From the sexy thrillers ( Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful) to the smoldering dramas ( Indecent Proposal, 9 1/2 Weeks), this man has one mode, and that mode is getting people to undress for the camera. Were we ever so young?įew filmmakers have staked their claim to eroticism more fully than Adrian Lyne. Eyes Wide Shut came out in 1999, a time when big stars still made bawdy erotica, and when the idea of an orgy onscreen was still worth clutching your pearls over - and not something you couldn’t accidentally catch around once a week on whatever is new to streaming TV. Cruise and his ex Nicole Kidman star as a married couple on the rocks, with husband Cruise driven to dark obsession after he learns his wife has been fantasizing about another man. It is the final film directed by Kubrick, one of the last films Tom Cruise would make that had anything remotely sexual in it, and a sordid team-up for one of Hollywood’s most high-powered (former) couples of the late 20th century. Eyes Wide Shut is nearly three hours long and a stunning cultural artifact. If an epic erotic thriller is what you seek, then the master Stanley Kubrick is here to fulfill your desires. So whether you’re an experienced collector in the field of film erotics or you’re just now starting to dip your toe in the water, light a candle for Linda Fiorentino and burn a small offering for Adrian Lyne: It’s time to watch some movies that require you to close the shades. We’ve compiled a list of 21 movies you can watch right now with various streaming subscriptions, plus four more bonus entries at the end for the ones you shouldn’t need anyone to tell you about. (Trust me: I’m on the asexual spectrum, and even I can’t resist this hot and bothered section at the video store.) The notion of “guilty pleasures” is a waste of time - love what you love and shout it out loud - but if there’s one class of movies that easily slides into that folder, wrapped in black paper to protect the sensitive eyes of passersby, it’s this one.Īnd while we may not get as many new erotic thrillers as we’d like (or deserve!), there’s a lurid and sweaty archive waiting for you to access it at any time. It’s the movie theater in old Times Square where any shade of person could go to watch something sexy, transgressive, and built for pure satisfaction. It is the handshake between film snobs and trash collectors. It is the bridge between the high and the low. A subgenre that wasn’t necessarily invented but flew its closest to the sun in the 1990s is the grand unifying experience of cinema in so many ways. We all feel it, that emptiness in our souls where the erotic thriller should be. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Amazon Prime Video Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith in The Voyeurs.
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