Caligula (1979)

"Caligula" is the notoriously explicit historical epic chronicling the depraved reign of Rome's infamous emperor, a film that became as much a cultural flashpoint for its unsimulated sexuality as for its ancient-world spectacle. Helen Mirren, long before her prestige-era reinvention, appears here in an early role that finds her baring skin amid the film's decadent orgies and political intrigue. Teresa Ann Savoy and Mirella D'angelo round out the cast, both photographed in the kind of nude and sex scenes that made this production infamous on release. The archive holds 2 scenes from the film, capturing the raw, unfiltered nature of a movie still discussed decades later for pushing mainstream cinema into genuinely explicit territory.