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21 Erotic Dramas Now Streaming: 'Deep Water,' 'The Handmaiden' and More than

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The erotic drama is back with the release of "Deep Water," the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas-starring thriller that marks the long-awaited directorial render of Adrian Lyne. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is a master of the erotic thriller, having directed some of the most acclaimed and/or assisting erotic dramas of all time with the likes of "9½ Weeks," "Fatal Attraction," "Indecent Proposal" and "Unfaithful." Lyne was nominated for best director at the Oscars thanks to "Fatal Attraction," while "Unfaithful" earned Diane Lane an Oscar nomination for best actress.

With "Deep Water" now streaming, Variety is rounding upwardly the other erotic dramas now available on Hulu, Prime number Video, Netflix and more than platforms. Many of the films listed below are some of the sexiest films ever fabricated, while virtually all of them are guaranteed to provoke and shock the viewer with their frank depictions of sex activity and intimacy.

• Deep Water (Hulu)

  

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  "Deep Water," based on the novel past Patricia Highsmith, stars Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas as a married couple who are constantly testing each other psychologically. Hulu's official synopsis  says the film "takes us inside the spousal relationship of picture-perfect Vic (Affleck) and Melinda (de Armas) Van Allen to discover the dangerous mind games they play and what happens to the people that become caught up in them." The supporting cast includes Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Dash Mihok, Finn Wittrock, Jacob Elordi, Rachel Blanchard and Michael Braun. The picture show marks a directorial return for Adrian Lyne as it'southward his first feature directorial effort since "Unfaithful." Read Variety'due south review here.

• Unfaithful (Hulu, Tubi for Free)

  

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  Diane Lane was Oscar nominated for best actress thanks to her performance in Adrian Lyne'due south erotic thriller "Unfaithful." Co-starring Richard Gere and Olivier Martinez, the film centers on a couple whose wedlock dangerously falls apart later on the wife has an matter with a mysterious stranger she encounters by chance. From Variety'due south review: "Adrian Lyne takes an uncharacteristically absurd approach to adultery in 'Unfaithful,' a precision-tooled, moody written report in the wages of betrayal. This refitting of Claude Chabrol's 1968 archetype 'La Femme Infidele' is less concerned with suspense and dramatic fireworks than is the usual American erotic thriller and is much more than devoted to nuances and the minutiae of how men and women behave, pretend and prevarication in duplicitous situations."

• The Handmaiden (Amazon Prime Video)

  

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  Park Chan-wook's erotic psychological thriller "The Handmaiden" stars Kim Tae-ri as a woman whose hired to be the housemaid for a Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) in a plot to defraud the adult female, but the programme goes awry when the maid falls in love with her target. From Diversity's review: "Boasting more tangled plots and bodies than an octopus has tentacles, South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook'southward 'The Handmaiden' is a bodice-ripper almost a pickpocket who poses equally a maid to swindle a sequestered heiress. His showtime Korean-linguistic communication fiction feature since 2009's 'Thirst,' it's sybaritic, cruel and luridly mesmerizing."

• Basic Instinct (HBO Max)

  

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  Paul Verhoeven'due south "Basic Instinct" is one of the nearly iconic erotic thrillers cheers to Sharon Rock'due south functioning as Catherine Tramell, a seductive writer who becomes the prime suspect in the cruel murder of a stone star. Heading the investigation is San Francisco police detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), who becomes entangled in a torrid romance with Catherine. Variety gave the pic a rave review, writing, "'Basic Instinct' is grade-A pulp fiction. This erotically charged thriller about the search for an water ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attending through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is equally weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral… Stone has a career-making role hither as a beautiful, smart manipulator who is e'er several steps ahead of everyone else."

