As the temperature starts to climb with summer right around the corner, so too is the heat from Netflix, thanks to the platform’s growing and diverse collection of steamy, risque, and mature titles. If you’re looking for sexually explicit movies on Netflix, one of the best streaming services around, but don’t want to spend most of your night scrolling through a seemingly endless list, then you’ve come to the right place…
Take a look at more than two dozen racy, hot-n-heavy, and incredibly romantic movies from new Netflix originals to outrageous period pieces to surprisingly sexy horror movies, and just about anything and everything in between. That said, part the beaded curtains, tell Alexa to turn down the lights, and set the mood as we go through some of the most titillating movies you can watch with a Netflix subscription right now…
Sergio (2020)
The Director: Greg Barker
The Cast: Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brian F. O’Byrne
What It’s About: A United Nations diplomat travels to Baghdad shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and finds himself in a series of life-or-death situations.
What To Expect: Starring Wagner Moura as the late Sérgio Vieira de Mello, this biographical drama features intense situations with the U.S. Army, terrorists, and a young U.N. consultant played by Ana de Armas, the latter of whom starts a steamy relationship with the diplomat.
The Lovebirds (2020)
The Director: Michael Showalter
The Cast: Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, Pal Sparks
What It’s About: With their relationship on the rocks, a couple tries to make the most of a situation after they are caught up in a real-life murder mystery.
What To Expect: Michael Showalter’s The Lovebirds features two hilarious performances from Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani and a premise that combines elements of the best rom-coms, mystery films, and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Two (2021)
The Director: Mar Targarona
The Cast: Marina Gatell, Pablo Derqui
What It’s About: A man and a woman awake to find themselves naked in a bed, not knowing how or why they’re there. To make matters worse, the two strangers have been surgically connected by their abdomens.
What To Expect: A horror-centric thriller with all kinds of twists and turns, Two essentially follows two naked and confused people as they try to make sense of an incredibly harrowing situation.
Hit Man (2024)
The Director: Richard Linklater
The Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio
What It’s About: A college professor who goes undercover as a hit man to bring down people wanting to kill their spouses finds himself in an increasingly dangerous situation after meeting a mysterious woman.
What To Expect: Hit Man is an incredibly funny 2024 movie that is one part romantic comedy and one part crime thriller. With high stakes, undeniable chemistry between leads Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, and some hot-and-heavy love scenes, there’s a lot going on here.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
The Director: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck
The Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell
What It’s About: When his dad announces plans to sell his house in the Hamptons, a chronically immature 30-something (played by Jason Sudeikis) decides to throw one final over-the-top party: an orgy.
What To Expect: With names like Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Nick Kroll, and Lucy Punch, it’s no surprise that A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is a hilarious romp. However, it’s also raunchy as can be and has some wild sequences that are something to behold.
Cam (2018)
The Director: Daniel Goldhaber
The Cast: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters
What It’s About: One of the best sexy horror movies in recent memory, Cam follows a popular camgirl (played by Madeline Brewer) as she falls down a rabbit hole upon discovering that someone has stolen her online identity and is using it for their own gain.
What To Expect: With elements of psychological horror, techno-horror, and good old-fashioned suspense, this intense and incredibly risque thriller doesn’t let off the gas once the show gets on the road.
The Tearsmith (2024)
The Director: Alessandro Genovesi
The Cast: Simone Baldasseroni, Caterina Ferioli, Sabrina Paravicini
What It’s About: Two orphans (played by Simone Baldasseroni and Caterina Ferioli) start as bitter rivals when first crossing paths, but their animosity leads to a heated and life-changing romance over time.
What To Expect: Filled with love, lust, and a whole lot of sexual tension, The Tearsmith builds and builds and builds. Though not as intense as some of Netflix’s other originals, this one has a certain energy that can’t be denied.
Shiva Baby (2021)
The Director: Emma Seligman
The Cast: Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper
What It’s About: If attending a funeral service with her parents wasn’t bad enough, directionless college student Danielle (Rachel Sennott) has a series of awkward encounters after running into both her sugar daddy and ex-girlfriend.
What To Expect: Though not the most risque movie on Netflix, Shiva Baby is as raunchy as it is awkward. With multiple lovers, messy situations, and some wild conversations along the way, there’s a lot to unpack… or undress in this under-the-radar 2021 movie.
