| | American Beauty (1999)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $130.06M Lead Role: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, | Director: Sam Mendes, A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. |
| | American Hustle (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $150.12M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, | Director: David O. Russell, A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia. |
| | Repulsion (1965)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 91 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, | Director: Roman Polanski, A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. |
| | Call Me by Your Name (2017)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $13.94M Lead Role: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, | Director: Luca Guadagnino, In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape. |
| | When Harry Met Sally... (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $92.82M Lead Role: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, | Director: Rob Reiner, Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. |
| | Friends with Benefits (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $55.80M Lead Role: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, | Director: Will Gluck, A young man and woman decide to take their friendship to the next level without becoming a couple, but soon discover that adding sex only leads to complications. |
| | Y tu mamá también (2001)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $13.62M Lead Role: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado, | Director: Alfonso Cuarón, In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. |
| | La grande bellezza (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $2.84M Lead Role: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, | Director: Paolo Sorrentino, Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. |
| | Naked (1993)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $1.77M Lead Role: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, | Director: Mike Leigh, Parallel tales of two sexually obsessed men, one hurting and annoying women physically and mentally, one wandering around the city talking to strangers and experiencing dimensions of life. |
| | Breaking the Waves (1996)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $4.04M Lead Role: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, | Director: Lars von Trier, 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. |
| | Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $24.74M Lead Role: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, | Director: Steven Soderbergh, 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. |
| | It Follows (2014)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $14.67M Lead Role: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, | Director: David Robert Mitchell, A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter. |
| | C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Émile Vallée, | Director: Jean-Marc Vallée, A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father's conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs. |
| | God's Own Country (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $0.33M Lead Role: Josh O'Connor, Gemma Jones, Harry Lister Smith, Ian Hart, | Director: Francis Lee, Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path. |
| | La mala educación (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $5.21M Lead Role: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho, | Director: Pedro Almodóvar, An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends. |
| | Una Mujer Fantástica (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $0.22M Lead Role: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, | Director: Sebastián Lelio, Marina, a transsexual woman who works as waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. |
| | Little Children (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $5.46M Lead Role: Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, | Director: Todd Field, The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts. |
| | Punch-Drunk Love (2002)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $17.79M Lead Role: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews, | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding. |
| | J'ai tué ma mère (2009)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément, | Director: Xavier Dolan, A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother. |
| | Dayereh (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $0.67M Lead Role: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, | Director: Jafar Panahi, Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran. |
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