17 Erotic Movies That’ll Fulfill All Your Sexual Fantasies

Erotica isn’t porn, it's art. 

Cinema has always explored it with stories that’ll challenge your most vivid fantasies. From kinky obsessions to passionate affairs, co-dependent addictions to steamy encounters, there’s something for everyone who wishes to enter the reel world of sex and foreplay. So go on, feed your imagination.

1. The Duke Of Burgundy

Director: Peter Strickland

Cynthia and Evelyn indulge in kinky foreplay and sex that almost always ends with Evelyn’s punishment. But it also brings a lot of pleasure. As Cynthia imagines a more normal relationship, their collective obsession takes them further than they’d imagined.

2. The Dreamers

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Right in the middle of the Paris revolution, begins a turbulent threesome with agendas of its own. When a brother and sister welcome a student into their lives, everything changes and nothing can stop them from crossing the line.

3. Exotica

Director: Atom Egoyan

Christina is the most famous dancer at a popular strip club, promoted by the club’s owner, also her ex-boyfriend. When a depressed man becomes a regular, he begins a torrid dependency with Christina that’s both sexual and psychological.

4. Secretary

Director: Steven Shainberg

Lee is a patient recovering from mental issues and even hurts herself. When she gets the job of a secretary to an esteemed lawyer, she turns the professional relationship into a sadomasochistic one that leaves them both hanging on for sanity.

5. Sex and Lucia

Director: Julio Medem

Lucia runs off to a remote island after she believes her depressed writer boyfriend, Lorenzo, killed himself. There she meets two people who’re connected to Lorenzo’s past in mysterious ways. After a while, she doesn’t know what’s real or true anymore.

6. Shame

Director: Steve McQueen

Brandon is a great looking and successful bachelor in New York. He seems to have the perfect life but hides the fact that he’s a sex addict who even masturbates at work. When his sister shows up without warning and busts his privacy, he loses his mind.

7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Director: Philip Kaufman

Tomas is a surgeon who travels for an operation and meets an innocent young woman, Tereza, bringing her back with him. But Tereza finds out that Tom is a womaniser and has a mistress. This leads to complicated, steamy relationships between the three.

8. Bitter Moon

Director: Roman Polanski

An upper class, sophisticated couple, Nigel and Fiona, meet a dynamic couple on a cruise. The other couple has had a dark, erotic history that fascinates Nigel, taking him to the darker side that might just end his marriage.

9. The Pillow Book

Director: Peter Greenaway

A Japanese model has a weird fetish about making calligraphers write on her body as she goes from one sexual exploit to another. One day, she finally meets an English guy who meets her expectations, and more. That’s where the turmoil begins.

10. Eyes Wide Shut

Director: Stanley Kubrick

When Bill’s wife tells him that she’s been having sexual fantasies about a man she met, he ventures out to explore an underground cult and soon loses himself in a world of erotic acts and practices, finally letting him out of his shell.

11. Nymphomaniac: Volumes I & II (2013)

Director: Lars von Trier

A single, lonely but wise man, Seligman, discovers a woman lying beaten up on a roadside and escorts her back to his home. She’s a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who starts telling him her story about how she got to that place in her life.

12. Intimacy

Director: Patrice Chéreau

Jay and Claire meet weekly to hook up. As things get fired up, Jay begins to wonder about the woman and wants to know more about her life. But his curiosity might get in the way of their perfect arrangement and kill their sexual wavelength ahead.

13. Room in Rome

Director: Julio Medem

A Spanish woman falls madly in love with a woman she meets on her last day in Rome. They embark on a steamy voyage of exploring one another in a hotel room. Secrets are revealed, bringing them even closer. But is everything being said from both ends the truth?

14. Cold Showers

Director: Antony Cordier

Mickael loses out his spot on the Judo team, thanks to a new rich boy in town, Clement. They hang out together nonetheless. One day, Mickael invites Clement to join in the romance he shares with his girlfriend, Vanessa. That's where the drama takes off.

15. Blue Is The Warmest Colour

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

Adèle is confused about her sexuality. She unsuccessfully tries being with a man to understand how she feels. But when a blue-haired girl walks into her life, she's transfixed. Soon, the two start dating and can't get enough of each other, only to face crushing heartbreak later.

16. Restless

Director: Aku Louhimies

Ari is quite the womaniser. He's actually proud of never repeating sexual escapades with the same people more than once. His one night stands shake up a bit when he meets an attractive woman and wants to commit. But when he meets her charming friends, he can't control himself.

17. Love

Director: Gaspar Noé

Murphy and Electra get involved in an extremely charged relationship that crosses all lines with each passing day of their affair. As they go ahead with their outlandish addiction, their experiments make them invite another woman in bed, throwing the whole equation off-balance.