Dirty movies come in many different shapes and sizes. Though, technically, I guess, all film consists of the same properties, so, maybe that saying doesn't really apply. Whatever, the point is that dirty movies cover a wide range of genres, subjects and dynamics. The one thing they all have in common is, well, that they can all be called 'dirty.' And we're not talking Mad Max dirty, we're talking sex factor dirty — explicit, dirty sex. In a world were sex sells, there is no shortage of downright dirty movies. Now, dirty movies that are legitimately good, however, are harder to find. Luckily, I've complied a list of 11 dirty movies that are actually really great films.
I've sniffed ny mum Edna's dirty knickers many times and I collect the curly brown pubes she leaves behind. Mum is 45 years old, 5feet four with 34B tits. I am twelve years old. Mum caught me once on my knees sniffing her knickers and just walked away from me. I'd love to see her hairy fanny. I would definitely fuck my mum. Until yesterday, it had never occurred to me that my husband - my daughter's father - helping our 6-year-old shower was really that big of a deal. I was just happy about the fact that after.
Interestingly, as I discovered, a lot of good films that happen to have a lot of hot sex scenes are foreign films. This might sound strange, considering all the paranoia America seems to have to shield certain demographics from the sex and violence in media, but it's true. American movies, even independent ones, tend to follow Hollywood guides of censorship, meaning the sex factor is minimal. The MPAA ratings system ensures that movies censor themselves, especially where sex is involved. Still, there are always some that squeak through. Film ratings aside, be warned: you might not want to watch these with your parents, no matter how movie-obsessed they are.
1. Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution is downright dirty. It's also beautiful, intriguing and lovingly directed by Ang Lee. But, I would like to stress that the sex in Lust, Caution is enough to make my French grandmother blush, and that's saying something.
2. Shame
A disturbingly dark drama that kicks off with a naked Michael Fassbender. Sign me up!
3. Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón's classic film about three people who go on a road trip of sexual exploration is beloved for a reason.
4. Blue Is The Warmest Color
The lesbian love story that launched a thousand thinkpieces is definitely worth a look.
5. Secretary
BDSM comes to the office in this infamously sexy, and at times uncomfortable, film.
6. Blue Valentine
It's tough to call Blue Valentine a dirty movie, mostly because it's so heartbreaking. But, if you can get past the intense sadness, there are a few risky scenes that almost earned the movie an NC-17 rating.
7. A Dangerous Method
Who knew a movie about the origins of psycho therapy would be sexy in such a non-clinical way?
8. The Lover (L'amant)
The Lover, based on a French novel, features a lot of sex. So much, in fact, that rumors persisted that the two leads engaged in actual intercourse during filming. But, be warned: while the sex may be hot, it's also what you might call statutory rape. Not great.
9. Weekend
This sexy one night stand romance was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in 2012.
10. Trainwreck
I couldn't let this list go by without one dirty sexy comedy, and it doesn't get much better than Amy Schumer's riotous film.
11. The Notebook
Go watch the extended sex scenes on the DVD, people! Do it now.
Enjoy expanding your cinematic horizons, you sexy beasts.
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Dirty Harry | |
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Directed by | Don Siegel(1) Ted Post(2) James Fargo(3) Clint Eastwood(4) Buddy Van Horn(5) |
Produced by | Don Siegel (1) Robert Daley(1–3) Clint Eastwood (4) David Valdes(5) |
Written by | Harry Julian Fink(1) R.M. Fink(1) Dean Riesner(1, 3) John Milius(2) Michael Cimino(2) Stirling Silliphant(3) Joseph Stinson(4) Steve Sharon (5) |
Starring | Clint Eastwood |
Music by | Lalo Schifrin(1–2, 4–5) Jerry Fielding(3) |
Cinematography | Bruce Surtees(1, 4) Frank Stanley(2) Charles W. Short (3) Jack N. Green(5) |
Edited by | Carl Pingitore (1) Ferris Webster(2–3) Joel Cox(3–4) Ron Spang (5) |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
1971 – 1988 | |
Running time | 530 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Dirty Harry is an American action film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan who is notorious for being extremely violent and ruthless in his methods, and a danger for any partner assigned to him. Actor Clint Eastwood portrayed Callahan in all five of the series' films and directed the fourth one.
