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".
Anatomy of Hell (2003)
4.5/10
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
A.k.a. "Anatomie De L'Enfer". After encountering a man at a gay nightclub, a suicidal woman hires the stranger to watch her explore her sexuality over... Read more
Choke (2008)
6.5/10
Director: Clark Gregg
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Clark Gregg, Brad Henke, Bijou P...
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) shouldn't be a likeable character. He attends Sex Addicts Anonymous, looking for women to bed; he pretends to choke in r... Read more
Sex is Comedy (2002)
5.7/10
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger
Catherine Breillat's "Sex is Comedy" was inspired by her own experiences shooting a sex scene in her controversial feature "A Ma Soeur". Anne Parillau... Read more
Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)
5.4/10
Director: Jens Jorgen Thorsen
Starring: Paul Valjean
Inspired by Henry Miller's novel, this unusual erotic drama tells of a self-indulgent American choreographer living in Denmark who joins his pal in pu... Read more
Unfaithful (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Margaret Colin, Kate Burton
In this ultra-steamy romantic drama, Diane Lane and Richard Gere are a seemingly happily married couple with a young son who live in an upper middle c... Read more
Cat People (1982)
6.1/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski
Paul Schrader's erotic remake of Jacques Tourneur's 1942 classic about an innocent young woman (Nastassia Kinski) who is subject to feline metamorphos... Read more
I Am A Sex Addict (2005)
6.1/10
Director: Caveh Zahedi
Starring: Caveh Zahedi, Rebecca Lord, Emily Morse, Amanda Henderson, Greg Watkins
Director Caveh Zahedi lays his flawed life bare in this autobiographical 'mockumentary' about his struggles with sex addiction. Blisteringly honest,... Read more
2 Days In The Valley (1996)
6.5/10
Director: John Herzfeld
Starring: Danny Aiello, James Spader, Eric Stoltz, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Head...
A ruthlessly inventive and often extremely funny crime thriller involving a murder for hire, a betrayed crook, his slick partner, a dogged cop and a d... Read more
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
6.7/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Slater, Jean-Marc Barr, Michael Pas, Stellan Ska...
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman's c... Read more
Paris, France (1993)
5.2/10
Director: Gerard Ciccoritti
Starring: Leslie Hope, Peter Outerbridge, Victor Ertmanis
Intensely sexual account of a beautiful Canadian writer, bored with her marriage, who counts on a young adventurous lover to unleash her wildest eroti... Read more