200 Erotic Movies Ranked Worst to Best
Things are about to get juicy at Rotten Tomatoes! For our giant-sized countdown of erotic movies, we go deep into the annals of cinema history and pull out some prime ’80s sleaze (9 1/2 Weeks, Body Double), international and arthouse flicks (3-D Sex and Zen, Romance), LGBTQ-focused (Blue is the Warmest Color, Stranger by the Lake), and threw in stuff that may or may not be straight-up porn (9 Songs, Love). If the movie got at least 20 reviews and it served to titillate, it’s probably listed here.
And while we’ve added new movies as they come onto the scene, like Call Me By Your Name or the Fifty Shades films, our most recent updates have enlarged the list from 150 movies to 200. The 50 films we’ve added include erotic thrillers (In Darkness, X: Night of Vengeance), coming-of-age stories (Summer Storm, Somersaults), romance-focused dramas (A Pornographic Affair), bygone classics (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, I am Curious (Blue)), and steamy Certified Fresh entries (Lady Chatterley, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women).
Now take a load off for erotic movies ranked worst to best by Tomatometer!
#200
Critics Consensus: Respected director Chen Kaige’s first English-language film is a spectacularly misguided erotic thriller, with ludicrous plot twists and cringe-worthy dialogue.
Synopsis: The director of such highly regarded films as Yellow Earth (1984) and Farewell, My Concubine (1993), Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige… [More]
#199
Adjusted Score: 1.657%
Critics Consensus: Despite its lush tropical scenery and attractive leads, Return to the Blue Lagoon is as ridiculous as its predecessor, and lacks the prurience and unintentional laughs that might make it a guilty pleasure.
Synopsis: This sequel to the surprise box office hit The Blue Lagoon (1980) mimics its predecessor’s romantic adventure formula of a… [More]
#198
Adjusted Score: 1.17%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When a young wealthy woman graduates from a British boarding school, she is determined to lose her virginity. Soon, she… [More]
#197
Adjusted Score: 10.992%
Critics Consensus: Unable to match the suspense and titilation of its predecessor, Basic Instinct 2 boasts a plot so ludicrous and predictable it borders on «so-bad-it’s-good.»
Synopsis: Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Glass to… [More]
#196
Adjusted Score: 8.354%
Critics Consensus: Body Orchid is a tease-too-long, with overblown editing with an already slipping Mickey Rourke and unexperienced actress Carrie Otis.
Synopsis: When the young, innocent Emily Reed (Carre Otis) is hired by a New York City law firm, they immediately ship… [More]
#195
Adjusted Score: 10.301%
Critics Consensus: Body of Evidence’s sex scenes may be kinky, but the ludicrous concept is further undone by the ridiculous dialogue.
Synopsis: Una mujer (Madonna) acusada de asesinar a su amante—un viejo millonario—seduce a su abogado defensor (Willem Dafoe), el cual se… [More]
#194
Adjusted Score: 10.354%
Critics Consensus: A piece of lovely dreck, The Blue Lagoon is a naughty fantasy that’s also too chaste to be truly entertaining.
Synopsis: In this 1980 version of the oft-filmed Henry Devere Stackpoole novel, the basic story remains unchanged. Two very small children,… [More]
#193
Adjusted Score: 12.495%
Critics Consensus: Sliver is an absurd erotic thriller with technobabble and posits prime Sharon Stone as a professional book nerd.
Synopsis: This thriller begins as a divorcee, seeking to start over, moves into a new apartment in a high-tech Manhattan building… [More]
#192
Adjusted Score: 15.633%
Critics Consensus: The Boy Next Door may get a few howls out of fans of stalker thrillers, but for most viewers, it won’t even rise to «so bad it’s good» status.
Synopsis: Jennifer Lopez leads the cast in The Boy Next Door, a psychological thriller that explores a forbidden attraction that goes… [More]
#191
Adjusted Score: 14.202%
Critics Consensus: Deception is a middling, predictable potboiler with mediocre dialogue and ludicrous plot twists.
Synopsis: «Are you free tonight?» A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry answers it will change his life forever. A… [More]
#190
Adjusted Score: 11.441%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After making his directorial debut with the acclaimed made-for-cable movie Gia, writer Michael Cristofer helmed his first big-screen offering with… [More]
#189
Adjusted Score: 14.495%
Critics Consensus: Laughably melodramatic, Original Sin features bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad plotting.
