TOP Sex Films of All-Time "Best Of Best'

Sexiest Films of All-Time
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Angel Heart (1987) A mystery horror film with a twist starred Mickey Rourke as Harry Angel, a private investigator in New Orleans searching for a missing person - himself (Johnny Favorite), and encountering young sexy voodoo priestess Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet).
Basic Instinct (1992) In Paul Verhoeven's sleazy thriller, Sharon Stone as bisexual blonde - and suspected bad-girl murderess Catherine Trammel with an ice-pick, flashed her nether region to a roomful of entranced cops.
Betty Blue (1986, Fr.) This unrated French film told about a self-destructive relationship between a young woman (Beatrice Dalle) and her lover (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and left little to the imagination.
Bitter Moon (1992) The dark and perverted side of sexuality (love/hate) was explored in this Roman Polanski psycho-thriller, between a wheelchaired husband (Peter Coyote) and his seductive French wife (Emmanuelle Seigner), as the two were on an ocean voyage with a prim and proper British couple (Kristin Scott-Thomas and Hugh Grant).
Body Double (1984) Brian DePalma's twisting Hitchcockian thriller involved neighbor-peeping, a saucy porn star (Melanie Griffith), and a struggling Hollywood actor (Craig Wasson).
Body Heat (1981) A not too bright attorney (William Hurt) passionately fell for a seductive wife (Kathleen Turner) in a plot to kill her husband in this sultry, film-noirish thriller.
Body of Evidence (1993) An NC-17 rated erotic thriller starring Willem Dafoe (as a lawyer) and Madonna (with an outright sexy performance as a murder suspect) - derided and panned by many critics for its hot wax S&M sequence and other kinky sex scenes.
Boogie Nights (1997) The LA adult film industry of the 1970s-80s was the hard-core focus of Paul Thomas Anderson's epic, starring Burt Reynolds as a porn director, Julianne Moore as adult actress Amber Waves, Heather Graham as Rollergirl, and Mark Wahlberg as well-endowed Dirk Diggler.
Bound (1996) This flick's depiction of Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly's titillating lesbian romance (and kinky sex life) was as exciting as their scheme to steal Mafia money.
Breathless (1983) The remake of Jean-Luc Godard's French film of the 1960s cast Richard Gere as a fugitive drifter and sexy Valerie Kaprisky as his romantic partner.
Cat People (1982) Paul Schrader's erotic horror film remake (of the 1942 original) starred lithe Nastassja Kinski as Irena, doomed to turn into a black leopard if her sexual passions were stirred. Also with Annette O'Toole in the famous pool stalking sequence.
The Center of the World (2001) A computer dot-com millionaire (Peter Sarsgaard) hired a club lap-dancer (Molly Parker) for $10,000 to accompany him to Las Vegas for three-nights of erotic play in this unrated film.
Color of Night (1994) The who-dun-it was liberally laced with sex scenes between a distressed psychologist (Bruce Willis) and a torrid, mysterious female (Jane March).
Crash (1996) David Cronenberg's controversial, fetishistic study of an automotive car-crash subculture was not for everyone. After an accident, unfaithful film producer (James Spader) was introduced to the cult group with injured victim Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter), and found that a concluding almost-fatal car crash involving his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) was actually strengthening his marriage.
Crimes of Passion (1984) Ken Russell's compelling work starred Kathleen Turner as a fashion designer moonlighting in a double life as street prostitute China Blue - often terrorized by a crazed, dildo-wielding preacher (Anthony Perkins).
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) This daring, aristocratic psychodrama was filmed multiple times - it involved court intrigue, scheming, betrayal and wagers placed in France a few centuries ago, over whether Valmont (John Malkovich) could seduce a virtuous young virgin (Uma Thurman) and a recently-married woman (Michelle Pfeiffer).
Desert Hearts (1985) A lesbian-themed romantic drama set in the late 1950s in Reno, Nevada, it realistically and positively told the story of a growing relationship between free-spirited casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau) and Columbia University professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) in town waiting for a divorce.
Don't Look Now (1973) Nicolas Roeg's unsettling thriller remains famous for its realistic and explicit sex scene between a grieving, married couple (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) in Venice.
The Dreamers (2003) Explicit sexual content was rampant in Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic drama set in the late 60s Paris, about a trio of cinephiles, including Eva Green as Isabelle, playing decadent sexual games.
Dream Lover (1994) The psychological thriller examined the short-lived, sexy romance between a yuppie guy (James Spader) and an enigmatic dream lover (Madchen Amick).
Dressed to Kill (1980) De Palma's glossy thriller was a slasher film about a murderous blonde, a mysterious psychiatrist (Michael Caine), and the victims: a sexually-adventurous chic lady (Angie Dickinson), and a call girl (Nancy Allen).
