SEXY FILMS WITHOUT THE PORN... well almost
by DukeEman | created - 23 Apr 2011 | updated - 3 days ago | PublicHere are some films that deal with sex sensibly without making it hardcore porn... (well, some do come close to porn!).
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1. 3 (2010)
Unrated | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow, Angela Winkler
Votes: 5,390 | Gross: $0.06M
A sex triangle, but this time it's not the usual 2 gals & a guy scenario!
2. 9 Songs (2004)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In London, intense sexual encounters take place between an American college student, named Lisa, and an English scientist, named Matt, between attending rock concerts.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Robert Levon Been, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Votes: 23,992 | Gross: $0.05M
Came very close to being porn...
3. 9½ Weeks (1986)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A woman becomes involved with a man she barely knows. Complications develop during their sexual escapades.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies
Votes: 43,801 | Gross: $6.73M
80's Hollywood stylistic sex!
4. 27 (2023)
11 min | Animation, Short, Romance
Alice lives at her parents' place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it's time to move out.
Director: Flóra Anna Buda | Stars: Natasa Stork, Ádám Fekete, Franciska Farkas, Simon Szabó
Votes: 573
Creative short animation piece with a slice of eroticism in its misery...
5. 99 Moons (2022)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama
Bigna and Frank are two people of different thoughts. When their different worlds collide they become obsessively entwined in a passionate affair.
Director: Jan Gassmann | Stars: Valentina Di Pace, Dominik Fellmann, Danny Exnar, Jessica Huber
Votes: 2,438
An erotic lust story that begins with a fetish encounter in a public car park and over many moons we observe a relationship attempting to come together as love gets in the way...
6. An Affair of Love (1999)
R | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A woman puts an ad in a magazine looking for a man to fulfill her fantasy of a stringless, anonymous pornographic affair.
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Sergi López, Jacques Viala, Paul Pavel
Votes: 5,729 | Gross: $0.35M
There is only one real sensitive love scene in this film, and it's worth a look.
7. After Sex (1997)
97 min | Drama, Romance
The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.
Director: Brigitte Roüan | Stars: Brigitte Roüan, Patrick Chesnais, Boris Terral, Nils Tavernier
Votes: 657 | Gross: $0.34M
A busy housewife high on love and lust, but not with her husband.
8. The Age of Innocence (1993)
PG | 139 min | Drama, Romance
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Linda Faye Farkas
Votes: 67,782 | Gross: $32.20M
The passion of love without the sex...
9. Mystère Alexina (1985)
86 min | Drama
In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the ... See full summary »
Director: René Féret | Stars: Philippe Vuillemin, Valérie Stroh, Véronique Silver, Bernard Freyd
Votes: 111
Mystery of hermaphrodite...
10. All of Us Strangers (2023)
R | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell
Votes: 44,023
Convincing and intimate moments between the characters portrayed by Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal...
11. Ammonite (2020)
R | 117 min | Drama, History, Romance
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Director: Francis Lee | Stars: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle
Votes: 23,335
Winslet and Ronan have this amazing steamy love making scene that is worth the price of admission...
12. Anatomy of Hell (2004)
Unrated | 77 min | Drama
A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Alexandre Belin, Manuel Taglang
Votes: 6,144
When it gets wicked and weird...
13. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,876 | Gross: $13.62M
An emotional thought provoking sexy film.
14. The Apartment (1996)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A recently engaged man sees a former lover and becomes obsessed with meeting her again.
Director: Gilles Mimouni | Stars: Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Monica Bellucci
Votes: 15,910
Doesn't get any steamier than this...
15. Arabian Nights (1974)
X | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché
Votes: 9,045
Pasolini and eroticism in Aladdin times...
16. Aroused by Gymnopedies (2016)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Commissioned by Japan's Nikkatsu Studio to commemorate the 45th anniversary of its 'roman porno' period, the piece focuses on the has-been director who gets a variety of loose women of ... See full summary »
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Sumire Ashina, Itsuji Itao, Shô Nishino, Izumi Okamura
Votes: 311
A week in the life of a washed up director and his journey through misery and meaningless sex (Japanese style)...
17. Autoerotic (2011)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Follow four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.
Directors: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard | Stars: Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Megan Mercier, Kate Lyn Sheil
Votes: 677
The many sexual hang-ups handled with tongue firmly placed in cheek...
18. Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Romance
In the well-to-do suburbs of a small town, a group of pretty average, well-adjusted sixteen and seventeen year olds are ordinary adolescents who take a singular path.
Director: Eva Husson | Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima, Lorenzo Lefèbvre, Daisy Broom
Votes: 3,397
Teenagers gone wild with orgies creating STDs like its going out of fashion, and based on a true story which makes it even crazier...
19. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Unrated | 238 min | Drama
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 9,367 | Gross: $0.41M
No sex, but the torment of creating the naked beauty on canvas!
20. The Beast (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti
Votes: 5,345
The R rated arty version of the Beauty & The Beast fable
21. Benedetta (2021)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 25,482
Take thee to a Verhoeven nunnery where all is blasphemy in this absurd take on the life of a wicked twisted nun, but better for us viewers...
22. Better Than Sex (2000)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: David Wenham, Susie Porter, Kris McQuade, Simon Bossell
Votes: 2,268 | Gross: $0.09M
This is how the Aussies do it.
23. Betty Blue (1986)
Unrated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland
Votes: 23,341 | Gross: $2.00M
Just the opening scene is enough...
24. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
X | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs, and sleaze.
Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar
Votes: 12,031 | Gross: $2.66M
The best of Russ Meyer with some sensual love scenes thrown into this wild campy soap opera.
25. Bilitis (1977)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 2,442
Classic Seventies trashy lesbo flic
26. Bitter Moon (1992)
R | 139 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote
Votes: 42,670 | Gross: $1.86M
Even bad movies have interesting erotic images!
27. Black & White & Sex (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Angie is a prostitute, a chameleon - a butterfly. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her.
Director: John Winter | Stars: Katherine Hicks, Anya Beyersdorf, Valerie Bader, Roxane Wilson
Votes: 1,087
No Sex, but let's talk about it...
28. Bliss (1997)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A newly married happy couple visits a sex therapist to determine why the wife can't achieve an orgasm with her husband. This causes a horrific suppressed memory to emerge and she becomes more and more distant.
Director: Lance Young | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Terence Stamp, Sheryl Lee, Casey Siemaszko
Votes: 2,882 | Gross: $0.21M
You may be excused for thinking that you are watching a sex education film, but what a great way to learn that sex is more than just sex!
29. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 163,054 | Gross: $2.20M
Never seen so much passion in the hot steamy sex scenes...
30. Body Heat (1981)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Votes: 40,129 | Gross: $24.06M
It sizzles.
31. Bound (1996)
R | 109 min | Crime, Thriller
Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan
Votes: 60,748 | Gross: $3.80M
The naughty Wachowskis and two gals!
32. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance
Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Votes: 382,164 | Gross: $83.04M
Brave.
33. Burning Man (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis
Votes: 4,045
Amongst all the sadness there are moments of lust and pure sensual love.
34. Caligula (1979)
Unrated | 156 min | Drama, History
A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy
Votes: 38,355 | Gross: $23.44M
There once was an emperor and his horse...
35. The Canyons (2013)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
When Christian, an LA trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between Tara and the lead of his film project, Ryan, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk, Amanda Brooks
Votes: 11,773 | Gross: $0.05M
A mess but still worth a look...
36. Circumstance (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Director: Maryam Keshavarz | Stars: Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa
Votes: 8,005 | Gross: $0.44M
A few sensual moments that is worth the watch...
37. Claire of the Moon (1992)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the lush Pacific Northwest, Claire of the Moon tells a timeless story of a woman's struggle as she awakens to new possibilities for love and intimacy.
Director: Nicole Conn | Stars: Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith McDevitt, Craig Damen
Votes: 1,095 | Gross: $0.80M
Two Women, One Desire, the best lesbian film of the Nineties...
38. Conversations with Other Women (2005)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a man and woman flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension seems spontaneous. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse.
Director: Hans Canosa | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Yury Tsykun, Brian Geraghty
Votes: 13,114 | Gross: $0.37M
Clever love scene in split screen.
39. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
NC-17 | 124 min | Crime, Drama
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard
Votes: 41,739 | Gross: $7.72M
Greenaway's recipe of food and sex mixed with art is both delicious and wicked.
40. Crash (1996)
NC-17 | 100 min | Drama
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 66,355 | Gross: $2.04M
This wonderfully twisted and sexually perverse film explores the ultimate orgasm by a full automobile impact, where body and metal mangle as one!