Synopsis: A noir mystery set in the exotic world of Cuba in the late 1800s. Luis Antonio Vargas, a wealthy coffee… [More]
#188
Adjusted Score: 19.604%
Critics Consensus: Fifty Shades Freed brings its titillating trilogy to a clumsy conclusion, making for a film franchise that adds up to a distinctly dissatisfying ménage à trois.
Synopsis: Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and… [More]
#187
Adjusted Score: 19.985%
Critics Consensus: Lacking enough chemistry, heat, or narrative friction to satisfy, the limp Fifty Shades Darker wants to be kinky but only serves as its own form of punishment.
Synopsis: Anastasia has broken off her relationship with the troubled Christian to pursue a new career in a Seattle publishing house…. [More]
#186
Adjusted Score: 12.75%
Critics Consensus: Shallow, clichéd, and silly instead of suspenseful, When the Bough Breaks offers nothing domestic thriller fans haven’t already seen before — and done far better.
Synopsis: John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After… [More]
#185
Adjusted Score: 14.641%
Critics Consensus: Pretentious, overly perverse and dull.
Synopsis: An attractive widow finds her attentions turning to her teenage son in a troubling manner in this drama from France…. [More]
#184
Adjusted Score: 14.766%
Critics Consensus: Populated with characters as unpleasant as its sleazy storyline, The Loft is uninhabitable for all but the least demanding erotic thriller fans.
Synopsis: Karl Urban (Star Trek Into Darkness) and James Marsden (2 Guns) star in the tense psychological thriller THE LOFT, the… [More]
#183
Adjusted Score: 15.243%
Critics Consensus: An ostensible erotic thriller that’s largely neither erotic nor thrilling, Jade marks one of several unfortunate low points for aggressively sexual mid-’90s cinema.
Synopsis: An investigator seeking the truth behind the death of a noted art dealer uncovers a web of sexual deception in… [More]
#182
Adjusted Score: 15.547%
Critics Consensus: Never Talk to Strangers — and never make the mistake of believing this silly stalker mystery is the best available viewing option.
Synopsis: In this sexual thriller, beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Sarah Taylor finds herself stalked by an obsessed killer. Taylor hires a private… [More]
#181
Adjusted Score: 16.287%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In southern Louisiana, ex-cop Robicheaux and his wife witness a plain crash. He rushes to the crash and rescues a… [More]
#180
Adjusted Score: 17.023%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: While working in a wealthy vacation community the summer before college, Doug (Nick Jonas, «Kingdom», «Scream Queens») begins an affair… [More]
#179
Adjusted Score: 19.345%
Critics Consensus: Unseemly, unsettling, and unremittingly bleak, Downloading Nancy is slickly made but mostly unpleasant.
Synopsis: A self-destructive housewife takes what may be her final step into the abyss in this independent psychological drama. Nancy Stockwell… [More]
#178
Adjusted Score: 21.257%
Critics Consensus: The inevitable Fatal Attraction comparisons aside, Obsessed is a generic, toothless thriller both instantly predictable and instantly forgettable.
Synopsis: Derek Charles, a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and… [More]
#177
Adjusted Score: 22.207%
Critics Consensus: Despite occasional detours into surprisingly dark territory, Spread overall is an ineffectual celebration of vacuous Los Angeles high life rather than a deconstruction of it.
Synopsis: A modern tale of morality, director David Mackenzie’s stylish sex comedy centers on the exploits of a Los Angeles gigolo… [More]
#176
Adjusted Score: 23.699%
Critics Consensus: Bruce willie shot aside, the only other things popping out in Color of Night are some ridiculous plot contortions and majorly camp moments.
Synopsis: When New York therapist Bill Capra journeys to L.A. to visit his best friend and colleague Dr. Bob Moore, he… [More]
#175
Adjusted Score: 17.643%
Critics Consensus: Fitfully amusing until 3-D Sex and Zen takes a casual, nearly positive stance on rape and sexual torture.
Synopsis: Inspired by «The Carnal Prayer Mat,» an ancient Chinese text comparable to the Kama Sutra, this stereoscopic reboot of the… [More]
#174
Adjusted Score: 22.238%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: BELOW HER MOUTH is a bold, uninhibited drama that begins with a passionate weekend affair between two women. Dallas, a… [More]
#173
Adjusted Score: 24.42%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Lena Olin stars as a wicked female mobster who is supposed to be eliminated by a hired hit man (Gary… [More]
#172
Adjusted Score: 24.955%
Critics Consensus: Oppressively misanthropic and ineptly made, The Canyons serves as a sour footnote in Paul Schrader’s career — but it does feature some decent late-period work from Lindsay Lohan.
