Steamy Romantic Movies on Netflix
Last updated April 24, 2024
Lost in Beijing
2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFrom one of China's most celebrated female directors, Yu Li's provocative drama, set against the hustle and bustle of the country's booming capital, explores the complicated relationship between three women and two men, all entangled in a web of sex, desire, jealousy and revenge. Distinguished by stellar performances, the darkly comic film stars Tony Leung Ka Fai, Bingbing Fan, Elaine Jin and Dawei Tong.
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Bad Boy Street
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsThis sultry drama set in Paris follows the unlikely romance between two strangers. When Claude finds Brad passed out in an alley, he takes him home. The next morning, sparks fly between the older Frenchman and the handsome vacationing American.
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Sirens
1993 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsA Church of England official and his wife arrive in Australia on a mission to keep an artist from exhibiting a painting with mixed erotic and religious themes. The painter's uninhibited trio of models, however, complicate the situation.
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Keep the Lights On
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsThe physical romance between a gay filmmaker and an attorney soon evolves into a more complex relationship, laced with conflicting desires. Over several turbulent years, both men struggle to build a true acceptance of the other's strengths and flaws.
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A Perfect Ending
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter confessing an unusual secret, repressed wife Rebecca Westbridge is prompted by her friends to explore her sexuality with a high-priced call girl. Apprehensive but intrigued by the prospect, Rebecca embarks on an erotic tryst.
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High Art
1998 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMagazine editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) is stuck in a dreary relationship with her boyfriend (Gabriel Mann) when she befriends her upstairs neighbor Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a well-known photographer whose live-in actress girlfriend (Patricia Clarkson) is struggling with a drug addiction. Lucy fascinates Syd, and the pair hit it off. But when Syd calls on Lucy to do an assignment for the magazine, their friendship soon grows into something much more.
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360
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn this remake of the 1950 classic La Ronde, an all-star cast weaves through interrelated stories about love, passion and loneliness. From London and Denver to Phoenix and Vienna, people are haunted by their need to connect, despite the consequences.
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Late Marriage
2001 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsRussian director Dover Koshashvili's debut feature is a funny and sometimes painful account of one man's late journey of self-discovery. Zaza, a 31-year-old grad student, must endure his parents' many attempts to arrange a marriage for him -- and their antagonism when they discover he's been dating an older divorcee with a child. Koshashvili eschews easy laughs and clichés in favor of subtly performed, well-observed family drama.
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Bel Ami
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsArmed with good looks and devastating charm, manipulative journalist Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) climbs from the depths of poverty to the height of Parisian society, taking up with a variety of beautiful women along the way. Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod direct this erotically charged period drama based on the classic novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant. Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas co-star.
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Green Chair
2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen she falls in love with a handsome minor, a South Korean housewife finds herself at the center of a sexual scandal and hounded by hungry tabloid journalists. She vows to cut him out of her life but then he reaches the age of legal consent.
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Shadow People
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDan and Gretchen, a couple with a secretive past and a failing relationship, rent a guest house from another couple in California's San Fernando Valley. But jealousy and betrayal turn a casual friendship into a game of manipulation and deception.
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Cloud 9
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen 60-year-old Inge (Ursula Werner) suddenly delves into a lively, adulterous affair with the even older Karl (Horst Westphal), she finally confesses her newfound passion to her husband of 30 years, Werner (Horst Rehberg). But will she end her illicit relationship with Karl to keep her unexciting-but-stable marriage intact? Andreas Dresen directs this compelling drama also starring Steffi Kühnert.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsHighborn beauty Lady Chatterley is growing restless in her marriage to the paralyzed Sir Clifford, so she embarks on a scandalous love affair with a hunky gamekeeper in this steamy adaptation of the once-shocking D.H. Lawrence novel.
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The Lifeguard
2013 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter hitting a rough patch, 29-year-old Leigh abandons her journalism career, moves back in with her parents and gets a job as a lifeguard. Soon, she begins an affair with a teenage boy she meets at the pool.
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Diary of a Nymphomaniac
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsEver since her first sexual encounter at age 15, middle-class Barcelona Frenchwoman Valére (Belén Fabra) has reveled in her exploits and, at her grandmother's urging, begins writing about them in her diary in director Christian Molina's lush erotic escapade. After losing her job, Valére meets an older man and believes she has found true love. But when he turns out be a disappointment, Valére indulges her love of pleasure by working in a brothel.
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Room in Rome
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsTwo women meet in Rome and end up in a hotel room where they bare their bodies and souls to each other during one memorable, passionate night. As their steamy encounter brings them emotionally closer, they share their deepest secrets and desires.
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Mirch
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThis steamy drama weaves together four separate tales of lust, adultery and -- in a twist on an age-old theme -- the surprising ways that women evade the consequences when they're the ones caught cheating on their spouses.
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For Thy Love
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsFed up with the lack of passion in her current relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Belinda (Cinnamon McCann) finds solace in the bed of a handsome personal trainer at her gym -- but his sexual daring may go beyond her comfort zone. Is her desire for a spicier love life sending her into a realm that's too dangerous for her own good? Anthony Fedd, Daniel Eddings and Antonio Daniels co-star.
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
1976 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsWhen his widowed mother (Sarah Miles) takes up with sailor Jim Cameron (Kris Kristofferson), troubled adolescent Jonathan Osborne (Jonathan Kahn) worships the seaman ... at first. But an antisocial schoolmate's sinister influence soon turns the impressionable Jonathan against Jim. Earl Rhodes plays the disturbed young friend who leads Jonathan down a dark path in this unsettling drama directed by Lewis John Carlino.
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The Piano Teacher
2002 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsIsabelle Huppert stars as Erika, an emotionally repressed piano teacher still tied to her obsessive mother (Annie Girardot) and fast approaching spinsterhood, who sees an attractive student (Benoît Magimel) as a potential player in her dark sexual fantasies. Huppert is fascinating to watch in writer-director Michael Haneke's disturbing character study based on the novel by Nobel Literature Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.
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Forbidden Quest
2006 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhile investigating an art forgery, writer Yoon-seo discovers a new calling: penning illicit pornographic literature. But as his first novel takes off, Yoon-seo risks everything to begin a dangerous affair with the king's concubine.
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Heading South
2005 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsTurned off by their mediocre dating prospects, three middle-aged ladies -- Ellen, Brenda and Sue -- head to Haiti and soon find themselves having youthful fun with the attractive local men.
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Lianna
1983 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsMarried to a philanderer, a dissatisfied wife begins an affair with her female night school professor. But her joy at finding a new life and love soon disintegrates as the people around her start to treat her differently.
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Female Perversions
1996 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsThis movie tests Louise J. Kaplan's novel, through the character of Eve, a young, successful attorney. Caught between her career aspirations and her desire to help her kleptomaniac sister, Eve walks a tightrope between toughness and vulnerability.
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Bulletproof Heart
1994 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen cynical, soul-searching hit man Mick asks his boss for time off, he's instead given the assignment of his life. Mick is asked to kill the sultry Fiona, who owes George money. But as Mick spends time with her, he finds himself falling for her.
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