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Sexiest Movies on Netflix 2018

Is It Hot in Here? Nope — It's Just These 21 Sexy Movies on Netflix

If you need a reason to crank up the romance tonight, look no further than Netflix's lengthy selection of sexy films. Every month, the streaming giant adds more to its collection, so we figured it was high time to narrow it down to the steamy films that are the most worth your time. From erotic thrillers to moving foreign films, there's really something for everyone. Grab a glass of wine and get cosy, because it's about to get a little hot in here.

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1. The Reader

The Reader might be a heavy-hitting drama, but it's a sexy heavy-hitting drama. The film is based on Bernhard Schlink's award-winning novel and stars Kate Winslet as a woman who finds herself caught up in an affair with a much younger teenage boy (David Kross). Despite their tender connection — he reads to her after they get intimate — things inevitably get complicated when he sees her years later as a defendant in a trial for World War II war crimes.

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2. Fragments of Love

Things get hot and heavy in this erotic thriller when a struggling composer starts a relationship with a mysterious woman who tells him stories about her previous lovers and might also be withholding important secrets.

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3. Blue Is the Warmest Color

In Blue Is the Warmest Color, a French teenager (Adèle Exarchopoulos) comes of age after meeting and falling for an older art student (Léa Seydoux). Expect deep emotional connections and eyebrow-raising sex scenes.

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4. Sleeping With Other People

We all need a good rom-com fix every now and then, and Sleeping With Other People is just the ticket. Twelve years after a man and woman (Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie) have a one-night stand, they meet up in NYC and realize they have something in common: they're both serial cheaters. Together they try to help each other stop philandering while also attempting to ignore their mutual attraction.

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5. AWOL

The charming Lola Kirke stars as Joey, a young woman desperately in need of direction in her small town. After she resolves to join the military, she crosses paths with Rayna (Breeda Wool), and the pair's bond evolves into something neither of them ever expected.

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6. Like Water For Chocolate

What's one way to deal with the love of your life marrying your sister? Throwing yourself into cooking and realizing you're actually really great at it. At least, that's what Tita (Lumi Cavazos) does in this 1992 romantic drama that's brimming over with passion.

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7. The Little Death

This sexy comedy explores the intimate moments of four suburban couples as they attempt to reach their happy endings (wink, wink), which range from hilarious to erotic.

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8. Suite Francaise

Matthias Schoenaerts and Michelle Williams are both beautiful, sexy people, so that should convince you to watch this romance straight off the bat. If it doesn't, please take a long, hard look at your life, and then consider the plot: a married woman living in Nazi-occupied France as her husband is off fighting the war reluctantly falls for the German soldier who's staying in her home, which goes against everything she stands for. History! Sexual tension! Adultery! Suite Francaise has it all.

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9. Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman explores what happens to the marriage between a doctor and his wife after she admits she's been having sexual fantasies about another man. Spoiler alert: Cruise's character gets involved with a sex cult, and things get surreal.

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10. Sex and Lucia

If you're craving a moody Spanish drama with plenty of twists, might we suggest Sex and Lucia? It follows a writer as he untangles his relationships with a waitress and the mysterious woman he had a one-night stand with.

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11. Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights boasts an exceptional cast — Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman — and also isn't afraid to get a little dirty as it dives into the '70s porn industry in the San Fernando Valley.

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12. Magic Mike

If you've got a pulse, then we can only assume you're into the idea of watching Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey gyrate to dance music with most of their clothes missing. Fortunately, Magic Mike has all that plus some comedy and compelling backstage drama.

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13. Y Tu Mamá También

Alfonso Cuarón, aka the man behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Gravity, directed this 2001 Mexican film that tracks two young men on a road trip with an older woman. It doesn't take long before sparks fly between everyone involved.

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14. Nymphomaniac: Volume I

Following up the dark, atmospheric dramas Antichrist and Melancholia, Lars von Trier gives us Nymphomaniac: Volume I, which tells the story of a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounting her sexual past to a man who saves her life after a beating.

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15. Nymphomaniac: Volume II

The second half of Nymphomaniac continues the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), whose sex addiction has returned and is destroying her family and life in general.

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16. Wetlands

Things get sultry in this 2013 German film about a young woman's sexual adventures, many of which might not always align with society's expectations for her.

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17. 54

All your favorite '90s stars join forces in this flashy, cocaine-fueled drama that follows the lives of New York City's elite as they party their way through the iconic nightclub 54.

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18. Adore

A pair of best friends and mothers (Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) find themselves in one hell of a predicament when they fall in love with each others' teenage sons.

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19. Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions is one of those movies that's so wild you need to see it for yourself, as it follows a promiscuous teenager (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who challenges her stepbrother (Ryan Phillippe) to deflower the new girl at school before the Summer ends. Are there slightly disturbing themes of subtle incest? Maybe. Are you probably going to love it anyway? Yep!

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