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Discover LudwigThe phrase "explicit movie" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a film that contains clear and graphic depictions of sexual content or violence.
Example: "The film was rated NC-17 due to its explicit movie scenes that were not suitable for younger audiences."
Alternatives: "adult film" or "graphic movie".
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"Knocked Up," a raucously funny and explicit movie, has some dark corners, some fear and anxiety festering under the jokes.
LaBeouf is currently starring in Lars von Trier's explicit movie Nymphmaniac alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jamie Bell.
But it's not a brooding, corpse-filled murder mystery – nor some explicit movie made by an outspoken maverick.
"I Am Curious (Yellow)," about a young woman (Ms. Nyman) investigating Swedish social and political mores, sometimes by pushing boundaries and making love al fresco, wasn't the first sexually explicit movie to shake up American screens.
In this country Mr. Winterbottom is probably best known for "A Mighty Heart," with Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, and for "9 Songs," the most sexually explicit movie shown outside of a porno house.
Lena Nyman, the Swedish actress whose performance in the sexually explicit movie "I Am Curious (Yellow)" raised the hackles of censors in the 1960s and helped turn the film into a box office bonanza, died on Friday in Stockholm.
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Far more explicit movies than "L.I.E".
Middle-aged liberal that I am, I am sometimes uneasy about the usual way explicit movies are laughed off by old hands as "exploitation" flicks: they are exploitative, and that sort of makes it all right.
A dizzying mix of programming pours into Saudi homes these days: freewheeling political and religious debates from less inhibited Arab nations, news from CNN and BBC, American pro football games and even sexually explicit movies like "Eyes Wide Shut".
Nonetheless, this is still a blazingly emotional and explosively sexy film, which reminds you how timidly unsexy most films are, although as with all explicit movies, there will be one or two airy sophisticates who will affect to be unmoved by it, and claim that the sex is "boring".
The story of a passionate love affair between two young women seemed to me to be acted and directed with absolute candour and integrity, though I couldn't help predicting that, as with all sexually explicit movies, some worldly pundit was bound to declare the sex scenes to be "boring".
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