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The internet is full of sex. There are sexy pictures, sexy videos, and, of course, porn. (opens in new tab) But sometimes you want to watch something provocative (opens in new tab) without seeing straight-up porn. (opens in new tab) Lucky for you, the world has been producing sexy-but-not- sex -y entertainment for even longer than the internet has been in existence. When you want to watch something that's definitively NSFW, but not quite PornHub, when you're looking for steamy content, but not just intercourse, there are certain mainstream movies that land right in that sweet-spot.
For your sexy-but-not-porn viewing pleasure, we've collected some of the sexiest and most sensual movies that mainstream cinema has ever gifted to the world. From Stanley Kubrick's anonymous sex orgy party classic Eyes Wide Shut to the very different mainstream accounts of real-life BDSM kink in Fifty Shades of Grey and Secretary to scorching hot LGBTQ+ love stories like Blue Is the Warmest Color and Call Me By Your Name , these movies epitomize the best kinds of sexy Hollywood has ever been able to muster. Yes, they have nudity and sex (sometimes just implied, sometimes, um, let's just say very strongly implied), but they also have amazing stories and, in many cases, top notch writing, directing, and acting, too—all courtesy of true A-list talent, no less.
Bookmark this list for the next time your body is aching for a sexy story to satisfy your binging urge (and, you know, any other related urges you might have).
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, and Marie Richardson
What makes it sexy: Stanley Kubrick's last completed film was this erotic drama, which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman back when they were still married IRL. It's also notable for making masked orgies look like the sexiest possible use of a weekend.
Starring: Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Selma Blair, Inanna Sarkis, Shane Paul McGhie, Pia Mia, Khadijha Red Thunder, Dylan Arnold, Samuel Larsen, Jennifer Beals, and Peter Gallagher
What makes it sexy: It's based on One Direction sex fan fiction, sooooooo.... 🔥.
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair
What makes it sexy: It's just your classic girl-bets-sex-with-step-brother-over-his-ability-to-seduce-another-girl-who-happens-to-be-a-virgin story. Okay, so that's not a great setup, but somehow Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon made it surprisingly sexy (so sexy that Reese and Ryan married the year it was released).
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, and Marcia Gay Harden
What makes it sexy: Could we do a sexy movie list without including the Fifty Shades trilogy? Obviously no. Christian and Anastasia have been through a lot of sexy moments during the series, but that elevator kiss in the first flick? Still classic.
Starring: James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal
What makes it sexy: Before Fifty Shades hit the scene and got everyone all hot and bothered about mainstream S&M, there was Secretary, which gives a much more grounded look at a dom/sub relationship than Fifty Shades . The indie favorite was written by Erin Cressida Wilson (who would go on to pen the screenplays for The Girl on the Train and 2009's erotic thriller Chloe ) and, fun fact, Spader's dom character is also named Mr. Grey.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, and Bill Paxton
What makes it sexy: That steamy handprint that burned in our collective brains, for one.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, and Cynthia Rhodes
What makes it sexy: The dancing, obviously.
Starring: Eiko Matsuda and Tatsuya Fuji
What makes it sexy: Graphic, unsimulated sex scenes and a story about a forbidden affair between a maid and a married man.
Starring: Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger
What makes it sexy: This movie pushed the envelope when it came to sex in mainstream movies and the kinky romance between Rourke and Basinger led to some iconic movie moments, including one particularly memorable kitchen scene.
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Richard Crenna
What makes it sexy: It's inspired by Double Indemnity and tells the story of a seductive woman who uses sex to manipulate her lover into murdering her husband. AKA, sex-fueled intrigue all over.
Starring: Naomi Watts and Robin Wright
What makes it sexy: This Australian-French drama is about not one, but two very taboo love affairs. When lifelong BFFs Roz and Lil (Watts and Wright) begin affairs with each other's teenage sons, things are drama-bound from minute one.
Starring: Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali
What makes it sexy: This coming-of-age drama may not seem super sexy at first glance, but it's full of tender, touching sex scenes that more than earn it a spot on this year.
Starring: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, and Cho Jin-woong
What makes it sexy: It's basically the definition of "erotic" in every imaginable way.
Starring: Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel
What makes it sexy: This French drama focuses on the forbidden love affair between two women—an aristocrat and the artist hired to paint her portrait—in 18th century France.
Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave
What makes it sexy: The library scene. Also the sweeping, tragic romance. But mainly the library scene.
