The 15 Most Surprising Sex Scenes in Film

Sex scenes are inescapable in most movies, but some you just can’t see coming. Here are the most surprising love scenes in film.

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Let’s face it. Sex sells. That’s why almost every motion picture and television show has some form of sex or mention of the intimate act every few minutes. It’s become a staple in life, even if it’s a bit uncomfortable to watch alone or with friends and relatives.

Sex is rampant in every genre from vulgar comedies to the latest horror sequel, and even in recent animated tv-shows. There’s no escaping it. Most of the time, a sex scene can be smelled from a mile away, but there is only a handful of sex scenes that surprisingly erect themselves out of nowhere. Here are the 10 most surprising sex scenes in cinema.

Updated April 20th, 2020 by Mariana Fernandes: Sex has become an inevitable part of cinema over the past few decades. And while some are just ridiculously bad and do absolutely nothing in the name of moving the plot forward, there are plenty of examples that did the opposite. These scenes are unexpected, shocking, sensual – and they are everywhere. Because ten just wouldn’t cut it, we dug deeper for some of the best sex scenes in movies you never saw coming.

15 Theodore/Samantha In Her

Joaquin Phoenix’s memorable performance in Oscar-winning movie Her would’ve been memorable with or without the sex scene. The idea of a man falling in love with an operating system alone is enough to have audiences puzzled and critics cheering.

However, the addition of a sex scene – in an unusual way, as the entire relationships is – left everyone dumbfounded. Which is why it was so brilliant in the first place, adding an even more human dimension to a relationship that, by all accounts, shouldn’t even be so.

14 Allie/Noah in The Notebook

This is one of those situations that one has to picture as if it were the very first time they were watching the movie. Yes, it became very much clear from the get-go that Rachel McAdams’ Allie and Ryan Gosling’s Noah were endgame.

But that doesn’t make the sex scene that followed a fiery argument in the rain any less surprising. Especially when you take into account the fact that Allie was very much engaged to another man before said scene took place. The Notebook remains one of the most iconic romantic movies of all time, with a surprising sex scene to go along with it.

13 Hazel/Augustus in The Fault In Our Stars

It’s safe to assume that a fair share of people still have to wipe away the tears when they think about the blockbuster The Fault In Our Stars, based on the young adult novel penned by John Green. And if you’re one of those people, worry not, because you are definitely not alone.

The love story between two cancer-stricken teenagers was as heartbreaking as it was sweet. No one expected to see Hazel and Augustus actually go all the way, but the great thing about this particular scene was how accurately it portrayed the awkwardness and fun of a situation we can all relate to – to some degree, of course.

12 Matthew/Isabelle in The Dreamers

While The Dreamers is considered to be pretty hardcore as it was, it still doesn’t come any close to the original source material. Still, those who were not familiar with the book that inspired the movie were pretty taken aback by the sex scene between Mathew and Isabelle.

This included her brother watching and some pretty horrendous shock value, but that’s what ended up defining the movie. Eva Green’s performance here was award-worthy!

11 Rose/Jack in Titanic

Much like with The Notebook, the sex scene in Titanic is one that must be looked at through the eyes of a ’90s movie-goer who is watching it for the first time and not a 2020 resident who has sex thrown in their faces on a daily basis, courtesy of marketing and the entertainment industry.

The chemistry between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is burning hot. But a naked portrait followed by a steamy session in a car that’s in a boat? No one saw that one coming. And it remains iconic to this day.

10 Nina/Lily in Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky wasn’t making a family-friendly ballet with his 2010 Oscar-winning film Black Swan. Instead, the filmmaker made a steamy thriller that had Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman in a sticky situation that might not have been real.

Most of the film has these two colleagues at odds with each other, but in one scene, perfectly located at the 69-minute mark, has the two actresses engaged in an erotic entanglement that is highly memorable. If Kunis and Portman were a real-life couple, they’d be America’s sweethearts.

9 Ennis/Jack in Brokeback Mountain

Ang Lee went from a highly stylized martial arts film with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon to the romantic cowboy film Brokeback Mountain where two formal superhero villains Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, ended up having a special evening of whiskey, a campfire, and lovemaking that wouldn’t quit.

