What is it about certain films that make you want to strip down and take your partner right then, right there? Is it the whole film, or a specific moment when you anticipate that two characters are going to get down? For me, it’s usually a specific scene that plays upon me like the memory of a hot dream recalled first thing in the morning (on days like these, I wake up smiling).
However, when I scrolled through my mental Rolodex of sexy films, I could only come up with a handful. Armed with my social networking tool and a hundred friends, I posed my question to both men and women: “What movies make you want to, you know, do it?”
My female friends tended to describe the entirety of films that made them hot, including the overall feel of the movies. For my male friends, sex was in the details. One guy friend told me about some specific scenes that made him hot. Another took it a step further, providing not only a movie title but also the names of actresses that heated his loins—as well as Internet Movie Database keywords that would aid me in my search (the use of which demonstrated yet another novel way of using technology to advance my knowledge).
Further research using these tools proved that I was not alone in a few of my beliefs, such as the hotness of certain actresses, certain scenes (often featuring threeways), movies somehow involving France, and all films directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Of course, it may be simply the hot shorts, tube socks, and roller skates worn by Heather Graham in Boogie Nights that do it for all of us.
Ten Movies That Make You Hot (in no particular order):
Last Tango in Paris. Two words—butter scene.
9-1/2 Weeks. In high school, my girlfriends and I watched this film religiously in our ongoing attempts to perfectly reenact the strip scene. We hoped that our mastery would inspire a man to squirt honey all over us when we hit our sexual prime.
Lolita. The 1997 version with Jeremy Irons and Dominque Swain was hot; the original 1962 version was not.
Shortbus. Although this movie’s title brought to my mind some impolite slang from high school, my girlfriend begged to differ. “[It’s] an artistic, beautiful movie with just the right lighting, colors, textures, and hot women. The movie follows the love drama of several different people, couples, [and] groups, while covering a thematic range including all kinds of sexuality, deep neuroses, and pleasure.” I’m renting it.
Y Tu Mamá También. Older woman with two younger men—now that’s a fantasy worth renting.
Chocolat. A quaint village in France, hands moving through lots of chocolate, and Johnny Depp; what’s not to love?
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Unfaithful. Here’s the older woman/younger man thing again except this time they’re in a stairwell tearing each other’s clothes off—very hot. My favorite scene is the one on the train, as Diane Lane (with a post-coital grin on her face) replays every minute of her afternoon tryst in her head. That’s half the fun of sex, replaying the memories of each encounter until you act out the next fantasy.
The Dreamers. A male friend said, “It was something—basically beautiful youths prancing around naked under Bertolucci’s direction. The plot was really just a backdrop providing him with an excuse to watch Michael Pitt frolic with an extremely hot Eva Green.” Another friend also noted Eva’s hotness factor: “That scene where the Eva Green stands in the doorway as Venus De Milo, and the threeway tension.” Men do love those threeways … so do I.
Exotica. The title gives the whole premise away, but as I read the description of a woman doing a striptease in the film, I got hot. I appreciated my male friend’s attempt at an artful review, but was happier to see him skip immediately to the good ol’ down and dirty. “I remember [it] being both sexy and a good piece of cinema. The complex plot unfolded through flashbacks and by following the story lines of multiple characters whose lives converge around something awful and tragic. But the movie’s central location is a seedy strip club, and there’s a lot of hot, lusty lap dancing.” Men do love those strip clubs … so do I. Men who strip … sigh
The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. Kirsten Dunst is, as a male friend noted, “the unattainable virgin—high school boys’ wet dream well represented.” And while I personally think Kirsten Dunst plays mostly dippy roles, the same friend quoted previously gave her a second shout out. “Yeah, Kirsten Dunst, again. I mean come on, that scene with those stockings and the fan when she’s in bed waiting for her affair? Seriously.”