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

Carol(2015)

Combined Rating:
94
Combined Critics Rating: 94

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.



American Beauty(1999)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.



Mulholland Dr.(2001)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

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.



Blue Valentine(2010)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

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



Shame(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A man's carefully cultivated private life is disrupted when his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.



Vicky Cristina Barcelona(2008)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

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.



The English Patient(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.



Eyes Wide Shut(1999)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

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.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Unfaithful(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

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



Fifty Shades of Grey(2015)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.



Blue Velvet(1986)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.



Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.



Breaking the Waves(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



Fatal Attraction(1987)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.



Dressed to Kill(1980)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.



Dangerous Liaisons(1988)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.



Basic Instinct(1992)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.




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