Emmanuelle (1974, Fr.) This was the first - and most infamous - of a long series of discreetly-shot, French soft-core films about the awakening of a suppressed, sexually-curious female (Sylvia Kristel) in various erotic locales.
The English Patient (1996) A Best Picture winner, this romantic drama used flashback as a technique to tell the tale of the badly-burned "English Patient" Count László de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes) and his doomed love affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott-Thomas).
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Kubrick's last film featured a sophisticated married pair (celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) with adulterous impulses while experimenting with new sexual adventures or experiences.
Fatal Attraction (1987) Before murderous and obsessive impulses were activated in this cautionary tale, happily-married attorney (Michael Douglas) had a weekend fling with a psycho-siren (Glenn Close).
Femme Fatale (2002) This glossy and twisting noirish mystery-thriller from Brian DePalma began with an eye-popping opener: a sexy jewelry heist involving two femme fatales (Rebecca Romijn and Rie Rasmussen) at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Gia (1998) Angelina Jolie was physically and emotionally naked throughout much of this dramatic biopic (made for TV) about doomed, drug-addicted supermodel Gia Carangi and her lesbian affair with a make-up artist (Elizabeth Mitchell).
  Henry & June (1990) This erotic story set in the 1930s in Paris had the dubious distinction of being the first film to ever receive an NC-17 (replacing the X-rating), for its steamy, literary-minded story of a ménage a trois between controversial writer Henry Miller (Fred Miller), his wife June (Uma Thurman) and diary writer Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros).
  The Hot Spot (1990) The overheated, noirish, and lurid B-movie plot of dark blackmail (over skinny-dipping nude photos) involved a scheming drifter (Don Johnson) in a small Texas town, romancing two beautiful local women, promiscuous sexpot Dolly (Virginia Madsen) and gorgeous innocent secretary Gloria (Jennifer Connelly), while planning a bank heist.
  The Hunger (1983) Lesbian chic was the centerpiece of this latter-day vampire tale set in Manhattan, with revealing sex scenes between Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.
  Jamon Jamon (1993, Sp.) A teenaged Penelope Cruz was featured, often bare, in this satirical Spanish comedy drama about sexual seduction, passion for food, and class differences.
  Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996, India, UK) Strong erotic sequences were the substance of this dramatization of the Indian handbook of physical love, in its tale of a love triangle between two childhood friends, Maya (Indira Varma) and Tara (Sarita Choudhury), both competing for a King.
  Ken Park (2002) Director Larry Clark's controversial drama with unsimulated sex scenes between teens (in dysfunctional families in Visalia, California) sparked outrage and claims of exploitation.
  Killing Me Softly (2002) Kaige Chen's erotic thriller about a dangerously intense sexual bonding earned an R rating, although the leads (Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes) spent most of the film naked.
  Lady Chatterley (2006) Filmed numerous times and based upon various interpretations of D.H. Lawrence's erotic tale Lady Chatterley's Lover, this French film with a half-dozen sex scenes told of the infidelity of married Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands) to the estate's burly gamekeeper Oliver Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch).
  The Last Seduction (1994) Linda Fiorentino starred in this taut, smolderingly-hot film noir as a diabolical, scheming, and seductivefemme fatale manipulatively plotting to acquire drug money while on the run.
  Last Tango in Paris (1972) A passionate but loveless affair between a middle-aged American widower (Marlon Brando) and a young French girl (Maria Schneider) originally brought this controversial, sordid Bernardo Bertolucci film an X-rating.
  Lie with Me (2005) Lauren Lee Smith boldly portrayed sexually-aggressive and nympho Leila in this explicit Canadian drama, detailing her emotionally and physically-entangling relationship with David (Eric Balfour) with whom she began to find real intimacy.
  Little Children (2006) One of the many films with Kate Winslet appearing in the nude, this Todd Field-directed drama followed the unhappiness and dislocation of an upper middle-class Boston housewife and mother - when she became attracted to lovelorn, stay-at-home dad Brad Adamson (Patrick Wilson).
  Lolita (1962) Stanley Kubrick's version of Vladimir Nabokov's novel about a middle-aged man's (James Mason) obsession with a young nymphet (Sue Lyon), his step-daughter, was controversial - and a classic film about pedophilia - much preferred over the 1997 remake.
  The Lover (1992) An obsessive, scandalous, cross-cultural romance engaged a French schoolgirl (Jane March) with an older, wealthy Chinese aristocrat (Tony Leung) in 1920s French Indochina.
  Lust, Caution (2007) On the heels of his Oscar win for Brokeback Mountain (2005), director Ang Lee let sexual inhibitions fly in this sexed-up espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai.
  Mulholland Drive (2001) David Lynch's surrealistic and confusing non-linear film with doubling identities was a "love story in the city of dreams" between two passionately-linked females: an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) and a femme fatale(Laura Elena Harring).