Synopsis: While calculating young movie producer Christian (Deen) makes films to keep his trust fund intact, his actress girlfriend, Tara (Lohan),… [More]
#171
Adjusted Score: 25.177%
Critics Consensus: Vile, contemptible, garish, and misogynistic — and that might just be exactly Showgirls’ point.
Synopsis: Nomi, an attractive drifter, arrives in Las Vegas with plans to become a dancer. Soon she gets a job stripping… [More]
#170
Adjusted Score: 21.291%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Interwoven stories about the various secrets kept by the women who ‘bare it all’ at Los Angeles strip clubs. The… [More]
#169
Adjusted Score: 24.483%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A provocative exploration of female sexuality, Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the… [More]
#168
Adjusted Score: 25.148%
Critics Consensus: Endlessly perverse and indulgent, Caligula throws in hardcore sex every time the plot threatens to get interesting.
Synopsis: This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza. The star-studded cast,… [More]
#167
Adjusted Score: 26.701%
Critics Consensus: The unerotic sex scenes quickly become tedious to watch, and the lovers lack the personality necessary to make viewers care about them.
Synopsis: Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love… [More]
#166
Adjusted Score: 25.176%
Critics Consensus: Ponderous, pretentious, and — considering the subject matter — dull.
Synopsis: A lonely and dejected woman (Amira Casar) learns that only when all inhibitions are cast aside will she be able… [More]
#165
Adjusted Score: 26.588%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The Crush is a psychological thriller wherein a young man is the object of the obsession of a mentally unbalanced… [More]
#164
Adjusted Score: 35.644%
Critics Consensus: While creatively better endowed than its print counterpart, Fifty Shades of Grey is a less than satisfying experience on the screen.
Synopsis: E.L. James’ kinky best-seller gets the big screen treatment with this Universal Pictures/Focus Features co-production. The steamy tale details a… [More]
#163
Adjusted Score: 30.363%
Critics Consensus: Unforgettable’s talented cast makes this domestic thriller consistently watchable, even if its failure to fully embrace its premise’s campy possibilities prevents it from living up to its title.
Synopsis: Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl) is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David (Geoff Stults), becomes… [More]
#162
Adjusted Score: 27.554%
Critics Consensus: Sex and Death 101 aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death.
Synopsis: Upon receiving an e-mail containing the names of every woman he has ever slept with and every women he will… [More]
#161
Adjusted Score: 28.927%
Critics Consensus: Threesome’s titillating title belies a dreadfully dull drama whose attractive stars are handily outmatched by a shallow script.
Synopsis: Writer/director Andrew Fleming offers a new slant on college-dorm roommates in this quirky comedy about a bisexual triangle in which… [More]
#160
Adjusted Score: 33.384%
Critics Consensus: Neve Campbell bares all in this seemingly misogynistic trifle.
Synopsis: Directed by James Toback, the erotic drama When Will I Be Loved? revolves around Vera, the debutante girlfriend (Neve Campbell)… [More]
#159
Adjusted Score: 32.975%
Critics Consensus: Boarding Gate has little substance beneath its faux-thriller surface, and marks a step down from director Olivier Assayas’ usual work.
Synopsis: From director Olivier Assayas comes this erotic thriller starring Asia Argento as Sandra, a former prostitute, and Michael Madsen as… [More]
#158
Adjusted Score: 32.911%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the… [More]
#157
Adjusted Score: 36.799%
Critics Consensus: Director/co-writer Jane Campion takes a stab at subverting the psycho-sexual thriller genre with In the Cut, but gets tangled in her own abstraction.
Synopsis: Following the brutal murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined NYU professor dares to test the limits… [More]
#156
Adjusted Score: 36.147%
Critics Consensus: For better as well as worse, Passion is vintage De Palma sexploitation — although with a storyline sillier than most, it fails to generate as much heat as his steamiest work.
Synopsis: From screenwriter/director Brian De Palma (The Black Dahlia, The Untouchables, Scarface), PASSION stars leading-actress Rachel McAdams (Midnight in Paris, The… [More]
#155
Adjusted Score: 36.147%
Critics Consensus: Naomi Watts and Robin Wright give it their all, but they can’t quite make Adore’s trashy, absurd plot believable.