It was the sex scene heard around the world in 2005 that brought the once-taboo subject to the forefront and ended up changing the movie landscape and winning numerous awards. This film and specific scene were ahead of its time and a game-changer.

8 Allen/Lucien in Kill Your Darlings

A little known 2013 film titled Kill Your Darlings centered on some of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Daniel Radcliffe played Allen Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan played Lucien Carr in this jazz-infused drama.

There is a surprising sequence where Radcliffe recalled his Harry Potter days and used the Engorgio Charm and had a provocative sex scene with his friend Lucien. It was an unexpected turn of events in the film itself as well as this being one of the first films since Hogwarts for Radcliffe.

7 Beverly/Howard in Howard the Duck

In 1986, one of the writers of Star Wars and Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom partnered up with George Lucas and adapted the comic book Howard the Duck to the big screen. It’s become a cult classic since then for many reasons.

One of them being is the implied sex scene between the human Beverly and a duck named Howard, who just met. Dark Overlords traveling through space to destroy Earth, and a young Tim Robbins co-piloting a small plane was more believable than this affectionate little scene between two different species.

6 Maude Lebowski/The Dude in The Big Lebowski

In the Coen Bros. brilliantly written and directed films The Big Lebowski, an unlikely couple end up talking about a fictional Metallica tour and family history after an unseen erotic sequence.

The Dude is the complete opposite of Maude Lebowski, who is a wealthy, elitist artist, who becomes infatuated with this likable dolt for less than 24 hours. The surprising part comes after when Maude relays to the Dude that she only did the deed with him in order to have a kid she could raise on her own. It was a cause for a spilled White Russian at the least.

5 Gary/Lisa in Team America: World Police

A light-hearted musical with puppets and marionettes is not the description for Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s feature film Team America: World Police. The South Park duo set out to make a violent and over the top action-comedy blockbuster with strings attached that showcased brutal death scenes, terrorism, musical numbers, and a sex scene between two non-anatomically corrected puppets to end all sex scenes.

Nobody saw it coming (all the pun intended), as the two main characters settle in for a night of tender relations that quickly ramps up into various acts of hardcore fetishes. There’s nothing quite like it.

4 Maverick/Charlie in Top Gun

In 1986, filmmakers Tony Scott, Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Tom Cruise set out to make an action-drama set high in the sky with Top Gun. The film catapulted Cruise to superstardom but little did anyone know, this film is actually about someone coming to terms with their own sexuality (Maverick is gay and can’t cope).

This is why it’s so shocking that he has an erotic scene with Charlotte, aka Charlie instead of his main man Goose. Once Maverick realizes the error, he runs out, rides his motorbike with a tear in his eye. It was a complete surprise.

3 Alex DeLarge/Devotchkas in A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick took to A Clockwork Orange in the most perfect way. His use of music, flawless camera movements and vision to tell this virtually untellable story on the big screen was a major feat in moviemaking. The only consensual sex scene in the film is the most surprising because it happens instantly and on a grande scale to the happy tune of the William Tell Overture.

Alex DeLarge is perusing a local music store and uses one pick up line to a couple of women, which immediately cuts to the next scene and Overture as a sped-up orgy commences at his parent’s house in the middle of the afternoon.

2 Cookie/Crackers in Pink Flamingos

John Waters is no stranger to sex and perversion. In fact, he might be the godfather of perverted acts in film. 1972 was the year that gave the world John Waters on an international level with Pink Flamingos that is infamous for more than just one act of depravity.

There is one sex scene in particular that sticks out where the characters Cookie and Crackers try their hand at intercourse, but a clucking chicken somehow gets in between them and ends up being crushed. There are no words other than if John Wick was involved and a proclivity to chickens, this would have been a different movie.

1 Dr. Harford/Secret Party in Eyes Wide Shut

Nothing should come as a surprise in a Stanley Kubrick film, but the iconic filmmaker’s final climax in cinema was in 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman that turned out to be the best Christmas film ever made. There is something peculiar happening throughout the film with marriage, the holidays, and trust issues.

This all culminates in a large aristocratic sex orgy in which Tom Cruise walks and watches his way through a mansion of hedonism. There are loads of different sex acts happening on screen as the camera slowly passes by each encounter. There hasn’t been a film like this since.

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