41. Crimes of Passion (1984)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison, Gordon Hunt
Votes: 8,531 | Gross: $2.91M
Make sure you get to see the Director's provocative un-cut version.
42. Damage (1992)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A Member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's girlfriend despite the obvious dangers.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves
Votes: 20,537 | Gross: $7.53M
Sex scenes are almost unintentionally hilarious, but still sexy because of the actors performing it.
43. Death in a French Garden (1985)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy
Votes: 1,812
Some eroticism with your thrills.
44. The Decameron (1971)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato
Votes: 12,082
Pasolini does Boccaccio's naughty tales...
45. Desire (2011)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire.
Director: Laurent Bouhnik | Stars: Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer, Gowan Didi, Johnny Amaro
Votes: 8,775
The symbolism of sex in modern time in this almost hardcore art film.
46. Desperate Remedies (1992)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune ... See full summary »
Directors: Stewart Main, Peter Wells | Stars: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 409 | Gross: $0.07M
Delicious to look at.
47. Dexter (2006–2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them.
Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar
Votes: 765,909
Series 3, Ep 1. Yep, there is some steamy moments amongst the blood.
48. Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988)
R | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.
Director: Monika Treut | Stars: Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein, Peter Kern
Votes: 274
Some arty sensual moments done on a cheap budget.
49. Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2008)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.
Director: Christian Molina | Stars: Belén Fabra, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Llum Barrera, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 11,636
I think we're are all nymphs of some sort...
50. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça, Dinorah Brillanti
Votes: 3,323
Sônia Braga, enough said...
51. Don Jon (2013)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza
Votes: 247,045 | Gross: $24.48M
If you find masturbation interesting...
52. Don't Look Now (1973)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania
Votes: 62,319 | Gross: $0.98M
Just for the myth that Sutherland & Christie's love scene was real
53. Don't Move (2004)
125 min | Drama, Romance
A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).
Director: Sergio Castellitto | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini, Natalia Barcelò
Votes: 8,511
Married Surgeon falls for peasant Cruz in this sometimes sexy Italian soap.
54. Double Lover (2017)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer
Votes: 13,659 | Gross: $0.17M
Ozon goes Hitchcock but adds his twisted take on it and almost pulls it off, but watch out for the sex scene involving twins...
55. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 131,552 | Gross: $2.53M
Bertolucci returns to politics & sex.
56. The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D'Anna, Kata Bartsch
Votes: 14,352 | Gross: $0.03M
The sensual art of an addictive role playing fetish that takes its toll on a relationship...
57. Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)
95 min | Biography, Drama
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.
Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck
Votes: 464
The Artist, the madness, the sex & Jane Birkin.
58. Elenore Makes Love (2015)
Not Rated | 51 min | Drama, Romance
A photographer meets a model and the two women proceeds to spend the weekend having sex.
Director: Ryan Balas | Stars: Dee Herlihy, Audrey Kovár, Ryan Balas, Richard Buonagurio
Votes: 214
Indie art sex of the American lesbian kind...
59. Emmanuelle (1974)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
The wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok embarks on a voyage of self-discovery.
Director: Just Jaeckin | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Marika Green, Daniel Sarky
Votes: 11,058 | Gross: $8.72M
A semi-porn film that turned sex into lushes images & had some kind of a plot
60. Empire of Passion (1978)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani
Votes: 4,931
A passionate love haunted by a dead jealous husband.
61. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
R | 159 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack
Votes: 375,057 | Gross: $55.69M
Kubrick had fun with taking the piss out of middle-class sexual desires and fantasies.
62. Farinelli (1994)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
Director: Gérard Corbiau | Stars: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier
Votes: 7,350 | Gross: $2.12M
The bawdy adventures of Carlo Broschi.
63. Feeling Sexy (1999)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found ... See full summary »
Director: Davida Allen | Stars: Susie Porter, Tamblyn Lord, Amanda Muggleton, Ashleigh Dumbleton
Votes: 172
The fantasy of living in a sexual dream, but from a bored suburban wife's point of view.
64. Felicity (1978)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Teenager Felicity studies at a remote Roman Catholic Church boarding school and seeks indulgence in popular erotic novels Story of O, Emmanuelle and in a lesbian love affair with her friend Jenny.
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Glory Annen, Chris Milne, Joni Flynn, Jody Hanson
Votes: 1,359
The Aussie version of Emmanuelle...
