Best Sexually Explicit & Erotic movies of 2000s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Michelle Williams, John Doman, Ryan Gosling, Faith Wladyka,
Directors : Derek Cianfrance,

The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.

Actors : Laura Harring, Jeanne Bates, Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts,
Directors : David Lynch,

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Evan Welch, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain,
Directors : Stephen Daldry,

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Actors : Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Diane Lane, Richard Gere,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Actors : Sancho Gracia, Ana Claudia Talancón, Gael García Bernal, Angélica Aragón,
Directors : Carlos Carrera,

Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.