Synopsis: Set in an Australian seaside town of otherworldly beauty and shot in lush 35mm Cinemascope, ADORE establishes an aura of… [More]
#154
Adjusted Score: 35.221%
Critics Consensus: Though Wong’s short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni’s is a serious disappointment.
Synopsis: Three of the world’s most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film…. [More]
#153
Adjusted Score: 26.537%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Director Martin Gero turns his knowing lens on five different archetypal relationships in a caustic romantic comedy highlighting the amusing… [More]
#152
Adjusted Score: 37.111%
Critics Consensus: For all its tease, the movie doesn’t have more to say than money can’t buy you love.
Synopsis: The probability of sex and the possibility of love between twenty-somethings — a lonely man and a fiercely independent and… [More]
#151
Adjusted Score: 38.252%
Critics Consensus: Lurid but acted with gusto, Indecent Proposal has difficulty keeping it up beyond its initial titillating premise.
Synopsis: Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the… [More]
#150
Adjusted Score: 30.249%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Fetish photographer Billy (Adam Wingard) stages elaborate shoots around his fixations, photographing women in various stages of undress and death…. [More]
#149
Adjusted Score: 37.432%
Critics Consensus: An unpleasant thriller that lacks the self-awareness to dilute its sordid undertones, Poison Ivy is liable to give audiences a rash.
Synopsis: The always challenging transition from adorable child performer to sexy adult star was achieved flamboyantly by actress Drew Barrymore with… [More]
#148
Adjusted Score: 38.434%
Critics Consensus: This catastrophic adaptation of Patrick McGrath’s novel gets sillier and more implausible as it goes along.
Synopsis: Directed by David Mackenzie, Asylum follows a 1950s family living in a home on the grounds of an asylum after… [More]
#147
Adjusted Score: 38.985%
Critics Consensus: Knock Knock brings a lot of talent to bear on its satirical approach to torture horror, but not effectively enough to overcome its repetitive story or misguidedly campy tone.
Synopsis: When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on… [More]
#146
Adjusted Score: 42.825%
Critics Consensus: Love sees writer-director Gaspar Noé delivering some of his warmest and most personal work; unfortunately, it’s also among his most undeveloped and least compelling.
Synopsis: Enter the Void director Gaspar Noe helms this 3D envelope-pushing, non-linear narrative examining modern love and sexual desires…. [More]
#145
Adjusted Score: 40.354%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Melodramatic and steamy as an East Indian jungle, this erotic historical drama tells the lurid tale of betrayal and sexual… [More]
#144
Adjusted Score: 43.803%
Critics Consensus: Although it benefits from a strong cast, In Secret’s stars can’t totally compensate for the movie’s sodden pacing and overly familiar story.
Synopsis: Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, IN SECRET is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set… [More]
#143
Adjusted Score: 43.854%
Critics Consensus: The belabored noir plotting feels unbelievable, thus removing any sense of suspense. Also, Lohman is badly miscast.
Synopsis: Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth star as a famous comedy team that splits up after a woman is found dead… [More]
#142
Adjusted Score: 47.027%
Critics Consensus: Species shows flashes of the potential to blend exploitation and sci-fi horror in ingenious ways, but is ultimately mainly interested in flashing star Natasha Henstridge’s skin.
Synopsis: An alien comes to Earth to breed so that her kind can overtake the planet in this action-filled sci-fi film…. [More]
#141
Adjusted Score: 44.161%
Critics Consensus: This romance is more soapy than historically compelling.
Synopsis: While pioneering pre-feminist author George Sand has been the subject of several film biographies focusing on her ten year relationship… [More]
#140
Adjusted Score: 44.229%
Critics Consensus: Lurid without enough evident deeper meaning to justify its prurient impulses, Bad Guy runs the gamut from confusing to simply off-putting.
Synopsis: While strutting through Downtown Seoul, Hang-gi, a local gangland pimp, spots young Sun-hwa, a pretty, middle-class college student, waiting on… [More]
#139
Adjusted Score: 34.794%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Directors Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold’s sexually political drama Chacun Sa Nuit explores the carnal interdependencies among a host of… [More]
#138
Adjusted Score: 32.568%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Writer/director Boaz Yakin explores the burdens carried by the descendants of those who survived with this family drama about a… [More]
#137
Adjusted Score: 48.07%
Critics Consensus: More dull than hypnotic, The Brown Bunny is a pretentious and self-indulgent bore.
