skin flick

skin flick

A softcore pornographic film; a film featuring a lot of nudity and graphic depictions of sex. In the end, the movie's story is fairly meaningless, making it a skin flick that is trying to pretend it is some kind of high art. The pay cable channels always show skin flicks late at night.
See also: flick, skin
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

skin flick

n. a movie featuring nudity. (see also nudie.) Max likes skin flicks better than real girls.
See also: flick, skin
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • popcorn film
  • lights, camera, action
  • project (something) upon (someone or something)
  • box-office bomb
  • on location
  • spoofing
  • hidden depths
  • requel
  • naughty
  • naughty bits
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In addition, Law would like to see the Burning Man trademark revoked, which could allow anybody to stage a Burning Man event or even, to the horror of the event's staunch anticonsumerists, market Burning Man products ranging from lipstick to skin flicks.
It got too competitive," claims Dunning, who first looked beyond the profitable skin flicks with Jean Beaudin's Le Diable est parmi nous (1972).
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Even the judge couldn't help but wisecrack as a state security officer, citing "secret sources who can be trusted" but could not be named, outlined how the defendants were attempting to overthrow the regime by assassinating, in addition to President Mubarak, a movie director who specializes in producing the closest that Egypt's censor will allow to skin flicks.
Hollywood is an enjoyable book because the author's vast film knowledge provides readers with a veritable encyclopedia of movies, both studio-produced masterpieces and independently-made skin flicks. It makes one wonder just how many hours Lewis spent doing "research" in the XXX section of his local video stores.
Bare faced chic is all the rage now at MAC, the cool cosmetics company as flesh coloured lipsticks and nail colours provide the inspiration behind the new Skin Flicks range.
The problem with ratings and censorship, in addition to conflicting with the pesky Constitution, is that brains are never part of the equation -- a single formula applies to Fellini, Bergman, and cheap skin flicks. Perhaps you've noticed that none of the women in the classic MGM musicals had navels and that all married couples slept in twin beds.
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