- 1Films
- 2Cast and crew
- 3Reception
- 4Influence on other productions
- 6Other media
Films[edit]
Dirty Harry (1971)[edit]
Dirty Harry (1971) was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. Harry tracks serial killer Scorpio (loosely based on the Zodiac killer). Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox detective set the style for a number of his subsequent roles, and its box-office success led to the production of four sequels. The 'alienated cop' motif was subsequently imitated by a number of other films. At the beginning and end of the film, Callahan corners a criminal and says, 'You've got to ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?' (The line is often misquoted as 'Do you feel lucky, punk?', and in the second movie, Magnum Force, Harry begins by saying, “do you feel lucky”).
It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1971 after Fiddler on the Roof, The French Connection, and Diamonds Are Forever.
Magnum Force (1973)[edit]
Magnum Force (1973) was directed by Ted Post. The main theme of this film is vigilante justice, and the plot revolves around a group of renegade traffic cops who are executing criminals who have avoided conviction in court. Despite Harry's penchant for strong-arm methods, he does not tolerate coldblooded murder of the accused and resolves to stop the killers. In this film, Harry's catch-phrase is 'A man's got to know his limitations'.
The Enforcer (1976)[edit]
The Enforcer (1976) was directed by James Fargo. In this film, Harry is teamed with a female partner with no field experience (in the USA of 1976 women were only just beginning to fill patrol and felony investigative assignments in police agencies), Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), as they take on a terrorist ring calling themselves the People's Revolutionary Strike Force. Harry opposes introducing inexperienced inspectors to the dangers of police work, whether male or female, and sees the homicide division as too dangerous for his new partner, who worked until recently in Personnel. Though Moore starts out overenthusiastic, she soon proves herself valuable to Harry, and matures quickly, earning Harry's respect in the process.
Sudden Impact (1983)[edit]
Sudden Impact (1983) was directed by Clint Eastwood. Aging, but still bitter, Callahan is sent to a small town to follow up a lead in a murder case, which leads him directly to a rape victim who is out to avenge herself and her catatonic sister by killing the people who sexually assaulted them. The film is notable for Callahan's catchphrase, 'Go ahead, make my day'.
The Dead Pool (1988)[edit]
The Dead Pool (1988) was directed by Buddy Van Horn. Harry finds that he is among the subjects of a dead pool, a game betting on deaths of celebrities. Someone tries to rig the game by killing the celebrities on one player's list. Harry's catch phrase in this movie was 'You're sh*t out of luck'
After this film, Eastwood retired from playing the Dirty Harry character, as he felt his age (58 in 1988) would make Harry a parody.