May December (2023)
The Director: Todd Haynes
The Cast: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
What It’s About: An actress hired to portray an older woman in a controversial relationship finds herself getting too involved with the story, which makes a mess of things.
What To Expect: With several sexual encounters, intense love scenes, and some hot and heavy conversations, this wild Netflix original movie pushes the envelope, for sure.
Ibiza: Love Drunk (2018)
The Director: Alex Richanbach
The Cast: Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Richard Madden
What It’s About: A business trip to Barcelona becomes a life-changing and wildly romantic experience for a 30-year-old public relations manager after having a chance encounter with a famous DJ.
What To Expect: On top of having a wild, raucous, and unpredictable story, Ibiza: Love Drunk also has its fair share of nudity and romance along the way.
Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction (2023)
The Director: Bille August
The Cast: Alice Bier Zanden, Mikkel Folsgaard, Sidse Babett Knudsen
Based On: Isak Dinesen’s Ehrengard
What It’s About: After being hired to help teach a prince the art of seduction, a love expert finds himself in the middle of a major scandal that could bring chaos and disorder to the kingdom… and his love life.
What To Expect: Swirling romances, scandals, political drama, and remarkable production design make Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction a fun spin on a classic literary character’s origin story. And yeah, this gets hot and heavy.
Nuovo Olimpo (2023)
The Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
The Cast: Damiano Gavino, Andrea Di Luigi, Luisa Ranieri
What It’s About: After meeting and falling for one another at a cinema in 1970s Rome, two lovers spend the next few decades remembering the steamy affair before trying to reconnect and make up for lost time.
What To Expect: On top of having an epic story, great production design, and two incredibly powerful characters, Nuovo Olimpo is a steamy, sexy, and outrageously passionate exploration of love and its impact on us.
More The Merrier (2021)
The Director: Paco Caballero
The Cast: Ernesto Alterio, Raul Arevalo, Luis Callejo
What It’s About: Primarily taking place in a swingers club called Paradiso, several interconnected stories take a look at love, lust, new beginnings, and the limitless possibilities of sexual exploration.
What To Expect: If you’re looking for an unflinching representation of the sensuality, awkwardness, and hilarity of the swinging world, More the Merrier will do the trick.
Closer (2004)
The Director: Mike Nichols
The Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen
What It’s About: For a variety of reasons, two couples become entangled with one another, leading to all involved parties finding themselves in an increasingly intense and confusing situation. Over several years, they experience agony and ecstasy, hope and hopelessness, and the power of attraction.
What To Expect: Those in the mood for a complicated and steamy romantic drama about four people in horrible, toxic relationships who have no business being in each other’s lives, then look no further than Mike Nichols’ Closer.
Subservience (2024)
The Director: S.K. Dale
The Cast: Megan Fox, Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima
What It’s About: After bringing home a state-of-the-art robot to help out when his wife gets sick, a man’s life is thrown into disarray as the android becomes attracted to him.
What To Expect: If you want to see a movie where Megan Fox plays a robot that cleans, strips, and commits murder, then Subservience is a movie you won’t want to miss. With violence, a shower sex scene, and a plot about a different kind of wild robot, there’s a lot going on.
Mea Culpa (2024)
The Director: Tyler Perry
The Cast: Kelly Rowland, Trevante Rhodes, Nick Sagar
What It’s About: A Chicago defense attorney takes on the case of an artist accused of murdering his girlfriend, only to find herself caught in a steamy and dangerous relationship.
What To Expect: Not your standard Tyler Perry movie, Mea Culpa is an intense erotic thriller that doesn’t hold back. With multiple sex scenes (including one involving paint), intensity, and all kinds of revelations along the way, you get a little bit of everything here.
Happy Ending (2023)
The Director: Joosje Duk
The Cast: Gaite Jansen, Martijn Lakemeier, Joy Delima
What It’s About: When a couple decides to spice up their love life, they have no idea the journey they’re about to take will lead to some major complications.
What To Expect: Though not as intense as other sexually explicit movies on Netflix, Happy Ending isn’t necessarily a PG (or PG-13) movie at all. There’s some nudity, sex scenes, and a whole lot of awkwardness in this one.
