The 40 Most Horny Movies Ever Made

Although this element is largely absent from the source material, cinema’s reigning prince of darkness has been portrayed as a lusty bastard since at least 1931, when Bela Lugosi brought Eastern European royalty and seductiveness to the role. Updates to Hammer Horror in the 1960s introduced an even more overtly charming Dracula, and since then the “vampires are equally sexy” ethos has spread throughout the vampire genre, from Interview with the Vampire to Twilight (two exceptionally horny films we Let’s discuss). Later). Francis Ford Coppola’s sinister vision, however, is something entirely different, especially in the first half of the film: Dracula’s opulent (if rotting) castle is dressed for Roman-style orgies, full of bare-breasted brides hungry for men; Keanu Reeves wanders the halls in a psychedelic haze and with an obvious, almost visible, movie-length boner. Things don’t let up as the action moves to London and a more human-looking Gary Oldman begins pursuing Winona Ryder’s much younger Mina. Every frame turns red with desire.

Where to watch: digital rental.

Sex, power and insecurity intertwine in this Oscar-winning dark comedy, which chronicles the love triangle between the mercurial Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and two women (Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz) who are perfectly happy to exploit the Queen’s need for emotional and sexual validation as the ladder along which they move up to the court of the British monarchy.

Where to watch: digital rental.

Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps play next-door neighbors who battle their growing attraction to each other over the course of several years, even as their career goals (each aspiring to play professional basketball) keep them apart. Although the film wasn’t a big success when it was first released, it has become a cult classic, and a lot of that has to do with the chemistry between the two.

Where to stream: Max, Paramount+

A World War II love story gone horribly wrong. The film’s central relationship (between Keira Knightley and James McAvoy) becomes wildly passionate for a while, but then develops into the angst of a lifetime. At the very least, it’s a mega-hot library experience during which hopefully no books were harmed.

Where to watch: digital rental.

A much more effective introduction to light BDSM than the Fifty Shades films. There’s real heat between Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, but there’s also a sense of humor that makes the passionate intensity of their relationship even more exciting.

Where to watch: Tubi, Mubi, Plex, Freevee

These two never sleep together, but the slow burn between Daniel Day-Lewis’ fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock (cough) and Vicky Krieps as his muse makes this Paul Thomas Anderson’s sexiest film, even more so than his porn epic Boogie Nights. . . Woodcock’s meticulous and obsessive attention to detail in his interactions with Capes’ Alma creates an atmosphere of muted lust that only intensifies as the film progresses.

Where to watch: Netflix

There’s real sex in Alfonso Cuaron’s coming-of-age masterpiece, but it’s really a film about youthful aspiration: between two teenage boys, and between them and the slightly older (and married) woman with whom they go on an impromptu road trip. . Their more typical teenage excitement (and repressed aspiration) is complicated by a more mature sexuality and a health condition that could mean this could be her last romance.

Where to watch: AMC+.

The always great Angela Bassett sets out to break up her middle-aged routine with a trip to Jamaica, where she meets the much younger (newcomer at the time) Taye Diggs. Their (very hot) relationship cools down considerably as she returns to her life, at least until she decides she can bring some of this new passion into her daily life.

Where to watch: Hulu

Catching up with Taye Diggs just a few years after Stella and Sanaa Lathan after Love and Basketball , Brown Sugar sees the two as personal and professional friends and sometimes rivals in the music industry who slowly begin to realize their mutual attraction. It’s all slowly building up to the point where friends become lovers.

Where to watch: Starz

Roger Ebert insightfully described The Last Picture Show as “…a town that has no reason to exist and people who have no reason to live there.” Apart from the billiard room and the titular movie theater, there is nothing to do there other than sex (which also happens in the pool room and movie theater). The teenagers are naturally horny, but so are the adults, especially Cloris Leachman’s bored and neglected housewife Ruth Popper, who begins a romance with high school student Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) that’s part torrid, part rote.

Where to watch: digital rental.

The first of many cinematic adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, and one of the best. Alain Delon brings Ripley to life in all his sociopathic glory. Although the love triangle between the three main characters is not as overt as in later adaptations, the film is about a mutual obsession with the glittering Mediterranean.

Where to watch: The Criterion Collection, Kanopy.

Incidentally, the adaptation of Highsmith’s 1999 novel of the same name comes a little closer than Purple Noon to conveying Tom Ripley’s innocent amorality (to be fair, he’s more fun in the books than in any of the films), but goes much further in exploring the subtext of Tom Dickey’s obsession Greenleaf comes to the surface, reflecting the extreme and conflicting feelings of wanting to sleep with someone and wanting to be them at the same time.

