Challengers That scene on the bed? Steamy. Thank you, Luca Guadagnino and Zendaya, for bringing sexy movies and sports films back to the big screen—in one fell swoop.
X A slasher movie about a seventies porn set? I’m in genre-crossover heaven. Ti West’s indie-horror flick not only scratches the itch for something thrilling, but it also features Kid Cudi getting down and dirty for a porno titled The Farmer’s Daughters.
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Magic Mike People don’t give Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike the credit it deserves. Following an adult entertainer who takes a newcomer under his wing, the film is the definition of sex appeal, with a buffet of sexy scenes and dance sequences. But what makes it great is that its plot is pretty solid as well…a rarity in a film with this much steam.
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Call Me by Your Name The Italian-set summer romance about a teenage boy (Timothée Chalamet) who falls in love with his father’s apprentice (Armie Hammer) is absolutely electric. Awkward at times, it perfectly captures the excitement and longing of wanting to be with someone despite having no idea what you’re doing.
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Hustlers Based on a true story, this 2019 crime drama stars Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Lizzo, and Cardi B as a group of New York strippers who rob rich Wall Street douchebags after drugging them during a night out.
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The Favourite Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone star as Queen Anne, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, and Abigail Masham, respectively, in Yorgos Lanthimos’s incredible dark period comedy. The 2018 film examines the love triangle and political-power jockeying between Sarah and Abigail as they fight for the queen’s love and attention. All three leads were nominated for acting Academy Awards, with Colman winning for Best Actress.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire One of the most critically acclaimed movies of the past few years, Portrait of a Lady on Fire explores the artistic love affair between Héloïse and Marianne on the coast of Brittany in the 1770s.
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The Handmaiden From acclaimed director Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden is a period drama set in colonial Korea and Japan. Based on Sarah Waters’s novel Fingersmith, it tells the story of a Japanese heiress and a Korean woman who have a deeply lustful rendezvous. The heated relationship is dialed up even further, however, by an underlying crime: The relationship is a scam to seduce the heiress into losing her inheritance.
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The Shape of Water When you feel it, you feel it. And for a Guillermo del Toro protagonist, sometimes that means feeling it for an amphibious humanoid stuck inside the high-security government laboratory where you work. Both a tender love story and a sci-fi feat, The Shape of Water shows that love heeds no bounds or glass enclosures. It also shows just how important a bathtub can be for a single person on the go.
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Moonlight While its themes span much further than sexual exploration, the 2016 Best Picture winner is a beautifully dynamic presentation of its protagonist’s sexuality. Following the life of Chiron, a young, queer Black man growing up in Miami, the film boasts sensual cinematography and weighted tones of latent sexual expression that paint a vivid and complex portrait of identity. Its masterful sex scene is one to be studied by filmmakers for years to come, as it balances subtlety with poignancy, and withholding with release.
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Wet Hot American Summer What movie has captured the painfully hilarious stereotypes of being a horny teen better than Wet Hot American Summer? It’s the perfect parody of a coming-of-age movie, with all its clichés: barely dressed women emerging from a body of water, awkward first times, and a feathered-haired Amy Poehler. That last one is kind of niche to this film, but it’s important nonetheless.
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Booksmart Booksmart elevates the horny coming-of-age genre with a thoughtful spin on leaving high school and your best friend behind. Make no mistake, though: It doesn’t miss the opportunity to lean into one universal truth—teens all think about sex constantly. One of the best scenes involves a van, a principal, a porno, and a cringeworthy phone-volume issue that is all too relatable.
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno Two roommates—played by Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen—get in some financial shit, so they try to make some money in the adult-film biz. Stay away if you’re not ready to let Star Whores ruin your childhood.
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Bull Durham Before a movie about nerds and numbers became our favorite baseball flick, there was Bull Durham—in which Kevin Costner’s Crash Davis and Susan Sarandon’s Annie Savoy find themselves doing the only thing that could make minor-league baseball interesting.
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Love & Basketball Two star-crossed ballers try to make a relationship work amid coach-enforced curfews and the beckoning of D-1 basketball. Featuring what’s probably the only one-on-one game of strip mini hoops depicted in the history of the moving image.
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Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick’s final film stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in an adaptation of a modernist Austrian novella. It’s also pretty much all about sex, with Cruise and Kidman playing a married couple navigating a truly astonishing number of romantic temptations—including a potentially murderous masked orgy cult.
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Blue Valentine In between breaking each other’s hearts, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams find time for an encounter often lauded as one of the most authentic oral-sex scenes committed to film.
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Atonement Atonement is a heavy WWII–era film about the human cost of life-ruining lies, but damn if it doesn’t have the sultriest library sex scene of all time.
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