Highest grossing Sexually Explicit & Erotic movies that are award winners or nominees

The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.



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.



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.



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.



Damage(1992)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.



Rambling Rose(1991)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.



El crimen del Padre Amaro(2002)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 30

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



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.



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.



Maurice(1987)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.



Heavenly Creatures(1994)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.



Valmont(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an...



Ju Dou(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...



Carol(2015)

Combined Rating:
94
Combined Critics Rating: 94

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



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



The Children's Hour(1961)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.



The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone(1961)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.



Summer and Smoke(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.



Back Street(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...



The Chapman Report(1962)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ...




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