sexual fantasies. Schneider, who was 19 at the time of filming, claimed that the experience ruined her life, and that she thought of Bertolucci as a gangster and pimp.
The film had trouble finding an American distributor. Critics held the film back in Australia because they feared it would promote paedophilia, but it was eventually released. Bill Hartford, a doctor who becomes obsessed with having an affair after his wife Nicole Kidman admits that she once considered cheating on him. Obliged to deliver an R-rated film, Warner Bros.
Elena soon becomes sexually involved with a young man she meets on the beach, sparking an unpredictable series of events and a brutal murder. A Serbian Film Aging porn star Milos wants to quit the industry but agrees to take part in one last film that will provide him with enough money to support his struggling family for life. Banned in many countries, A Serbian Film was supposedly intended as an allegory of corruption in the Serbian government.
When his emotionally damaged sister Carey Mulligan moves into his apartment, she reawakens his memories of their painful shared past. The light tone of the first film gives way to a dark and oppressive mood in the second.