  9 1/2 Weeks (1986) This provocative and steamy Adrian Lyne erotic thriller about sexual obsession between stars Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger was chopped up before release for its kinky, sadomasochistic, sexually-explicit scenes.
  9 Songs (2004, UK) A very explicit and artsy film with abundant sex followed the evolving relationship in London between a Brit glaciologist (Kieran O'Brien) and a highly-sexual 21 year-old American student (Margo Stilley).
  An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) This Cinderella story and romantic drama from Taylor Hackford paired US Naval officer candidate in training (Richard Gere) with the dedicated love of a local townie (Debra Winger), a blue-collar factory worker, who revealed his inner "gentleman."
  Open Your Eyes (aka Abre Los Ojos) (1997) Alejandro Amenábar's plot-twisting, unpredictable Spanish film, remade as Vanilla Sky (2001), told of 25 year-old César (Eduardo Noriega), a car-wreck survivor with a disfigured face - who in flashback, told of his love for gorgeous Sofia (Penélope Cruz).
  Original Sin (2001) The erotically-charged drama told of an 1880s Cuba coffee salesman (Antonio Banderas) who sought companionship with a mysterious, deceptive, and possibly-deadly American mail-order bride-fiancee (Angelina Jolie).
  The Piano (1993) Writer/director Jane Campion's drama set in the mid-19th century told of an intelligent mute pianist (Holly Hunter) newly colonized in New Zealand as imported bride Ada McGrath, who bargained with her husband's land overseer George Baines (Harvey Keitel) for her beloved piano, in exchange for piano (and sex) lessons.
  The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Although the 1981 remake with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange had its moments, the original black and white film noir was smoldering, in its classic tale of forbidden lust, brutal and raw sexiness, and adultery-motivated murder, orchestrated by drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) and hot-blooded, voluptuous Cora (Lana Turner), the wife of a roadside cafe owner.
  Quills (2000) Philip Kaufman's dramatic adaptation was inspired by the carnal life and perverse work of the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush), often completely naked and imprisoned in an insane asylum, where laundress Madeleine "Maddie" LeClerc (Kate Winslet) worked - and smuggled out chapters of his titillating writings.
  Risky Business (1983) Although most famous for making a star of Tom Cruise with his underwear air guitar scene in this teen comedy, its sexiest scenes were when bookish HS student Joel Goodson learned to let loose when his parents went on vacation. He ran a brothel in their suburban Chicago home with the assistance of call-girl Lana (Rebecca DeMornay) - romancing her when she first appeared and also during a late-night train ride.

Romance (1999, Fr.) Graphic and explicit depictions of sex were displayed when an unsatisfied wife (Caroline Ducey) sought liberated love elsewhere, with a bar stranger (Rocco Siffredi) and then an older man (François Berléand) who awakened her to the pleasures of bondage and sadomasochism.
Sea of Love (1989) In this tense police thriller, NYC detective (Al Pacino) fell in 'lust' with his prime serial-killer suspect - the beautiful Helen Cruger (Ellen Barkin).
Secretary (2002) An unusual master/slave relationship developed between an attorney (James Spader) and his shy, semi-sadomasochistic secretary (Maggie Gyllenhaal) in this offbeat romantic drama.
Sex & Lucia (2001, Sp.) The convoluted, non-linear story in this audacious Spanish drama was secondary to the numerous amorous and erotic nude scenes and strong sexual content involving young Madrid waitress Lucia (Paz Vega) and a struggling writer.
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut film, an independent hit, was the story of impotent videographer Graham Dalton (James Spader) who taped women discussing their sexual lives and fantasies. His subjects in this very verbal film included non-orgasmic wife Ann (Andie MacDowell) and her sexually-needy sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo) who was having an affair with Ann's husband John (Peter Gallagher).
Shakespeare in Love (1998) This Best Picture winner purported to tell the backstory of Will Shakespeare's writer's block (after romantic heartbreak) before the penning of a new play, ultimately his romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. It depicted the Bard's (Joseph Fiennes) love affair with cross-dressing actor Thomas Kent/Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) auditioning and playing the part of Romeo, and inspiring him to finish his work.
Shortbus (2006) This trailblazing, mainstream film with some of the most explicit, non-simulated sex scenes ever screened, followed a non-orgasmic couples' therapist (Sook-Yin Lee) who sought fulfillment with friends in an underground NY sexual salon named Shortbus.
Showgirls (1995) The # 1 highest-grossing (domestic) NC-17 rated film ever -- and rampant with nudity and sexual situations, this cult film starred Elizabeth Berkley (from TV's Saved By the Bell) as aspiring Las Vegas showgirl Nomi Malone, whose main competitive rival was a bisexual star diva in a topless revue star named Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon). Although critically-reviled, it was a bold attempt by Hollywood to create the first big-budget "adult" film since the recklessly perverse Caligula (1979).
