'erotic' cinema?

benjybars

village elder.
most films billed as 'erotic' or 'sexy' are blatantly nothing of the sort, they just have loads of (female) nudity. anyway, i saw the brazilian film 'lower city' the other day and it kind of shocked me in that it was actually quite erotic.

so what other films out there can claim to be genuinely erotic? be especially interesting to hear from females as most erotic films seem seem to target men more. also be good to hear from gay and lesbian viewers.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Well, the other day (along with half the other people who bought the Observer I imagine) I watched Don't Look Now again. The sex scene in that is famously realistic and my girlfriend commented that that was indeed the case. However I don't know if that increases its erotic value or just makes for uncomfortable watching.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any films that are especially erotic although there must be some. I think it's a fairly personal thing anyway and what one person finds erotic may leave someone else completely cold.
 

bruno

est malade
damn you, i was about to say so. beautiful film.

i would also look for david hamilton's bilitis and laura, very erotic, though weak-plotted and potentially offensive, depending where you stand on age limits. pretend it's the seventies and all is well.

also, has anyone seen la luna, the bertolucci film? is it any good?
 

owen

Well-known member
I am curious Yellow
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gets my vote. more on this when my hangover lifts
 

Loki

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Dangerous Liasons is erotic with very little rude bits, as is the anime Perfect Blue (for different reasons).

The Story of O stretches the eroticism/silliness line so far that it actually ends up erotic again (though for the life of me I can't see why eroticism and silliness aren't anyway compatible - they are in my house...). Emanuelle doesn't stretch it quite far enough IMO.

Equus is very erotic - to the extent that it was mythologised in College as a kind of porn film which you could take girls to and seem more intellectual than sleazy; watching it recently the whole film seems to have a kind of electricity / teenage lightning running through it.

could just be static from me cardy i suppose.

and then there's things like Secretary which again has a thick seam of eroticism and has made me like work a little more than usual..

Ai No Corrida was pretty devastating - though I watched it with a devastating woman so that might have been it.

Numerous vampire movies I guess - crass I now but more sexed-out than most.

The Wicker Man - erotically charged from the beginning - God knows what the remake'll be like (i'm imagining the sex will be driven out and replaced by cheap blood lusts )

Performance is pretty sexy in a lazy, druggy, half-arsed erotic way - the chemistry between the 2 male leads is noticeably greater than that between Mick and the chicks.

bits of Henry and June?? - not sure. thought so once but i was in the middle of a Henry Miller thing at at the time it came out and going out with a girl who looked like Uma Thurman.

ah...
 

Raw Patrick

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Bilitis, as mentioned above, is co-written by Catherine Breillat which always seems slightly odd. Or maybe not.

Obv. Tinto Brass is the best erotic director ever.
 

styledubk

Member
9 Songs

I guess this film could go under "erotic" or "art-house porn" but it's 9 Songs by Michael Winterbottom. Caught this film last night and I wasn't sure whether I should be turned on or pissed off b/c it's that pretentious. The sex scenes are real although it's a fictional story. Acting is not that great but the sex scenes are erotic and has it's tender moments. Believe me it will stick in your brain, even if you don't want it to.
 

rubberdingyrapids

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y tu mama tambien, if you liked lower city. (i love lower city). when i saw it the couple behind me were obviously playing with each other (this was in the civilised curzon too). ma mere was pretty erotic if i remember right. golden balls too.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Can't believe no one mentioned these:

This one in a beautifully atmospherical way:


And this one in a more humorous way:

 

routes

we can delay.ay.ay...
i was thinking about this. i watched 9 songs a while ago and i can't remember anything about it. literally nothing.

i was interested to hear from my mate.. that new French film 'The Artist' apparently uses recycled Hitchcock music. now that's what i call sexy handmedown nostalgia moodz 2 ..

also, what about that skepta video? heh..
 

zhao

there are no accidents
i guess bad teacher doesn't count? sorry...

in the mood for love does though right? Kar Wei was quite right when he said watching people NOT having sex is much more interesting than watching them have sex. it's maybe desire intensified by the friction of unrequited love which is the essence of eroticism, and not its satisfaction.
 
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slowtrain

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I think that films with irene jacobs in them are very erotic.

The Double Life of Veronique is an incredibly sensual film.
 

rubberdingyrapids

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erotic cinema gets a bad rep.

i strongly second bigas luna. i love his films. esp golden balls.

whats the diff between genuinely sexy and erotic btw? is the latter just more sensual?

i found crash (the ballard adaptation) to be incredibly sensual. even when it was right on that line between sensual/shocking/ridiculous. secretary was quite erotic too. i would mention white palace as well to make it a james spader 3/3 but i cant remember it well enough.

theres also a scene in the decline of the american empire where a girl goes off on one about her historical theories while giving a guy a handjob and im not sure if thats just plain hot or erotic or both but well, its sexy either way (why does it seem that a lot of film critics are fine talking about something being scary or politically provocative but unable to talk about something just being plain sexy). it prob helps that shes not unatttractive also.
 
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Bangpuss

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Changing the angle of the thread slightly, what are the most artistic porn movies out there? Whenever I suggest watching porn with a girl, they always seem turned off by the cheapness and crassness of it. It would be good to find something that's a little more tasteful, but still too explicit to be shown on Channel 5.
 
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