| ...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 1. Night Trips 1 from CaballeroStudio: Caballero 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 VistaStudio: Cal Vista 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,... 3. Latex from VCAStudio: VCA Shock from VCAStudio: VCA 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 VCXStudio: VCX 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. 5. Nothing to Hide 2: Justine from Cal VistaStudio: Cal Vista 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 VividStudio: Vivid 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 AngelStudio: Evil Angel 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. 8. Opening of Misty Beethoven, The from VCAStudio: VCA 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 AngelStudio: Evil Angel 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... 10. Scoundrels from CommandStudio: Command D: Cecil Howard. Lisa Be, Chelsea Manchester, Ron Jeremy, Others. (1983) 11. DMJ3 & 4: Devil In Miss Jones 3 & 4 from VCAStudio: VCA 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 CaballeroStudio: Caballero D: Godfrey Daniels. Marilyn Chambers, Jessie St. James, John Holmes, Others. (1980) 13. Drop Sex 1 from Evil AngelStudio: Evil Angel 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 VCXStudio: VCX 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 VCAStudio: VCA 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 VCXStudio: VCX 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 VCAStudio: VCA 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. 18. Devil in Miss Jones, The from VCXStudio: VCX 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. 19. Face Dance 1 from Evil AngelStudio: Evil Angel Face Dance 2 from Evil AngelStudio: Evil Angel 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 &... 20. Bad Wives 1 from Vivid |