Best Erotic Movies Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes

These are not straight-up porn movies. The list prepared by Rotten Tomatoes has sleaze, international and arthouse flicks as well as LGBTQ-focused stuff that are seductive, titillating, thrilling in equal measure.

Here are the 30 best erotic movies ranked by Rotten Tomatoes.

1. The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)

Director: Peter Greenaway

Writer: Peter Greenaway

Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert

Plot Summary

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband’s estate, a contract which extends much further than either the purse or the sketchpad.

She means to surprise her husband with the drawings, in the hope that he will be appropriately grateful. Neville does some coercing of his own, refusing to cooperate unless Mrs. Herbert bestows him with requested sexual favors — she agrees, but is not happy about it. But Mrs. Talmann is as sexually starved as her mother.  The daughter, still without a child and oblivious to her husband and his effete ways, also begins to dally with the shrewd, talented Neville.

Having completed his contract and gone away, Mr Neville comes back for a visit. Mrs Herbert offers him one more tryst in exchange for one more drawing, and he agrees. What happens after this?

Review

”THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT” may well be cinema’s first Restoration comedy-mystery. It’s a none-too-solemn, enigmatic tale of murder set in a great English country house in 1694, when morals among the newly rich were as loose as absolutely possible and manners were mad mannerisms of dress, speech and behavior. Peter Greenaway creates an extraordinarily detailed picture of a historical period, not as it was, but as it is imagined by a somewhat surreal artist today.

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2. Body Heat (1981)

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna

Plot Summary

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he’s picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn’t long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty’s rich husband Edmund. Since Matty signed a prenuptial agreement that would provide her nothing upon a divorce, they decide instead to murder Edmund

A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?

As the murder plans develop, Ned makes a surprise visit to see Matty and finds another woman meeting with Matty. Matty introduces her as “Mary Ann Simpson”. Who is the Mary Ann Simpson?

Review

In 1981, Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat helped usher in a resurgence of interest in film noir. With the cinematic beats of film noir so familiar, Kasdan makes little effort trying to disguise the plot, instead revelling in the depth and intrigue those beats provide. And yet that predictability doesn’t lessen Body Heat’s impact. Film noir is renowned for style and murder – this isn’t the genre of complicated plotting and surprise-laden twists and turns.

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3. The Piano (1993)

This film unearthes emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman’s rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times.

Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) find themselves in the New Zealand wilderness, with Ada the imported bride of dullard land-grabber Stewart (Sam Neill). Ada immediately takes a dislike to Stewart when he refuses to carry her beloved piano home with them. But Stewart makes a deal with his overseer George Baines (Harvey Keitel) to take the piano off his hands. Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that become a series of increasingly charged sexual encounters.

4. Y Tu MamaTambien (2001)

The funny and moving coming-of-age story centers on two immature teens who get an education in love when they take a sexy road trip with a liberated, unhappily married woman.

5. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, boorish husband, the wife finds herself a lover (Alan Howard) and makes love to him in the restaurant’s coziest places with the silent permission of the cook (Richard Bohringer). The picture offers ironic and paradoxical comments on the relations between eating and sex, love and death. The film is at once funny and horrific.