Sirens (1993, Australia) This exciting Australian comedy celebrated bohemian free-thinking lifestyles in its tale of an artist (Sam O'Neill) with nude female models (including Elle Macpherson) who flaunted their nakedness, to purposely liberate a strait-laced Anglican clergyman (Hugh Grant) and his uptight wife (Tara Fitzgerald).
Sliver (1993) Originally rated NC-17, this voyeuristic mystery-thriller (with a confused plot), directed by Phillip Noyce and set in a NY high-rise apartment building, romantically paired sexually-repressed divorcee Carly (post-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone) and mysterious, peeping-tom landlord Zeke (William Baldwin).
The Story of O (1975) A soft-core (NC-17, originally rated X), fantasy-based sex film (with rampant nudity), was based on the scandalous erotic novel. It starred Corinne Clery as the title character, who was brought to a brothel-dungeon, where she was taught the ways of bondage, servitude, and S&M from 'master' trainers.
Summer Lovers (1982) Although intellectually vacuous, this sun-drenched film shot in Greece told of a ménage a trois between a young college grad (Peter Gallagher) and two frequently unclothed females, his girlfriend (Daryl Hannah) and a French archaeologist (Valerie Quennessen).
Swimming Pool (2003, Fr.) This twisting thriller set in the South of France often exhibited the voluptuous body of enigmatic French girl (Ludivine Sagnier) by the pool in view of inhibited English novelist Sarah (Charlotte Rampling).
10 (1979) Blake Edwards' blockbuster romantic-sex comedy was most noted for cornrow-haired Bo Derek (as Jenny) making a sensational, slo-motion beach appearance, as the object of obsession for middle-aged pop music composer George Webber (Dudley Moore). The culmination of his fantasy was Jenny's seduction of him to the tune of Ravel's Bolero.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990, Sp.) A love-struck petty criminal and ex-psychiatric patient (Antonio Banderas) kidnapped and held in bondage ex-porn star and B-movie actress Marina (Victoria Abril) to win her affection - in this NC-17 film.
Titanic (1997) Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet headlined James Cameron's infamous, record-breaking, epic dramatization of the disastrous sinking of the R.M.S. ocean liner in 1912. Two members of differing social classes, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, entered into a doomed and sometimes sappy (and unlikely) romance as star-crossed lovers.
Two Moon Junction (1988) Passionate, sordid and steamy romance (with frank love scenes) was the subject of this melodramatic erotic tale about a wealthy Southern socialite (Sherilyn Fenn) enthralled by the affections of a muscular carnival worker (Richard Tyson).
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) With the backdrop of the Prague Spring in late 1960s Czechoslovakia, womanizing surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) juggled his polyamorous love for romantic Tereza (Juliette Binoche) with his lustful, free-spirited attraction for artist Sabina (Lena Olin).
Unfaithful (2002) Adrian Lyne's erotic drama illustrated the deadly consequences of an extra-marital adulterous affair, seen in extended, racy love scenes involving the unfaithful wife (Diane Lane), married to suspicious husband (Richard Gere), after a chance meeting with a handsome French used book dealer (Olivier Martinez).
White Palace (1990) A romantic drama, set in St. Louis, Missouri, portrayed the unlikely (and lustful) relationship between 27 year-old middle-class widower and ad executive Max Baron (James Spader) and middle-aged, uneducated, slobbish, working-class waitress Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), who was fixated on Marilyn Monroe. She worked at the White Palace (a thinly-disguised greasy-spoon White Castle), the film's title.
Wild at Heart (1990) Director David Lynch's eccentric, sex-drenched and lurid road tale followed the wild flight of a crazy-in-love couple: hot Lulu Fortune (Laura Dern) and ex-con Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage).
Wild Orchid (1990) Frequently regarded as sleazy and originally rated X before censoring, Zalman King's erotic drama with soft-core sex scenes was notorious for its realistic couplings in Rio between an innocent, seduced small-time lawyer (Carre Otis) and a wealthy lout (Mickey Rourke).
Wild Things (1998) This plot-twisting erotic thriller with multiple double-crosses starred many fresh-faced young stars, including trailer-trash Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) and teen socialite Kelly (Denise Richards), who revealed their allegiance to accused guidance counselor (Matt Dillon) during an infamous threesome scene.
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Mex.) In its tale of sexual exploration, gravely-ill temptress Luisa (Maribel Verdu) joined two randy teen suitors during their road trip to unknown destinations, and bared all by having sex with both of them and causing simmering jealousies.
Zandalee (1991) The title character, married Zandalee (Erika Anderson) sought fulfilling sex during a torrid fling with her husband's painter-friend Johnny Collins (Nicolas Cage) - a love triangle that turned tragic.