Summer 2027is officially in the books, but things stay steamy with your HBO Max subscription and this list of sexually explicit movies available. Not only does HBO give you access to some of the raciest and steamiest TV shows ever produced for television, like Game of Thrones, Heated Rivalry, and Euphoria, but the streamer is also home to plenty of hot movies to watch if you're in the mood.
This is our list of explicit movies available on HBO Max as of October 2026. There are a couple of additions this month that feature Sydney Sweeney, but they won't be available to stream for a couple of weeks (but they are included on this list). From steamy erotic thrillers to some of the biggest stars in the cinema, HBO has long been home to some of the spiciest content on TV.
Marty Supreme (2025)
The Director: Josh Safdie
The Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion
Based On: The Money Player: The Confessions of America's Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler by Marty Reisman
What It’s About: Chalamet plays Marty, a man with a singular obsession to be the best table tennis player of all time. Well, that might not be his only obsession, as he finds time for relationships with women whom he shouldn't.
What To Expect: A tense, fast-paced movie that was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Chalamet. There are some very steamy scenes between Marty and his lovers, and some very cheeky comedy surrounding one of them.
Pillion (2025)
The Director: Harry Lighton
The Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling
Based On: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
What It’s About: A shy gay man who still lives with his parents enters into a lustful relationship with a biker (Skarsgård), and together they explore the world of BDSM.
What To Expect: The word "Pillion" is defined as the backseat of a motorcycle, so you see where this movie is going, with Skarsgård as the biker and the more experienced lover. It's been hailed as one of the great LGBTQ+ movies of the last decade.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The Director: Stanley Kubrick
The Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
Based On: Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler
What It’s About: A prominent doctor (Cruise) and his wife (Kidman) experience unexpected problems in their marriage, leading both, especially the doctor, to some very unexpected, troubling, and, honestly, weird places
What To Expect: This movie really needs no introduction does it? It was a huge deal when it was released, both for the talent involved and for the sheer sexiness of much of it. It's weird, it's sometimes disturbing, and often hard to follow, but it's another masterpiece from Kubrick.
Open Your Eyes (1997)
The Director: Alejandro Amenábar
The Cast: Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega, Chete Lera
What It’s About: A harrowing story told through flashbacks and dream sequences, César (Eduardo Noriega) tells his story of how he came to be disfigured as reality and dreams collide, giving the audience a disjointed look at his past.
What To Expect: Open Your Eyes was remade later by Cameron Crowe and retitled Vanilla Sky, so if you know that movie, you'll be familiar with the story of this Spanish-language film. Penélope Cruz plays the same role here that she played in the Tom Cruise film from a few years later.
Hall Pass (2011)
The Director: The Farrelly brothers
The Cast: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate
What It’s About: Two couples struggling with boredom in their marriage decide to shake things up with a "hall pass" for one week, giving the men the option to step out of their wives if they want to.
What To Expect: Any comedy from the Farrelly brothers is probably going to make a list like this, and while Hall Pass is one of their tamer flicks, there is still plenty of crude humor and hot moments to be included here.
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)
The Director: Céline Sciamma
The Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
What It’s About: An artist in 18th-century France is hired to paint a portrait of a wealthy aristocrat, only for the two women to start up a steamy and forbidden romance.
What To Expect: Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a passionate, intense, and unforgettable tale of hidden romance and subdued passions.
Saltburn (2023)
The Director: Emerald Fennell
The Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver
What It’s About: A (very) dark comedy about a college student (Keoghan) who integrates himself into the family of a fellow student (Elordi) with nefarious intentions.
What To Expect: We're definitely not here to kink shame anyone, so this one has to be on this list. It's equal parts funny, disturbing, and explicit.
Risky Business (1983)
The Director: Paul Brickman
The Cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
What It’s About: A high school senior (Cruise) with designs on going to an Ivy League school gets in way over his head when he gets into business with an escort (De Mornay) while his parents are out of town.
