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We watch movies for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes, we desperately need a laugh because the real world has just gotten too real. Sometimes, all we want is a good, cathartic cry and we look for the saddest, most dramatically gut-wrenching story available to summon the tears. And other times, we just want to see sexy people being sexy onscreen and we look for steamy (opens in new tab) , sultry (opens in new tab) , or otherwise blush-inducing movies (opens in new tab) to get the blood flowing to, well, the areas that drove us to seek out the sexiness in the first place.
Sure, most of us have some go-to sexy movies that we know always hit the spot and there are plenty of classic, so-sexy-they're-practically-porn movies that we can turn to thanks to the glory of the streaming gods, but sometimes you're just yearning for something new. That's where this list comes in. We've done the research so you don't have to and compiled a very handsy erm, handy list of some of the sexiest new movies making their debut to the world in 2021. From intimate explorations of love and relationships to movies full of vengefully sexy mind games, here are the sexiest stories you need make sure to watch this year.
Starring: Zendaya and John David Washington
The sexy, sexy premise: This black and white film is basically a fly-on-the-wall, deeply intimate look at the inner workings of a couple's relationship, told through a conversation they have after returning home from a movie premiere.
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Jack O'Connell, Raúl Castillo and Soko
The sexy, sexy premise: A couple struggles to keep their relationship together as a virus that causes memory loss threatens to erase their history.
Starring: Peter Vack, Buddy Duress, Nikki Belfiglio, Austin Brown and Julia Fox
The sexy, sexy premise: A lonely internet gambler becomes obsessed with a cam girl who lives across the country—and eventually his fantasy comes true when he sees her IRL.
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Starring: Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston, Christopher Abbott, and Casey Affleck
The sexy, sexy premise: In the 1850s, two farm wives escape their suffocating isolation by striking up a forbidden romance with each other.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz

The sexy, sexy premise: Just the sexiest Avenger of all finally getting her own movie, that's all.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, and Rachel Blanchard

The sexy, sexy, premise: A bored, disillusioned married couple begin playing dangerous (even deadly) mind games with each other. It also happens to be the movie where Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas met and fell for each other, so expect some explosive onscreen chemistry.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, and Ralph Fiennes

The sexy, sexy premise: Daniel Craig is back for his last turn as 007 and "Bond, James Bond" always equals "sexy, very sexy."
Starring: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Olivia Colman and Colin Firth

The sexy, sexy premise: Secret lovers from different social classes are able to be together just one more time before one of them is set to marry someone else in this period piece set in the 1920s. Bonus: It's penned by the same screenwriter who adapted Hulu's uber-steamy Normal People for TV.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Corey Stoll, Brian d'Arcy James, and Rita Moreno

