Twice a year, booksellers Barnes and Noble have a sale where you can get 50% everything in the Criterion Collection. This important archive of both historically and culturally significant films is also a treasure trove of films with nudity in them. The biannual sale is currently live and runs through December 2, 2024! Here are the best films with nudity currently in-print and available from the Criterion Collection with Spine Numbers 1000 and Up! Scroll all the way down for links to the other Criterion columns...
Spine 1002: Betty Blue (Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix)
Spine 1005: Cold War (Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski)
Spine 1007: Until the End of the World (Directed by Wim Wenders)
Spine 1012: All About My Mother (Directed by Pedro Almodóvar)
Spine 1013: Teorema (Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Spine 1032: An Unmarried Woman (Directed by Paul Mazursky)
Spine 1034: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Directed by Céline Sciamma)
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Spine 1036: Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits (Directed by Bruce Lee)
Spine 1041: The Comfort of Strangers (Directed by Paul Schrader)
Spine 1052: Claudine (Directed by John Berry)
Spine 1054: Parasite (Directed by Bong Joon-Ho)
Spine 1055: Girlfriends (Directed by Claudia Weil)
Spine 1059: Crash (Directed by David Cronenberg)
Spine 1060: Amores Perros (Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu)
Spine 1069: Céline and Julie Go Boating (Directed by Jacques Rivette)
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Spine 1073: Memories of Murder (Directed by Bong Joon-Ho)
Spine 1074: Irma Vep (Directed by Olivier Assayas)
Spine 1075: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Directed by Amy Heckerling)
Spine 1086: Deep Cover (Directed by Bill Duke)
Spine 1087: Working Girls (Directed by Lizzie Borden)
Spine 1088: La Piscine (Directed by Jacques Deray)
Spine 1094: Watermelon Man (Directed by Melvin Van Peebles)
Spine 1095: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Directed by Melvin Van Peebles)
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Spine 1097: Love and Basketball (Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Spine 1098: The Damned (Directed by Luchino Visconti)
Spine 1101: Uncut Gems (Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie)
Spine 1108: The Celebration (Directed by Thomas Vinterberg)
Spine 1110: The Piano (Directed by Jane Campion)
Spine 1115: Adoption (Directed by Márta Mészáros)
Spine 1117: Love Jones (Directed by Theodore Witcher)
Spine 1123: Mr. Klein (Directed by Joseph Losey)
Spine 1125: The Funeral (Directed by Juzo Itami)
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Spine 1127: Mississippi Masala (Directed by Mira Nair)
Spine 1128: Farewell Amor (Directed by Ekwa Msangi)
Spine 1130: Shaft (Directed by Gordon Parks)
Spine 1131: Pink Flamingos (Directed by John Waters)
Spine 1132: The Worst Person in the World (Directed by Joachim Trier)
Spine 1136: Drive My Car (Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Spine 1138: Daddy Longlegs (Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie)
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Spine 1150: Exotica (Directed by Atom Egoyan)
Spine 1152: Lost Highway (Directed by David Lynch)
Spine 1157: Daisies (Directed by Vēra Chytilová)
Spine 1162: Three Films by Mai Zetterling: The Girls and Loving Couples
Spine 1166: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Directed by Terry Gilliam)
Spine 1170: Bergman Island (Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve)
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Spine 1175: Inland Empire (Directed by David Lynch)
Spine 1178: Triangle of Sadness (Directed by Ruben Östlund)
Spine 1180: Thelma and Louise (Directed by Ridley Scott)
Spine 1184: The Watermelon Woman (Directed by Cheryl Dunye)
Spine 1185: After Hours (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
Spine 1193: La Bamba (Directed by Luis Valdez)
Spine 1196: Nanny (Directed by Nikyatu Jusu)
Spine 1198: Mean Streets (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
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Spine 1204: Trainspotting (Directed by Danny Boyle)
Spine 1220: Bound (Directed by The Wachowskis)
Spine 1223: The Underground Railroad (Directed by Barry Jenkins)
Spine 1224: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Spine 1227: Risky Business (Directed by Paul Brickman)
Spine 1233: Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy: Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere
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Spine 1234: Happiness (Directed by Todd Solondz)
Spine 1238: Gummo (Directed by Harmony Korine)
Spine 1242: The Shape of Water (Directed by Guillermo Del Toro)
Spine 1245: The Mother and the Whore (Directed by Jean Eustache)
Spine 1246: The Grifters (Directed by Stephen Frears)
Spine 1247: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (Directed by Richard Pryor)
Janus Contemporaries: The Beast (2024) (Directed by Bertrand Bonello)
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Criterion Collection Films with Nudity Spines 1-199
Criterion Collection Films with Nudity Spines 200-399
Criterion Collection Films with Nudity Spines 400-599
Criterion Collection Films with Nudity Spines 600-799
Criterion Collection Films with Nudity Spines 800-999
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