19 of the Weirdest and Wildest Intimate Scenes in Cinema History: From a Real-Life Orgy to 9-Minute Rape and More

Mickey Rourke's disturbing and nightmarish sexual scene with Lisa Bonet made Alan Parker's Angel Heart dark but unforgettable. The harrowing part raised eyebrows, mainly due to Bonet's innocent and wholesome image prior to working on the film, and its deep-seated sense of unease later caused Parker to cut it down and save the movie from having an X rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

Released in 2009, the horror art film Antichrist delves into the lives of a married couple who lose their son while having intercourse. While grieving, they relocate to the woods and engage in odd sexual activities until the wife brutally mutilates her husband's private area with a block of wood.

The scene of the couple, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, unsurprisingly leaves audiences in discomfort.

Despite winning the Palme d'Or, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color divides viewers due to its extreme 10-minute sexual scene between Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Branded by the public as "gratuitous," the part was filmed without cuts and even made the stars feel like they were prostitutes.

“I was supposed to touch myself and it was supposed to be my fantasy and then when I opened my eyes and saw her we laughed so much. We were embarrassed. And he shoots for such a long time, I was thinking, 'Man, you can stop there!'” Exarchopoulos said of their intimate scenes.

The 1979 film Caligula follows the story of the controversial Roman emperor, Caligula, and shows the most extreme consequences of his life. Although the subject itself was hammered by the public, its long, large-scale orgies and unsimulated s-- acts garnered the most attention.

"I've never opened my mouth to denigrate Caligula. I was pretty young when I made that — not physically so much as experienced in film. And you know what? It was a great experience. It was like being sent down to Dante's 'Inferno' in many ways," Helen Mirren, one of the film's cast members, said.

Mirren described the project as "an amusing mix of art and genitals," referencing its usage of hardcore pornography.

David Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash features raw, graphic s-- scenes between a couple and a group of people who get aroused by car crashes.

The unsettling fetishism made the filmmaker release R-rated and NC-17 versions in the U.S.

“To me, movies are s--. Movies were made for s--, there’s no question about it," Cronenberg told The Guardian.

Nicole Kidman was left uncomfortable by the 1999 movie Eyes Wide Shut, which features NSFW scenes with her then-husband, Tom Cruise. The film also includes an occult ritual scene where people participate in a full-blown orgy like robots.

"Stanley [Kubrick] had to coax me into some of the sexuality in the film in the beginning, but we shot things that were a lot more extreme that didn't end up in the movie. I did feel safe — I never felt it was exploitative or unintelligent," said Kidman. "He was very different with women than he was with men. He has daughters, so he was very paternal with me.”

Irreversible remains one of the most shocking films in cinema history — and one of the most disturbing ones — due to its depiction of a young girl's sexual assault. It shows the victim getting brutally attacked and raped by a man in a subway underpass for nine minutes, showing the rawness of the scene with the unbroken sequence.

Its ruthlessness, in fact, caused at least 250 people to walk out of its Cannes Film Festival screening.

Released in 1972, Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris follows the story of Marlon Brando's character, a widowed man, who starts a sexual relationship with a young woman, played by Maria Schneider.

Originally opened with an X rating, the film has a hair-raising and unsettling scene where the man uses butter as a lubricant before raping his victim.

Schneider later revealed the scene was not fully consensual, making it more disturbing.