Cast and crew[edit]
Cast[edit]
Character | Films | ||||
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Dirty Harry | Magnum Force | The Enforcer | Sudden Impact | The Dead Pool | |
Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | ||||
Frank DiGiorgio | John Mitchum | ||||
The Mayor | John Vernon | John Crawford | |||
Al Bressler | Harry Guardino | Harry Guardino | |||
Scorpio | Andy Robinson | ||||
Chico Gonzalez | Reni Santoni | ||||
Bank Robber | Albert Popwell | ||||
Neil Briggs | Hal Holbrook | ||||
Charlie McCoy | Mitchell Ryan | ||||
John Davis | David Soul | ||||
Red Astrachan | Kip Niven | ||||
Mike Grimes | Robert Urich | ||||
Phil Sweet | Tim Matheson | ||||
Earlington 'Early' Smith | Felton Perry | ||||
J.J. Wilson | Albert Popwell | ||||
Kate Moore | Tyne Daly | ||||
Bobby Maxwell | DeVeren Bookwalter | ||||
Lalo | Michael Cavanaugh | ||||
Karl | Dick Durock | ||||
Abdul | Kenneth Boyd | ||||
Miki | Jocelyn Jones | ||||
Father John | M. G. Kelly | ||||
Big Ed Mustapha | Albert Popwell | ||||
Jennifer Spencer | Sondra Locke | ||||
Mick | Paul Drake | ||||
Ray Perkins | Audrie J. Neenan | ||||
Lester Jannings | Pat Hingle | ||||
Horace King | Albert Popwell | ||||
Samantha Walker | Patricia Clarkson | ||||
Peter Swan | Liam Neeson | ||||
Al Quan | Evan C. Kim | ||||
Harlan Rook | David Hunt | ||||
Johnny Squares | Jim Carrey |
Reception[edit]
Critical and public response[edit]
Year | Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Box office[1] | Inflation adjusted (as of 2019)[2] |
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1971 | Dirty Harry | 93%[3] | $35,976,000 | $196,886,800 |
1973 | Magnum Force | 81%[4] | $39,768,000 | $202,884,200 |
1976 | The Enforcer | 79%[5] | $46,236,000 | $196,014,600 |
1983 | Sudden Impact | 57%[6] | $67,642,693 | $187,900,400 |
1988 | The Dead Pool | 57%[7] | $37,903,295 | $83,276,600 |
Influence on other productions[edit]
Sin City: That Yellow Bastard[edit]
Frank Miller, creator of the Sin Citygraphic novels, revealed in an interview that he created the Sin City story-arc That Yellow Bastard out of his dislike of The Dead Pool. Miller said: 'When I went to see the last Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, I was disgusted. I went out and said, this is not a Dirty Harry movie, this is nothing, this is a pale sequel.' and I also said, 'that's not the last Dirty Harry story, I will show you the last Dirty Harry story.'[8] Another character in That Yellow Bastard story is Nancy Callahan, who is a pastiche or caricature of Harry Callahan.
Bruce Willis played Hartigan, the 'Dirty Harry of the story', in the Sin City (2005) film.
The Protector[edit]
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This 1985 film featuring Jackie Chan was Chan's second American feature film. The movie was noted for being similar to the Dirty Harry series, with inspiration taken there from by director James Glickenhaus.
The Rookie[edit]
Directed by and co-starring Clint Eastwood; the film features an aging, tough cop who partners with a rookie cop, played by Charlie Sheen. Upon the film's release critics and audiences noted the similarities between Eastwood's two characters.[9]
Gran Torino[edit]
Eastwood returned to acting after a four-year self-imposed hiatus[10] in this 2008 film, which he also directed, produced, and partly scored with his son Kyle and Jamie Cullum. Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean War veteran alienated from his family and angry at the world. Walt's young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor, is pressured into stealing Walt's prized 1972 Ford Gran Torino by his cousin for his initiation into a gang. Walt thwarts the theft and subsequently develops a relationship with the boy and his family.
Biographer Marc Eliot called Eastwood's role 'an amalgam of the Man with No Name, Dirty Harry, and William Munny, here, aged and cynical, but willing and able to fight on whenever the need arose'.[11]Manohla Dargis compared Eastwood's presence on film to Dirty Harry and the Man with No Name, stating, 'Dirty Harry is back, in a way, in Gran Torino, not as a character but as a ghostly presence. He hovers in the film, in its themes and high-caliber imagery, and of course, most obviously in Mr. Eastwood’s face. It is a monumental face now, so puckered and pleated that it no longer looks merely weathered, as it has for decades, but seems closer to petrified wood.'[12]
Tania Modleski, author of Clint Eastwood and Male Weepies, said, '[f]or many reviewers, Gran Torino represents the final step in Eastwood’s repudiation of the Dirty Harry persona. If Unforgiven ends up being equivocal in its attitude toward violence and vigilantism, Gran Torino appears to accept the impotence of the lone, avenging hero' and that the impotence 'is perhaps underlined by Walt’s repeated gesture of pointing his finger at villains as if it were a gun.'[13] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle said that though Walt, an 'old fart', does not have the same name as Dirty Harry, 'there’s no mistaking the rasp in his voice or the uncompromising crankiness of his Weltanschauung.'[14] Tom Charity of CNN said of Walt, 'Like other Eastwood heroes before him, Walt sacrifices his independence by accepting that others depend on him.'[15] John Serba of The Grand Rapids Press said that Walt, who is 'bitter, hopelessly cranky,' 'shares a sense of moral certainty' with Callahan, but that Walt 'is infused with the wisdom and weariness' that Callahan does not have.[16]
Home media[edit]
Warner Home Video owns rights to the Dirty Harry series. The five films have been remastered for DVD three times — in 1998, 2001 and 2008. They have been packaged in several DVD box sets. The Dirty Harry films made their high-definition debuts with the 2008 Blu-ray discs. Warner's marketing plan calls for only 'The Dead Pool' film to be available as a separate Blu-ray, requiring fans who want the other four movies in high definition to buy the box set.[17] In 2010 all five movies were released as a Blu-ray box set, 'Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry Collection'.
