Do you remember the first time you were sexually excited by an image on a screen? We do! It might've been a music video to a teen-pop bop, or a particularly mushy episode of Buffy. Most likely, it was a movie of the PG persuasion, which you snuck a viewing of far from the eyes of your parents when you were nowhere near the age of Looking back, those scenes were cute. Nowhere near the sex scenes you've seen in movies since you branched out into the R-rated category and beyond.

The film chronicles the sexual obsession between a maid and a married man that ends in a bloody mess. Stream on amazon. Stream free with a Prime membership on amazon. You may know this one better by its teen-heartthrob remake starring Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, Cruel Intentions. Bosoms be plenty. Here, she plays a jaded photographer whose liaison with the girl next door—or rather, one floor below—draws her out of her heroin-induced pseudo-coma. The story follows two best friends, Julio and Bernal, and the older woman who will redefine their coming of age.

Some movies—like In the Mood for Love and Before Sunrise —are more noteworthy for their ambient erotic charge than for outright graphic sexiness. Others, like Body Heat and Mulholland Dr. Sometimes the nastiest or naughtiest characters are the biggest turn-ons. But in one way or another, all of these movies on this list have the power to put us in the mood for love.

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