Your favorite erotic movie

[AchtungNight]

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?

 

[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?

Don't forget how stunning she was in Cruella. I hadn't really had a Hollywood crush for awhile until I saw that movie. She jumped on my list instantly in the ballroom scene.

I'll have to check out Poor Things.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

When it comes to erotica in mainstream movies, I am more of a Bernardo Bertolucci and Roman Polansky fan. Their erotica had that impression of being forbidden at the time and they did it in sensual and subtle ways. Erotica in modern mainstream movies simply can't compare. It is much more explicit and much more blunt, lacking true sensuality and subtlety.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm an Emma Stone fan, so I'll have to check that out.

The list of movies that I think are genuinely good movies and are satisfyingly erotic is fairly small. I think erotica is, to a substantial extent, an unmined field for good cinema.

Nymphomaniac, by Lars von Trier and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, was very well done and was erotic if you can tolerate your erotica being very cringey.

My favorite erotic movie, off the top of my head, is Secretary, with Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader. It's well written and well acted, and unlike almost every Hollywood erotic movie I can think of, it refuses to treat the erotic subject on which it focuses -- BDSM -- as a problem to be overcome. Instead, the characters accept and lovingly embrace it.

 

[djrip]

The Dreamers has its moments.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

The Handmaiden is amazing.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

Of course, Secretary with Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader

Already said, oh well, lol

 

[AchtungNight]

Runner-up from the 80s- Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere romantic comedy about a Los Angeles hooker and her wealthy playboy client. Great male on female sex scenes between the leads. Shame about the lack of femslash between Roberts and her gal pal Laura San Giacomo. Oh well.

Another good one from the '90s- Basic Instinct. Sharon Stone plays a depraved bisexual serial killer femme fatale and manages to seduce Michael Douglas in an Erotic Horror mash. Jeanne Tripplehorn is a secondary femme fatale antagonist.

 

[SyleusSnow]

It's old, but The Unbearable Lightness of Being with Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche being utterly adorable still does it for me.

 

[SimonDoom]

Another good one from the '90s- Basic Instinct. Sharon Stone plays a depraved bisexual serial killer femme fatale and manages to seduce Michael Douglas in an Erotic Horror mash. Jeanne Tripplehorn is a secondary femme fatale antagonist.

I thought the sexiest scene in that movie was between Michael Douglas and Jeanne Tripplehorn. I wanted to see her get rid of Sharon Stone so we could see more of Jean Tripplehorn. Didn't turn out that way, to say the least. I guess I'm not so much into bad girls. I prefer good girls with a bad side.

 

[SimonDoom]

The Dreamers has its moments.

The moments with Eva Green, I think you mean. My all-time favorite Bond girl, Vesper Lynd.

"I'm the money."

"Every penny of it."

 

[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?

Wild Orchid. So hot

 

[Bramblethorn]

 

[SimonDoom]

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Oh hell yes. Forgot that one. My favorite woman-woman sex movie. And vampires, too. Susan Sarandon could read a phone book and it would be sexy. That voice. Those googly eyes. I still remember seeing her for the first time in a third-rate theater as Janet in underwear in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the 1970s. And Catherine Deneuve, of course.

 

[Ian3700]

I have always liked 9 1/2 Weeks.

For longer than 9 1/2 weeks, though.

 

[HeyAll]

Nymphomaniac I and II

They're free on streaming if you do a quick search. A legit movie site with ads.

I always recommend Girlfriend Experience season 2 on Starz, it has the best sex scenes and the plot is also really good.

 

[AG31]

My favorite erotic movie, off the top of my head, is Secretary, with Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader. It's well written and well acted, and unlike almost every Hollywood erotic movie I can think of, it refuses to treat the erotic subject on which it focuses -- BDSM -- as a problem to be overcome. Instead, the characters accept and lovingly embrace it.

Thanks for the reminder!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Oh hell yes. Forgot that one. My favorite woman-woman sex movie. And vampires, too. Susan Sarandon could read a phone book and it would be sexy. That voice. Those googly eyes. I still remember seeing her for the first time in a third-rate theater as Janet in underwear in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the 1970s. And Catherine Deneuve, of course.

And Bowie is no slouch either, even if outshone by Sarandon/Deneuve once that gets going.

 

[Bramblethorn]

My favorite erotic movie, off the top of my head, is Secretary, with Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader. It's well written and well acted, and unlike almost every Hollywood erotic movie I can think of, it refuses to treat the erotic subject on which it focuses -- BDSM -- as a problem to be overcome. Instead, the characters accept and lovingly embrace it.

Agreed, and I think it's particularly good because both those characters do have problems to be overcome, and the film manages the nuance of acknowledging and dealing with those problems without showing the BDSM as part of them. The scene at the end with the roach is just adorable.

Another one that I liked for its handling of BDSM is "Preaching to the Perverted":

"Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whiz kid Peter Emery, who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the UK BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress."

From that premise I was expecting funny sex farce, and sure, it's funny enough, but it had more depth to it than I'd expected. From the first club scene it was really obvious that this was a film made by people who were part of that scene, not just some passing director who'd thought BDSM might be a fun topic for the next movie. And the political side of things was not just a stock "hypocritical politician" villain but dealing with RL things like the Spanner case that were happening at the time.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Bound, 1996. Neo-noir queer thriller. An ex-con (Gena Gershon) falls for the girlfriend (Jennifer Tilley) of a mob money launderer (Joe Pantoliano, Joey Pants himself). Hijinks ensue. Romantic, hot, and amazing score.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I did notice Pretty Baby was on tonight.

 

[SimonDoom]

Considering that MOST people (I think) are capable of being turned on by visual depictions of sexual activity, it's interesting to me how seldom sexual activity is depicted in films in a way that is both cinematically satisfying and sexually satisfying.

Consider the role of stripping in films.

There are plenty of movies that feature stripping. I find most of them totally unsatisfying.

Showgirls, for example, was a farce of a movie. It's nice to see a lot of attractive naked flesh, but the story and characters are so bad it's like watching a cartoon.

I felt the same way about the Demi Moore movie, Striptease. She's a beautiful woman with a great body, but she seems disengaged from the stripping scenes. It wasn't erotic to me.

A movie in which I think it works is The Wrestler, featuring Marisa Tomei as a stripper past her prime who falls for a wrestler past his prime, played by Mickey Rourke. Her stripping is neither glamourized nor condemned nor judged. It's part of her life, and you can make up your mind what you think of it, but there's something so sexy about her performing amid all the complications of life. It seems real, and that's what makes it sexy. It doesn't feel like her sexiness is just being presented as a movie set piece.

Maybe I may just have a thing for Marisa Tomei.

 

[KachinaDoll]

The Girl on a Motorcycle (Naked Under Leather in the US). 1968 starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull. My husband found it on DVD in a UK charity shop for 50p. Wikipedia says it was the first film to be X-rated in the US. We've watched it about six times and bonk like rabbits afterwards.

 

[JGittes]

I'm going to put a plug in here for the podcast 'You Must Remember This' by Karina Longworth. The past two years have been two long series, The Erotic 80s and The Erotic 90s. It's absolutely essential listening if you enjoy cultural history, the sexual culture of the US, and mainstream (Hollywood) film.

Simon, it will explain why you see what you see.

 

[Stimtheone]

There is this really artistic movie centered around piss called Ecstasy Water that is up there in art rather than porn, but it's also pretty good porn. That one has to be my favorite.