Best Sexually Explicit & Erotic movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



Dressed to Kill(1980)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.



American Gigolo(1980)

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Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A Los Angeles male escort, who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder which he did not commit.



The Blue Lagoon(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.



Urban Cowboy(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.



Carnal Knowledge(1971)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in ...



Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.



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.



Breezy(1973)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the ...



Ash Wednesday(1973)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...



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 ...