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365 Days (2020 film)
365 Days (365 dni) is a 2020 Polish erotic thriller directed by Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes, based on Blanka Lipińska's novel, in which a Sicilian mafia boss kidnaps Laura Biel and gives her 365 days to fall in love with him; a 2020 box-office and Netflix hit with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and two 2022 sequels.
9 Songs
9 Songs is a 2004 British erotic drama by Michael Winterbottom, starring Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley, charting a London love affair through unsimulated sex and nine live songs at Brixton Academy; passed 18 uncut by the BBFC.
9½ Weeks
9½ Weeks (Nine 1/2 Weeks) is a 1986 American erotic drama directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, adapted from Elizabeth McNeill's 1978 memoir; it flopped in the US but earned $10 million in Italy.
A Frozen Flower (쌍화점)
A Frozen Flower (쌍화점, Ssanghwajeom) is a 2008 South Korean historical erotic drama by Yoo Ha, starring Zo In-sung, Joo Jin-mo, and Song Ji-hyo; set in late Goryeo under Yuan dominance, it drew over 3.7 million admissions.
A Real Young Girl
A Real Young Girl (Une vraie jeune fille) is Catherine Breillat's debut feature, adapted from her novel Le Soupirail, about adolescent Alice Bonnard's desires in the Landes; classified X, unreleased for about 25 years until 2000.
Addicted (2014 film)
Addicted is a 2014 American erotic drama directed by Bille Woodruff, based on Zane's best-selling 2001 novel, starring Sharon Leal as a businesswoman whose affairs threaten her marriage.
Alice in Wonderland (1976 film)
Alice in Wonderland (1976), also called An X-Rated Musical Fantasy, is a Bud Townsend adult musical comedy produced by Bill Osco, starring Kristine DeBell, with songs by Bucky Searles; a top-grossing 1976 adult film released in R, X, and cut versions.
Amantes
Amantes (Lovers: A True Story) is Vicente Aranda's 1991 Spanish drama starring Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, and Maribel Verdú, based on the real 1949 Crimen de la calle Tetuán; it won two Goyas and a Berlin Silver Bear.
An Outing (외출)
An Outing (외출), internationally titled April Snow, is Hur Jin-ho's 2005 Korean romance starring Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin; spouses' affair revealed by a car crash, record Japanese box office via Hallyu.
Ardor (밀애)
Ardor (밀애, 密愛) is a 2002 South Korean melodrama directed by Byun Young-joo, her first commercial feature, adapted from Jeon Gyeong-rin's novel; Kim Yunjin plays a housewife drawn into an affair after her husband's betrayal.
Bad Timing
Bad Timing (1980) is Nicolas Roeg's Vienna-set psychological drama starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, and Harvey Keitel, produced by Jeremy Thomas; an X-rated, Rank-disowned study of sexual obsession that won the Toronto People's Choice Award.
Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct (1992) is Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller starring Michael Douglas as detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as suspect Catherine Tramell, written by Joe Eszterhas, released March 20, 1992, grossing $353 million worldwide amid protests and NC-17 censorship battles.
Below Her Mouth
Below Her Mouth (アンダー・ハー・マウス) is a 2016 Canadian erotic drama by April Mullen starring Natalie Krill and Erika Linder, made with an entirely female crew; critically panned at 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Betty Blue
Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 French drama adapted from Philippe Djian's novel, starring Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade; an Oscar-nominated cinéma du look landmark released 9 April 1986.
Blind Beast (盲獣)
Blind Beast (盲獣, Moju) is a 1969 Daiei film directed by Masumura Yasuzo, adapted from Edogawa Ranpo, starring Eiji Funakoshi and Mako Midori; a blind sculptor imprisons a model in a warehouse of giant female body-part sculptures.
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา)
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2002 Thai-French romantic drama, his second feature, about a Thai woman and her illegal Burmese immigrant lover; it won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2002.
Blue Film Woman
Blue Film Woman (Buru firumu no onna) is a 1969 Japanese pink film directed by Kan Mukai, one of the first pink films shot in color.
Blue Movie
Blue Movie is Andy Warhol's 1969 drama with Viva and Louis Waldon, the first theatrically released picture to depict actual sexual intercourse; originally titled Fuck, it was ruled obscene in New York. Distinct from the 1971 Dutch film and 2026 Blue Film.
Body Double
Body Double (1984) is Brian De Palma's erotic thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith, a Hitchcock homage about voyeurism, murder, and the LA porn industry; a Columbia Pictures release that flopped at the box office but became a genre template.
Body Heat
Body Heat (1981) is Lawrence Kasdan's neo-noir directorial debut, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner as lovers plotting a murder in steamy South Florida, modeled on Double Indemnity and a key 1980s erotic thriller.
Body of Evidence (1993 film)
Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller directed by Uli Edel and starring Madonna as an art-gallery owner tried for murdering her wealthy lover, with Willem Dafoe.
BoundA 1996 American neo-noir erotic thriller, Bound is the debut feature of the Wachowskis (credited here to Lana Wachowski), and it announces a filmmaker's sensibility already fully formed: cool, controlled, and madly in love with the machinery of genre. The reason to care is simple: it takes the oldest heist setup in the book and runs it through a love story mainstream Hollywood had almost never bothered to film, and it does so with style to burn.
Bound is a 1996 American neo-noir erotic thriller, the debut feature of the Wachowskis, starring Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano as two women plotting to steal mob money.
Caligula (film)
Caligula (Caligola, 1979) is a Tinto Brass film written by Gore Vidal and produced by Penthouse's Bob Guccione, starring Malcolm McDowell; Guccione added unsimulated sex scenes in post-production, both writer and director disowned it, and a 2023 Ultimate Cut removed them.
Careful What You Wish For (film)
Careful What You Wish For is a 2015 American erotic thriller directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, starring Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, and Dermot Mulroney; released in the US June 10, 2016, it scored 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and 32 on Metacritic.
Cet Obscur Objet du Désir
Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire) is Luis Buñuel's 32nd and final film, a 1977 French-Spanish comedy-drama adapting Pierre Louÿs's La Femme et le pantin, with Conchita played by two actresses, Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, opposite Fernando Rey.
Chloe (2009 film)
Chloe (2009) is Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller, a remake of Anne Fontaine's Nathalie…, starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried; a wife hires an escort to test her husband's fidelity, with a Metascore of 49.
Cidade Baixa
Cidade Baixa (Lower City) is a 2005 Brazilian drama by Sérgio Machado, his fiction debut, about childhood friends Deco and Naldinho and the stripper Karinna in Salvador, Bahia; it won the Award of the Youth at Cannes 2005.
Color of Night
Color of Night is a 1994 American erotic thriller directed by Richard Rush, starring Bruce Willis as a New York psychologist who takes over a murdered colleague's group therapy patients in Los Angeles.
Crash (1996 film)
Crash (1996) is David Cronenberg's Canadian film adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel, starring James Spader and Holly Hunter; it won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 1996 and drew censorship controversy.
Crimes of Passion
Crimes of Passion is a 1984 American erotic thriller directed by Ken Russell and starring Kathleen Turner as a designer with a double life as a prostitute.