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".
Crimes of Passion (1984)
6.4/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin
A highly charged erotic thriller from Ken Russell that features some of the hottest love scenes ever for a Hollywood film. Kathleen Turner is an enigm... 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
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
Cat People (Blu-Ray) (1982)
6.1/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Annette O'Toole, Ed Begley Jr, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, R...
In this sensual and violent horror tale, Irena Gallier (Nastassia Kinski) has a dark family secret, one that resurfaces dramatically when she reconnec... 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
Man Of Flowers (1982)
7.2/10
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Norman Kaye, Werner Herzog
A haunting, sexually frank serio-comedy about a repressed man (Norman Kaye) whose obsessions include art, classical music and a young woman he hires t... Read more
Endless Love (1981)
4.8/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley
Zeferelli's contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet is adapted from the novel by Scott Spencer. A powerul story about the doomed love between 17-year-o... Read more
Body Heat (Blu-ray) (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
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
Dressed to Kill (Blu-ray) (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
A visit to the art museum leads to a fateful and fatal sexual encounter for bored housewife Angie Dickinson in this stylish, erotic suspenser from Bri... Read more