Based on Rick Moody’s 1994 novel, Ang Lee’s frosty drama follows a Connecticut family as it breaks apart over a late ‘70s Thanksgiving weekend. Following an extreme wardrobe malfunction, the women run riot in the studio in a tangle of diaphanous sheets, ripped leggings and flying limbs. In the span of three years, Paul Verhoeven managed to single-handedly reinvigorate the erotic thriller genre, then kill it dead completely.

The cop’s questioning of A Lan’s sexual history leads to flashbacks, in this case of a handsome teacher that he once took to bed. Alfred Hitchcock’s genre-defining thrill-kill flick is most famous for its unforgettable shower scene, but there’s more here than meets the eye.

This was the Spanish director’s second feature film and came at the height of La Movida, the cultural explosion in Madrid that followed the death of Franco. Frears presents an interracial, same-sex relationship as nothing special: not an issue, not a dilemma – just fun, youthful and impulsive. Their sex is wild, no doubt enhanced by the presence of a live, squawking chicken that gets crushed in between the wildly humping duo. Leticia (Berry) has been recently widowed, and even more recently has witnessed her young son’s death after being struck by a car. But the scene in which Spader rubs himself up against the stitched wound of fellow accident victim Hunter’s leg in a car park has to be the most worryingly memorable.

Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boyand a true legend of Japanese animation, cowrote this epic Arabian Nightsfantasy tracing the misadventures (mostly sexual) of happy-go-lucky Aladdin, who tangles with a bodaceous slave girl, a clothes-shedding redheaded female warrior, and a whole island of naked nymphs. Danish provocateur Von Trier explores the increasingly troubled sex life of self-confessed sex addict Joe, played by two different actors at different ages.It’s a simple predinner sex scene in a hotel room, but the way Roeg shoots and edits it, and the manner in which the actors perform it, makes it extremely powerful. What do you get when you combine a forbidden romance, pupil-dilating eye candy, and elevated levels of testosterone against a picturesque Italian backdrop?

Arguably pornographic and indisputably grotesque, the scene is only acceptable (if at all) because of Van Peebles Sr. Before long, they’re naked on Corky’s mattress, out of sight of Violet’s mobster boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). Lynch’s neonoir mind-bender, considered by many to be the greatest film of this young century, needs no introduction.

Hope's night of pleasure rocked festival audiences and dominated sex-centric discussions over the entire festival. But that doesn’t mean feelings weren’t hurt: Schneider felt “raped,” Brando felt “violated” and both disengaged from their director for years.