Starring: Tracy Camilla Johns, Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, and Raye Dowell
What makes it sexy: You know what's sexy? Female autonomy, that's what. And Spike Lee's 1986 classic She's Gotta Have It , which follows a woman who's dating three men, has that in spades. The movie is such a classic, it spawned a Netflix series of the same name.
Starring: Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams
What makes it sexy: This movie is about the breakdown of a marriage, but the sexy moments that make up that breakdown are so hot the movie nearly ended up with an NC-17 rating.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
What makes it sexy: It would be hard to make a movie about the Golden Age of Porn that wasn't sexy.
Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, and John Ryan
What makes it sexy: This movie marked the the Wachowskis' directorial debut and tells the story of a passionate love affair between two women—one of whom happens to be the girlfriend of a mobster.
Starring: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster
What makes it sexy: The film is famous for its same-sex love scene between Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring.
Starring: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, and Patrick d'Assumçao
What makes it sexy: This modern iconic queer film is equal parts sex thrills and just plain thrilling thrills.
Starring: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, and Louis Garrel
What makes it sexy: The Dreamers is about a love triangle involving a brother, sister, and an American student in Paris. Eva Green stars and is supremely sensual. There are two versions of the movie out there—an NC-17 cut and an R-rated version that's roughly three minutes shorter. Clearly, those are three important minutes.
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, J. K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, and Adam Brody
What makes it sexy: Megan Fox as a demonically possessed teen who kills and consumes her male classmates? It's a feminist horror masterpiece and sexy AF to boot.
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Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen
What makes it sexy: Love. Sex. Betrayal. All with that cast .
Starring: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, and Diego Luna
What makes it sexy: This is, hands down, the sexiest road trip movie of all time and a must-see for fans of director Alfonso Cuarón, who would go on to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Children of Men and to become the first Mexican director to win the Best Director Academy Award, for Gravity .
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, and Katharine Ross
What makes it sexy: The movie is basically a study in seduction.
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire Du Bois
What makes it sexy: Call Me By Your Name 's worthiness for this list can be summed up in two words: Timothée. Chalamet. (opens in new tab) On top of the je ne sais quoi of the young Franco-American actor, of course, the film is also a gripping portrait of a budding relationship. But let's not discount the Chalamet factor.
Starring: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Alastair Galbraith, Susannah Harker, and Timothy Spall
What makes it sexy: Well, the unsimulated fellatio doesn't hurt .
Starring: Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos
What makes it sexy: In 2013, Blue Is the Warmest Colour , shook audiences with its arousing look into the nuances of sexuality. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Blue Is The Warmest Colour follows the relationship of a French teen named Adèle and aspiring painter, Emma.
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll, and Chris Haywood
What makes it sexy: This erotic indie drama, about a college student who works at a unique, high-end brothel to earn money, is no fairytale.
Starring: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
What makes it sexy: The movie, about two strangers who meet on train and spend a night walking around Vienna together, perfectly captures the excitement meeting someone you feel an instant spark and connection with. The hours-long romance culminates in a sexy night in the park and an open-ended question about the couple's future (which is answered in subsequent movies, for inquiring minds).
Starring: Zendaya and John David Washington
What makes it sexy: This romantic film plays out more or less in real time as a couple argues after an emotional night out and part of what makes the stripped-down drama work so well is the intense chemistry between Zendaya and Washington.
Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, and Erik Per Sullivan
What makes it sexy: It's an erotic thriller about an married woman who embarks on a dangerous affair with a stranger. Classic sexy movie set up.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matt Bomer, Olivia Munn, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey
What makes it sexy: Magic Mike turns the tables on objectifcation and focuses on a group of male strippers.When Magic Mike came out, I'll admit, I was like "Huh? Why?" But then I saw Channing Tatum dance to "Pony" and I was like, "Oh. I get it."
Starring: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, and Elena Anaya
What makes it sexy: If we had to pick just one thing, probably the orgies
Starring: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, and Maria de Medeiros.
What makes it sexy: Based on Anaïs Nin's 1986 book, the NC-17-rated drama tells the story Nin's relationship with Henry Miller and his wife, June.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, and Nicole Beharie
What makes it sexy: Fassbender's, um, revealing performance.
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Mildred Natwick, and Uma Thurman
What makes it sexy: It's based on the same classic sexed-up French novel that inspired Cruel Intentions , but this version has period costumes.
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Anupam Kher, Joan Chen, and Wang Leehom
What makes it sexy: The NC-17-rated steamy love scenes between Wei Tang and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung.
Starring: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, and Rocco Siffredi
What makes it sexy: This French arthouse film features unsimulated sex and raw emotion in spades.
