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 Escort (1999)
6.3/10
Director: Michael Blanc
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Noah Taylor, Frances Barber, Claire Skinner
Daniel Auteuil is Pierre, a French academic who leaves his family in Paris feeling that his life has been without risk or challenge. He moves to Lond... Read more
Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Series 1 (2007)
7.4/10
Starring: Iddo Goldberg, Cherie Lunghi, Billie Piper, Toyah Wilcox
The complete first series of the ITV drama starring Billie Piper as a beautiful prostitute who leads the ultimate double life. To her parents she's Ha... Read more
Debbie Does Dallas (1979)
6/10
Starring: Bambi Woods
Beautiful young Debbie Benton (Bambi Woods) wants to audition for a spot on the "Texas Cowgirl" cheerleading squad. But she doesn't have enough money... Read more
Body Heat (1981)
7.4/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke
Attorney Ned Racine's life coasts along in neutral - until he meets a siren in white (with a well-to-do husband) named Matty Walker. Ned knows Matty i... Read more
Crazed Fruit (1956)
7.5/10
Director: Ko Nakahira
Starring: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara
Two brothers compete for the amorous favours of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking in this film from director Ko... Read more
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
7.9/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto
In a small 19th-century Japanese village, residents who reach the age of 70 are banished to the top of Mt. Narayama to die so that they don't become a... Read more
Body of Evidence (1992)
4.4/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Madonna , Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer
Madonna and Willem Dafoe star in this lethargic psycho-sexual mystery thas makes 'Basic Instinct' look like the 'Citizen Kane' of the whodunnit-in-the... Read more
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torne
A delicious love story with exquisite comedy adapted from Laura Esquivel's best selling novel. Young Tita is forced to nurse her sick mother and, unti... Read more
Single White Female (1992)
6.3/10
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber
This erotic thriller stars Bridget Fonda as a young woman living in a New York apartment building who takes on a roommate when she learns her boyfrien... Read more
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
6.9/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
Giving a touch of Asian-flavoured 'magic realism' to a premise that almost sounds like adult cinema, Japanese filmmaker Shohei Imamura ('The Eel') tel... Read more