Lust Stories (2018)
The Director: Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar
The Cast: Radhika Apte, Bhumi Pednekar
What It’s About: Lust Stories consists of four short films that are all connected by one common theme: human sexuality. Released in 2018, this anthology film from Indian directors Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar explores both love and sex in modern-day India.
What To Expect: You’ll find a little bit of everything here, but if you want more, there’s a follow-up film, Lust Stories 2, that should do the trick if you’re looking for even more emotional, romantic, and yes, steamy stories.
The Year I Started Masturbating (2022)
The Director: Erika Wasserman
The Cast: Katia Winter, Jesper Zuschlag
Based On: Sandra Dahlén’s Hallongrottan
What It’s About: Looking for a raunchy Swedish film that blurs the lines between comedy and drama, or love and lust? Well, look no further than The Year I Started Masturbating, a daring exploration of new beginnings in more than one way. After being dumped shortly before her 40th birthday, Hanna (Katia Winter) is forced to reevaluate her wishes and desires in life, which results in her embarking on a journey of self-discovery.
What To Expect: With a title like The Year I Started Masturbating, it shouldn’t be all that shocking that this dramedy has all kinds of sex scenes throughout its runtime, some of which get extremely hot and heavy.
Burning Betrayal (2023)
The Director: Diego Freitas
The Cast: Giovanna Lancellotti, Leandro Lima
What It’s About: The 2023 Brazilian Netflix film, Burning Betrayal, follows a soon-to-be bride named Babi (Giovanna Lancellotti) as she discovers that her loving, and supposedly faithful fiancé has been cheating on her.
What To Expect: With elements of erotic dramas and revenge-driven thrillers, this film adaptation of Sue Hecker’s O Lado Bom de Ser Traida (The Good Side of Being Betrayed) pushes things to the extreme, both with its sensual scenes of sexuality and action-packed scenes. Those latter sequences will surely hold your attention between the film’s various sex scenes.
Dry Martina (2018)
The Director: Che Sandoval
The Cast: Antonella Costa, Patricio Contreras
What It’s About: Che Sandoval’s 2018 film, Dry Martina, follows popular singer Martina Andrade (Antonella Costa) as she makes two discoveries. First, she finds out that she has a long-lost half-sister, and then she discovers she has a great deal of romantic chemistry with her newfound sibling’s boyfriend.
What To Expect: With a blend of side-splitting comedy, powerful human drama, and some steamy sex scenes mixed throughout, Dry Martina is a fun, charming, and sometimes intense romantic comedy that offers a little something for everyone.
Through My Window (2022)
The Director: Marcal Fores
The Cast: Clara Galle, Julio Pena Fernandez
Based On: Ariana Godoy’s Through My Window novels
What It’s About: Through My Window centers on Raquel Mendoza (Clara Galle), a young woman whose obsession with her uber-wealthy neighbor, Ares Hidalgo (Julio Pena Fernandez) turns into a swirling romance when she discovers he has the same feelings.
What To Expect: There are multiple sex scenes, including some in wild places like a Ferris wheel and a helicopter. But at the same time, the movie also features several of the most sensual sequences on Netflix.
- Stream Through My Window on Netflix.
- Also try: Through My Window: Across the Sea on Netflix.
- Also try: Through My Window 3: Looking At You on Netflix.
Fair Play (2023)
The Director: Chloe Domont
The Cast: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich
What It’s About: Fair Play primarily focuses on Emily Meyers (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke Edmunds (Alden Ehrenreich), two coworkers at the center of its cast who attempt to keep their passionate relationship a secret at the office. But when Emily is given a promotion over Luke, things get out of hand.
What To Expect: Fair Play doesn’t hold back when it comes to sexually explicit content, and its various sex scenes put it in the same category as other erotic thrillers like Basic Instinct, Indecent Proposal, and Disclosure, especially when the drama is turned up as the story progresses. However, things do get dark, so make sure to go into this movie with that in mind.
Ride Or Die (2021)
The Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
The Cast: Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Sato
Based On: Ching Nakamura’s Gunjō
What It’s About: The Japanese psychological thriller, Ride or Die, follows Rei Nagasawa (Kiko Mizuhara) a young woman who leaves her partner and career as a talented plastic surgeon behind to help her former crush, Nanae Shinoda (Honami Sato), who is being tormented physically and mentally by her abusive husband.
