The Top 100 Erotic Dramas of All Time

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The Top 100 Erotic Dramas of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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418 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel R -
923 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier R -
998 Shame 2011 Steve McQueen NC17 -
1044 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman NR -
1048 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway NC17 -
1081 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg NR -
1160 The Skin I Live In 2011 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1240 Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg R -
1492 sex, lies, and videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh R -
1541 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke NR -
1558 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears R -
1564 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci NC17 -
1722 Poor Things 2023 Yorgos Lanthimos R -
1778 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman R -
1904 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan R -
2126 Lust, Caution 2007 Ang Lee NC17 -
2255 The Dreamers 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci NC17 -
2367 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick R -
2371 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott R -
2559 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima NC17 -
2754 Live Flesh 1997 Pedro Almodóvar NR -
2977 Quills 2000 Philip Kaufman R -
3009 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg NC17 -
3041 Closer 2004 Mike Nichols R -
3130 Betty Blue 1986 Jean-Jacques Beineix NR -
3387 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau R -
3540 Sex and Lucia 2001 Julio Medem NR -
3544 Daughters of Darkness 1971 Harry Kümel R -
3639 Women in Love 1969 Ken Russell R -
3707 Elle 2016 Paul Verhoeven R -
4159 American Gigolo 1980 Paul Schrader NR -
4163 Bitter Moon 1994 Roman Polanski R -
4230 Nymphomaniac: Volume I 2013 Lars von Trier NR -
4464 Ju Dou 1990 Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang PG13 -
4707 Unfaithful 2002 Adrian Lyne R -
4778 Lolita 1997 Adrian Lyne R -
4836 The Night Porter 1974 Liliana Cavani NR -
4921 Valmont 1989 Milos Forman R -
5210 Henry & June 1990 Philip Kaufman NC17 -
5315 Pretty Baby 1978 Louis Malle R -
5360 Sirens 1993 John Duigan R -
5415 The Beguiled 2017 Sofia Coppola R -
5518 Turkish Delight 1973 Paul Verhoeven R -
5567 Gate of Flesh 1964 Seijun Suzuki NR -
5615 Damage 1992 Louis Malle R -
5640 Nymphomaniac: Volume II 2013 Lars von Trier NR -
5719 The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway NR -
5788 The Hot Spot 1990 Dennis Hopper R -
6066 Fireworks 1947 Kenneth Anger NR -
6110 Nine 1/2 Weeks 1986 Adrian Lyne R -
6319 Two English Girls 1971 François Truffaut NR -
6440 M. Butterfly 1993 David Cronenberg R -
6528 Laurel Canyon 2002 Lisa Cholodenko R -
6535 The Sheltering Sky 1990 Bernardo Bertolucci R -
6633 The Pornographers 1966 Shôhei Imamura NR -
6833 The Duke of Burgundy 2014 Peter Strickland NR -
7127 Angels & Insects 1996 Philip Haas R -
7746 I Am Curious (Yellow) 1967 Vilgot Sjöman NR -
7756 Salon Kitty 1976 Tinto Brass R -
7883 ...And God Created Woman 1956 Roger Vadim PG -
7895 Nadja 1994 Michael Almereyda R -
8053 Emanuelle in America 1977 Joe D'Amato NR -
8180 Original Sin 2001 Michael Cristofer R -
8457 The Housemaid 2010 Sang-soo Im NR -
8489 The Beast 1975 Walerian Borowczyk NR -
8682 Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 1971 Shûji Terayama NR -
8703 Crazed Fruit 1956 Kô Nakahira NR -
8724 Summer Lovers 1982 Randal Kleiser R -
8811 Ecstasy 1933 Gustav Machatý NR -
8841 Querelle 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder R -
9139 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven NC17 -
9205 When Night Is Falling 1995 Patricia Rozema R -
9206 Story of a Prostitute 1965 Seijun Suzuki NR -
9304 The Lover 1992 Jean-Jacques Annaud R -
9533 Total Eclipse 1995 Agnieszka Holland R -
9579 Eros Plus Massacre 1969 Yoshishige Yoshida NR -
9707 Emmanuelle 1974 Just Jaeckin NR -
10064 The Isle 2000 Ki-duk Kim NR -
10442 Immoral Tales 1974 Walerian Borowczyk NR -
10594 Lianna 1983 John Sayles R -
10611 Bad Girls 1968 Claude Chabrol R -
10836 9 Songs 2004 Michael Winterbottom NR -
10850 Boxing Helena 1993 Jennifer Chambers Lynch R -
11101 The Center of the World 2001 Wayne Wang NR -
11156 Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love 1996 Mira Nair R -
11231 Young Adam 2003 David Mackenzie NR -
11266 Wild Orchid 1989 Zalman King R -
11353 Tipping the Velvet 2002 Geoffrey Sax NR -
11516 Go, Go Second Time Virgin 1969 Kôji Wakamatsu NR -
11642 The Brown Bunny 2003 Vincent Gallo NR -
11716 Room in Rome 2010 Julio Medem NR -
11835 Man is Not a Bird 1965 Dusan Makavejev NR -
11883 Blissfully Yours 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul NR -
11891 Loulou 1980 Maurice Pialat NR -
11924 House of Pleasures 2011 Bertrand Bonello R -
12023 Marquis de Sade's Justine 1969 Jesús Franco R -
12236 Twentynine Palms 2003 Bruno Dumont NR -
12250 Manji 1964 Yasuzô Masumura NR -
12273 Fire 1996 Deepa Mehta NR -
12366 The Voyeur 1994 Tinto Brass NR -

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