Olivia Colman stars as Queen Anne, the 18th-century English monarch who sleeps with both an influential duchess and, eventually, Emma Stone’s conniving Abigail. But nothing is ever as it seems in a Yorgos Lanthimos film, and the director of “The Lobster” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” took the period piece in a decidedly different direction with “The Favourite.” His black comedy trades royal romance for a Machiavellian power struggle, complete with blackmail and a torrid lesbian love triangle. Hot and heavy royal trysts are nothing new, with bodice rippers like “The Tudors” and “Bridgerton” attracting viewers who like their onscreen sex with a dash of historical sophistication. Kate Erbland, Jude Dry, Eric Kohn, Zack Sharf, and Jamie Righetti also contributed to this story. Turn on (and get turned on by) our list of the 40 best sexy movies of the 21st century (well, so far). Often, it’s the erotic charge between characters approximating their desires, the sex that’s not being had that could be, that makes these films winning contenders for such a list.
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The list below is filled with some 21st-century American classics, indies and foreign films, and plenty of unexpected films you might not expect to make their way into a list of the best sexy movies of the last two decades.
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When these movies do show sex it is always in service of the story, and always in order to challenge, subvert, or celebrate contemporary beliefs about sexuality. Some don’t have any sex scenes at all, while some are notoriously near-pornographic.