...With some 150,000 adult titles from which to choose, selecting the 101 greatest is, to say the least, one mother of a slippery slope. Nonetheless, the editorial staff ... at AVN summoned our courage, put our collective heads together and after much painstaking back and forth, came up with the following list...
Mike Ramone, Editor In Chief, Adult Video News, August 2001

 
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1. Night Trips 1 from Caballero

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Studio: Caballero
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Category: Feature Film
Director: Andrew Blake
Starring: Tori Welles
Featuring: Marc De Bruin, Peter North, Porsche Lynn, Ray Victory, Tanja De Vries, Victoria Paris
Duration: 1 h 12 min

Porn's premiere stylist, Andrew Blake, daringly expanded the possibilities and definition of adult with this thrilling technical/artistic achievement that boasts a look and feel utterly different from anything that preceded it. Oh yeah, Night Trips...

 

2. Nothing to Hide from Cal Vista

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Studio: Cal Vista
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Cinema Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film
Director: Anthony Spinelli
Starring: Erica Boyer, John Leslie, Richard Pacheco
Featuring: Chelsea Manchester, Holly McCall, Misty Regan, Raven Turner
Duration: 1 h 38 min

This hardcore homage to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is arguably the greatest adult feature of all time. Sexy, realistic and with career performances from John Leslie, Chelsea Manchester and Richard Pacheco, Nothing to Hide is a porn classic so good,...

 

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Studio: VCA
Adult Genre: Bondage > Latex
Director: Antonio Passolini, Michael Ninn
Starring: Jon Dough, Juli Ashton, Shayla LaVeaux
Featuring: Caressa Savage, Felecia, Jeanna Fine, Jenny Blair, Jill Kelly, John Decker
Duration: 2 h 10 min

An original vision unlike anything seen in adult before, these two tapes, shot simultaneously by porn's other stylist extraordinaire, Michael Ninn, perfectly combine high-end production values, computerized special effects and wall-to-wall scalding...

 

4. Behind the Green Door from VCX

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Studio: VCX
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Director: Artie Mitchell, Jim Mitchell
Starring: Marilyn Chambers
Featuring: Johnny Keyes

One of three early porno-chic classics (the other two being Deep Throat and the Devil in Miss Jones) that gave birth to what is now a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Elevating Marilyn Chambers to the then-new cultural designation of porn star,...

 

5. Nothing to Hide 2: Justine from Cal Vista

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Studio: Cal Vista
Adult Genre: Straight > General
Director: Paul Thomas
Starring: Mike Horner, Nick East, Roxanne Blaze
Featuring: Alex Sanders, Brad Armstrong, Dyanna Lauren, Lacey Rose, Tianna
Duration: 2 h 

AVN's 1993 Best Film, this story of a doomed father-son-girl love triangle isn't just a porn movie infused with a million volts of sexual energy. It's a movie, period. And a masterfully scripted, acted and directed one at that. Elegantly simple,...

 

6. Bobby Sox from Vivid

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Studio: Vivid
Adult Genre: Straight > General
Category: Multiangle
Director: Paul Thomas
Starring: Nikki Tyler
Featuring: Chelsea Blue, Chloe, Kimberly Cummings, Shanna McCullough, Steven St. Croix

A crowning jewel of both the Vivid and Paul Thomas catalogs, Bobby Sox is a wickedly sly '90s style Candide. Sex-wise, it radiates with agonizingly joyous tease sequences and spirited couplings, especially those featuring busty blonde Nikki Tyler as a...

 

7. Buttman's European Vacation #1 from Evil Angel

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Studio: Evil Angel
Adult Genre: Straight > Ethnic Sex > Europeans, General
Cinema Genre: Action & Adventure > Exotic Places
Director: John Stagliano
Featuring: Christoph Clark, John Stagliano, Joy Karins, Natalie Streb, Noelle Budvar, Philippe Soine
Duration: 1 h 53 min

Early, quintessential John Stagliano, who, as one of the creators of the hugely popular Gonzo genre, is arguably the most influential pornographer on the planet.
Here, in AVN's 1991 Best All-Sex Video, Stagliano's probing, always-in-motion camera...

 

8. Opening of Misty Beethoven, The from VCA

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Studio: VCA
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Cinema Genre: Action & Adventure > Tales & Magic
Category: Feature Film
Director: Henry Paris
Starring: Constance Money
Featuring: Gloria Leonard, Jacqueline Beudant, Jamie Gillis, Jenny Baxter, Marlene Willoughby, Mary Stuart
Duration: 1 h 24 min

Pygmalion meets porn by way of director Henry Paris. Witty script (starting with the double-entendre in the title), European locations, Jamie Gillis at his best with Constance Money as the cynical hooker groomed to be a glamour girl. This is what they...

 

9. Dog Walker from Evil Angel

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Studio: Evil Angel
Adult Genre: Straight > General
Cinema Genre: Action & Adventure > Thriller & Suspense
Director: John Leslie
Starring: Christina Angel
Featuring: Alex Sanders, Anisa, David Pollmen, Gerry Pike, Isis Nile, Jake Williams
Duration: 1 h 57 min

John Leslie, hands down one of adult's greatest and most honored directors, at the very top of his game. Brilliantly blending the violent, purposely fragmented, sometimes surreal plot with wall-to-wall scalding sex (check out the late Kristi Lynn...

