Best Sexually Explicit & Erotic movies of 1960s that are award winners or nominees

Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



Lolita(1962)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.



The Children's Hour(1961)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.



The Boys in the Band(1970)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.



The Killing of Sister George(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 11

George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can...



Rachel, Rachel(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.



Last Summer(1969)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...



The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.



Summer and Smoke(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.



The Balcony(1963)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.



Back Street(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...



The Chapman Report(1962)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ...



Puzzle of a Downfall Child(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ...



The Virgin and the Gypsy(1970)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted ...



A Rage to Live(1965)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.