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Best Movie Sex Scenes

Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

The recent release of Claire Denis' Vendredi Soir, a languorous film about a one night stand, has provoked some questioning about what makes a great movie sex scene. Is it fantasy or realism? Anticipation or the act? The Guardian looked at two lists of "hottest movie scenes" from Premiere and Playboy.

Among the ones Gothamist agreed with, Don't Look Now, Body Heat, and Mulholland Drive. However, we also love Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, where Antonio plays a crazy fan of Victoria's porn star and ends up kidnapping her. (Antonio is pretty hot as a crazy gay lover in The Law of Desire.) And for all the sex they don't have, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung still manage to smolder more passionately than most film love scenes in In The Mood For Love.

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  • guest

    sexy

  • mellee

    Demi and Woody were really hot in the kitchen love scene in Indecent Proposal.

  • lionsofsantiago

    Angelina Jolie & Ethan Hawke in Taking Lives. Angelina was HOT!!!

  • lionsofsantiago

    Madeleine Stowe & Daniel Day-Lewis in Last Of the Mohicans. No skin, but a lot of steam.

  • dvh

    rachel weisz and jude law in 'enemy at the gates'

    as for funny, lumbergh and jennifer aniston's character in 'office space'

  • superbone

    Jada Pinkett and Allen Payne in Jason's Lyric. One of the classic all-time best sex scenes.

  • The scenes between Viggo Mortensen and Diane Lane in A Walk On the Moon were hot.

  • adrian from santa cruz

    all of it except ones with fat chicks

  • Kyllerbuzcut

    The Geoff Goldblum one was in The Tall Guy and was with a young Emma Thomson. That one was quite funny:)

    Has anone seen a film called 'The Hour of the Pig' ( also called 'The Advocate')with Colin Firth?

    In that he is a medieval French advocate/Laywer who has to defend a pig acused of witchcraft believe it or not. Anyway- he is asleep and in a dream sequence when the maid wakes him up. She looks down and says having a nice dream then? and he is all embarassed so she says it's all right she has brotheres and walks off while he pulls the sheets up a bit better. she then goes out of site and crawls onto the bed naked almost before he knows it and away they go.

    It really is one of the best. The trainspotting one mentioned before, I agree is also great.

  • Chris

    I need some help with the movie title for this one. Geoff Goldblum and his leading lady make mad passionate love in the kitchen involving lots of squashed fruit and veg. Anyone got any ideas?

  • Kate

    Best sex scene was in "Lone Star" between Chris Cooper and Elizabeth Pena--it was just so believable.

  • marie

    The spanking in the movie Secertary was a major tease and turn on.

  • George and Mary leaning into the phone together in "It's a Wonderful Life" ("It's the chance of a lifetime...") is the hottest moment on film ever.

  • j.

    Worst sex scene? Well -- it's not one, strictly speaking . . . but the beginning of "Best in Show" when Parker Posey and whoever played her husband are at the shrink's office and talking about having sex in front of the dog . . . Ack -- that's like a week-long cold shower.

    Of course, at least in that case, the movie is trying to give you a major case of the willies.

  • sophie

    michael douglas sex-scenes ("disclosure" or "basic instinct") give me the heebie jeebies. and not in a good way.

    good ones: brad pitt & geena davis in "thelma and louise," liv tyler and the cute italian boy in "stealing beauty," anything from "the lover"

  • Jen

    Yeah, I was going to use that Guardian piece as a jumping off point. We'll see if we can come up with a better list. The Specialist, in my personal book, ranks number 1 as worst sex scene ever. It's so disgusting.

  • Abe- I couldn't get past the opening credits for Rollerball so I'll take your word for it on that scene.

    It does look like the Guardian did their own worst sex scenes and beat me to the punch on the Reloaded scene, but I'm sure the Gothamist can come up with a smarter list.

  • department of primate rage

    I really dug it in "28 Days Later," when Selena finally has an epiphany -- in the form of a hopeful thought. Jim tells her she's stealing his thought, but then he smiles, real cute-like, and tells her she can keep it.

  • abe

    Hawthorne: Worst sex scene in a film that people actually saw, maybe. The worst sex scene, hands down, in a recent film was in Rollerball (locker room) between Chris Klein and who I believe was Rebecca My-Career-might-be-serious-without-this-last-name Stamos. You can tell that the scene was shot for an R rating but then her entire nude torso was "digitally shadow-ed out" in a really obvious way to obtain a PG-13. Everyone really should see the film simply because it is an exercise in how filmmaking can go horribly, horribly wrong. There is a 15 minute action sequence in the middle that is entirely filmed in green-glow night-vision for no apparrant reason.

  • Jen

    Hawthorne - you read our mind - we're working on a WORST sex scene post for tomorrow!

    Yeah, Neo and Trinity really did stink.

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