• The Voyeurs (Amazon Prime Video)

  

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  Michael Mohan'southward "The Voyeurs" puts an erotically-charged spin on Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window." "Euphoria" favorite Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith play a young couple who become obsessed with spying on their neighbors' sex life (Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo play the couple across the way). A shocking discovery leads Sweeney's graphic symbol to insert herself into her neighbors' lives, which has unintended consequences. Variety was not a fan of the film,  calling it a "training-wheels mashup of 'Rear Window' and any number of '90s erotic thrillers…Mohan'due south film plays like rehashed leftovers cooked upwardly for young viewers who've never seen any of its superior inspirations."

• Spring (Showtime Anytime, Hulu with Kickoff)

  

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  Before the Wachowski siblings inverse Hollywood for adept with "The Matrix," they directed the 1996 neo-noir crime thriller "Spring," starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon every bit two women in an matter who set out to scheme a conniving mafioso (Joe Pantoliano) out of $two million. "Bound" is one of the definitive works of 1990s queer cinema and has an erotic tension between Tilly and Gershon that sizzles off the screen. The movie has emerged as a cult archetype over the years after initially dividing critics. Multifariousness'southward original review reads: "From the grandiose opening onward, it is clear the Wachowskis are determined to denote their arrival every bit major stylists, as they lay on the elaborate camera moves, overhead shots, deep shadows and portentous music."

• Lust, Caution (Rent on Apple Movies)

  

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  Ang Lee's erotic espionage ballsy "Lust, Circumspection" is based on the 1979 novella by Eileen Chang and stars Tang Wei every bit a woman who gets swept up in a game of sexual intrigue with a powerful political figure (Tony Leung). Lee won the Golden Lion at the Venice Pic Festival with this film, which was released in the U.S. with an NC-17 rating due to its many graphic sex scenes. As Variety noted in its review: "Both Leung and newcomer Tang — whose characters are far more charismatic and attractive than in Chang's original short story — exercise strike some sparks, especially in the sexual practice scenes, which are very bold by Chinese standards.

• In the Cut (Netflix)

  

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  Jane Campion directed Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo in the 2003 psychological thriller "In the Cut," which tells the story of an English instructor in New York City who becomes entangled in the life of a detective investigating a series of gruesome murders. Campion takes the oftentimes male-directed erotic thriller and subverts it with a female gaze. From Variety's review: "An intensely sexual exploration of the nature of a adult female'south want in the guise of a murder mystery, this high-strung adaptation of Susanna Moore'southward bestselling novel is beautifully crafted and is highlighted past an arresting alter-of-pace operation past Million Ryan as an English teacher erotically awakened by a homicide detective."

• Trunk Heat (Rent on Amazon Prime number Video)

  

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  Oftentimes cited as one of the sexiest movies ever made, Lawrence Kasdan's "Torso Oestrus" stars Kathleen Turner as a adult female who convinces her lover (the late William Hurt) to murder her rich hubby in the midst of a sweltering Florida heat wave. The setting alone is hot enough, but Turner and Hurt's magnetic chemical science is downright scorching. From Variety's review: "'Body Heat' is an engrossing, mightily stylish motion-picture show in which sex and crime walk paw in manus downwardly the path to tragedy, merely like in the old days…Hurt successfully mixes both laconicism and innocence. In her film debut, Turner registers strongly as a hard gal with a past. Her deep-voiced delivery instantly recalls that of immature Lauren Bacall without seeming similar an fake."

• Blue Is the Warmest Color (IFC Films Unlimited, AMC Plus)

  

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  Abdellatif Kechiche's Cannes winner "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" features a star-making operation from Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high school educatee who comes into her sexual identity after meeting an art educatee (Lea Seydoux). The film made history at Cannes when the Palme d'Or was given not only to Kechiche just to Exarchopoulos and Seydoux likewise. From Multifariousness's review: "A searingly intimate grapheme study marked by the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in contempo retentiveness… it would exist reductive to slap an exclusive gay-interest label on "Blue Is the Warmest Colour," a bildungsroman and first-honey story whose deep and abiding fascination with life'south great shared pleasures — nutrient, sex, fine art, literature, music, conversation — encourages the viewer to consider the commonality every bit well as the vast complexity of human experience."

