Your favorite erotic movie

[ZfrkS62]

For me, it's the recent award-winner Poor Things.

Hollywood fox Emma Stone plays a Frankenstein-style reanimated woman in Victorian Era Europe. She undergoes a sexual awakening and explores her interests with several lucky men and a female courtesan of African descent. The movie features graphic nudity, sex, and masturbation. It has won much acclaim after being out the last two months.

Emma Stone has previously wowed me in two other erotic films- Crazy Stupid Love about her hook-up with a college student womanizer (Ryan Gosling) and how he helps her parents (Steve Carell and Julianne Moore) revive their marriage; and Easy A about a promiscuous high school student. She's also been in Superbad, a couple Spider-Man films, and the Zombieland series.

I look forward to more work from her in the future.

What erotic films do you as authors enjoy?

Poor Things was a little too weird for my tastes to enjoy everything else. I think saying she goes through a sexual awakening is a little misleading given what happened to her.

The Handmaiden is amazing.

Given this is on Amazon Prime and I've had shit luck finding anything with more than a nip slip on that platform, I was wholly unprepared for what this movie contained. I can't say my wife would watch this again. I'm not usually comfortable watching something with nudity and sex with her, but I could tell she was starting to think it was getting excessive, and her comments after confirmed that. Probably should have watched it by myself.

 

[orangecurious]

Betty Blue is pretty good.

I think my favourite "sex scene" is in The Big Easy... no nudity either (well, not fully, just a hint of boob)

 

[Boobytrap73]

Susan Sarandon could read a phone book and it would be sexy.

Or reading poetry--as she did to Tim Robbins with him tied to the bed in Bull Durham.

~BT73

 

[intim8]

I'm drawing a blank for some reason, though I have some vague memory tickling the back of my brain. But one scene that I remember, that wasn't even a sex scene, was Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise, the morning after she slept with Brad Pitt (who wasn't famous then).

The look on her face. I think that look did more to establish Pitt's mystique than anything else he ever did. She was literally cross-eyed.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

"Wild Orchid".... back when Mickey Rourke was sexy..

 

[OffNSFW]

*bursts through the wall like the Kool-Aid man*

I will echo a couple picks from upthread, then proceed.

The Handmaiden is wonderful. A twisting, turning caper in which the two principle characters are beautiful young women with an experimental interest in sex. There's a power dynamic here, but not in the BDSM sense of the phrase. There's a class differential going one way, but a caretaker/caretaken differential going the other way, which adds a certain dramatic tension to their escalating relationship. The chiming at the end is a wonderful, symbolically laden grace note.

Bound is another genre story setup, specifically the gangster's girlfriend who gets scared and wants to run, so she seduces a working class schmuck to help her and, potentially, to take the fall. Except in this case, the girlfriend is Jennifer Tilly, the schmuck is Gina Gershon, and the sex scenes are marvelously filmed with attention to hands and erogenous places. I had to watch this one with a spray bottle pointed at myself.

Moving on...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is one of the few queer romances I've seen in recent memory that is 100% committed and sticks every landing. It's less explicitly sexual than some of my other picks, but there's nudity on display for anyone looking for it, many of the scenes carry a heavy charge, and the women are beautiful.

X, the '70s period horror movie by Ti West, is pretty hot. A group of friends rent a secluded cabin (naturally) in order to film a porno, a stalking killer ensues, etc. What's interesting here is, yes, the people are hot and the sex is hot. But the movie is also not afraid to play with the subjects of disgust, jealously, bed death, and other expressly sexual forms of conflict, which I found fascinating. BONUS: For anyone who only caught onto Jenna Ortega recently, this is an excellent early appearance from her in which she plays, of all things, the normie of the group.

All of Us Strangers is a more recent movie starring Andrew Scott. (The sexy villain from Sherlock, the sexy priest from Fleabag, surely some form of sexy person from something you like.) I hesitate to discuss the story here, because there's a magical realism thing happening here that unfolds marvelously. Suffice it to say that he plays a lonely gay man whose life has been warped by tragedy. There is a (perhaps not-quite-resolved, grumble) subplot in which he falls into a relationship with a neighbor who lives in his building, with plenty of nudity and sex on tap. One of the sweetest scenes I've seen of one man licking his cum off another man's chest, though I admit the list is not long.

