One manages to score with a hot foreign exchange student, and then ditches her at the end with a band member who knows her way with the flute. The tender tent scene in Brokeback Mountainwill go down in history as one of the most romantic movie love scenes of all time. Both impossibly handsome actors are given ample chances to flex their chiselled torsos for the camera in a film that treads a masterful tone between sincerity and pastiche.

Erotica often gets labeled a "guilty pleasure," and while, I mean, yes—there are many campy books to read, some of which are on this list—there are plenty of erotic novels that overlap with genre and literary fiction. Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a pushy salesman for Pfizer, who struggles to get doctors to prescribe Zoloft, his company’s medication for depression. She sings, she acts, and she has now turned producer with the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why. It is indeed one of the few films to address the idea of intergenerational romance between an older woman and a younger man (the reverse has long been normalised by ludicrous Hollywood casting), and is also a pointed depiction of a relationship between a Polish-German woman and an Arab man.

And, yeah, sometimes it’s all about the sex scenes: Mulholland Drive, Lust, Caution, In the Realm of the Senses have got your number. You can think of these medium-level spice stories as the bridge between sexy romance novels and full-on smut. And when it comes to human and computer programme, well, Weird Science, Electric Dreams and S1m0ne have all tackled that from one angle or other. Wall Street trader John and art gallery assistant, Elizabeth find themselves in a courtship that becomes highly sexual. If BookTok’s spicy obsession has proved anything, it's that flipping through several hundred pages of sexy prose is fun and nothing to be embarrassed about.

Bill Harford’s life after he is stunned upon learning his wife, Alice, contemplated having an affair. All in all, though, each erotic novel below is filled with thoughtful prose and a great love story that will make your heart flutter.Point Break somehow enjoys the best both of both worlds: it’s a machismo-drenched action flick and a barely disguised homoerotic classic. He ships her and her sister off to Washington, where she meets a sexy, surly fisherman named Brendan.

Looks are exchanged, picnics are arranged, kisses are traded and then everything grinds to a halt at approximately one hour and 11 minutes into the movie, when director Kechiche and his two lead actresses deliver the type of jaw-to-the-floor sex scene that has subsequently raised the movie-sex bar to insane heights of verisimilitude and has pushed the literal definition of "simulated" to breaking point. As adults, most of us know that things that look like fantastic, romantic ideas on the big screen are kind of a disaster in real life. The young starlet is working her way up and is definitely one of the prettiest American girls, or I must say budding stars, out there. It’s real turn-on was a screenplay that ran the full gamut from suggestive to risqué to laugh-out-loud outrageous. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the film explores one Manhattan couple’s journey through moral territory and forbidden sexual desire.Sometimes it’s about the mood a movie evokes, intoxicating and overwhelming, like with In the Mood For Love or Y Tu Mama Tambien. When it comes to the millennial generation’s defining coming-of-age movies, Clueless has a lot to answer for.

Blue is the Warmest Color is a compelling story of first love and all the agony, sensuality, and joy that comes with that time in one’s life. She also played the lead role of Amy Juergens on the ABC family TV series The Secret Life of an American Teenager. Sequences like Mike’s friend Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello) performing a racy dance to Backstreet Boys’ I Want It That Way to make a gas attendant look up from her phone is instantly iconic and sexy.She firmly believes in women supporting other women, often talks about self-love, and she’s also an environmental activist. Francis Lee’s debut movie, about a pair of cattle-herders who fall in love on the open plains, has an obvious touchstone. Now that you’ve gotten in the mood to enjoy some steamy and sexy movies on Netflix, let’s get into the list. With Portman and Kutcher making out at different parts of the show, this romantic comedy can just get you a little hot under the collar. Variety is the spice: For some movies, it’s about the animal chemistry between its stars ( Body Heat, Mr.