Fall is in the air, but the massive collection of sexually explicit movies on Netflix is going to keep things hot and steamy. Watching one, two, or more than 20 sexually explicit movies with your Netflix subscription is going to lead to a fun few months. But if you 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 movies to outrageous period pieces and everything in between, and just about anything and everything in between.
Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015)
The Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
The Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle
Based On: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
What It’s About: Unbeknownst to her, taking on an assignment for a sick roommate will have a massive impact on Anastasia Steele’s (Dakota Johnson) professional and personal life after she interviews a mysterious yet handsome billionaire.
What To Expect: Based on E.L. James’ hugely successful novel of the same name, Fifty Shades of Grey is a movie about identity, love, pleasure, and so much pain.
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
The Director: Spike Lee
The Cast: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell
What It’s About: An indecisive woman with trouble determining who she wants to be with takes an unorthodox approach to dating by seeing three men at the same time.
What To Expect: One of Spike Lee’s earliest joints, She’s Gotta Have It is a hilarious and honest view of dating, compromise, and finding yourself in a maddening world. Expect to laugh one moment and go “oh my” the next with this movie’s unflinching tone.
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)
The Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
The Cast: Lea Seydoux, Adele Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Based On: Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh
What It’s About: After meeting at a bar one night, two young women kick off a beautiful yet tumultuous relationship that’ll test them in more ways than one.
What To Expect: Blue Is the Warmest Color is an NC-17 movie, so those who can’t handle a great deal of sexually explicit scenes, intense drama, and extensive narratives should be careful.
Ascharyachakit! (2018)
The Director: Samit Kakkad
The Cast: Priyanka Bose, Santosh Juvekar, Vaibhav Raj Gupta
What It’s About: The lives of four individuals – a Bollywood movie star, a sex worker, a pimp, and a chauffeur – become intertwined and oh so complicated when a night of passion turns into something more.
What To Expect: Ascharyachakit!, also known as Ascharya Fuck It, is an intense, explicit, and complicated look at love, lust, and greed where anything and everything can happen. Sex and violence are not in short supply in this Hindi-language comedy.
Vacation (2015)
The Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
The Cast: Ed Helms, Christiana Applegate, Leslie Mann
What It’s About: Trying to recreate fond memories of Griswold family vacations of the past, Rusty (Ed Helms) takes his family on a road trip they won’t soon forget, no matter how hard they try.
What To Expect: Though not the best movie in the Vacation franchise, this 2015 sequel/reboot of the famed property has some very on-brand moments. There’s nudity, there’s chaos, there’s drama, and so much more.
Knight Of Cups (2015)
The Director: Terrence Malick
The Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman
What It’s About: Trying to make sense of the world around him (and how it fits into it), a struggling screenwriter embarks upon an epic and personal journey.
What To Expect: This is a Terrence Malick movie, so expect to be wowed by the visuals and cinematography techniques, but also confused by a narrative that doesn’t hold your hand.
On Swift Horses (2024)
The Director: Daniel Minahan
The Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter
Based On: On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
What It’s About: The lives of a married couple are thrown into disarray when the husband’s free-spirited brother returns from the Korean War and forces them to look at life in a different way.
What To Expect: With tales of forbidden love, some hot-and-heavy romance, horse betting, and so many emotional moments, On Swift Horses is a tour de force.
For Jojo (2022)
The Director: Barbara Ott
The Cast: Nina Gummich, Caro Cult, Catrin Striebeck
What It’s About: When she learns that her best friend is about to get married, a young woman does everything she can to get her to see that she’s about to make the biggest mistake.
What To Expect: For Jojo starts with two awkward sex scenes in the span of a few minutes and just gets crazier from there. There’s a great story about friendship at the center of this movie, but also some bonkers moments you just have to see.
Knocked Up (2007)
The Director: Judd Apatow
The Cast: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann
What It’s About: After an awkward end to a one-night stand, two people go their separate ways only to be brought back together when they discover the fling has some serious consequences.
What To Expect: One of the funniest comedies of the 2000s, Knocked Up is rude and crude but also a rom-com with a whole lot of heart.
Dance Of The Forty One (2021)
The Director: David Pablos
The Cast: Alfonso Herrera, Mabel Cadena, Emiliano Zurita
What It’s About: After the police raid of a secret club goes public, staples of Mexican high society find themselves in the spotlight where their personal lives are poked, prodded, and pulled apart.
What To Expect: Based on a true story, Dance of the Forty One is an emotional and impactful LGBTQ+ drama filled with laughter, love, heartbreak, and political scandal.
What We Wanted (2020)
The Director: Ulrike Kofler
The Cast: Lavina Wilson, Elyas M’Barek, Anna Unterberger
Based On: Der Lauf der Dinge by Peter Stamm
What It’s About: In an attempt to grow closer after experiencing a series of fertility issues, a couple goes to a beach resort. However, things take a turn when they meet a lively family.
