Erotic Cinema: An Unzipped Canon

As a companion (a fuck buddy of sorts) to my recent post on 'high porn' literature, here's a highly personal, top-of-my-head list of canonical 'high porn' films, the best of the best 'erotic cinema.' These undeniably artistic explorations of eroticism render meaningless any discussion of 'pornography vs. art,' for they are clearly both. The order is roughly chronological.

• Pandora's Box (Pabst)
• Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel/Dali)
• The Blue Angel (Sternberg)
• L'Age d'Or (Bunuel/Dali)
• Ecstasy (Machaty)
• Queen Christina (Mamoulian)
• Fireworks (Anger)
• La Ronde (Ophuls)
• Vertigo (Hitchcock)
• Psycho (Hitchcock)
• Peeping Tom (Powell)
• Persona (Bergman)
• Vivre Sa Vie (Godard)
• Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)
• Belle de Jour (Bunuel)
• Blow-Up (Antonioni)
• Fellini Satyricon (Eponymous)
• Murmur of the Heart (Malle)
• Pink Flamingos (Waters)
• Cabaret (Fosse)
• Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
• The Trilogy of Life: Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, The Decameron (Pasolini)
• In The Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
• Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini)
• Eraserhead (Lynch)
• The Man Who Loved Women (Truffaut)
• Querelle (Fassbinder)
• The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway)
• The Belly of An Architect (Greenaway)
• Blue Velvet (Lynch)
• 9 1/2 Weeks (Lyne)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)
• Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway)
• Henry and June (Kaufman)
• Wild At Heart (Lynch)
• The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and Her Lover (Greenaway)
• My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant)
• Poison (Haynes)
• Damage (Malle)
• The Crying Game (Jordan)
• The Piano (Campion)
• Exotica (Egoyan)
• Bitter Moon (Polanski)
• Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
• Naked Lunch (Cronenberg)
• Total Eclipse (Holland)
• Kids (Clark)
• Mighty Aphrodite (Allen)
• Wilde (Gilbert)
• Lost Highway (Lynch)
• Boogie Nights (Anderson)
• Crash (Cronenberg)
• The Pillow Book (Greenaway)
• Happiness (Solondz)
• Your Friends and Neighbors (LaBute)
• Breaking the Waves (von Trier)
• Time Regained (Ruiz)
• Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
• Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
• 8 1/2 Women (Greenaway)
• Romance (Breillat)
• Kinsey (Condon)
• The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
• Bad Education (Almodovar)
• Cowards Bend The Knee (Maddin)
• Anatomy of Hell (Breillat)
• House of Pleasures (Bonello)
• Shame (McQueen)
• Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche)
• Nymphomaniac: Extended Director's Cut (von Trier)