• The Duke of Burgundy (IFC Films Unlimited, AMC Plus)

  

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  Peter Strickland's "The Knuckles of Burgundy" centers on the twisted erotic relationship between a maid and her employer. The maid, Evelyn (Sidse Babett Knudsen), is subjected to strict behavioral expectations in her employer'southward home and is punished if she does not meet her employer's expectations. Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen burns downwardly the screen playing the employer, a seductive and controlling woman named Cynthia. From Variety's review: "An act of cinephilic homage that transcends pastiche to become its ain uniquely sensuous cinematic object, Strickland'due south densely layered, slyly funny portrayal of the sadomasochistic thing between ii lesbian entomologists tips its hats to such masters of costumed erotica equally Jess Franco, Tinto Brass and Jean Rollin, without ever cheapening its strange merely affecting love story."

• Fatal Attraction (HBO Max)

  

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  Adrian Lyne's "Fatal Allure" is i of the near successful erotic dramas of all time, grossing $320 million at the worldwide box part and earning half-dozen Oscar nominations (including picture, director and actress for Glenn Close). Michael Douglas plays a married man who begins an illicit affair with a woman who becomes obsessed with him and refuses to allow their fling end. From Diverseness's review: "The screws are tightened expertly in this suspenseful thriller most a flipped-out femme who makes life hell for the husband who scorns her…Close throws herself into the concrete abandon of the early reels with surprising relish, and get genuinely frightening when it comes clear she is capable of annihilation."

• Stranger past the Lake (Amazon Prime Video with Strand Releasing)

  

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  Alain Guiraudie'due south "Stranger by the Lake" won the Queer Palme at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Gear up on a remote beach where gay men cruise for sex, the film stars Pierre Deladonchamps as a man who witnesses a murder in the lake and then becomes passionately attracted to the killer. From Variety's review: "Though it contains explicit scenes of gay sex, this is essentially an absorbing and intelligent exploration of queer desire spiced up with thriller elements after one of the studly nudists goes missing. Shot in lush, deceptively serene widescreen tableaux, this improbable cocktail makes for entrancing viewing, though the sight of ejaculating members will make it an extremely hard sell theatrically."

• Beneath Her Mouth (Rent on Apple Movies)

  

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  April Mullen's queer erotic drama "Beneath Her Mouth" stars Natalie Krill and Erika Linder as two women in Toronto who run across and begin a passionate love affair. A lesbian romance told on sexually frank terms, the picture show earned strong buzz out of the 2017 Toronto International Picture Festival. Multifariousness had considerable praise for Linder, writing, "Casting agents of contained picture palace, take note: If Kristen Stewart is likewise busy or expensive for your project, Swedish newcomer Erika Linder is more than happy to step in. Evoking the new arthouse queen's residuum of sullen and sultry with a fluency that borders on outright imitation, the 26-year-old model'southward big-screen debut carries more than charge than everything around her in 'Below Her Oral cavity.'"

• 9½ Weeks (Rent on Amazon Prime Video)

  

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  Another staple of Adrian Lyne's erotic filmography is "9½ Weeks," starring Kim Basinger every bit a New York City art gallery worker who begins an intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street banker (played past Mickey Rourke). Basinger's character, Elizabeth McGraw, spirals into an emotional breakup as Rourke's John Gray carries out psychosexual command of her. The film's release hit speedbumps because of its erotic nature, and information technology ultimately opened with an edited cut in the U.S. that bombed at the box office. The director's cut found greater success at the international box office, where "9½ Weeks" managed to make it to the $100 meg mark.

• Indecent Proposal (Starting time Anytime, Amazon or Hulu With Outset)

  

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  Adrian Lyne directed Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson in his 1993 erotic drama "Indecent Proposal," which focuses on a married couple whose human relationship is disrupted past a stranger's $1 meg offer for the wife to spend an evening with him. While a box role success with $266 million, the moving-picture show tanked with film critics. From Variety'due south review: "This is i of those loftier-concept pictures with a big windup and weak delivery. On paper, a film in which billionaire Robert Redford offers downward-on-their-luck married couple Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore a cool million in exchange for one night with Demi sounds surefire. Onscreen, the issue has little sex, goes nowhere interesting or conceivable in the second long hour, and sports an idiotic determination that looks like Test Marketing Ending No. 6."

