From Fifty Shades of Gray to The River of Desire, the list below features unmissable sensual feature films.
Many studios and directors rely on sensuality to attract the public's attention and show that sex can be artistic, inspiring, a source of self-knowledge and self-esteem.
In spicy films, sexuality encompasses romance, small gestures, looks and a lot of tension, making them a great form of entertainment for couples. Here, the I LoveCinema lists some sensual feature films that are worth watching as a couple.
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In O Rio do Desire, after falling in love with Anaíra (Sophie Charlotte), Dalberto (Daniel de Oliveira) leaves his job in the police so the couple can start living on the banks of the Rio Negro, in the house that Dalberto shares with his two brothers.
But, when Dalberto is forced to take a risk on a long trip up the river, Dalmo (Rômulo Braga), the older brother, has to fight to control the attraction he feels for his sister-in-law. Meanwhile, Anaíra and Armando (Gabriel Leone), the youngest, also get closer. Dalberto's return brings together, under the same roof, three brothers in love with the same woman.
In the plot of 365 Days, a big hit on Netflix during the pandemic, Massimo Torricelli (Michele Morrone), in addition to belonging to a powerful mafia family in Sicily, is a young and imposing boss.
Laura Biel (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) is a highly successful sales director in her professional life, however, her love life is a disaster. Trying to save her relationship, Laura travels to Sicily with her boyfriend, getting away from the monotony of everyday life and trying to revive her passion.
When her and Massimo's lives cross paths because the mobster has become obsessed with her looking like a figure from his past, he kidnaps her, giving her a period of 365 days to fall in love with him, promising to release her at the end of that period.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Rivals follows Tashi (Zendaya), a tennis prodigy turned coach. Married to Art (Mike Faist), she managed to transform her husband's career, going from a mediocre player to a world-famous champion.
When Art is trying to overcome a difficult time, where he is only accumulating defeats, Tashi's strategy takes an unexpected turn: she convinces her husband to play in the "Challenger" tournament — the lowest level of the professional circuit — where she will have to face Patrick (Josh O'Connor), her former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
In Eyes Wide Shut, director Stanley Kubrick's last film, Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) is married to art curator Alice (Nicole Kidman). They both live the perfect marriage until, right after a party, Alice confesses that she was attracted to another man in the past and that she would be able to leave Bill and her daughter for him.
The confession disorients him, causing him to walk through the streets of New York haunted by the image of the woman in the arms of another. This is how he ends up in the middle of a secret meeting and a remote mansion.
Searchlight Pictures
In the spicy The Dreamers, Matthew (Michael Pitt) is a young man who, in 1968, goes to study in Paris. There, he meets twin brothers Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel). The three soon become friends, sharing experiences and relationships while Paris experiences the effervescence of the student revolution.
My Fault: London is a British romantic drama based on the novel My Fault, by Mercedes Ron. The story follows Noah (Asha Banks), an 18-year-old girl who moves from the United States to London with her mother, Ella (Eve Macklin), after the matriarch marries millionaire William (Ray Fearon).
Upon arrival, Noah meets Nick (Matthew Broome), her new half-brother, a rebellious and seductive young man who introduces her to his sophisticated social circle. The chemistry between the two is instant, but they try to resist a forbidden attraction that threatens to destabilize their lives.
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The plot full of twists and turns of The Maid, by Park Chan-wook, takes place in Korea in the 1930s, during the period of Japanese occupation, and follows the saga of Sookhee (Kim Tae Ri), a woman hired as a maid to the heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min Hee), who lives an isolated life on a large rural property with her uncle.
However, what the rich young woman didn't expect is that Soohkee is a con artist, hired by a fake Japanese count who intends to seduce her, steal her fortune and leave her in a mental institution. The plan seems to go according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected feelings between the two.
A repeated figure in every possible recommendation for spicy films, Fifty Shades of Gray follows Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), a 21-year-old literature student, romantic and virgin.
One day, she needs to interview young billionaire Christian Gray (Jamie Dornan) for the college newspaper. A complex relationship is then born between them: with the love and sexual discovery, Anastasia discovers the pleasures of sadomasochism, becoming the object of submission to the sadistic Grey.
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In Magic Mike, the titular character Mike (Channing Tatum) is an experienced stripper, who is teaching a young man the art of seducing women on stage, in order to get the maximum benefits from them.
At the same time as he passes on his knowledge to Adam (Alex Pettyfer), he begins to become interested in his sister, Brooke (Cody Horn). Over time, Adam becomes more and more confident in striptease and lets easy money go to his head.
Colorful Friendship follows Jamie (Mila Kunis) as a young recruiter from New York who convinces a potential client (Justin Timberlake) to leave his job in Los Angeles behind and take a job in the Big Apple.
He accepts the proposal and soon the two become good friends. One day, after watching a movie at her house, the conversation comes up about how sexual neediness bothers them both. They then make a pact that they will only have sex, without any emotional involvement. But, little by little, intimacy makes them become increasingly close and interested in each other.
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