The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, and Her Lover is a long title to have to type, but a stately masterpiece about a boorish gangster who holds court in a fine dining restaurant, and his beautiful wife, who escapes every chance she gets in order to have covert sex with the bookish nerd who frequents the table nearby. Sex can be many things. Here, it's an escape, a salve, a source of liberty, of rebellion. And it's Helen Mirren getting banged in lingerie in shot compositions that look like renaissance paintings, which is an entirely artful justification in its own right.

Kinsey is the biopic of Alfred Kinsey, the landmark sex researcher who hypothesized that human sexuality is a spectrum rather than a binary. We follow him as he interviews research subjects, manages his own feelings of bisexuality and polyamory in his relationship with his wife, and generally deals in scenarios reserved for the more controversial sections of this website.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a movie that constantly makes you wonder when or if the sex is actually going to happen, but the threat is always there, and that's what makes it hot. (That and prime Elliot Gould, to whom I would gladly surrender my body for whatever purpose he saw fit.) Four friends have the conversation, as you do, about how humans are not naturally monogamous and how it would not be a big deal if, in theory, one couple were to casually swap partners with another. It's handled in a realistic and playful way that never feels like it's either holding back or trying to indulge.

And my final pick, just so this doesn't get any further out of hand than it already is, is Under The Skin. This is a science fiction horror story, but not in the traditional sense of either genre, starring Scarlett Johansson and filmed by recent Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer. An alien takes the form of a beautiful woman in order to seduce men and turn them into food. It's handled expressionistically, almost silently. Not a warm movie, but a very human one. The inversion of femininity as the stalking threat to masculinity is explored smartly and fairly. And there's plenty of lovely frontal nudity to go around.

An honorable mention goes to Goldeneye. Not a movie preoccupied with eroticism, but you cannot watch it without imagining what it would be like to have Famke Janssen inside you.

Here's where I have to give a shoutout to the following journalists, essayists, and all around connoisseurs of erotic cinema:

Kate Hagen
Annie Rose Malamet (AKA Girls, Guts, and Giallo)
Gretchen Felker-Martin

Kate Hagen, in particular, has done landmark research on the prevalence of sexual content in cinema. Her findings, presented in Playboy, were that scenes of sex and nudity are currently at their lowest point since the 1960s. I fear that corporatization and a new wave of reactionary prudishness among young people are preventing filmmakers from telling stories about one of the best parts of being human.

Incidentally, Hagen is also the one who crunched the numbers and discovered that, despite their promise of infinite choice, the average streaming service contains less options than your typical Blockbuster video store in the '90s.

 

[intim8]

Those of us of a certain age will never forget Pheobe Cates stepping out of the pool.

 

[Nay_Nay01]

 

[likes2watchU]

Age of Innocence - Scorsese movie adaptation of an Edith Wharton book.
The sexual tension that is created and built as the story unfolds.
Very subtle by today's standards.

 

[lc69hunter]

For me, it's the recent award-winner Poor Things.

Hollywood fox Emma Stone plays a Frankenstein-style reanimated woman in Victorian Era Europe. She undergoes a sexual awakening and explores her interests with several lucky men and a female courtesan of African descent. The movie features graphic nudity, sex, and masturbation. It has won much acclaim after being out the last two months.

Emma Stone has previously wowed me in two other erotic films- Crazy Stupid Love about her hook-up with a college student womanizer (Ryan Gosling) and how he helps her parents (Steve Carell and Julianne Moore) revive their marriage; and Easy A about a promiscuous high school student. She's also been in Superbad, a couple Spider-Man films, and the Zombieland series.

I look forward to more work from her in the future.

What erotic films do you as authors enjoy?

Probably Wild Orchid. It tripped my triggers a lot

 

[lc69hunter]

Yes

 

[Tigersman]

I always liked The Story of O. It's heavy into bondage and discipline but romance as well.

 

[Yesok1]

Recently it's Duke of Burgundy.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I really loved the early Emmanuelle films. Blame it on Rio is not a great film, but I found it very sexy.

 

[Dearelliot]

Re Sex in movies: Not sure, but my wife and other women I have known intimately, don't seem to have a problem with nudity, the problem the women in movies seem to have. They go to great lengths to cover themselves after sex while I'm accustomed to my women parading around naked. I cant recall a time, being in bed with a woman after sex and having her modestly cover her breasts or carefully wrap a towel or sheet around herself when she goes to pee. Unless maybe, I associate with especially immodest ladies.

The film makers seem to have a strange idea about morals and nudity. they will show a couple pounding away at each other in the throes of sexual bliss but make sure the lady's nipple is covered.