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac
What makes it sexy: Alicia Vikander plays a sexy android. It's romance. It's sci-fi. It's everything you need it to be and more.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, and Joanna Kulig
What makes it sexy: The story, which follows a journalist who interviews two young sex workers for an article and starts rediscovering her own sexuality in the process.
Starring: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo
What makes it sexy: Sex, Lies, and Videotape isn't just about characters having sex, it's also full of frank conversations about sex, which is fascinating and titillating in its own wa y too. This Steven Soderbergh-directed film also marks a second James Spader appearance on this list, FWIW.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon
What makes it sexy: This horror movie is about a hungry vampire, but director Tony Scott made the onscreen flesh-eating very sensual. Plus, the movie's topless woman-on-woman scene caused a stir back in the day and put the movie (and Susan Sarandon) on the map.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder
What makes it sexy: Ballet—and hellish nightmares—have never been sexier than in this mind-trip of a movie from director Darren Aronofsky.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, and Kerry Washington
What makes it sexy: Known forever as the movie that brought Brangelina together, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is also the film that captures their early chemistry for the world to see. The scene where they literally bring down a house will make you understand why they had to be together IRL too.
What makes it sexy: Umm, Nana Kagga, clearly.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Robert Wagner, and Bill Murray
What makes it sexy: The threesome scene between Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, and Matt Dillon definitely doesn't hurt.
Starrring: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn, Rebecca Hall, and Chris Messina.
What makes it sexy: Um, the cast. Clearly.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli.
What makes it sexy: This might be the quintessential sexy mainstream movie. In it, Catherine Deneuve plays a housewife who decides to try her hand at prostitution, but the dreamy production makes it hard to know for sure if what happens is real or a dream.
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, and Philip Baker Hall
What makes it sexy: The palpable chemistry between Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law. Mmm.
Starring: Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley
What makes it sexy: This modern love story features unsimulated sex and centers on two people who's main interests in life are going to concerts and banging each other. How could it not be sexy?
Starring; Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima, Daisy Broom, Fred Hotier and Lorenzo Lefebvre
What makes it sexy: A French movie about hormonal teens playing Truth or Dare? Sex, sex, sex.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Max Thieriot, R. H. Thomson, Nina Dobrev, and Meghan Heffern
What makes it sexy: When a wife (Julianne Moore) thinks her husband (Liam Neeson) is cheating, she hires a call girl (Amanda Seyfried at her absolute sexiest) to try to tempt him. The plan doesn't go perfectly though, considering said call girl ends up seducing the wife, too.
Starring: Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Alfre Woodard, and Dennis Haysbert
What makes it sexy: The movie follows a couple's journey from childhood sweethearts into adulthood, but the sexiest scene involves a steamy game of strip basketball.
Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams.
What makes it sexy: Its earnestness and honesty, hands down.
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alessandro Nivola
What makes it sexy: Forbidden love. Sexy leads. Nothing not to like.
Starring: Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, and Klara Kristin
What makes it sexy: This 2015 French erotic art film by Gaspar Noé features unsimulated sex scenes and was released in 3D.
Starring: Natalia de Molina and Greta Fernández
What makes it sexy: This biopic about the first recorded same-sex marriage in Spain is sexy enough on its own, but the fact that it's based on a true story makes it achingly beautiful.
Starring: Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung.
What makes it sexy: The anticipation. The movie is all about two neighbors whose spouses are having an affair—and about the aching (but unrealized) yearning they have for each other.
Starring : Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith
What makes it sexy : The chemistry between Kaluuya and Smith is off the charts, as strangers who go on the run after killing a cop in self-defense on their first date.
Starring : Vivian Wu and Ewan McGregor
What makes it sexy : Calligraphy has never been sexier than in this film, which follows a woman who's turned on by her lovers writing on her body.
Starring : Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo
What makes it sexy : This thriller draws out the danger inherent in sex, as a writing professor has an affair with a detective investigating a woman's murder.
Starring : Allen Payne and Jada Pinkett Smith
What makes it sexy : The romantic love story between Jason (Payne) and Lyric (Smith), not to mention the steamy sex scenes.
Starring : Tilda Swinton and Edoardo Gabbriellini
What makes it sexy : Before Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino directed this slow-build of an affair between a mother and her son's friend.
Kayleigh Roberts is a freelance writer and editor with more than 10 years of professional experience. Her byline has appeared in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, The Atlantic, Allure, Entertainment Weekly, MTV, Bustle, Refinery29, Girls’ Life Magazine, Just Jared, and Tiger Beat, among other publications. She's a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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