65. First Love, Last Rites (1997)
R | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Joey and Sissel are two misfits spending most of their time together talking or having sex. Gradually and slowly their relationships are becoming boring for them.
Director: Jesse Peretz | Stars: Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert John Burke, Jeannetta Arnette
Votes: 363 | Gross: $0.04M
The new worldly experiences of a traveller's love affair in Louisiana. Ribisi is kind of sexy in this!
66. Five Times Two (2004)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss, Françoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 10,445 | Gross: $0.13M
Ozon's take on a relationship told backwards with some sensuality.
67. De flat (1994)
105 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Roos Hartman is a young doctor who lives with her son in a large apartment complex. When a fellow tenant is brutally murdered, the police and Hartman's friends suspect her mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Verbong | Stars: Renée Soutendijk, Victor Löw, Hans Hoes, Jaimy Siebel
Votes: 446
One of the best bathtub masturbation scenes for a non-erotic film...
68. For Lovers Only (2011)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American photographer runs into an old flame while on assignment in Paris.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Mark Polish, Stana Katic, Jean-Claude Thibaut, Jean-Marc Toussaint
Votes: 1,650
A past relationship reunites accidently in France creating a passionate and heartfelt torrid love affair...
69. Four Lovers (2010)
Unrated | 103 min | Romance
What are adult love affairs ? Two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through.
Director: Antony Cordier | Stars: Marina Foïs, Élodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Votes: 2,019
2 couples share their friendship and each other in this mature look at modern relationships.
70. Fragments of Love (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A woman shares stories of her previous lovers with her present lover and makes him a one those 'fragments' of her love.
Director: Fernando Vallejo | Stars: Angélica Aragón, Laura Aleman, Angelica Blandon, Alfredo De Quesada
Votes: 440
A composer, his muse, and her sensual stories that drive him crazy...
71. Friends with Benefits (2011)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man and woman decide to take their friendship to the next level without becoming a couple, but soon discover that adding sex only leads to complications.
Director: Will Gluck | Stars: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman
Votes: 394,506 | Gross: $55.80M
Can friends have sex and still be friends? Contemporary Hollywood's commercial attempt on Sex and its complications.
72. The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring
Votes: 2,629
Worth seeing Marianne Faithfull in a tight leather outfit, riding a motorbike & making out with Alain Delon.
73. Going Places (1974)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two thugs harass assault, steal, murder, Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor, on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Christian Alers
Votes: 9,951 | Gross: $0.77M
The best thing about these sexist pigs is that they get tamed by an older woman.
74. Golden Balls (1993)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Maribel Verdú, Elisa Tovati
Votes: 3,885
A very polished soft porn with morality at play.
75. The Handmaiden (2016)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri
Votes: 172,668 | Gross: $2.01M
Cheeky as ever and frisky as well, Chan-wook has crafted an entertaining playful minor-masterpiece with a supreme story structure...
76. The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he always knew he would marry one, completing his idealised love fantasy.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin, Maurice Chevit
Votes: 10,363 | Gross: $1.16M
Less sex, but more sensuality with cutting one's hair!
77. Hemel (2012)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama
A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.
Director: Sacha Polak | Stars: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Mark Rietman, Barbara Sarafian
Votes: 1,798
A woman's sexual drive...
78. Henry & June (1990)
NC-17 | 136 min | Biography, Drama
Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 14,190 | Gross: $11.57M
Some writers have all the fun.
79. Homework (1991)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle agend woman asks an old boyfriend to her home. He thinks its only for casual sex, she is planning something else and she is taping in on video.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: María Rojo, José Alonso
Votes: 828
Poster is misleading because this is more about spicing up a relationship in this clever one shot movie.
80. The Housemaid (2010)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.
Director: Im Sang-soo | Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae, Youn Yuh-jung, Woo Seo
Votes: 12,487 | Gross: $0.15M
Some wonderful love scenes but it losses its steam as it becomes a high-end soap opera.
81. How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ordinary clerk hires a gorgeous prostitute for one night. When that night is over, he doesn't want to let her go. She agrees to stay with him, but her boss wants her back.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Votes: 7,705
Love Bertrand Blier's sense of humour and adore Monica's sexual beauty.
82. Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (1989)
100 min | Comedy
-A warm summer in Montreal (Canada). Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes... See full summary »
Director: Jacques W. Benoit | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Maka Kotto, Roberta Weiss, Myriam Cyr
Votes: 340 | Gross: $0.49M
We do all want to know...
