We all know that a Paramount+ subscription gives you a “mountain of entertainment,” but let’s not forget that a membership also opens the door for some of the most sultry, titillating, and risqué movies on the internet. If you’re trying to get in the mood, looking for a great psychological thriller with some hot-and-heavy moments, or want a raunchy comedy with some sexy scenes, look no further than this list of 16 movies.
Before we get started, anyone looking for “Showtime After Dark” movies, some of which are available on the streamer, will have to find them themselves. We're leaving those off this lusty list.
Shakespeare In Love (1998)
The Director: John Madden
The Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench
What It’s About: While working on his masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, a young William Shakespeare falls madly in love with the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
What To Expect: Don’t let the ornate costumes and stuffy personalities fool you, Shakespeare in Love is a wild, raucous, and freeing good time where characters get caught up in all manner of risky situations.
Basic Instinct (1992)
The Director: Paul Verhoeven
The Cast: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn
What It’s About: A woman (Stone) is accused of murder after a man is stabbed with an ice pick in bed. A cop (Douglas) gets a little too close to the suspect, to say the least, in this erotic mystery thriller.
What To Expect: Does anyone really not know the famous interrogation scene in Basic Instinct? The movie is a lot more than just that scene, both in terms of erotica and, well, story. It was legendary the moment it was released.
- Coming to Paramount+ on August 1
Risky Business (1983)
The Director: Paul Brickman
The Cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
What It’s About: A high school student (Cruise) trying to get into college gets in way over his head when he tries to make some money after meeting a sex worker (De Mornay).
What To Expect: Risky Business is probably the movie you can point to that really launched Tom Cruise's career into the stratosphere. The most famous scene might be Cruise in his underwear dancing to Bob Seger, but what about that scene on the stairs?? It's a hot one, for sure.
- Ricky Business comes to Paramount+ on August 1
Gangs Of New York (2002)
The Director: Martin Scorsese
The Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Based On: The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
What It’s About: Years after his father was killed in a brutal gang war, an Irish immigrant returns to his childhood neighborhood in hopes of getting revenge on the ruthless figure who took everything from him.
What To Expect: Gangs of New York, like other Martin Scorsese movies, is epic in scope and scale, as well as incredibly violent. This unflinching depiction of New York City in the 1860s and the characters that called it home has a little bit of everything.
Braveheart (1995)
The Director: Mel Gibson
The Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson
What It’s About: Sir William Wallace puts everything on the line in his tireless fight for Scottish independence, a quest that puts him up against some of history’s most ruthless figures.
What To Expect: With a runtime of nearly three hours, Braveheart has a lot of story to tell. But when it’s not focusing on bloody battles and bitter politics, Mel Gibson’s epic spends a lot of time with the more romantic side of Wallace’s life.
Sliver (1993)
The Director: Phillip Noyce
The Cast: Sharon Stone, Adam Baldwin
What It’s About: A woman (Stone) moves into a prestigious apartment building in New York City and begins a relationship with another tenant (Baldwin). She learns that there is much more going on behind the curtain in this mysterious erotic thriller.
What To Expect: The movie has become as notorious for the insanity that went on behind the scenes, including a battle with the MPAA over an NC-17 rating and some problematic behavior by people making the movie towards Stone. Still, it's got some very steamy moments.
- Sliver is coming to Paramount+ on August 1
Indecent Proposal (1993)
The Director: Adrian Lyne
The Cast: Demi Moore, Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson
Based On: The novel of the same name by Jack Engelhard
What It’s About: A money-strapped couple gets an offer from a billionaire, played by Redford, to sleep with the wife.
What To Expect: Though it's generally not thought of as one of Robert Redford's best movies, it was a big deal when it came out in the early '90s. Because of the subject matter (and some of the steamy scenes), it's been talked about for decades.
- Indecent Proposal is coming to Paramount+ on August 1
The Reader (2008)
The Director: Stephen Daldry
The Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross
Based On: Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
What It’s About: Years after having a passionate yet hidden romance with an older woman, a young attorney learns that the woman is on trial for war crimes committed at a concentration camp during World War II.
What To Expect: A film that earned Kate Winslet an Academy Award for Best Actress, The Reader is a dramatic, complex, and steamy exploration of passions, crimes, and new beginnings.
The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
The Director: Martin Scorsese
The Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill
Based On: The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
What It’s About: After failing to make it on Wall Street, an ambitious and morally bankrupt daytrader starts an empire that makes him both incredibly wealthy and public enemy number one in the eyes of the feds.
What To Expect: The Wolf of Wall Street is Martin Scorsese going balls-to-the-wall to tell the story of one of the most captivating figures in the world of white-collar crime: Jordan Belfort.
A Bad Mom’s Christmas (2017)
The Director: Stephen Daldry
The Cast: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn
What It’s About: Fed up with their jobs, families, and pretty much everything life throws their way, a trio of disgruntled moms decides to take a break at the worst possible time: Christmas.
What To Expect: Much like the first film, A Bad Mom’s Christmas is an utterly ridiculous and over-the-top comedy where anything can happen.
Vanilla Sky (2001)
The Director: Cameron Crowe
The Cast: Penelope Cruz, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz
Based On: The Spanish movie Open Your Eyes
What It’s About: A very rich man (Cruise) who is disfigured in a car accident tries to put together the events that landed him in prison
What To Expect: Vanilla Sky is another legendary movie in the careers of Cruise, Cruz, Diaz, and Crowe. It's a love story of sorts, but it's as unconventional as any told on film.
Varsity Blues (1999)
The Director:
The Cast: James Van Der Beek, Ali Larter, Jon Voight, Paul Walker
What It’s About: A classic '90s movie about the highs and lows of a high school football in Texas.
What To Expect: Let's be honest here, any movie with Ali Larter in a whip cream bikini belongs on this list
- Varsity Blues drops on Paramount Plus on August 1
Almost Famous (2000)
The Director: Cameron Crowe
The Cast: Kate Hudson, Noah Taylor, Billy Crudup, Jason Lee
What It’s About: A teenager with dreams of becoming a rock journalist finds himself on the road with a band and comes of age in every way in this now-classic film from 2000.
What To Expect: One of the best movies of its era, it helped launch the career of Kate Hudson and others. Of course, it's about a rock band on the road in the '70s, so you can imagine why it's on this list, even if you haven't seen it before.
Fatal Attraction (1987)
The Director: Adrian Lyne
The Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Based On: Diversion by James Dearden
What It’s About: After a high-profile attorney calls off an extramarital affair, the husband and father becomes the target of the former lover.
What To Expect: Fatal Attraction is one of those movies that makes it very clear that you should never cheat on your spouse.
Strange Darling (2024)
The Director: JT Mollner
The Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty
What It’s About: After a one-night stand spirals into a vicious and unpredictable game of cat-and-mouse, a young woman is forced to take shelter in the unforgiving wilderness if she’s going to survive this night from hell.
What To Expect: JT Mollner’s Strange Darling, told in a non-linear structure, is as racy as it is intense, with its wild sexual encounters and a terrifying race for survival.
Babylon (2022)
The Director: Damien Chazelle
The Cast: Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva
What It’s About: During Hollywood’s transition from silent films to “talkies,” actors, directors, and others associated with the industry try to survive the changing times.
What To Expect: Considering Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is set in the roaring ‘20s, it should be no surprise that this three-hour movie is filled with excess, depravity, and some of the steamiest moments of the past decade.
New sexually explicit movies will certainly come and go from Paramount+ in the coming weeks and months, so make sure to get all caught up before these titles end up somewhere else.
