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The 10 Best Movies About Porn

From behind-the-scenes dramas to shocking true stories, these are the kind of porn movies you won't be embarrassed to watch

By Esquire EditorsUpdated: 19 June 2019Use Arrow Keys to Navigate

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Relativity Media

Let's just come out with it: porn is pretty exciting. Don't be ashamed! Pornography is so universal, something that pretty much everyone has experienced in some form or another, that it's no surprise the subject has received the big-screen treatment over and over again. From behind-the-scenes dramas to the shocking true stories about adult entertainers, here are 10 porn movies you won't be embarrassed to watch.

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10. Don Jon

Relativity Media

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's New Jersey meathead battles a porn addiction in an effort to overcome his intimacy issues.

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9. Starlet

Music Box Films

An unlikely friendship forms between an 85-year-old named Sadie and a 21-year-old named Jane, the latter of which is an up-and-coming adult film star.

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8. Orgazmo

Rogue Pictures

A nice Mormon boy finds himself becoming the titular porno superhero in South Park co-creator Trey Parker's cult comedy.

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7. Zack and Miri Make a Porno

The Weinstein Company

Two down-on-their-luck best friends come up with an enterprising way to pay the rent—even if it tests their friendship in ways they never expected.

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6. King Cobra

IFC Midnight

Gay porn star Brent Corrigan is caught in the middle of a murder plot when two producers try to steal him from his exclusive contract in this movie based on a true story.

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5. Humpday

Magnolia Pictures

Two straight friends find themselves in a pickle when they essentially dare themselves to make an amateur gay porn.

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4. Hardcore

Columbia Pictures

A Midwestern businessman sees his world shattered when he discovers that his missing daughter has turned up in a dirty movie.

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3. Star 80

Warner Bros.

Mariel Hemingway stars as Dorothy Stratten in the tragic story of the Playboy model's rise to fame.

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2. The Girl Next Door

20th Century Fox

What happens when a former porn star moves in next door? You definitely try to get her to go to prom with you.

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1. Boogie Nights

New Line Cinema

Paul Thomas Anderson's ensemble-driven epic follows a well-endowed young man as becomes a porn star in the late '70s.

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