Synopsis: Actor and musician Vincent Gallo takes on the role of writer, director, editor, cinematographer, and star with his second filmmaking… [More]
#136
Adjusted Score: 46.971%
Critics Consensus: An unlikable protagonist, messy editing, and gratuitous nudity might make audiences ask for their cash back.
Synopsis: When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of… [More]
#135
Adjusted Score: 47.116%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Hannah and Simon have been a couple for 20 years. They live in Berlin, side by side in combative harmony…. [More]
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#134
Adjusted Score: 47.505%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Blind pianist Sofia (Natalie Dormer) overhears a struggle in the apartment above hers that leads to the death of her… [More]
#133
Adjusted Score: 47.237%
Critics Consensus: Strong performances and an inclusive approach to sexual awakening aren’t enough to make Summer Storm a truly memorable coming-of-age story.
Synopsis: Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their team win several… [More]
#132
Adjusted Score: 47.544%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Director Mike Figgis, creator of the Academy award-winning Leaving Las Vegas, presented this film’s world premiere at the 1999 Sundance… [More]
#131
Adjusted Score: 49.754%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Like his WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev’s controversial 1974 feature Sweet Movie is firmly rooted in the principles… [More]
#130
Adjusted Score: 50.382%
Critics Consensus: Sleeping Beauty’s provocative premise and luminous art design is hampered by a clinical, remote presentation, delivering boredom and shock in equal measure.
Synopsis: Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student possessed by a kind of radical passivity. She lets a flip of… [More]
#129
Adjusted Score: 52.582%
Critics Consensus: It’s a pleasure to see Hollywood produce a romance this refreshingly adult, but Love and Other Drugs struggles to find a balance between its disparate plot elements.
Synopsis: Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won’t let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets… [More]
#128
Adjusted Score: 50.358%
Critics Consensus: Though it tries to be provocative, Battle in Heaven is lethargic and mind-numbing.
Synopsis: In Battle in Heaven (AKA Batalla en el Cielo), director Carlos Reygadas’ searing look at the inherent hypocrisies of Mexico’s… [More]
#127
Adjusted Score: 49.706%
Critics Consensus: Explicit and shocking, but there is no substance or statement on human behavior underneath the taboo-breaking.
Synopsis: Francois, a filmmaker, is preparing a thriller. During screen tests for a brief nude scene with an actress, he discovers… [More]
#126
Adjusted Score: 50.036%
Critics Consensus: An erotic thriller dulled by a messy narrative.
Synopsis: Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed. Shane… [More]
#125
Adjusted Score: 52.553%
Critics Consensus: The thriller Femme Fatale is overheated, nonsensical, and silly.
Synopsis: A contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress named Laure Ash. A sultry former jewel thief and con woman trying… [More]
#124
Adjusted Score: 53.242%
Critics Consensus: Cruising glides along confidently thanks to filmmaking craft and Al Pacino’s committed performance, but this hot-button thriller struggles to engage its subject matter sensitively or justify its brutality.
Synopsis: A New York City cop goes undercover in New York’s gay community to catch a serial killer…. [More]
#123
Adjusted Score: 50.749%
Critics Consensus: Romance is a slim look into a woman’s sexual psyche, with sex scenes that slightly excite while exploring human emotions.
Synopsis: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend – and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him – a schoolteacher… [More]
#122
Adjusted Score: 54.516%
Critics Consensus: Diane Lane shines in the role, but the movie adds nothing new to the genre and the resolution is unsatisfying.
Synopsis: Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves… [More]
#121
Adjusted Score: 50.676%
Critics Consensus: Pretentious and trashy.
Synopsis: Two young women try to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles in this erotic melodrama from French director… [More]
#120
Adjusted Score: 55.48%
Critics Consensus: Despite its promising pedigree and a titillating premise, Chloe ultimately fails to deliver the heat — or the thrills — expected of a sexual thriller.
Synopsis: Catherine, a successful doctor, suspects her husband David, a professor of music, of cheating. She tests his fidelity by hiring… [More]
#119
Adjusted Score: 54.078%
Critics Consensus: Two Girls and a Guy has an intriguing premise and a talented trio of leads, but doesn’t do quite enough with any of them to make the end result truly worth a watch.
Synopsis: In this darkly comic tale of love and infidelity, Carla (Heather Graham) and Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are both waiting… [More]
#118
Adjusted Score: 52.052%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Shot on digital video, this no-holds-barred, semi-autobiographical film from Italian actress/model Asia Argento presents the bleak decent of a popular… [More]
#117
Adjusted Score: 54.269%
Critics Consensus: Stylish yet hollow, The Hunger is a well-cast vampire thriller that mistakes erotic moments for a satisfying story.