 

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Adult Genre: Straight, Classic
Category: All Sex & Compilations; Feature Film
Director: Cecil Howard
Featuring: Anna Turner, Ariel Lee, Chelsea Manchester, Copper Penny, Dave Ambrose, George Payne

D: Cecil Howard. Lisa Be, Chelsea Manchester, Ron Jeremy, Others. (1983)
Winner of AVN's very first Best Film award in 1983, this could be the great Cecil Howard's top film. The moral symbolism and soul-searching drama is astounding. So is the...

 

11. DMJ3 & 4: Devil In Miss Jones 3 & 4 from VCA

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Studio: VCA
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Category: Feature Film
Director: Gregory Dark
Starring: Lois Ayres
Featuring: Amber Lynn, Erica Boyer, Jack Baker, Kari Foxx, Kelly Richards, Paul Thomas
Duration: 1 h 15 min

Stroke for stroke, the greatest porn opus of the 1980s, one that took hardcore (Hell - sorry - what even passed for hardcore prior to it?) to new filthier depths, promised all sorts of squalid porn possibilities in the future and influenced just about...

 

12. Insatiable from Caballero

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Studio: Caballero
Adult Genre: Straight, Classic
Category: All Sex & Compilations; Feature Film
Starring: Marilyn Chambers
Featuring: David Morris, Jesse St. James, John Holmes, John Leslie, Mike Ranger, Richard Pacheco
Duration: 1 h 15 min

D: Godfrey Daniels. Marilyn Chambers, Jessie St. James, John Holmes, Others. (1980)
This late-golden age offering will remind veteran viewers of days, and production values, gone by. Marilyn Chambers plays a pampered and well-to-do starlet on her...

 

13. Drop Sex 1 from Evil Angel

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Studio: Evil Angel
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Director: John Leslie
Featuring: Andrew Youngman, Angelica, Jake Steed, Jennifer Cartier, Joey Silvera, Kimberly Jade
Duration: 2 h 1 min

Selecting the best of John Leslie is a bit like selecting the best of John Coltrane - there's just so much outstanding product from the two masters, it's difficult to choose (the analogy isn't that big of a stretch; Leslie, as anyone who has ever...

 

14. Debbie Does Dallas 1 from VCX

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Studio: VCX
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic, Roleplaying > Cheerleader
Director: Gerard Damiano
Starring: Bambi Woods
Featuring: Arcadia Lake, Georgette Sanders, Misty Winter, Pat Allure, Paula Head, R. Bolla
Duration: 1 h 24 min

Along with Bad Girls, one of the great tease movies in that we don't get to see sultry, sexy Bambi Woods get down and dirty until the film's final sex scene, one of the very best in adult history. A classic of its time

 

15. Cafe Flesh from VCA

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Studio: VCA
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Cinema Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy > Anti-Utopia & Futuristic
Category: Feature Film
Director: Rinse Dream
Starring: Marie Sharp, Pia Snow
Featuring: Andrew Nichols, Kevin James
Duration: 1 h 14 min

The apocalypse has rendered most of its survivors "sex negatives," who are unable to fuck without getting violently ill. The minority are "sex positives," and forced to perform at a bizarre nightclub for the angry, celibate masses. Jerry Stahl...

 

16. Sex World from VCX

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Studio: VCX
Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Director: Anthony Spinelli
Featuring: Amber Hunt, Annette Haven, Carole Tong, Cris Cassidy, Desiree West, Jack Wright

One of the few adult films to truly deserve the much-abused term "classic," Anthony Spinelli's '70s opus centers on an irresistible Westworld-meets-Behind the Green Door concept. Visitors to the eponymous sex-therapy resort act out a wide variety of...

 

17. New Wave Hookers 1 from VCA

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Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Category: Feature Film
Director: Gregory Dark
Starring: Ginger Lynn
Featuring: Brooke Fields, Desiree Lane, Gina Carrera, Jack Baker, Jamie Gillis, Kristara Barrington
Duration: 1 h 15 min

Funny, bizarre and most importantly, extremely raunchy, New Wave Hookers was to the adult industry a blast of fresh - no, make that filthy - air, defying convention, opening up all sorts of new possibilities and spawning numerous imitators.
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18. Devil in Miss Jones, The from VCX

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Adult Genre: Straight > Classic
Director: Gerard Damiano
Starring: Georgina Spelvin
Featuring: Clair Lumiere, Harry Reems, John Clemens, Marc Stevens

Ask your average Joe on the street which adult films he knows, and he'll tell you about the top three early '70s classics: The Devil in Miss Jones, Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door.
Opens with a long suicide sequence, as virginal spinster...

 

19. Face Dance 1 from Evil Angel

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Studio: Evil Angel
Adult Genre: Straight > Group Sex & Orgies
Director: John Stagliano
Starring: Rocco Siffredi
Featuring: Angel Ash, Brittany O'Connell, Brockton O'Toole, Chris Newz, Chrissy Ann, Cody O Conner
Duration: 2 h 20 min

 

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Adult Genre: Straight > Group Sex & Orgies
Director: John Stagliano
Starring: Rocco Siffredi
Featuring: Angel Ash, Brittany O'Connell, Chris Newz, Chrissy Ann, Cody O Conner, Francesca Le
Duration: 2 h 20 min

AVN's 1992 Best Film, Face Dance is The Ten Commandments of porn, a spectacle which staggers the senses and occasionally amuses with its own self importance. Featuring a huge cast that was a virtual who's who of the early '90s smut biz, Face Dance 1 &...