Other media[edit]
Novels[edit]
In the early 1980s, Warner Books published twelve books, authored under the pseudonym Dane Hartman, that further the adventures of Dirty Harry. The novels were later translated into French in the 1990s, as the Collection Supercops.[18]
Video games[edit]
In 1995 Williams Electronic Games (WMS) created a Dirty Harry pinball machine, inspired by the 1971 film. 4,248 units were manufactured. Notable features include a gun handle shooter, a moving cannon used to shoot playfield targets and custom audio callouts recorded by Clint Eastwood. Game modes, sounds and dot matrix animations reflect events in the movie, such as a car chase, barroom brawl, defusing bombs and 'Feel Lucky' mode.[19]
Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs is a 1990 video game based on Dirty Harry film series. It incorporates several references to the film series.
Dirty Harry, originally scheduled for a 2007 release, is a canceled video game by The Collective based on the 1971 film of the same name.
References[edit]
- ^https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dirtyharry.htm
- ^https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dirtyharry.htm
- ^'Dirty Harry'. 24 December 1971.
- ^'Magnum Force'. 1 January 1973.
- ^'The Enforcer'. 1 January 1976.
- ^'Sudden Impact'. 1 January 1983.
- ^'The Dead Pool'. 13 July 1988.
- ^Robert, Daniel (2005-08-03). 'Interviews > Frank Miller Creator Of Sin City'. Suicidegirls.com. Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^'Variety Reviews - The Rookie - Film Reviews - - Review by Variety Staff'. Variety.com. 1989-12-31. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^Turan, Kenneth (December 12, 2008). 'Review: 'Gran Torino''. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2011.
- ^Eliot, Marc (2009). American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood. New York: Harmony Books. p. 329. ISBN978-0-307-33688-0.
- ^Dargis, Manohla (December 12, 2008). 'Hope for a Racist, and Maybe a Country'. The New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ^Modleski, Tania. 'Clint Eastwood and Male Weepies.' American Literary History. 2010. Volume 22, Issue 1. p. 136-158. DOI 10.1093/alh/ajp051. First published online on November 20, 2009.
- ^Biancolli, Amy. 'Gran Torino.' Houston Chronicle. Thursday January 8, 2009. Retrieved on March 16, 2012.
- ^Charity, Tom. 'Review: 'Gran Torino' offers great Eastwood.' CNN. January 9, 2009. 2. Retrieved on March 16, 2012.
- ^Serba, John. 'Scowls, subtlety make 'Gran Torino' classic Clint Eastwood.' The Grand Rapids Press. Friday January 9, 2009. Retrieved on March 16, 2012.
- ^'New Dirty Harry DVDs: We're in luck - DVD Spin Doctor'. Dvdspindoctor.typepad.com. 2008-03-10. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^Used book ad for the French version of The Long Death.Archived October 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'The Internet Pinball Machine Database'.
External links[edit]
- The Best Dirty Harry Movies from American Movie Classics
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