Synopsis: The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of bestowing the gift of immortality on her lovers… [More]
#116
Adjusted Score: 54.058%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: This provincial, erotic film finds a young man having an affair with a 20-year-old woman, who is in turn having… [More]
#115
Adjusted Score: 57.385%
Critics Consensus: Unevenly echoing the work of Alfred Hitchcock, Basic Instinct contains a star-making performance from Sharon Stone but is ultimately undone by its problematic, overly lurid plot.
Synopsis: Michael Douglas stars with red-hot Sharon Stone in this groundbreaking and controversial film that redefined the genre of the sexy… [More]
#114
Adjusted Score: 58.814%
Critics Consensus: This darkly comic drama and its attractive young cast are easy on the eyes, but uneven performances and an uninspired script conspire to foil Cruel Intentions.
Synopsis: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe sizzle as a pair of unscrupulous siblings in a deliciously sexy tale of seduction,… [More]
#113
Adjusted Score: 55.258%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In Final Analysis, Richard Gere stars as Isaac Barr, a San Francisco psychiatrist whose alluring patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman)… [More]
#112
Adjusted Score: 56.282%
Critics Consensus: Malena ends up objectifying the character of the movie’s title. Also, the young boy’s emotional investment with Malena is never convincing, as she doesn’t feel like a three-dimensional person.
Synopsis: In 1941, Renato was 13 years old and although the world was at war, nothing ever happened in his sleepy… [More]
#111
Adjusted Score: 56.534%
Critics Consensus: With its lingering shots of naked teenage bodies, Bully feels more sordidly exploitative than realistic.
Synopsis: A film based on the true-life murder of Bobby Kent. Kent, a Hollywood, Florida teenager was murdered by his own… [More]
#110
Adjusted Score: 57.169%
Critics Consensus: Single White Female benefits from a pair of outstanding leads, neither of whom are well served by a storyline that wavers between thrillingly tense and utterly ridiculous.
Synopsis: After advertising for a new roommate, Allison finds herself living with Hedra, an initially shy woman who soon exhibits strange,… [More]
#109
Adjusted Score: 57.934%
Critics Consensus: Touch Me Not deserves admiration for its efforts to debunk stereotypes and further a necessary dialogue, even if the execution never lives up to those lofty ambitions.
Synopsis: On the fluid border between reality and fiction, TOUCH ME NOT follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian,… [More]
#108
Adjusted Score: 61.624%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Michael Douglas runs afoul of a treacherous supervisor in this film version of Michael Crichton’s novel. Douglas plays Tom Sanders,… [More]
#107
Adjusted Score: 61.454%
Critics Consensus: Despite the surprisingly distant, clinical direction, Crash’s explicit premise and sex is classic Cronenberg territory.
Synopsis: After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people… [More]
#106
Adjusted Score: 60.488%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Beautiful vampire Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia),… [More]
#105
Adjusted Score: 64.257%
Critics Consensus: Though lushly atmospheric, The Dreamers doesn’t engage or provoke as much as it should.
Synopsis: The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 serves as the backdrop for a tale about three young cineastes who… [More]
#104
Adjusted Score: 64.445%
Critics Consensus: It doesn’t quite live up to the promise of the first installment, but Nymphomaniac: Volume II still benefits from Lars von Trier’s singular craft and vision, as well as a bravura performance from Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Synopsis: NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II picks up with the story of Joe’s adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications…. [More]
#103
Adjusted Score: 61.858%
Critics Consensus: Though it’s lengthy and doesn’t always walk the line between schlock and kitschy homage successfully, Viva’s lovely visuals and knowing humor are undeniable.
Synopsis: Writer and director Anna Biller takes a swingin’ look back at sexploitation cinema of the ’70s in this candy-colored comedy… [More]
#102
Adjusted Score: 61.772%
Critics Consensus: Jason’s Lyric is a sexually charged film whose violent streak weakens or, depending on your perspective, supports the melodrama.
Synopsis: Two inner-city youths find love on the hard streets of Houston. Each has personal problems to work through, and is… [More]
#101
Adjusted Score: 65.014%
Critics Consensus: Paul Schrader’s kinky reimagining of Cat People may prove too grisly and lurid for some audiences, but its provocative style and Natassja Kinski’s hypnotic performance should please viewers who like a little gasoline with their fire.
Synopsis: In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort… [More]
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