The sexy, sexy premise: We all know this one, right? Star-crossed lovers from rival gangs—all the drama and sexual tension of Romeo & Juliet but with big, show-stopping musical numbers.
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Editor’s Note: This story was originally posted on July 23, 2017, and has been updated on Friday, March 4, 2022.
It’s no secret that sex sells, and movies are no exception. But while plenty of films like to show gratuitous sex, they’re not always very good. That’s a problem, since movies have the power to shape not only the cultural norms, but personal ones.
And what could be more personal than sex? Sexuality is an integral part of the human experience, not some sensational or shameful ploy to sell tickets (though it doesn’t hurt).
That’s why we think it’s important to single out the very best films that also happen to be incredibly sexy, titillating, and provocative.
These are not only some of our favorite films in general, but they’re films that celebrate the broad spectrum of human sexuality while telling stories as cinematic as they are personal.
Some don’t have any sex scenes at all, while some are notoriously near-pornographic. When these movies do show sex it is always in service of the story, and always in order to challenge, subvert, or celebrate contemporary beliefs about sexuality.
The list below is filled with some 21st-century American classics, indies and foreign films, and plenty of unexpected films you might not expect to make their way into a list of the best sexy movies of the last two decades. Often, it’s the erotic charge between characters approximating their desires, the sex that’s not being had that could be, that makes these films winning contenders for such a list.
Turn on (and get turned on by) our list of the 40 best sexy movies of the 21st century (well, so far). You know you want to.
Kate Erbland, Jude Dry, Eric Kohn, Zack Sharf, and Jamie Righetti also contributed to this story.
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Hot and heavy royal trysts are nothing new, with bodice rippers like “The Tudors” and “Bridgerton” attracting viewers who like their onscreen sex with a dash of historical sophistication. But nothing is ever as it seems in a Yorgos Lanthimos film, and the director of “The Lobster” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” took the period piece in a decidedly different direction with “The Favourite.” His black comedy trades royal romance for a Machiavellian power struggle, complete with blackmail and a torrid lesbian love triangle. Olivia Colman stars as Queen Anne, the 18th-century English monarch who sleeps with both an influential duchess and, eventually, Emma Stone’s conniving Abigail. While the film’s story is an excellent reminder that powerful women can be just as susceptible to making bad decisions based on sex as men can, the fraught bedroom moments stand out as some of the most vividly bizarre love scenes in recent memory. -CZ
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Any horror lover should get a kick out of Anna Biller’s “The Love Witch,” which dutifully captures the Technicolor aesthetic in a playful tribute to 1960s horror movies. As the title suggests, the film follows a witch who uses her supernatural powers to lure men into her bed. The film is actually an intelligent commentary on gender roles and the unique power that women have over men in the real world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the multitude of delightfully campy sex scenes too. – CZ
Mona Fastvold’s frontier lesbian romance is fraught with all manner of hardships that afflict living life on the edge in the 1850s — apocalyptic snowstorms, perishing livestock, buried desires confined to secret diary entries. But the spark between Abigail (Katherine Waterston) and Tallie (Vanessa Kirby), two women coupled in heterosexual relationships to difficult men, is volcanic. What’s not seen is what’s most throbbingly romantic, as the two women do a sort of drawn-out dance over the course of a blooming friendship that always had an electric erotic current. Eventually, they take it to the bedroom in a kind of supercut of sharp sex scenes that punctuate the film’s inevitably tragic last passage — underlining that their affair was doomed from the start, but one that will stay indelibly close to Abigail’s heart (and loins). – RL
“Raw” is not for the faint of heart, but those who can stomach it will be rewarded with an unforgettable viewing experience. Julia Ducournau’s story of a vegetarian who develops an insatiable craving for flesh when she tastes meat for the first time is unapologetically violent and erotic, but never gratuitously so. The film eschews romance in favor of showing its protagonist satisfying her needs through rough, primal sex. It is certainly one of the sexier films about cannibalism ever made, but when you can look past the excessiveness, there’s a very real metaphor to take away. -CZ
Isabel Sandoval’s masterful portrait of a trans Filipina immigrant is so intimately rendered it almost feels too close at times. The elegant breakout film was entirely directed, written, produced, and edited by Sandoval, who also plays the film’s sympathetic lead Olivia. The film follows an undocumented trans woman as she saves up for a green card marriage while working as a home health aide for an elderly Russian woman (Lynn Cohen) in Brighton Beach. Her plan becomes complicated by a simmering romance with the ne’er-do-well grandson Alex (Eamon Farren), a lost but gentle soul with a Slavic sex appeal. Their scenes are laden with a sexual tension that eventually gives way to latent desire, foreshadowed by intimately erotic scenes of Olivia’s self-pleasure. With her many hats translating into such confidently crafted cinema, Sandoval is the closest thing queer film has to a trans auteur working on such a level. Sharply edited and shot with an austere beauty, “Lingua Franca” is a profound example of what happens when marginalized voices are given full creative control. – JD
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Pedro Almodóvar is never one to shy from a complex erotic bond, and here the one between Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit) is both a kind of mother-daughter connection, but one that takes increasingly kinky turns. Their dynamic is ever-shifting from the maternal, to the erotic, and back again. Plenty of Almodóvar films have featured raunchy, vigorous sex scenes, but “Parallel Mothers” is sexiest for the electricity humming between Janis, who is childless in middle age and derailed by a busted affair, and Ana, a scared teenager staring down the precipice of parenthood. All these threads are tied up in a twisted little package that’s also one of Almodóvar’s most sumptuous love stories to date. -RL
