Sensual or Erotic Films
This Sexual or Erotic Films compilation focuses on themes with either suggestive, erotic or sensual scenes or subjects, sometimes with depictions of human nudity and lovemaking, but not always of an extremely explicit, gratuitous or pornographic nature. These kinds of films often appeal to the emotions of the viewer, with their emphasis on pleasure, physical desire, and human companionship.
Right: Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider star in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris".
The Hunger (1983)
6.7/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie star as the lovers who need fresh blood to survive in the modern world. However, when Bowie starts to rapidly age, r... Read more
The Isle (2001)
7/10
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Starring: Jung Suh, Kim Yoo-Seok, Park Sung-Hee
'The Isle' tells the tale of a beautiful woman living on an eerie, remote lake selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. When the woman... Read more
The Last Seduction (1993)
7.1/10
Director: John Dahl
Starring: Peter Berg, Linda Fiorentino, J T Walsh, Bill Nunn, Bill Pullman
Scorching modern film noir starring Linda Fiorentino as sexy, manipulative Bridget Gregory, who persuades her physician husband to deal drugs. Bridget... Read more
The Libertine (2004)
6.4/10
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Starring: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Kell...
Johnny Depp plays the hedonistic writer John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, close friend of Charles II (John Malkovich) and a notorius figure in 17th cent... Read more
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
6.1/10
Director: Radley Metzger
Starring: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco
Filmed in the breathtaking Castle of Balsorano in Italy's Abruzzi Mountains, 'The Lickerish Quartet' finds three people obsessed with an erotic film -... Read more
The Lover (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung (Ka Fai), Frederique Meininger
An exotic, erotic adaptation of Marguerite Duras' autobiographical novel about a teenage girl who's initiated into sex by an older Chinese dandy in 19... Read more
The Moguls (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Michael Traeger
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson, William Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe...
Jeff Bridges is Andy, a divorced down-on-his-luck loser who decides the way out of the doldrums is to make a porn movie! He convinces some of his sma... Read more
The Night Porter (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as... Read more
The Night Porter ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde, Gabriele Ferzetti, Philippe Leroy
In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as... Read more
The Pillow Book (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Yoshi Oida, Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor
Peter Greenaway's bold stylistic experiment has as it's theme, the 'correspondence' between the daughter of a famous writer and a publisher, written o... Read more