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X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
The evolution of adult cinema through the most influential films in history, a journey that begins in the 1970s and ends nowadays. An in-depth analysis of the success of the most prestigious erotic films, their impact on industry and society, and their influence on cinema and contemporary culture.
  • Released on 02/06/2015 (Movie)
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Chanel Preston

Character's name: "Self - Host"
Birthday: 12/01/1985
Birthplace: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Biography:
Chanel Preston is an American pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2010. She was the Penthouse magazine Penthouse Pet for March 2012. Preston was born and raised in Alaska. She is of English, German, and Spanish descent. At age 19 she moved to Hawaii, where she lived for six years. She worked as a stripper for over a year before working in porn. Preston has served as president of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee.

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Christy Canyon

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 06/17/1966
Birthplace: Pasadena, California, USA
Biography:
Christy Canyon is half Armenian and half Italian; at age 17, she moved out of her house and worked two part-time jobs. In 1984 she met adult star Greg Rome, who introduced her to a respected agent in the industry, Jim South, at World Modeling Agency. South immediately took Christy under his wing and arranged for her to do exotic photo layouts and a loop for Swedish Erotica with Ron Jeremy—with their assistance, she quickly established herself as a superstar in mid-80s XXX movies. At the height of her career, Christy was working a full schedule while under contract to Vivid, touring as an exotic dancer, and yet managed to earn a post-secondary Marketing degree from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and be named F.O.X.E. Female Fan Favorite in 1991 and 1992. In 2003, Christy wrote a successful memoir titled Lights, Camera, Sex! and since her retirement as a performer, has become a daily host on the Sirius Satellite Playboy Radio program "Night Calls." Additionally, she shared hosting duties with Ginger Lynn on the Playboy Radio program "Spice Sex Circus"—which also incorporates the weekly "Legends of Porn" show. Porn Awards: 1996 AVN Best Tease Performance Comeback 1997 AVN Best Group Scene The Show Member AVN Hall of Fame Member Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame Member XRCO Hall of Fame

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Georgina Spelvin

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 03/01/1936
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
Biography:
Georgina Spelvin is an American former adult actress, artist and writer.

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Janine Lindemulder

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 11/14/1968
Birthplace: La Mirada, California, USA
Biography:
Janine, an enormously popular superstar, returned to the Vivid Entertainment Group in 2004. The classic beauty with fabulous eyes and trademark luxurious blonde hair also had a major announcement: she would begin performing with men. Upon returning to Vivid, Janine stated, "I feel peaceful and at ease with myself. I had a mental roadblock about working with men on film, but that is gone and I feel totally liberated and as excited as a schoolgirl at the thought. I've watched the business change over the years and hope that adult will never lose its edge. I love being a little naughty." A self-described tomboy, she chose modeling rather than attend college on an athletic scholarship. She was offered a Penthouse centerfold on the basis of a test shoot and her Penthouse magazine and video appearances launched her career in adult films. She was invited by the celebrated Andrew Blake to do her first XXX film, "Hidden Obsessions" in 1993, a huge success. Janine signed with Vivid and starred in best selling films such as "Blondage" and the popular "Where The Boys Aren't" series. Additionally, she has won numerous AVN awards.

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Jenna Jameson

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 04/09/1974
Birthplace: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Biography:
Jenna Marie Massoli (born April 9, 1974), known professionally as Jenna Jameson, is an American model, former pornographic film actress, businesswoman, and television personality. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn". She started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the "Top Newcomer" award from each of the three major adult movie organizations. She has since won more than 35 adult-video awards, and has been inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame. Jameson founded the adult-entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially, a single website, this business expanded into managing similar websites of other stars and began producing sexually explicit videos in 2001. The first such movie, Briana Loves Jenna (with Briana Banks), was named at the 2003 AVN Awards as the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title for 2002. By 2005, ClubJenna had revenues of US$30 million with profits estimated at half that. Jameson has also crossed over into mainstream pop culture, starting with a minor role in Howard Stern's 1997 film Private Parts. Her mainstream appearances continued with several guest-hosting and guest-starring on various television programs. Playboy TV hosted her Jenna's American Sex Star reality show, in which aspiring porn stars competed for a ClubJenna contract. Her 2004 autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Jameson announced her retirement from pornography at the 2008 AVN Awards, stating that she would never return to the industry. Although she no longer performs in pornographic films, she began working as a webcam model in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenna Jameson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jessica Drake

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 10/14/1974
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Biography:
Texas native Jessica Drake was a dancer in an El Paso strip club that often featured porn stars, and she would watch them and think that she could do it better. She spoke with friends who were involved in the adult-film industry and eventually decided to give it a try herself. She made her first film in 2000, and that year was nominated for Best New Starlet at the AVN Awards. In addition to her work in hardcore, she has also appeared in quite a few "softcore" films made for cable TV and has made guest appearances on several TV series. In 2003 she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures.

