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A type of drama with an emphasis on eroticism and where a sexual relationship plays an important role in the plot. Often these frank films contain elements of graphic nudity, sexual intercourse, and fetishism, yet these acts rarely are portrayed gratuitously or for simple voyeuristic pleasure. Often, the attention is drawn to issues of pleasure, companionship, and emotional and physical necessity. Unlike exploitation or porn flicks, erotic dramas offer more elaborate dramatic structure, deeper psychological character motivations and display a higher artistic level; some of them have become acknowledged classics. Unfortunately, Hollywood's traditional reluctance in dealing with overtly sexual and erotic topics in a serious manner (studios prefer to link sex with violence, exemplified by the erotic thriller, or with humor in the teen sex comedy) have given this subgenre a predominantly international flavor since the mid-'60s. A few notable examples include Last Tango in Paris, In the Realm of the Senses, Betty Blue, Henry and June, Crash, The Lover, Lovers, The Hairdresser's Husband, Breaking the Waves, The Piano, Matador, and The Pillow Book. Domestically, the abandonment of the Hayes Code in the late ‘60s offered American filmmakers chances to maturely explore eroticism for the first time. Disappointingly, between Hollywood's squeamishness, the underground's ‘70s sexploitation movement and the ‘80s post-AIDS age of abstinence, little of interest was made. However, the rise of the American independents in the late-'80s and ‘90s finally produced filmmakers willing to address eroticism without shyness, leading to domestic starting points like Blue Velvet, sex, lies and videotape and Female Perversions. ...
Directed by Luis Buñuel, Raymond Hakim , Henri Baum, Robert Hakim , Jean Sorel , Luis Buρuel
Directed by Yi Mou Zhang, Yang Fengliang, Fengliang Yang, Zhang Yimou

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The erotic drama is back with the release of “Deep Water,” the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas-starring thriller that marks the long-awaited directorial return of Adrian Lyne. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is a master of the erotic thriller, having directed some of the most acclaimed and/or profitable erotic dramas of all time with the likes of “9½ Weeks,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Indecent Proposal” and “Unfaithful.” Lyne was nominated for best director at the Oscars thanks to “Fatal Attraction,” while “Unfaithful” earned Diane Lane an Oscar nomination for best actress.
With “Deep Water” now streaming, Variety is rounding up the other erotic dramas now available on Hulu, Prime Video, Netflix and more platforms. Many of the films listed below are some of the sexiest films ever made, while nearly all of them are guaranteed to provoke and shock the viewer with their frank depictions of sex and intimacy.
“Deep Water,” based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, stars Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas as a married couple who are constantly testing each other psychologically. Hulu’s official synopsis says the film “takes us inside the marriage of picture-perfect Vic (Affleck) and Melinda (de Armas) Van Allen to discover the dangerous mind games they play and what happens to the people that get caught up in them.” The supporting cast includes Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Dash Mihok, Finn Wittrock, Jacob Elordi, Rachel Blanchard and Michael Braun. The movie marks a directorial return for Adrian Lyne as it’s his first feature directorial effort since “Unfaithful.” Read Variety’s review here .
Diane Lane was Oscar nominated for best actress thanks to her performance in Adrian Lyne’s erotic thriller “Unfaithful.” Co-starring Richard Gere and Olivier Martinez, the movie centers on a couple whose marriage dangerously falls apart after the wife has an affair with a mysterious stranger she encounters by chance. From Variety’s review : “Adrian Lyne takes an uncharacteristically cool approach to adultery in ‘Unfaithful,’ a precision-tooled, moody study in the wages of betrayal. This refitting of Claude Chabrol’s 1968 classic ‘La Femme Infidele’ is less concerned with suspense and dramatic fireworks than is the usual American erotic thriller and is much more devoted to nuances and the minutiae of how men and women behave, pretend and lie in duplicitous situations.”
Park Chan-wook’s erotic psychological thriller “The Handmaiden” stars Kim Tae-ri as a woman whose hired to be the housemaid for a Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) in a plot to defraud the woman, but the plan goes awry when the maid falls in love with her target. From Variety’s review : “Boasting more tangled plots and bodies than an octopus has tentacles, South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Handmaiden’ is a bodice-ripper about a pickpocket who poses as a maid to swindle a sequestered heiress. His first Korean-language fiction feature since 2009’s ‘Thirst,’ it’s sybaritic, cruel and luridly mesmerizing.”
Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct” is one of the most iconic erotic thrillers thanks to Sharon Stone’s performance as Catherine Tramell, a seductive writer who becomes the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a rock star. Heading the investigation is San Francisco police detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), who becomes entangled in a torrid romance with Catherine. Variety gave the movie a rave review , writing, “‘Basic Instinct’ is grade-A pulp fiction. This erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attention through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is as weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral… Stone has a career-making role here as a beautiful, smart manipulator who is always several steps ahead of everyone else.”
Michael Mohan’s “The Voyeurs” puts an erotically-charged spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.” “Euphoria” favorite Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith play a young couple who become obsessed with spying on their neighbors’ sex life (Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo play the couple across the way). A shocking discovery leads Sweeney’s character to insert herself into her neighbors’ lives, which has unintended consequences. Variety was not a fan of the film , calling it a “training-wheels mashup of ‘Rear Window’ and any number of ’90s erotic thrillers…Mohan’s film plays like rehashed leftovers cooked up for young viewers who’ve never seen any of its superior inspirations.”
Before the Wachowski siblings changed Hollywood for good with “The Matrix,” they directed the 1996 neo-noir crime thriller “Bound,” starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon as two women in an affair who set out to scheme a conniving mafioso (Joe Pantoliano) out of $2 million. “Bound” is one of the definitive works of 1990s queer cinema and has an erotic tension between Tilly and Gershon that sizzles off the screen. The movie has emerged as a cult classic over the years after initially dividing critics. Variety’s original review reads: “From the grandiose opening onward, it is clear the Wachowskis are determined to announce their arrival as major stylists, as they lay on the elaborate camera moves, overhead shots, deep shadows and portentous music.”
Ang Lee’s erotic espionage epic “Lust, Caution” is based on the 1979 novella by Eileen Chang and stars Tang Wei as a woman who gets swept up in a game of sexual intrigue with a powerful political figure (Tony Leung). Lee won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with this film, which was released in the U.S. with an NC-17 rating due to its many graphic sex scenes. As Variety noted in its review : “Both Leung and newcomer Tang — whose characters are far more charismatic and attractive than in Chang’s original short story — do strike some sparks, especially in the sex scenes, which are very bold by Chinese standards.
Jane Campion directed Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo in the 2003 psychological thriller “In the Cut,” which tells the story of an English teacher in New York City who becomes entangled in the life of a detective investigating a series of gruesome murders. Campion takes the often male-directed erotic thriller and subverts it with a female gaze. From Variety’s review :
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