Lascivious movie titles

July 20, 2007 4:58 PM

I'm compiling a few questions for a trivia night that my girlfriend is hosting and wanted to include a multiple choice question in which one has to guess which movie title is not a porno. So, for instance, Snatch sounds like it's a porno, but it's not. Please help me come up with some more funny-sounding porno-ish titles for non-porno films. In addition, what are some relatively innocuous porn titles? Thanks in advance.
posted by billysumday to media & arts (56 comments total)

When I tried to order a copy of The Agony and the Ecstasy the girl told me "We don't sell that type of movie here."
posted by Yorrick at 5:07 PM on July 20, 2007 [2 favorites]

The Butcher's Wife
Leonard Part 6
Heavy
Babes in Toyland
Blazing Saddles
Hot Streak
posted by dendrite at 5:09 PM on July 20, 2007

The Firm
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:09 PM on July 20, 2007

Not exactly your question, but there's always Porn Star or My Little Pony?
posted by gingerbeer at 5:09 PM on July 20, 2007

The Big Lebowski
posted by entropy at 5:10 PM on July 20, 2007

A:
Something's Gotta Give
Whale Rider

B:
Pirates
posted by smackfu at 5:10 PM on July 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Big City Dick.

Lucky Dick Strikes It Big.

One Pussy Show.

Pussy Galore.

Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls.

How did I find these? Just go to imdb and search for some typical 'porn' words and you'll find plenty of films of the kind of which you're looking for. Hope that helps.
posted by Effigy2000 at 5:13 PM on July 20, 2007

Maybe stick Boogie Nights or Wonderland or something like that in there, just to screw with 'em.
posted by box at 5:16 PM on July 20, 2007

"When I tried to order a copy of The Agony and the Ecstasy the girl told me "We don't sell that type of movie here.""

The exact same thing happened to me with Wet Hot American Summer.
posted by CrayDrygu at 5:18 PM on July 20, 2007

Well, you can sort these out yourself—

Supersucker
A Taste of Ambrosia
One Night In Paris
Pleasurecraft
The Thin Man Returns
South Beach Academy
An African Queen
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask
Attack of the 50 ft. Woman
Last Man on Earth
Sexy Beast
Dirty Pretty Things
Octopussy
posted by klangklangston at 5:25 PM on July 20, 2007

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
posted by adamrice at 5:27 PM on July 20, 2007

The Devil And Miss Jones
posted by DarkForest at 5:37 PM on July 20, 2007

Driving Miss Daisy
Tastes Like Wood
Hot Fuzz
In Like Flint
posted by iconomy at 5:41 PM on July 20, 2007

Goldmember
Grindhouse
posted by Dr. Lurker at 5:44 PM on July 20, 2007

Shag: The Movie

Funnier if you're British.
posted by jeanmari at 5:45 PM on July 20, 2007

Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill
posted by mrmojoflying at 5:45 PM on July 20, 2007

Blow

Duece Bigalow, Male Gigalow (might want to check the spelling there, cuz i'm miles off)
posted by chrisbucks at 5:50 PM on July 20, 2007

Boogie Nights
posted by stlboi at 5:55 PM on July 20, 2007

The 400 Blows.
posted by Wet Spot at 5:55 PM on July 20, 2007

Prick Up Your Ears (sounds dirtier spoken than written).
posted by jrossi4r at 5:57 PM on July 20, 2007

Hard Candy
Mini's First Time
Hot Boyz
The Hotel of Naughty Cocktails
posted by jeanmari at 5:58 PM on July 20, 2007

She's Gotta Have It
Woman on Top
Earth Girls Are Easy
Wet Hot American Summer
Pecker
posted by mattholomew at 6:02 PM on July 20, 2007

Guys and Balls
Kinky Boots
Bag of Tricks, Pocketful of Licks
posted by jeanmari at 6:09 PM on July 20, 2007

