Hollywood may be past its sexy movies heyday, when thrillers like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct ruled the box office, but that doesn’t mean the end of smutty flicks completely. Romance is certainly having a rebirth thanks to BookTok and its insatiable hunger for spicy novels, and more and more adaptations are those books are being made as a result.
Also, those older movies are more available than ever thanks to streaming. The point being, the next time you’re in the mood to get in the mood, if you know what we mean, all you have to do is queue up the right movie and pour yourself a glass of something grape-based.
Of course, you can always go the TV route, with shows like Heated Rivalry, Outlander, and Bridgerton delivering sexy scenes in almost every episode, but isn’t there something particularly satisfying about watching the two gorgeous leads go from strangers to enemies to lovers over the course of just two hours?
Whether you want your shades gray or your dancing dirty, there is bound to be something you’ll love in the list below. Keep scrolling for our favorite steamy, sensual, romantic, tragic, swoon-y, passionate, and all-around sexy movies of all time. Because where Hinge fails to deliver, fiction will always compensate.
