6 The Dreamers (2004)
Actors who stripped down: Eva Green, Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel
Why they’re fully nude: It’s one way to escape reality. Just like going to the movies.
Before she was romancing James Bond as Vesper Lynd, Eva Green was carousing in the buff with her brother (Louis Garrel) and an American (Michael Pitt) in Paris—both of them in the buff, too—in The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci’s erotically-charged cinematic love letter that attempted to rekindle the carefree sexuality of Last Tango in Paris for a new generation.
While the film did manage to stir up a little bit of controversy for its frank attitude toward sex and nudity (in the film, the three main characters have a shared love of movies, so sex acts more like a byproduct of the fantasy world they inhabit), audiences proved much more difficult to shock this time around. The film earned a respectable $15 million at the box office—not bad for an NC-17 film—but not nearly as much of the outrage as its 1970s predecessor.