What To Expect: A 1980s classic that helped make Tim Cruise a superstar that is both really funny and quite sexy, especially that scene on the train, right?
Spring Breakers (2012)
The Director: Harmony Korine
The Cast: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine
What It’s About: The spring break of a lifetime turns into a trip of nightmares when four friends befriend a local drug dealer who opens a world of debauchery and terror.
What To Expect: Korine is a master at making things very uncomfortable for the audience, and he does that again here.
The Housemaid (2025
The Director: Paul Feig
Based on: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
The Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar
What It’s About: A well-to-do woman (Seyfried) hires a down-on-her-luck convict (Sweeney) to be a housemaid for her and her family. Things start to get very disturbing very quickly, leaving viewers wondering what's real and what isn't.
What To Expect: A movie in the vein of some of the classic erotic thrillers of the '80s and '90s, Sweeney and Seyfried are both great in the movie. Obviously any erotic thrillr with Sydney Sweeney is going to be on this list.
- Watch The Housemaid On HBO Max starting October 9
The Shape Of Water (2017)
The Director: Guillermo del Toro
The Cast: Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon
What It’s About: A cleaning lady at a top-secret research facility has a chance encounter with a mysterious amphibian man, with whom she starts an unlikely yet highly impactful bond.
What To Expect: If you’ve ever wanted to see a Best Picture winner in which a woman and a sea monster get down to business, The Shape of Water is going to do the trick.
Sinners (2025)
The Director: Ryan Coogler
The Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell
What It’s About: Returning home from Chicago, a pair of twins opens a juke joint in the Mississippi Delta, only to have their opening night crashed by a vicious vampire and his followers.
What To Expect: Easily one of the best horror movies of 2025, Sinners is an achievement in filmmaking. That said, it’s not without some highly sexualized moments.
Gia (1998)
The Director: Michael Cristofer
The Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Faye Dunaway
What It’s About: The life and times of supermodel Gia Carangi (Jolie) are explored in great detail, as are her various romantic relationships, with a legendarily steamy one with Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell).
What To Expect: The biographical drama doesn’t hold back when it comes to the depictions of the model’s personal struggles, and can be too much for some viewers. Nothing is left on the table…
Anyone But You (2023)
The Director: Coralie Fargeat
The Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell
Based On: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
What It’s About: A fun rom-com based loosely on Shakespeare finds two people who had a bad dating experience stuck together at a destination wedding.
What To Expect: This isn't the steamiest movie on this list, but that's not to say it's totally innocent either. With two people as good-looking as Powell and Sweeney, you know we had to include it here!
- Anyone But You Will Be Available To Stream On HBO Max on October 20
One Battle After Another (2025)
The Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
The Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn
Based On: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
What It’s About: Years after starting over, a washed-up former revolutionary is thrust back into a life of chaos when he learns that an old enemy is trying to capture and kill his teenage daughter.
What To Expect: Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic action-thriller is funny, dramatic, and sexy as all hell from start to finish.
Atomic Blonde (2017)
The Director: David Leitch
The Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman
Based On: The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart
What It’s About: Just as the Berlin Wall is about to fall, a spy is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of covert agents before it’s too late.
What To Expect: One of the best action movies of the past decade, Atomic Blonde is full of big set pieces, twists, turns, more shootouts, and a whole lot of sex appeal.
Girls Trip (2017)
The Director: Malcolm D. Lee
The Cast: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish
What It’s About: Years after their once-tight friendship began to fall apart, four women travel to New Orleans to attend a music festival where anything and everything can happen.
What To Expect: An over-the-top comedy set in the “Big Easy,” this one was bound to be off the rails. Girls Trip doesn’t hold back in any capacity, making it one of the wildest comedies in some time.
Wedding Crashers (2005)
The Director: David Dobkin
The Cast: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Bradley Cooper
What It’s About: Two bachelors specializing in crashing weddings find themselves in quite a situation after one of them falls in love with the daughter of a high-ranking government official.