What To Expect: There’s plenty of drama, steamy sex scenes, and murder to go around, which makes for a rather peculiar combination of tones and emotions for the viewer.
No Limit (2022)
The Director: David M. Rosenthal
The Cast: Camille Rowe, Sofiane Zermani
What It’s About: David M. Rosenthal’s 2022 French-language film, No Limit (Sous Emprise) centers on the relationship shared by young free-diver Roxana (Camille Rowe) and her coach, Pascal (Sofiane Zermani), one that is as intense in the bedroom as it is in the depths of the ocean.
What To Expect: Physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting, No Limit paints an intimate picture of two determined individuals who are drawn together, for better or worse.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)
The Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
The Cast: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell
Based On: D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
What It’s About: Based on the famed 1929 novel by D.H. Lawrence (which was banned for obscenity in several countries for quite some time), Lady Chatterley’s Lover follows Constance (Emma Corrin), whose husband is paralyzed in WWI and requests that his wife find someone to impregnate her so that he can have an heir.
What To Expect: If there were a ranking of the steam level of these movies, the thermometer would get so hot it would explode for this one.
Madame Claude (2021)
The Director: Sylvie Verheyde
The Cast: Karole Rocher, Garance Marillier
What It’s About: Anyone looking for hotness that’s rooted in reality should check out Madame Claude, as it’s a biographical drama based on the life of the infamous brothel owner who rose to prominence in late 1960s Paris. Her sex workers plied their trade in an area of the city favored by many of the town’s elite, which gave her quite a bit of power over politicians and criminal figures, but that power didn’t last for very long.
What To Expect: In watching the successes and eventual downfall of the madam, viewers will be treated to several scenes befitting the profession that’s being investigated, but be warned, there are a few such scenes that are likely to make one uncomfortable.
High Society (2018)
The Director: Byun Hyuk
The Cast: Park Hae-il, Soo Ae
What It’s About: This Korean drama comes from director Byun Hyuk (who also wrote the film), and focuses on a young married couple (Park Hae-il and Soo Ae) who are already on an incredibly high rung on the ladder when it comes to social standing, but still seek to make it to an even more elite standing in their community, and how they will do and risk anything to get there.
What To Expect: With a story about people going to great lengths to reach the upper echelon of society comes all kinds of explicit scenes, including one of the steamiest of its kind on Netflix.
The 365 Days Franchise (2020-2022)
The Director: Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes
The Cast: Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone
What It’s About: This trilogy of Netflix original films is probably one of the things that brought you to this list. No one could really blame you, either, as the first movie, 365 Days, hit the streaming giant in the summer of 2020 and quickly became one of the biggest sensations to get users excited and keep everyone talking for a long time. For the uninitiated, the film franchise is based on the Polish novels of the same name by author Blanka Lipińska, telling the story of mafioso Don Massimo (Michele Morrone) and his captive love interest Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka).
What To Expect: With exceedingly realistic sex scenes, all kinds of drama, and so many stories to unfold, the 365 franchise has given audiences hours of naughty, naked entertainment.
- Stream 365 Days on Netflix.
- Stream 365 Days: This Day on Netflix.
- Stream The Next 365 Days on Netflix.
The After Movies (2020-2022)
The Director: Jenny Gage (After), Roger Kumble (After We Collided), Castille Landon (After We Fell, After Ever Happy, After Everything)
The Cast: Anna Todd, Brian Pitt, Aron Levitz
Based On: Anna Todd’s After novels
What They’re About: The After franchise shows us a slice of the complicated romantic life of two college students. These racy titles tell the story of Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) as she meets and falls for bad boy Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) during her freshman year, as well as everything that unfolds after.
What To Expect: If you want to start an extensive saga, or maybe revisit it after all these years, you can do that right now, as the entire series is streaming on Netflix. Prepare to lose yourself in this story of young love and lust.
- Stream After on Netflix.
- Stream After We Collided on Netflix.
- Stream After We Fell on Netflix.
- Stream After Ever Happy on Netflix.
- Stream After Everything on Netflix.
As you can see from this list, there's no lack of sensual thrills to be had here, if you know where to find them. Be sure to stream responsibly, however.
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