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Kylie Ireland

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 05/26/1970
Birthplace: Longmont, Colorado, USA
Biography:
Colorado-born Kylie Ireland was an only child. Her parents divorced when she was a teenager, and after living with her father in Colorado for a few years she moved to San DIego to live with her mother. She began dancing in strip clubs, where she met adult-film actress Juli Ashton, and soon she traveled to Los Angeles to break into the porn industry. She made her debut in 1994, and has been working steadily since, becoming one of the most popular performers in the business. She later branched out into behind the cameras work producing and art directing.

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Marilyn Chambers

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 04/22/1952
Date of Death: 04/12/2009
Birthplace: Westport, Connecticut, USA
Biography:
Marylin Chambers was an American actress, known for her roles in a few erotic and classified films X from the 1970s.

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Ron Jeremy

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 03/12/1953
Birthplace: Long Island, New York, USA
Biography:
An American pornographic actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also appeared in non-pornographic films, such as The Boondock Saints, The Chase, Orgazmo, and 54. He is noted for his 9.75-inch (~24.75 cm) penis (self-reported) —and he has gained some notoriety for being capable of autofellatio (which he first demonstrated on-screen in Inside Seka). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Jeremy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Shanna McCullough

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 04/01/1960
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography:
Shanna McCullough is a former adult actress and producer active between 1983 and 2010. She was born on April 1, 1960 in San Francisco California. She has been married to Jim Enright since November 2001 and she is sometimes called "Porn's Good Girl" for her quiet, monogamous off-screen lifestyle.

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Veronica Hart

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 10/27/1956
Birthplace: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Biography:
Born Jane Esther Hamilton on 27 October 1956, Las Vegas, Nevada, Veronica Hart is a respected porn star of the 70s and 80s who went on to minor roles more mainstream movies. Awarded AFAA 1981/82 Best Actress, AFAA 1982 Best Supporting Actress, CAFA 1982 Best Actress.

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Nina Hartley

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 03/11/1959
Birthplace: Berkeley, California, USA
Biography:
Marie Louise Hartman (born March 11, 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an "outspoken feminist" and "advocate for sexual freedom", and by CNBC as "a legend in the adult world". Her pornographic film debut was in Educating Nina (1984), where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson. Since then she has gone on to become one of the most enduring and recognizable performers in the industry, winning numerous awards throughout her career from various critic and fan organizations. By 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. Hartley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, after graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude in 1985, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She was a registered nurse until her license expired in 1986. Hartley sought a career in pornography as a way to make a living by having sex, later telling Las Vegas Weekly, "Porn gave me easy access to women without having to date them or have a relationship." She writes that part of her reason for choosing sex work was to be able to indulge her exhibitionistic and voyeuristic streak. She has said she chose her life's work when she saw the 1976 erotic film The Autobiography of a Flea alone at a theater in San Francisco. In 1982, during her sophomore year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at the Sutter Cinema and then the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre.

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Skin Diamond

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 02/18/1987
Birthplace: Ventura, California, USA
Biography:
Skin Diamond is an American pornographic actress who has since transitioned into mainstream acting, modeling, singing and song writing under her birth name Raylin Joy. Skin Diamond was featured on mainly ALT sites like Burning Angel, but was also shot for mainstream porn sites like Naughty America, Vivid and Penthouse. Although she quickly became one of the leaders in the adult industry, she has never been a stranger to the world of popular mainstream media having been the daughter of an actor and studying for the stage in her youth. Equaled with her vivacious appeal and sexual freedom, she has inspired countless others and she has since starred in multiple popular television network shows, music videos for well known artists and Independent cinema, as well as modeling in fashion campaigns and editorials.

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Casey Calvert

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 03/17/1990
Birthplace: Gainesville, Florida, USA
Biography:
Casey Calvert is an American pornographic actress and film director. She won several awards in the pornographic film industry, and has written about it in mainstream media publications. Calvert entered the adult media industry with early work as an art model and fetish model at age 21. She chose her stage name after one of her college professors, Clay Calvert. She began working in adult film in 2012. In 2015, Calvert began writing for publications including GameLink and The Huffington Post. She was a contributor to the 2015 book, Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy. Calvert expanded her film career, from acting to directing and producing. She was an actor, writer, and casting director on the Pure Taboo production, The Starlet: A Casey Calvert Story. Erika Lust hired Calvert to direct a feature series, Primary. By 2020, she devoted half her career to her work as a film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Casey Calvert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jacky St. James

Character's name: "Self"
Birthday: 10/15/1976
Birthplace: Washington Metropolitan Area, Virginia, USA
Biography:
Jacky St. James is a multiple award-winning American pornographic film director and screenwriter. St. James was born and raised in Northern Virginia, in the Washington Metropolitan Area.  In 2004, at the age of 27, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became a mainstream film/television actress and director. In May 2010, a friend of St. James, who is a director of photography, sent her a clip of The Wedding Day from the New Sensations Romance Series because he was impressed by the quality of the film. After researching The Romance Series, she discovered that New Sensations was doing a writing contest for the series. Adult film director Eddie Powell gave her advice on how to write a porn script after she contacted him on Twitter. She entered the contest in 2011 and her script, Dear Abby, won. She later won Best Screenplay for the film at the 2012 AVN Awards. In 2014, she became only the second woman after Stormy Daniels to win an XRCO Award as Best Director (Feature).


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