83. The Indecent Woman (1991)
95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman with a steady marriage and a little daughter, goes berserk and engages in a game of seduction.
Director: Ben Verbong | Stars: José Way, Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, Huub Stapel, Lydia van Nergena
Votes: 440
aka The Indecent Woman - The Last Tango of Spain with a married woman with an insatiable appetite for a complete stranger...
84. I Am Love (2009)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher
Votes: 23,959 | Gross: $5.01M
You have to be patient with this, but Tilda sizzles under the Italian sun.
85. Immoral Tales (1973)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Lise Danvers, Fabrice Luchini, Charlotte Alexandra, Paloma Picasso
Votes: 5,448
Freakish 70s art film that is really all about strange sex and everything in between...
86. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
NC-17 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui
Votes: 22,794
Kinky and haunting...
87. Intimacy (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A failed London musician meets once a week with a woman for a series of intense sexual encounters to get away from the realities of life. But when he begins inquiring about her, it puts their relationship at risk.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker, Alastair Galbraith
Votes: 13,151 | Gross: $0.10M
Rylance and Fox steam the windows in what is almost pornographic...
88. Jamón, Jamón (1992)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego
Votes: 15,079 | Gross: $0.94M
Sex & food with Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem.
89. Kelly + Victor (2012)
95 min | Drama
Kelly and Victor meet at a nightclub and start a sexual relationship, the excitement of which removes them from the dull ordinariness of their lives.
Director: Kieran Evans | Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Julian Morris, William Ruane, Stephen Walters
Votes: 1,028
How far will you go...
90. The Key (1983)
R | 116 min | Drama, History, Romance
1940s Venice. After twenty years of marriage, a retired art critic and his younger wife feel their passion is waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Frank Finlay, Stefania Sandrelli, Franco Branciaroli, Barbara Cupisti
Votes: 3,239
Porn art.
91. Kiss of the Damned (2012)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A beautiful, lonely vampire falls in love with a screenwriter and transforms him into one of the undead, but their budding romance is threatened by her vivacious, troublemaking sister.
Director: Xan Cassavetes | Stars: Joséphine de La Baume, Ching Valdes-Aran, Milo Ventimiglia, Caitlin Keats
Votes: 5,402 | Gross: $0.01M
Atmospheric and erotic modern vampire tale that perfectly captures the European Seventies style of horror filmmaking, right down to some bad dubbing...
92. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
After a injury leaves her husband paralysed, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Director: Just Jaeckin | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell
Votes: 3,342
Sylvia Kristel attempts to take herself seriously in this lushes version of D.H. Lawrence's classic erotic novel.
93. Lady Chatterley's Lover (I) (2022)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | Stars: Emma Corrin, Jack O'Connell, Matthew Duckett, Joely Richardson
Votes: 22,991
A raunchy adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic taboo novel of its time, with a classy melodrama flair, lushes images and high class production values...
94. The Last Seduction (1994)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses
Votes: 25,789 | Gross: $6.14M
Fiorentino knows how to play the game.
95. The Last Mistress (2007)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute
Votes: 3,787 | Gross: $0.79M
Not the best of Catherine Breillat, but erotic enough.
96. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
NC-17 | 129 min | Drama, Romance
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti
Votes: 58,339 | Gross: $36.14M
The egg scene...
97. Leap Year (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.
Director: Michael Rowe | Stars: Mónica Del Carmen, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Marco Zapata, Diego Chas
Votes: 2,797
Sex just to get through the blandness of life...
98. The Reader (1988)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her... See full summary »
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruché, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine
Votes: 1,811 | Gross: $0.70M
She does more than read books...
99. Lie with Me (2005)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
An outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man in which their affair begins to bring a strain on their personal lives.
Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Lauren Lee Smith, Eric Balfour, Polly Shannon, Mayko Nguyen
Votes: 16,759
First came the passion, followed by the intense sex, and then came... LOVE!
100. Lies (1999)
112 min | Drama, Romance
A conscious exploration of fantasy and flesh. The director talks about the novel upon which the film is based, we see the crew at work, the actors talk about what's going on. Y, a ... See full summary »
Director: Jang Sun-woo | Stars: Sang Hyun Lee, Kim Tae-yeon, Jeon Hye-jin, Hyun Joo Choi
Votes: 1,552 | Gross: $0.06M
Sex can be dirty, but nice, if you do it right...
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