What To Expect: What We Wanted is an emotional and oftentimes tense drama about a married couple at a crossroads, but it’s only quite steamy, passionate, and risque at times.
How To Be Single (2016)
The Director: Christian Ditter
The Cast: Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie
Based On: How to Be Single by Liz Tuccillo
What It’s About: After breaking up with her longtime boyfriend and moving to New York City, a newly single paralegal is introduced to the wild, chaotic, and exhilarating world of dating.
What To Expect: How to Be Single is one of the most chaotic romantic comedies you’ll find on Netflix, so much so that you don’t know what awaits around each corner. Is it a one-night stand? What about a wild night at a club?
Fall For Me (2025)
The Director: Sherry Hormann
The Cast: Svenja Jung, Theo Trebs, Thomas Kretschmann
What It’s About: While visiting her sister on the Spanish island of Mallorca, a woman finds herself in an increasingly dangerous (and steamy) situation after meeting a mysterious stranger and becoming part of a devilish scam.
What To Expect: Sherry Hormann’s 2025 erotic thriller is full of mystery, tension, bad players, and some of the sexiest scenes you’ll see on Netflix this year.
The Sweetest Thing (2002)
The Director: Roger Kumble
The Cast: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair
What It’s About: After meeting the man of her dreams, a serial bachelorette decides to throw caution to the wind (and her golden rule in the trash can) by going on a road trip to track him down and say how she really feels.
What To Expect: If you want to see a wild road trip comedy featuring Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in peak comedy form (plus an utterly ridiculous scene featuring Selma Blair), The Sweetest Thing is going to do the trick.
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
The Director: Amy Heckerling
The Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold
Based On: Cameron Crowe’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story
What It’s About: The lives of several high school students from Ridgemont High are explored in great detail as they balance studies, part-time jobs, and teenage hormones.
What To Expect: One of the best high school comedies of all time, Fast Times at Ridgemont High has influenced generations of audiences and filmmakers with its hilarious yet personal chronicle of a day in the life of a teenager. It has comedy, it has romance, and it has scenes that are still wild 40-plus years later.
Under Her Control (2022)
The Director: Fran Torres
The Cast: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Cumelen Sanz, Alex Pastrana
What It’s About: A woman hoping to keep her pregnancy a secret is given an offer that could allow her to keep her job and find a home for the soon-to-be-born baby: sign the child away to the overbearing fashion designer for whom she works.
What To Expect: Fran Torres’ Under Her Control is an intense psychological thriller that continues to get more and more out of hand as its intense and at times terrifying story progresses.
Untamed Royals (2024)
The Director: Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz
The Cast: Juan Pablo Fuentes, Ximena Lamadrid, Fernando Cattori
What It’s About: A group of extremely wealthy friends, all from powerful families whose status gives them an endless line of “get out of jail free” cards, live out their lives in debaucherous, morally bankrupt, and sociopathic ways.
What To Expect: Untamed Royals is a story of both access and excess, where the rich and powerful do anything and everything they want with little to no regard for those around them.
A Widow’s Game (2025)
The Director: Carlos Sedes
The Cast: Ivana Baquero, Tristan Ullola, Carmen Machi
What It’s About: After a man is found brutally murdered, his widow puts on the facade of a grieving wife. However, as her story starts to unfold, it becomes apparent that she isn’t telling the whole story.
What To Expect: A Widow’s Game, a gritty and explosive psychological thriller, shows how far someone will go to have control over their life (and everyone around them). With murder, mystery, and some hot and heavy scenes, this has it all.
The Dirt (2019)
The Director: Jeff Tremaine
The Cast: Douglas Booth, Colson “Machine Gun Kelly” Baker, Pete Davidson
Based On: Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, and Neil Strauss’ The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band
What It’s About: The wild and raucous story of hair metal icons Mötley Crüe is explored in great (and explicit) detail as the band of misfits goes from one of Hollywood Avenue’s rising stars to one of the biggest bands of all time.
What To Expect: A great music biopic based on Mötley Crüe, a band known for their backstage escapades as much as their music, it was all but guaranteed that this 2019 Netflix original would be an over-the-top and sensationalized recounting of one of rock’s most notorious outfits.
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: This incredibly funny 2024 movie 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.
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.
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.
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: An epic story, great production design, and two incredibly powerful characters make Nuovo Olimpo a steamy, sexy, and passionate exploration of love and its impact on us.
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 cooks, cleans, and commits murder, then Subservience is a movie you won’t want to miss.
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.
Lust Stories (2018)
The Director: Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan JoharThe 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.
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.
Through My Window (2022)
The Director: Marcal Fores
The Cast: Clara Galle, Julio Pena Fernandez
Based On: The Through My Window novels by Ariana Godoy
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. However, 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.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)
The Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
The Cast: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell
Based On: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
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 explode for this one.
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: 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 LevitzBased On: The After novels by Anna Todd
What They’re About: The After franchise offers 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.
- 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.
With fall in full swing (and winter less than two months away), these movies will keep you plenty warm for many, many months.
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