Top 10: Best erotic movies reviewed by Film Excess to date

 

1. Call Me By Your Name (2017) - Luca Guadagnino

 

 

2. Lust, Caution/色，戒/Sè, Jiè/Sik1Gaai3 (2007) - Ang Lee 

 

3. Blue Velvet (1986) - David Lynch

 

 

4. A Stranger Knocks/En Fremmed Banker På (1959) - Johan Jacobsen

 

 

5. The Fourth Man/De Vierde Man (1983) - Paul Verhoeven 

 

6. The Blue Lagoon (1980) - Randal Kleiser  

7. The Duke of Burgundy (2014) - Peter Strickland

 

8. And God Created Woman/Et Dieu... Créa la Femme (1956) - Roger Vadim

 

9. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Stanley Kubrick

 

10. In the Mood for Love/花樣年華/faa1joeng6 nin4waa4/huāyàng niánhuá (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai 

 

Chosen out of 32 titles labeled 'erotic'

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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976, TV movie) or, Life or Love

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Video cover for Randal Kleiser's TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

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A parent-couple with a bad gen-match get a boy without an immune system. He lives his life literally in a plastic bubble without physical contact with other people, which especially becomes problematic in his youth.
John Travolta (Pulp Fiction (1994)) and Glynnis O'Connor (California Dreaming (1979)) as his first love Gina are both tender and play honestly and skillfully, as do the parent-couple, played by Robert Reed (Nurse (1981-82)) and Diana Hyland (Payton Place (1968-69)).
This TV movie also has a cameo by real-life astronaut Buzz Aldrin (his first of quite a few) and a gliding, eminent score by Mark Snow (The X-Files (1993-2002)).
The extraordinary situation in the film, - inspired by a true story, - is conveyed with straightforwardness, candor, openness and seriousness. - At times Plastic Bubble even reaches existential heights; it ends SPOILER as an infectious tribute to life.
The film has a lovely, homely 70's atmosphere throughout; it is moving, sweet, different and original. TV-movies simply don't get any better than The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Its the title also spun a direct, political reference of living 'in the bubble.'
Director Randal Kleiser (The Blue Lagoon (1980)) went on to have great success with Travolta in their next collaboration, the beloved musical Grease (1978).
Travolta had a profound experience with the film, as he carried on an affair with Hyland off-screen, who portrayed his mother in the film, and was 18 years his senior, - and was still in the process of getting a divorce. Furthermore, Hyland then died of breast cancer, leaving Travolta with the job of accepting the film's only Emmy on her behalf.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is in public domain and can be seen free and legally right here.

Related review:

Randal Kleiser: The Blue Lagon (1980) or, Young Island Romance

Watch a short teaser for the TV film here

Budget: Unknown 
Box office: None
= Unknown

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The Blue Lagoon (1980) or, Young Island Romance

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Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins in the nude in Randal Kleiser's The Blue Lagoon

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A ship blows up somewhere in the Pacific, and a boy and a girl are left shipwrecked with an alcoholic cook on an - almost - unpopulated island. The cook dies, and the youngsters are left to take care of themselves.
The Blue Lagoon is something of a guilty pleasure, because it portrays two teenagers' sexual awakening in a very delicious way and does so with two very delicious young actors to boot: Brooke Shields (The Midnight Meat Train (2008)) and Christopher Atkins (A Night in Heaven (1983)).
The film became the subject of a Congressional hearing, because Shields was only 14 years old at the time of production, (Atkins was 18 or 19.) But as body doubles were used for her nude shots, the film was never banned, but did get an R rating. In fact, Shields' long, beautiful hair was reportedly often glued to her breasts to avoid exposure to the cameras. - A strange and almost offensive fact about a film that tries to show nature and natural attraction between two young people in a beautiful, natural way.
Another interesting trivia about Lagoon is that a hitherto unknown iguana was featured in the film, and was subsequently scientifically 'discovered' and named.
Despite an unsatisfying ending, Lagoon is an innocent and sweet film, and Shields definitely did not deserve the Razzie for Worst Actress, which she won at the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards that year.
The Blue Lagoon is an adaptation of a 1908 novel, which is said to be way more sexual than the film. This was the third adaptation and two more have followed since. But this seems to be the most well-known and best of them all.
Director Randal Kleiser's most famous credentials besides Lagoon may be the excellent TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) and Grease (1978), both starring a young John Travolta.

Click to enlarge these paradisaical posters of the popular movie:

Watch the sensual trailer here

Budget: 4.5 mil. $
Box office: 58.8 mil. $ (North America only)
= Huge success (9th biggest box office hit of 1980)

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