Fall is in the air, but the massive collection of sexually explicit movies on Netflix is going to keep things hot and steamy for the foreseeable future. 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.
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
The Director: Olivia Wilde
The Cast: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine
What It’s About: A housewife living in a company town begins to pick up on strange happenings the more she looks into the city and the man behind it: her husband’s charismatic boss.
What To Expect: From start to finish, Don’t Worry Darling is a beautifully shot yet intense psychological thriller where you don’t know what or whom to believe. It’s sleek, it’s complex, and it’s sexy as hell.
Tonight You’re Sleeping With Me (2023)
The Director: Robert Wichrowski
The Cast: Roma Gasiorowska, Wojciech Zielinski, Maciej Musial
What It’s About: Caught between continuing her strained relationship with her distant husband and rekindling the flames of passion with an ex-boyfriend, a writer finds herself in a tough spot.
What To Expect: Steamy, dreamy, dramatic, and sexy as can be, Tonight You’re Sleeping with Me offers a complex look at love, relationships, and happiness in a maddening world.
Things Heard & Seen (2021)
The Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
The Cast: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer
Based On: All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
What It’s About: After moving into a beautiful and seemingly normal farmhouse in upstate New York, an art restorer begins to uncover dark and distressing mysteries.
What To Expect: Things Heard & Seen is a terrifying and unsettling supernatural horror film that’ll test you in more ways than one.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The Director: Francis Ford Coppola
The Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves
Based On: Dracula by Bram Stoker
What It’s About: After seeing the picture of a woman who looks identical to his long-dead wife, an ageless prince goes to great lengths to track her down in this adaptation of one of the greatest horror novels of all time.
What To Expect: Though not the best vampire movie, Francis Ford Coppola went all out for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. With great production design, wonderful costumes, and some outrageously sexy moments, there’s a lot.
Tulip Fever (2017)
The Director: Justin Chadwick
The Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O’Connell
Based On: Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
What It’s About: After having a painting commissioned of her by her husband, a Dutch noblewoman falls in love with the artist and puts a plan in motion to escape her comfortable but loveless life.
What To Expect: Tulip Fever is a remarkable historical drama that captures the climate and culture of the 17th-century Dutch Republic. However, don’t let it lead you to believe that this is a stuffy and proper affair, as it’s quite steamy.
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 quickly 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 unravels, 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).
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 experience.
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 part romantic comedy and part crime thriller. High stakes, undeniable chemistry between leads Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, and some hot-and-heavy love scenes make this a movie worth revisiting.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 Levitz
Based 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 not too far off), these movies will keep you plenty warm for the rest of the year, and then some.
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