Good movie sex scenes

What makes the perfect sex scene? The pure eroticism? Its emotional undercurrents? The shift and flow of the camera? Our concept of how sex should work on film speaks to so many variants: what personally gets us hot under the collar, whether we seek the fantastic or the realist, or how these films should tie in emotionally with the rest of the film.

The film Working with a Daphne du Maurier short story, Roeg gives us Laura Christie and John Sutherland , a married couple who travel from Britain to Venice for his job after losing their young daughter in a drowning accident. Why is it so groundbreaking? It just feels so real. Their sex feels like both an expression of grief and a welcome respite from it.

Fact one: People have sex. Fact two: Because sex is a natural human experience, some movie directors opt to include it in their films—unsimulated—for a heightened sense of realism, which means you're looking at real people having real intercourse. Here are 25 movies that broke taboos for just that.

Listen, there's absolutely no shame in enjoying movie sex scenes. Whether you're into the romance-in-the-rain vibes of Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling in The Notebook or something a little more domineering, like Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson 's relationship in the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, there's a little something for everyone. Even better, most of these movies are about way more than their super-sexy moments, so there's no reason to fast-forward to those scenes not that there's anything wrong with that. But you might just enjoy the plots too. So without further ado, here they are: the best movie sex scenes of all time.