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On the surface, “Phantom Thread” may be made of a quiet, sheer material. But lift up the hem of Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece, and there’s an intricate network of emotional power dynamics and sexual politics handsewn throughout. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock, who selects factory worker Alma (Vicky Krieps) to become his new model and muse. The 1950s-set film positions Reynolds and Alma as an obvious couple in context, despite their glaring differences in taste, status, and demeanor. But as the film slowly unravels under the audience’s gaze, it’s clear the duo have a shared nihilistic iciness. Alma and Reynolds dance (literally and figuratively) around which of them will succumb to their own desires, and which advances will land in fleeting contentment or unleash the wrath of a frustrated artist and overlooked muse. Don’t mistake “Phantom Thread” for a traditional love story; it’s a thriller wearing the coat of a romance rooted in self-hatred, and the true couple lies in Reynolds’ two personae within himself — the tortured inner artist and the famous, publicly revered fashion designer with a legacy to uphold. -SB
Joachim Trier builds life-destroying sexual longing as so few do in his portrait of a woman in romantic crisis, “The Worst Person in the World.” Julie (Renate Reinsve) weighs romantic options between the more stable Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie) and more chaotic choice Elvind (Herbert Nordrum). In her first encounter with Elvind, they agree not to touch, instead spending a night together at a raucous party outlining all the things they might do to each other if they both weren’t already in other relationships. A gorgeous and literally slow-burning shot of Julie and Elvind passing a smoke ring is one of the sexist moments on screens in recent years. And when she finally runs toward her future and into Elvind’s bed, the delayed psychosexual gratification is worth the wait. – RL
Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age film won the Jury Prize at Cannes, telling the story of a young girl from Oklahoma who escapes her brutal household to pursue a salacious affair with a would-be cult leader played by Shia LaBeouf. The film is one of the best uses of LaBeouf’s talents to date, and turned its star Sasha Lane into an indie film darling. The relationship between its two leads is complicated and often problematic, with the film reaching no easy answers about their relationship. But the sex scenes, often shot very closely, are simultaneously sexy and intimate while conveying exactly why this girl chooses this man to help her escape reality. – CZ
There is no “I can’t quit you” moment in writer-director Francis Lee’s expertly crafted cinematic debut, only the bleak but beautiful landscape of the Yorkshire countryside. Gorgeously shot and engaging from beginning to end, “God’s Own Country” is the kind of gay film more people should be making, unflinching in its approach to sex scenes. The documentary-style farm scenes elevate it far beyond traditional gay dramas, and it doesn’t make the mistake of confusing tragedy with quality. It’s the story of a young man named Johnny (Josh O’Connor), who is stuck (in many ways) managing his family’s livelihood in the wake of his father’s stroke. To help with lambing season, the family hires a Romanian migrant worker named Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu). While Johnny is well-versed in soliciting random sex at livestock auctions, he isn’t prepared for the intensity of real human connection — much less Gheorghe’s puppy-dog brown eyes. When the two head up the mountain to birth the lambs, things get muddy — and viscerally sexy, as Johnny and Gheorghe’s encounters take on an at first animalistic energy before evolving into something deeper and more tender. – JD
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in “Disobedience.”
To describe Sebastian Lelio’s “Disobedience” as “sexy” is in some ways an injustice. While the film notably features girl-on-girl sex, the subject matter is decidedly unsexy, telling the story of a lesbian who was ostracized from the Orthodox Jewish community for her lifestyle and reconnects with a past love when she returns for her father’s funeral. The film’s use of sex is extremely nuanced, using it to advance a bittersweet storyline rather than turn viewers on. But no matter how complex the film is, it will likely always be remembered for an infamous sex scene in which Rachel Weisz spits into Rachel McAdams’ mouth. —CZ
Before “Bridgerton” seemed to coin the “I burn for you” catchphrase, Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” set Cannes ablaze as a lesbian period piece rooted in forbidden love, feminism, and the haunted yearning of a life unlived. Set along the Brittany coast in the late 18th century, “Portrait” follows determined artist Marianne (Noémie Merlant) after she is tasked with painting a wedding portrait of reluctant bride-to-be Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) in secret. As Marianne lives a double life – playing Héloïse’s live-in companion by day while trying to sketch her face from memory by night – the two women forge a deeper bond based on their shared dissatisfaction with the lives they are supposed to lead. The lines between subject and painter, art and artist, are blurred until Marianne and Héloïse begin a tender love affair, one that inevitably has an expiration date. An especially memorable scene featuring the couple playing with mirrors atop their genitals echoes the emotional push inward as both characters see themselves for the first time in one another. – SB
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Steven Soderbergh returns for a double dose of Channing Tatum stripteases with “Magic Mike XXL,” the 2015 sequel to the stripping-as-a-sport drama loosely based on Tatum’s real-life experiences as an exotic dancer. Yet what pushed “XXL” to be deemed revolutionary by critics was the fil
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