What To Expect: Released at the height of the “Frat Pack” era of Hollywood, Wedding Crashers is a rude, crude, and utterly hilarious comedy about two serial bachelors who push things too far.
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
The Director: John Waters
The Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Pearce
What It’s About: A traveling freak show known as The Cavalcade of Perversion travels from town to town robbing and later killing its patrons before things really get out of hand. We mean severely out of hand.
What To Expect: Those familiar with John Waters’ body of work know what they’re getting into here. However, those decent folks out there should note that Multiple Maniacs is a sick and depraved comedy that really has to be seen to be believed.
Fallen Angels (1995)
The Director: Wong Kar-wai
The Cast: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro
What It’s About: Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels contains two intertwined storylines: one follows a reluctant hitman wishing to leave his life of crime behind as he gets caught between two lovers, and a second about a man on the run from police in Hong Kong.
What To Expect: Featuring exquisite cinematography, a gripping narrative filled with complex characters and devastating decisions, and some steamy romance, this is one enchanting exploration of crime and passion.
Stream Fallen Angels on HBO Max.
Parthenope (2025)
The Director: Paolo Sorrentino
The Cast: Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman
What It’s About: Told through a series of vignettes, Parthenope tells the story of an Italian woman whose hunger for knowledge, experiences, and life in general takes her to wild and unimaginable places.
What To Expect: Centering on a beautiful and charismatic woman (played by Celeste Dalla Porta), Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope is an exploration of love, loss, lust, and self-discovery.
The Brutalist (2024)
The Director: Brady Corbet
The Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce
What It’s About: A holocaust survivor and world-renowned architect immigrates to the United States after World War II in search of the American Dream, kicking off an ambitious, decades-long project in the process.
What To Expect: The agony and ecstasy of art, the deconstruction of the American Dream, and some intense sex scenes (including a very graphic one in the opening minutes) are found throughout this three-hour drama.
The Hangover Part II (2011)
The Director: Todd Phillips
The Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong
What It’s About: The only way to follow up a crazy trip to Vegas is with an even crazier one to Thailand. Things get wild.
What To Expect: Though it's not quite as funny as The Hangover, The Hangover Part II is even raunchier and more explicit than the original. A lot more.
Demonlover (2002)
The Director: Olivier Assayas
The Cast: Connie Nielsen, Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershon
What It’s About: An ambitious and cutthroat media executive goes to great lengths to acquire a Japanese animation house to give her company the upper hand.
What To Expect: Probably one of the most notorious examples of the New French Extremity movement, Demonlover combines elements of erotic thrillers with corporate espionage.
Working Girls (1986)
The Director: Lizzie Borden
The Cast: Louise Smith, Amanda Goodwin, Marusia Zach
What It’s About: A day in the lives of a group of sex workers and their clients is explored as they come in and out of a New York City brothel.
What To Expect: Not to be confused with the 1988 movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, this movie is full of nudity, sex scenes, and all kinds of risque behavior that push the envelope and the boundaries as to what’s acceptable on the big screen.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down (1990)
The Director: Pedro Almodóvar
The Cast: Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles León
What It’s About: A recently released psychiatric patient tries to find a former adult film star and convince her to fall in love with him, though how he goes about this is far from romantic.
What To Expect: One of Antonio Banderas’ best movies, Tie Me Up!, Tie Me Down! leaves little to the imagination, especially with an NC-17 rating.
Behind The Candelabra (2013)
The Director: Steven Soderbergh
The Cast: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe
What It’s About: An exploration of legendary Las Vegas pianist Liberace and his intense relationship with a lover in the final years of his life.
What To Expect: The 2013 HBO original movie doesn’t hold back on the excess that fueled Liberace’s life off-stage, as well as his attempts to preserve his public image. That said, it has more than a few explicit sex scenes.
The HBO Max library is changing all the time, meaning you may want to check back at a later date for even more steamy and romantic dramas, comedies, and thrillers.
