37 Sexiest Movies Of All Time That You CAN’T Watch With Your Parents
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Here is The Bridal Box’s list of the 37 best movies not to watch with your parents:
37. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange
Conspiracy, steamy romance and adultery that all culminates with a plot to murder.
36. Mississippi Masala (1991)
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury
Idi Amin’s rise to power sees an Indian family displaced from their Ugandan home. They end up in Mississippi, where things get interesting.
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35. The Age Of Innocence (1993)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer
An up and coming nineteenth century lawyer falls in love with a woman, except he’s engaged to the woman’s cousin.
34. The Last Seduction (1994)
Director: John Dahl
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg
The very sexy Linda Fiorentino uses her sex appeal to make a dupe out of her husband and another innocent man for her next scheme.
33. Lady Chatterley (2006)
Director: Pascale Ferran
Starring: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis
This French adaptation is one of the many takes of D.H. Lawrence’s original classic novel.
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32. Killing Me Softly (2002)
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes
31. Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love (1996)
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury
Two girls who were friends growing up turn into sexual rivals when maturity takes over.
30. Henry And June (1990)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman
Set in 1930s Paris, this story explores what happens when Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June.
29. Femme Fatale (2002)
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Rebecca Romjin, Antonio Banderas
An ex con-woman tries to get her life back into order even though she struggles to move on from her past.
28. Fatal Attraction (1987)
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Michael Douglas, Anne Archer, Glenn Close
A married man has a one night stand and forgets all about it, until his lover decides to come back and stalk him and his family.
27. An Officer And A Gentleman (1982)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger
A young man’s struggles to come to terms with the Navys flight school is helped by his new girlfriend.
26. Open Your Eyes (1997)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz
An exceptionally handsome meets the love of his life but an accident leaves him with a severely disfigured face that has to be surgically reconstructed.
25. Original Sin (2001)
Director: Michael Cristofer
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie
A plan to con a rich man and run away with his money goes wrong when she starts to fall for him, alienating her current lover.
24. Lolita (1962)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters
He’s a middle aged professor, she’s fourteen.
23. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
A doctor whose wife admits that she almost cheated on him one time embarks on a dangerous night out to discover himself.
22. Dressed To Kill (1980)
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson
Hookers, murder, deceit and a mysterious blonde.
21. The Dreamers (2003)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel
The 1968 Paris Riots is the setting for this film of sexual exploration.
20. Dream Lover (1993)
Director: Nicholas Kazan
Starring: James Spader, Mädchen Amick
A businessman who’s good at what he does is unable to figure out what makes his wife tick.
19. Titanic (1997)
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Unlikely love, doomed ship.
18. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche
Based on the classic novel by Milan Kundera, this story explores how a young doctor is the perfect husband except for his adultery.
17. Risky Business (1983)
Director: Paul Brickman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
A teenager in Chicago who’s looking for a bit of fun but quickly finds things spiralling out of control.
16. Match Point (2005)
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
He falls for an actress who’s currently engaged to be married. To his friend.
15. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor
A love triangle presented in a beautiful musical.
14. Quills (2000)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet
The story of how the irrepressible Marquis De Sade struggles to influence an uptight doctor of his innocence.
13. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo
He steals art to get his kicks, she’s an extremely seductive detective.
12. The English Patient (1996)
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
An Englishman stranded in a foreign hospital begins to find love in the resident nurse who explores his past.
11. The Mask Of Zorro (1998)
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones
The legendary but aged Don Diego trains a young man to be his protégé in this tale of revenge.
10. Legends Of The Fall (1994)
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond
War, history, love and betrayal are the theme of this epic tale.
9. A Walk On The Moon (1999)
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Starring: Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen
A young housewife has an invigorating affair with a door-to-door salesman.
8. Shakespeare In Love (1998)
Director: John Madden
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes
A young Shakespeare meets the perfect girl who inspires him to write one of his most famous plays.
7. Swimming Pool (2003)
Director: François Ozon
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, Ludivine Sagnier
A British author visits her publisher’s house in France only to run into his young, sexy daughter.
6. The Notebook (2004)
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, James Garner
A poor man falls in love with rich woman, but will social differences tear them apart?
5. Don’t Look Now (1973)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland
Two sisters, one psychic, and an air of foreboding.
4. Crash (1996)
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter
Car crash victims try and use the sexuality from the crash to reinvigorate their sex lives in this Oscar winning picture.
3. Bitter Moon (1992)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
A British couple on their way to India encounter a seductive French woman.
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2. Basic Instinct (1992)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone
Sex, lies and videotape involving a very alluring Sharon Stone.
1. The End Of The Affair (1999)
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore
It all started with a chance encounter on a rainy London night in 1946.
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