• 365 Days (Netflix)

  

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  Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes' erotic romance "365 Days" became a Netflix word-of-oral fissure sensation in 2020 due to its graphic sex scenes between stars Anna-Maria Sieklucka and Michele Morrone. Sieklucka plays a immature woman from Poland who falls for a human who imprisons her and imposes on her a period of 365 days in which to autumn in love with him. "365 Days" became known as Netflix'due south "Fifty Shades of Grey," but as Variety noted in its review: "The popularity of the unequivocally non-good '365 Days' is possibly more explicable than that of Eastward.L. James' publishing phenomenon, just proving the former adage that no ane ever went broke overestimating the horniness of a global population slowly emerging from pandemic-mandated isolation."

• The Canyons (Showtime Anytime, Amazon or Hulu With Showtime)

  

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  Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis's 2013 erotic thriller "The Canyons" made headlines for casting Lindsey Lohan opposite real-life porn star James Deen in the story of a moving-picture show director who plays listen games with his girlfriend after discovering she's sleeping with the leading actor of his new horror moving-picture show. From Variety's review: "Lindsay Lohan brings a raw confidence to Paul Schrader'due south ultra-low-budget but handsomely made study of hungry young things clawing at the expert life…The signature psychosexual perversity of manager Paul Schrader finds its virtually perfect match in novelist Bret Easton Ellis, whose screenplay for Schrader'due south 'The Canyons' might just as before long have been called 'Psycho American Gigolo' or 'The Hardcore Rules of Attraction.'"

• Secretarial assistant (Gratuitous on Tubi)

  

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  Steven Shainberg's erotic black comedy "Secretary" made a bonafide star out of Maggie Gyllenhaal. The histrion and James Spader play a submissive secretarial assistant and her dominant lawyer, who engage in various acts of erotic BDSM. From Variety's review: "A very tricky sort of love story is put beyond with some skillful loftier-wire walking in 'Secretary.' In this considerable expansion of Mary Gaitskill's curt yarn well-nigh a boss-secretary relationship that evolves into a mutually satisfying S&M matchup, the filmmakers are deeply interested in getting to the psychological roots of the characters, and the picture's relative success in doing then makes the outre goings-on here not only dramatically palatable but emotionally plausible."

• Nymphomaniac (Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video With Magnolia Selects)

  

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  Lars von Trier's 2-part erotic ballsy "Nymphomaniac" centers on a cocky-diagnosed nymphomaniac (played past Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin at various ages), who recounts her erotic experiences with a handful of men. The cast memorably includes Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Jean-Marc Barr, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen. For all the shocking sex acts on display, no scene is more shocking than Uma Thurman having a meltdown subsequently discovering her husband's matter with the protagonist. Variety's Peter Debruge called the film "a sexually explicit, four-hour magnum opus" in which Lars von Trier delivers a "dense, career-encompassing work designed to shock, provoke and ultimately enlighten a public he considers altogether too prudish. Racy subject bated, the motion-picture show provides a good-humored yet serious-minded await at sexual cocky-liberation."

• O Fantasma (Amazon Prime Video With Strand Releasing)

  

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  Portuguese moving-picture show director João Pedro Rodrigues' erotic drama "O Fantasma" stars Ricardo Meneses in a fearless performance equally Sergio, a trash collector in Lisbon who spends his nights cruising the streets of the metropolis in a black safety suit. Sergio eventually becomes obsessed with a human who doesn't reciprocate his desire, resulting in Sergio giving into dark and depraved sexual desires. The motion-picture show marked Rodrigues' directorial debut and shocked audiences at the 2000 Venice Motion-picture show Festival. "O Fantasma" won the prize for best feature moving picture at the New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

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