Where to watch: Paramount+

In Guillermo del Toro’s stylized, underrated gothic romance, Mia Wasikowska plays a young woman in a very ill-conceived marriage to Tom Hiddleston who is drawn to Charlie Hunnam (of course), although Hiddleston’s character seemed too distracted by his sister (Jessica Chastain) to notice. The Edwardian high-society costumes and setting create an atmosphere of repressed ennui. Plus there is incest.

Where to watch: Netflix

Tilda Swinton fucks for the ages in this gorgeous, thrilling adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, so horny that she even switches genders halfway through the film so she can fuck like the opposite sex.

Where to watch: digital rental.

Guillermo del Toro’s film was only the second fantasy to take home the top Oscar prize, but it was definitely the first (so far!) to feature a surprisingly hot and impressively romantic interspecies romance.

Okay, technically The Return of the King also had an interspecies romance… but that one was significantly less intense, the elves and humans all had the same basic parts, and it didn’t require a visual description of the fishman’s body. cloaca.

Where to watch: digital rental.

In this nightmarish throwback to silent-era filmmaking, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe display unnerving sexual chemistry, but frankly, they’re cold and very lonely. This only becomes a problem when a hot mermaid swims by.

Where to watch: Tubi

In wealthy 18th-century France, Marianne is commissioned to paint a portrait of the aristocratic Héloïse. The resulting image will be used to advertise Eloise to a potential suitor in faraway Milan. The forbidden (for several reasons) romance that develops between them is as stormy as it is inevitably short-lived.

Where to watch: Hulu, Kanopy.

It’s about as unlikely as cinematic chemistry gets (I would never have accepted the casting of Nicolas Cage and Cher as romantic leads), but what we have here is very real: Loretta Castorini is a middle-aged widow who has given up on passion. while Ronnie Cammareri is a sweaty, manic baker who reminds her that she’s not quite ready to give up good sex.

Where to watch: Tubi, Pluto TV

In a more-than-decent sex farce and buddy comedy, Booty Challenge finds Jamie Foxx and Tommy Davidson on a particularly promising double date with Vivica A. Fox and Tamala Jones… only to discover they can’t find condoms anywhere. . The two men go on a quest to find the essentials before their dates get boring and they give up.

Where to stream: Max

Claire Denis’s tedious account of the French Foreign Legion in Djibouti , La Belle Labour, is full of sumptuous imagery and cinematography. On the one hand, it is a deconstruction of cinematic masculinity; on the other hand, it is a story of hidden sexual obsession.

Where to watch: Max, The Criterion Channel

Jealousy and passion permeate the story of the newlyweds on Jean Vigo’s boat. Jean’s husband quickly becomes jealous of his new wife, Juliet, who understandably has interests beyond her regular time on the canal barge. Everything she does makes him jealous, pushes her away, until he becomes so desperate that, most memorably, he dives into a canal, hoping to even catch a glimpse of her face.

Where to watch: Criterion Channel.

If there’s a hotter, healthier take on married adult sexuality in film, I haven’t seen it yet. Even with two children and a house full of relatives, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) remain unreasonably hot for each other.

Where to watch: Paramount+

The chemistry between Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer is intense here (especially in the ballroom scene), and even more so since it’s the last gasp in superhero movie sexuality (good luck finding anything even remotely titillating in the MCU). But Pfeiffer’s Catwoman does a lot of the heavy lifting here, so much so that the character represents sexual awakening for straight kids and queer ’90s kids alike.

Where to watch: Max, Tubi

The only film in the series with a male lead, the sequel to Nightmare unfolds as Freddy’s seduction of Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), while Jesse shuns his girlfriend in favor of his best friend Ron. It’s a teen slasher movie, so of course everyone’s horny, but most movies in the genre don’t make many stops at leather bars and wet gyms.

Where to watch: digital rental.

JJ (Tia Miller), a butch lesbian, and her twink best friend Seb (Kyle Treslove) are both looking for sex and romance, but their comfort with each other has become a crutch. Each of them enters into a passionate relationship that forces them to choose between friendship and love.

Where to watch: Fandor

Essentially a weird four-film moralistic teen prelude.

Where to watch: Hulu

All Hitchcock films are exciting, it’s just a matter of degree. What sets Rear Window apart is the particularly glamorous Grace Kelly playing Lisa Fremont, who commands every scene she’s in while exuding a sexuality that her dim-witted boyfriend (James Stewart) has no idea about. what to do.

Where to watch: Criterion Channel.

Phantom may not be particularly exciting for most of its runtime, but it earns extra points for a love scene involving a potter’s wheel that makes many a Middle American heart flutter. It’s more evocatively constructed and exciting than the vast majority of real-life sex scenes in movies, and gets to the heart of the relationship in a way that makes the whole movie work.

