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Everyone has a favorite genre: comedy , romance , horror . Those are, of course, the popular ones—or at least the most commonly checked fields when making polite conversation. But there's another element that, one way or another, we're all seeking out, all the time. Sexiness. Movies that evoke the all-too-often taboo topics of intimacy and attraction and lust . These works exist beyond the confines genre, because sex is pervasive; it has a way of making its way into all parts of our lives.
So, anyway, let's get on to what you want: the sexiest films currently available to stream on Netflix. Don't try to put sex in a box (though, there's probably a movie where someone has tried to do just that). There's something below for everyone. Embrace it. And once you're finished here, be sure to check out our list of the sexiest films ever made .
The raunchy side of sexy can still be sexy, and this film proves it. The satire from the 2000s is a perfect encapsulation of all the clichés of teen movies, but subjects those works only flirt with, this one goes all the way.
This queer-adjacent movie is also a thriller, a satire, and perhaps a touch of a horror film? It also features way more skin than it should be allowed to, but it works.
Sam Levinson's black and white Netflix creation may have been met with middling reviews, but the film's co-stars gave such an electrifying performance that reviewers forgave the film's downfalls. Starring Zendaya and John David Washington, the film follows an intimate evening following a couple's night out. Dripping in sexual energy, emotion, and chemistry, the film is a cocktail of sexiness.
Starring Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa, Newness follows a couple from the launch of their relationship through all the trials they face after moving in together.
Jessica Chastain is the lead (again!) in Tate Taylor's 2020 film about a sexy assassin who has to work against the odds to reunite her family without becoming an assassination target herself.
Jezebel takes a look at a different side of the sex work industry, exploring the complexity of being a cam girl. In the film, a woman follows her sister's lead and begins her own webcam shows, but what follows is more complicated than simply signing on and turning a camera on for tips.
Elisa and Marcela tells the true story of the first same-sex marriage in Spain, in which two women, Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, posed as a heterosexual couple so they could marry in 1901.
This psychological horror from director Daniel Goldhaber stars Madeline Brewer as Alice, a cam girl who finds that her online identity has been taken over by a doppelgänger of herself, who is seducing men that mysteriously vanish.
This Spanish film follows the passion and trials of the romance between Laura and Carlos, directed by Esteban Crespo.
Directed by Yuki Tanada, and adapted from her own novel, Romance Doll follows the marriage of Japanese couple Sonoko and Tetsuo, the latter of whom works as a sculptor creating sex dolls.
A struggling couple Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) and Leilani (Issa Rae) are framed for a crime and set off on a hilarious adventure to clear their names.
For any little boy who has ever had a babysitter a few years his senior, this film will strike a bit of nostalgia for those adolescent fantasies. For any little boy whose babysitter also dabbled in the occult and threatened to kill him, let this listicle serve as a trigger warning.
Ali Wong and Randall Park have incredible chemistry in Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe. The film is practically embedded with sexual tension, as the two main characters have an intimate past that gets re-explored 15 years after the fact.
The true story of the most debauched rock group ever, The Dirt follows Mötley Crüe through the heady days of the 1980s as the heavy metal band becomes as famous for their love of sex and drugs as much as their rock and roll.
Spike Lee's first feature film is an indie black-and-white comedy starring Tracy Camilla Johns as a young woman in Brooklyn who juggles three potential boyfriends.
The shocking directorial debut from Elizabeth Wood follows Leah, a young college student in New York who falls for the wrong guy—and will go to extreme lengths to keep him in her life.
Rocco Siffredi offers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at his life as a porn star on the eve of his retirement from the business.
You may have heard about Chris Pine's full-frontal scene, which is barely sexy. But his love scene with co-star Florence Pugh is certainly hot and heavy.
Game of Thrones ' Natalie Dormer co-wrote this sexy thriller about a blind woman who hears her neighbor's (Emily Ratajkowski) murder, which sends her down a dark rabbit hole or violence and corruption.
Director Miguel Arteta co-wrote the screenplay for this comedy with Alia Shawkat, who stars as one half of a couple (alongside Laia Costa) that meets at a club and discovers intimacy through frequent sex.
A playful round of S&M goes terribly wrong in Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's psychological horror film starring Bruce Greenwood and Carla Gugino.
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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
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