Movies Similar to Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real

Famous T & A(1982)

A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either famous at the time or who became famous later on.

Thinking XXX(2004)

For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.

In the Basement(2014)

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and fetishes.

Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge(1989)

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.

Mr. Fox(2018)

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

Cut Piece(1965)

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing in a denouement of the reciprocity between victim and assailant.

All Male, All Nude(2017)

A cutting-edge journey into the taboo world of male stripping. Dive into the lives of men who work at America’s only all nude, all male, a gay strip club located in the heart of The Bible Belt.

Totally Nude Aerobics(1997)

Seven beautiful women engage in simple aerobics exercises, first wearing normal leotards, then repeating the same exercises completely nude.

Fulboy(2014)

On the verge of achieving his dream career, Tomás allows his older brother Martin Farina an inside look at his life as a professional football player. Martin, never able to fulfill his own dream of playing football, steps into the world of Tomás and his teammates through the lens of his camera.

Bare(2020)

The tendency in the world is right-wing, neo-liberal, and people are more controlled. We have less liberty even if we think we have more. The last territory where we can be ourselves and where we can have full freedom is our own body. The documentary "BARE" focuses on male nudity in the modern dance. The story follows a well-known Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits through a process of building his new creation with a group of male dancers performing bare naked.

The Occult Experience(1985)

An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world.

As Nature Intended(1961)

Three girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.

Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1(2011)

The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s, Jerry Falwell, Reagan conservatism, VCRs, pay tv, big hair and AIDS. Drive-ins and grindhouses were replaced by multiplex theaters, but the VCR and Pay TV came to the rescue with a flood of direct to video sexy features. Remember trying to watch scrambled Pay TV looking for some skin?

Cuando España se desnudó(2005)

Educating Julie(1984)

Julie is an English student assigned to write a paper about "nudity in the 80s". A bit overwhelmed at first she takes on the project by visiting a nudist camping with her boyfriend. But while she learns about nudity and nudism, her boyfriend struggles to keep up.

Naked Island: The Land of 1001 Nudes(1961)

A nudist film.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies(2020)

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.

Young Man on the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve(2015)

Dance and prostitution play the same role for Cristhian’s body. Virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions. A leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions. Answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.

Elysia, Valley of the Nude(1933)

James Mack, a reporter for the International News Bureau, is assigned by his editor to do a story on the phenomenon of nudist camps.

There Is No "I" in Threesome(2021)

The story of Ollie and Zoe, a newly engaged couple who agree to try out an open relationship.