An Amazon Prime subscription can come in verrrrry handy in these lonely times: Not only can you order a personal massager at the click of a button, you also have a wide variety of sexy movies available to get you in the mood.
That includes plenty of films available to stream for free as part of your Amazon Prime subscription, some of which include some extremely explicit sex scenes that you probably would prefer to watch solo.
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Don't be weird, we're not talking about porn. You can buy that on the internet like everyone else. We're talking about the suggestive, softcore stuff that was popular in the '90s — a.k.a. the erotic thriller, a genre that is totally ripe for a comeback sometime soon.
This is the list of the sexiest movies Amazon Prime has to offer, filled with scenes you definitely won't want to be watching alongside your parents. It includes foreign films, indies, and plenty of movies that get more than a little steamy. Sexual politics and power dynamics might get a little weird in some of them (though a lot of that is in the interest of historical accuracy, whether a valid excuse or not), but the following list of films will certainly fog up your mirrors.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Naturally, a movie based on one of the most scandalous books of all time would make this list. After all, D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel contains 13 steamy AF sex scenes (plus plenty of profanity), and has been banned plenty of times and was the subject of a 1960 obscenity trial upon its publication in Britain. But the 1981 film starring Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel isn't quite as erotic as you'd think for a story about a woman whose husband encourages her to take lovers when he's injured and unable to fulfill his ~marital duties~, if you know what we mean. (Sex. We mean sex.)
Thirst Level: 5 out of your daily eight glasses of water, since we expected more from a movie based on such a scandalous book.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: Listen, there is plenty of nudity in this film, so you definitely don't want to watch this movie with your parents. Some of the scenes are racy enough to set the tone — like when the titular character does some self-exploration — but the naughty bits are pretty frequent, including a literal roll in the hay.
Adore
The two main characters in this 2013 French-Australian drama are, writes Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri, "spending all their time having wine and laughing and schtupping with abandon." Sounds fantastic, TBH, but it's way weirder once you find out that the four characters are fortysomething Aussie mums (Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) and their two barely adult sons (Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville).
Thirst Level: 5 because it'll certainly quench a specific sexy thirst, but gets kind of weird the more you think about it.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: Even when you know what the movie's about, it's still kinda hot when the first son pulls his mom's BFF against him and kisses her.
Blue is the Warmest Colour
This 2013 French import starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos has some major bona fides — it won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival — but has also been followed by controversy over the working conditions its stars were forced to endure and the fact that this lesbian coming-of-age story was written and directed exclusively through the straight male gaze.
Thirst Level: It gets a solid 5 for the LGBT-friendly narrative, plus 3 for the long and sexy sex scenes, but subtract 3 for the patriarchy of it all.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: The graphic seven-minute sequence when the women finally consummate their explosive attraction for the first time.
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Ashton Kutcher plays a hustler sleeping his way to the top in this drama, about a grifter who ends up falling for a woman who makes her living the same way he does. It included so many sex scenes that Kutcher complained in an interview for the film, "I was shooting so many sex scenes that I was actually getting tired of shooting sex scenes."
Thirst Level: 5. This might not be as inherently erotic as a sexy foreign film, but there's still some spicy stuff.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: This is not confirming the quality of any particular sex scene, but Kutcher's complaints hint at the consistency of the sex: "Do we HAVE to shoot another sex scene? OH COME ON!'"
The Handmaiden
Director Park Chan-wook's 2016 Cannes darling is told in three parts and from three different perspectives. It follows a young woman (Sook-hee, played by Kim Tae-ri) who goes to work as a handmaiden for Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee), who soon teaches her all about sex in a film whose graphic lesbian sex scenes got plenty of attention.
Thirst Level: 7.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: Not only does this prestige drama contain a graphic lesbian sex scene in the middle of the film, it also revisits the same moment later, showing even more of the action (though the gaze gets aggressively male).
Passion
Brian De Palma's 2012 erotic thriller stars Rachel McAdams as domineering advertising executive Christine and Noomi Rapace as her abused assistant Isabel, who begins an affair with Christine's husband when Christine takes credit for one of Isabel's ideas. The woman then one-up each other with sexual advances and career sabotage.
Thirst Level: 3.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: This is more a slightly sexy thriller about ambition than anything else, but Rapace does bare all as Isabel seduces Christine's husband.
Stripped to Kill
When a Los Angeles cop witnesses the murder of a stripper, she goes undercover to investigate a series of murders by posing as a stripper herself. Nudity follows in this erotic thriller slash low-budget sexploitation film.
Thirst Level: 5. Nudity doesn't necessarily mean something's sexy.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: Our heroine cop and her partner eventually act on their attraction to one another.
Long Nights Short Mornings
This movie is essentially about a guy named James (Shiloh Fernandez) banging his way around New York City.
Thirst Level: 5. It's about sex, but not necessarily super duper sexy. Still, there's plenty of sex.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: There is an official clip released called "fingerbang bus ride scene," so that's the level of what we're looking at.
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Untold Scandal
This Korean period drama has some uncomfortable sexual politics (a woman sends her cousin to seduce a young virgin whom her husband has been eyeing — yeah), but that's because it's based on Les Liaisons dangereuses, a.k.a. the same novel that inspired Dangerous Liaisons and Cruel Intentions.
Thirst Level: 5.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: There are a few sex scenes, but the power dynamic is uncomfortable on occasion, so beware.
Keep the Lights On
A Danish artist (Erik, played by Thure Lindhardt) and a lawyer (Paul, played by Zachary Booth) meet through a phone sex hotline and sparks fly.
Thirst Level: 5.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: The chemistry between Erik and Paul is undeniable whenever they're together.
The Lover
A French teenager and an older Chinese man fall in love despite the obstacles stacked against them in this 1992 movie based on a supposedly autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.
Thirst Level: 5.
Toe-Curling Sex Scene: This is one of the first movies that sparked rumors of its cast having actual sex on screen. Its stars wholeheartedly denied the accusation, but that should tell you about the chemistry between them.
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