A:
Fucking Amal
The Pianist
In the Bedroom
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Naked City
The Big Red One
The Big One (Michael Moore documentary)
Hands on a Hardbody (documentary about a contest to win a vehicle)
Live Nude Girls Unite (documentary about unionizing a strip club)
Igby Goes Down
The Shame
Swingers
Babe

B:
Chasing the Big Ones

... though really, with a lot of these I wouldn't be surprised if someone had made a porno with the same title or a very similar one.
posted by Tuwa at 6:10 PM on July 20, 2007

Topless Women Talk about their Lives
Striptease (I don't know if this counts as 'not porno')
posted by chrisbucks at 6:11 PM on July 20, 2007

Private Parts
Shaft
Sign of the Beaver
Fast and Furious
Stroker Ace
Big Bang
Deep Impact
xXx
Die Hard
Naked Lunch
Hard to Hold
Cheaper to Keep Her
Fun with Dick and Jane
Turn of the Screw
Dangerous When Wet
Dick
Nuts
The Black Hole
Human Stain
The Cream of Eric Clapton
posted by iconomy at 6:11 PM on July 20, 2007

Hard 8
posted by Mcable at 6:15 PM on July 20, 2007

Porno-ish titles for non-porno movies:
The Longest Yard*
Big Daddy*
Dirty Work*
Mixed Nuts*
Carnal Knowledge**
Through the Back Door**
A Few Good Men**
The Two Jakes**
The Truth About Cats and Dogs†
Beautiful Girls†
Sweet and Lowdown†

Innocuous porn titles:
Romance
Jewel of the Orient
Juggernaut
Taco Shop

*Adam Sandler movies
**Jack Nicholson movies
†Uma Thurman movies

posted by jamaro at 6:30 PM on July 20, 2007

bend it like beckham
posted by arha at 6:39 PM on July 20, 2007

The Hairdresser's Husband
My Sex Life
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Hands on a Hard Body
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Swingers
Lust in the Dust
The Hustler
Naked
The Naked Jungle
Working Girl
Live Nude Girls
All About Eve
The 400 Blows
Top Gun

Sounds fun. Definitely make it a speed round.
You could also try "SUV, Truck, or Sex Toy?" Explorer, Navigator, Hummer, Ram, Blazer....
posted by hydrophonic at 6:40 PM on July 20, 2007

Oh, and how could I forget: The Harder They Come.
posted by Tuwa at 6:46 PM on July 20, 2007

Free Willy!!
posted by YamwotIam at 6:50 PM on July 20, 2007

On Golden Pond
posted by chococat at 6:53 PM on July 20, 2007

Koyaanisqatsi
posted by tristeza at 7:10 PM on July 20, 2007

Thunderpants.
posted by oflinkey at 7:22 PM on July 20, 2007

It Happened in Hollywood. Staring Felicity Split.
posted by toxic at 7:29 PM on July 20, 2007

The Screwtape Letters
Eating Raoul
posted by iconomy at 7:42 PM on July 20, 2007

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
How to Seduce a Woman
In Too Deep
The Skin Game
Man in the Saddle
Sex and the Single Girl
Eating Out
Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow
Coffee, Tea, or Me?
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
My Father is Coming
The Deep End
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Brothers in the Saddle
The Big Swallow
I Suck Your Flesh
posted by iconomy at 7:49 PM on July 20, 2007

Curly
Puss in Boots
The Eternal Grind
The Woodsman
The Howling
The Feathered Serpent
Without a Paddle
Two Kinds of Love
The Baby in the Sweet Shop (Bebeto v sladkarnitzata)
posted by rob511 at 8:12 PM on July 20, 2007

My all time favorite: Bedknobs and Broomsticks!
posted by kimota at 8:26 PM on July 20, 2007