Where to stream: Max

The two men at the heart of Jean Genet’s Love Song , long banned for its homosexual content, never share a room except for a brief, chaste fantasy sequence. Two prisoners in adjacent cells share a palpable passion for each other, but are cruelly discouraged by a guard. A key moment in the short film involves expelling cigarette smoke through a straw, one of the most amazing erotic scenes in cinema.

Where to stream: Kanopy, Mubi.

For Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), it’s been the slowest of slow burns, but here the tension runs high: They haven’t seen each other in years and didn’t expect their violent attraction to rekindle so strongly. fast. He’s married and she’s in a relationship, but in the end, none of that matters.

Where to watch: digital rental.

The new TV series adaptation turns what would have been subtext into text in 1994, but viewers didn’t have to look too far to see the mutual attraction between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in sweltering New Orleans.

Where to watch: Paramount+

Denzel Washington has played surprisingly few romantic leading roles in his long career, but brings some spice to this charming and sultry tale of the romance between his character and the child of Ugandan Indian immigrants (Sarita Chowdhury) in the American Deep South. The film explores the relationship issues between each of their communities, but what stands out is the almost forbidden passion between the main characters.

Where to watch: Criterion Channel.

The coming-of-age story starring young, energetic Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and older Oliver (Armie Hammer) in Call Me by Your Name takes place largely over one sweaty, hot summer in northern Italy. For Elio, this is a time of growing sexual frustration – to the point where he sneaks off to sniff Oliver’s clothes. Sex with childhood friend Marcia doesn’t quite scratch the itch, and soon Elio and Oliver are engaged in a secret affair and eating local foods.

Where to watch: Hulu

It was a journey film for a whole generation of young people of more than one sexual orientation. Re-setting the 18th-century novel Dangerous Liaisons for a 1990s prep school, the film is about sex, desirability and power, and serves as a reminder that the idle rich can never be trusted. Everyone here is looking for sex, and almost everyone uses their sexuality as a means to an end. In one of the key and one of the best scenes of the film, Katherine (Sarah Michelle Gellar) teaches Cecile (Selma Blair) how to French kiss.

Where to watch: Prime Video

Casey McQuiston’s best-selling book Red, White and the Royal Blue reveals that the spare heir (or spare heir?) to the British throne has fallen out with the son of the President of the United States – a minor diplomatic problem that the two work out. It is highly recommended to fix it. Of course, by pretending they don’t hate each other, they actually stop hating each other. So much so that they sneak away whenever possible. The plot is a rom-com, but the leads (Taylor Zakhar Perez, Nicholas Galitzine) provide a real spark.

Where to watch: Prime Video

Josh O’Connor ( Crown Prince Charles) and Alec Secareanu play Yorkshire farmer Johnny and Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe. Johnny is mostly content to fuck any man who will give him the time of day in the remote village, at least until Gheorghe joins him. Their initially very stormy relationship develops into something much more romantic, not without several literal somersaults in the hay.

Where to watch: AMC+.

A thoroughly sexually explicit as well as an incredibly effective thriller (it made the top ten for its year), writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s drama is set in a gay cruise area on a nudist beach and nearby forest. Frank (Pierre Deladonchamps) falls in love with lust and perhaps love for Michel (Christophe Pauw), whom he later watches drown another man in a lake. Frank isn’t sure he’s willing to let that stop him from getting the clearly superior, if dangerous, D.

Where to watch: Kanopy

Halle Berry won an Oscar for her role as Leticia Musgrove, the wife of a convicted murderer whose death was overseen by Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), the prison’s deputy warden. They are both deeply damaged and broken people who lash out at everyone around them, often abusively. They also develop an intense and passionate connection that can’t fix either of them, but can break through all the people and things telling them to stay apart.

Where to watch: Prime Video

Spike Lee’s first feature film follows the iconic Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Jones) as she juggles three very different men and discovers that only together they have all the qualities she’s looking for. The film’s legacy is complicated by a rape scene that’s portrayed rather brutally ( Spike Lee agrees ), but the film nonetheless takes seriously the idea that (*sigh*) a woman can have sexual needs and desires that deserve to be taken seriously.

Where to watch: Netflix

What if Frankenstein , but sexy? Yorgos Lanthimos adapts Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel starring Emma Stone as a reanimated corpse with the mind of a child who gradually discovers the Victorian world around him. She is simple-minded at first, but then appears monstrous before discovering something like free will, which perhaps inevitably leads to the joy of masturbation. She becomes hungry—even thirsty—to experience the world, and lacks the inhibitions imposed on other women of her era. And honestly: get it.

Where to stream: rent/purchase digital content.