10. Conquest (1997)

Budget: $ 150,000.

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This BBF (big budget film) was one of the first adult films to really be given a hefty budget. It features legendary porn star Jenna Jameson starring as a dead pirate’s daughter. The majority of the budget, by the way, was spent on using actual ships and getting half-decent music on the flick.

9. Flashpoint X (1998)

Budget: $ 220,000.

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Jenna Jameson, Asia Carrera , and Jill Kelly star in this flaming hot flick about sexy firefighters who like to get kinky in-between putting out fires. The film features a ton of pyrotechnics and utilization of the fire hose.

8. Manhunters (2006)

Buddget: $ 250,000.

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This adult movie was incredibly successful as far as fan and industry reception is concerned. Having picked up 7 AVN awards of 17 AVN nominations. The movie follows a group of female bounty hunters that hunt down some men in the hopes of getting some… action. The film stars Jessica Drake, Kirsten Price, Carmen Hart, and Exotica.

7. Operation Desert Stormy (2007)

Budget: $ 250,000.

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Eva Angelina, Stormy Daniels and Ron Jeremy star in this Wicked Pictures produced flick that was essentially a kinked up version of James Bond.

6. Upload (2007)

Budget: $ 350,000

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Hillary Scott, Eva Angelina and Kylie Ireland star in this Sci-Fi adult flick that CLEANED UP at the AVN awards, snagging 8 awards en route to a “Feature Movie of the Year” award. The DVD comes with 4 discs, including a handful of extra shots.

5. Fashionistas (2002)

Budget: $ 500,000 .

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This is one adult film that does a pretty good job emulating the big hits on the silver screen. With great costumes and pretty damn decent cinematography, “Fashionistas” could almost pass a really, really hardcore version of a ‘real’ movie.

4. Pirates (2005)

Budget: $ 1 million .

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300+ special effects, great costumes, and an original musical score, this “Pirates of the Caribbean” porn spoof was wildly successful and featured a ton of incredibly popular porn stars such as Carmen Luvana and Jenaveve Jolie.

3. Uninhibited (1995)

Budget: $ 1.2 million .

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$ 1.2 million for a porno in 1995? That is truly insane. This flick follows two detectives who are at odds with dueling crime families. The movie itself was so successful, that HBO picked it up and edited it down to an ‘R’ rating in order to show it. Gotta watch the XXX version, though.

2. Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge

Budget: $ 8 million.

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When you have a hit as huge as the first Pirates was, you gotta do a second. This time, the budget was 8x bigger. Sex, sex, and more sex. Nice.

1. Caligula (1979)

Budget: $ 17.5 million.

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While this movie isn’t exactly an ‘adult film’, it does contain a lot of very REAL orgy scenes. The movie has such a high budget because Helen Mirren and Peter O’Toole star in it. So, kind of a chintzy way to get there, but whatever.