Holes
posted by Hugh2d2 at 8:56 PM on July 20, 2007

12 Monkeys
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Adam & Steve
The African Queen
Bad Girls
Bad Santa
Bandidas
The Beastmaster
Big
Big Daddy
The Big Easy
Cabin Boy
The Corruptor
Dark Star
Deadly is Female
Double Tap
Earth Girls are Easy
Easy Money
Femme Fatale
Fierce Creatures
Flesh+Blood
Glen or Glenda
Goodbye Lover
The Handmaid's Tale
Heavenly Creatures
In Her Shoes
Inside Man
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Professional
The Mexican
The Motel
Needful Things
Orgazmo
The Pacifier
Raging Bull
Relax... it's Just Sex
The Right Stuff
The Score
She's the Man
Single White Female
The Specialist
Stay
The Sweetest Thing
Twins
Very Bad things
Waterworld
What Women Want
White Chicks
Wild Things
Working Girl
xXx
posted by porpoise at 9:47 PM on July 20, 2007

Hideous Kinky
posted by pokermonk at 9:50 PM on July 20, 2007

A:
Shaft
Toy Story
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
Cherry 2000
Caged Heat

B:
Any Time, Any Place
posted by Mitheral at 10:21 PM on July 20, 2007

Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
Prehistoric Women
Girl 6
posted by infinitewindow at 10:39 PM on July 20, 2007

Blackhawk Down
posted by Arch_Stanton at 11:19 PM on July 20, 2007

My First Mister
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 11:22 PM on July 20, 2007

May I direct you to one of the the best McSweeney's lists of all time.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 12:37 AM on July 21, 2007

Two translations from the German: Der Himmel Über Berlin got for an English title, not The Heavens over Berlin as you might expect, but Wings of Desire. And Das Schreckliche Mädchen should be The Distressing Girl, or Upsetting Girl maybe, but they called it The Nasty Girl. Really, who titles these things?
posted by eritain at 2:40 AM on July 21, 2007

Howards End
posted by hydatius at 4:22 AM on July 21, 2007

Innocuous Porn Titles:

Behind the Green Door
The Fashionistas
Hard Edge
The Road to Redneck Hollow
Posh Kitten
Black Light Beauty

Also, look into Wicked and Vivid's back catalogues and you'll find heaps more.
posted by Jilder at 7:35 AM on July 21, 2007

The Rock
Loss Of Sexual Innocence
Exotica

Oh, and...

I worked in a video store for several years. At that time, there was a local law which prevented us from selling or renting anything rated harder than "R." However, the computer database listed one movie (and only one) in stock that was rated "X" (what's now called "NC-17") and categorized as "Adult." We didn't have an "Adult" section, obviously, so we looked everywhere that one might concievably think an adult movie could hide - "Drama," "Action," the "Damaged" pile, etc. - and found nothing. Obviously, the computer was listing a movie that wasn't there, right? The thing is, we did inventory once a year and any tapes/discs we couldn't find (because they'd been lost, stolen, broken, etc.) were yanked from the database. But every year, this title survived the cut. It was definitely in the store somewhere, we just didn't know where. And we didn't dare ask the managers who oversaw the inventory, cause as soon as they found out they had a Rated X title on the shelf, they'd have no choice but to yank it. It was a huge mystery.

Then, one day, not long before I quit, I came across it. The holy grail. Yes, there it was, in the flesh (so to speak): a copy of Babes On Broadway ... in the "Classics" section along with Bringing Up Baby and Gone With The Wind and all the other Grandma-safe titles. Which is where it belonged because it wasn't porn. It was a 1941 comedy starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Some smart ass clerk, who knows how long before, had noticed the suggestive title and had changed the movie's rating in the database. Ha ha.
posted by Clay201 at 9:46 AM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
posted by who squared at 11:50 AM on July 21, 2007

Don't forget soon-to-open Hot Rod.
posted by O9scar at 11:33 AM on July 22, 2007

A while back I sent my wife to the vid rental place looking for "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLouise, Jim Nabors)...not porn, but she says she got some crazy looks from the clerk and the folks in line.
posted by SlyBevel at 2:00 PM on July 23, 2007

Spanking the Monkey
posted by MarkB at 12:31 PM on July 28, 2007