No Filter: These Actors Were Really Getting Intimate On Film!

Pola X (1999)

Loosely based on a Herman Melville novel, the Leos Carax directed Pola X is a romantic drama that follows a wealthy young man who lives with his mother. One evening a mysterious woman appears to him and tells him that she is his half-sister. He becomes fascinated by her and the two develop a passionate affair while he’s engaged to another woman.

The film’s stars, Guillaume Depardieu and Yekaterina Golubeva. The main actors were replaced with body doubles for its most real and intimate scenes. The band Sonic Youth contributed to the soundtrack.