They have everything you could ever ask for in your porn, and then some! There’s a little bit of something for everyone when it comes to this website, which is why it’s taking the #1 spot on our list. Some of you may feel the choice of having explicit sex scenes in the films is artistic, whereas others may feel these movies are pornographic.Most people are going to start with Men.com as it’s the most popular (and arguably the best) gay porn pay site around. Ultimately, what matters is whether these so-called near porn films delivered the message home. Here is the list of top mainstream movies that are almost porn. You can watch some of these mainstream movies on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime. ‘Elles’ is a shocking film that could have easily fallen under the class of a soft-core porn feature had it been more explicit. Following a female journalist played by Juliette Binoche, who, as part of her assignment, enters a prostitution ring run by college students, much of the sleazy activities that warrant this film a place on this list happen while she is there.
Though nothing is too graphic, several key sex acts are implied and performed on screen. These include blowjobs, masturbation, and pleasurable lovemaking. Being a witness to such events, there is a scene where the journalist herself gets intrigued well enough to try out the sex acts for herself. It isn’t just the sex that makes this film eligible, though. There are a lot of brash conversations about the act too (with pretty much nothing else in between), slightly deviating away from the actual narrative even, at several times in the film. In the novel from which this film is adapted, Anais Nin’s character is intrigued by the titular couple, who helps decorate her erotic writing style. Charmed by the way they go about their sexual lives, she takes inspiration to spice up her own back home, with her husband Hugo. Not really constrained by means of a structured plot, the film sees Anais going about and exploring the different layers to human seduction by making love with several other people, including Henry himself at a point in the tale. Primarily, I would say that this looseness to the film’s storyline is what makes it resemble a pornographic feature the most, since even with all that nudity, it is this specific aspect that makes Philip Kaufman’s directorial venture stand out from the crowd. Personally, I adore the way this film ends, because there is this sense of completeness provided, which isn’t easy to communicate given how hazy the narrative is. Pier Paolo Pasolini is a dangerous filmmaker, and by that I mean to say that his works may be characterized as brash, unafraid, and extreme. Adapting eight of the famous Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the film has its base set amongst a couple of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, in a journey that is absolutely mundane and boring, forcing them to tell stories to excite themselves. These stories are excessively erotic in nature, and translating that to film Pasolini-style easily makes a lot of the visuals seemingly pornographic in nature. Of course, the difference here is the coherent structure and the unwillingness to exhilarate the audience sensually (a trait in even the sexiest of the director’s films), but since the tales are particularly sexy themselves, there are little setbacks and corner-cuts thrown in, to communicate the essence of these short retellings in their full. This is one of Pasolini’s more simple watches, which isn’t saying much, because he never made easy films.
I could have picked any of the Emmanuelle films to write about on here, because they are all soft-core wonders that made it big at the box office, appealing to a wide range of mainstream audiences at the time of their respective releases. I pick the second installment, known by the title ‘The Joys of a Woman’, because I think it is a film where pretty much all the elements of cinema that can be manipulated to attract the senses of the audience in a sensual manner have been effectively executed.