Red Rocket stars Simon Rex (who you might know as a onetime MTV VJ) as Mikey Saber, a porn star who returns to his hometown of Texas City in the summer of 2016. Radu Judeĭirector Sean Baker followed up The Florida Project with another-almost more relentlessly uncomfortable-look at an unglamorous, unvarnished corner of America. Just like porn itself, movies about porn defy easy categorization. For the purposes of this list, we tried to focus on a range of titles that view pornography as a mix of art and commerce. What exactly makes a movie 'about' porn? The often-used phrase 'I know it when I see it,' deployed by a Justice in a Supreme Court obscenity trial in 1964, comes to mind. Depending on the material or the genre, different filmmakers cast an eye on the business that can be critical, judgmental, or simply curious. Sometimes that means the whole movie follows a character who works in the industry sometimes the world of porn is simply adjacent to the film's main plot, providing a backdrop to a sweaty crime thriller, a creepy slasher bloodbath, or a slick buddy comedy. Instead, these are movies that tell stories about the business of filming, marketing, and selling sexually explicit material.
Fair warning: While many of the movies on this list contain graphic sex scenes and quite a bit of nudity, they don't exactly qualify as pornography.
