Sexual tension movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sexual tension movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out sexy, erotic, psychological, realistic, romantic and serious films and TV shows about / with sexual tension, female nudity, sex scene, male nudity, sex, nude, erotica, bare chested male, nudity and female full frontal nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
sexual tension movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sexual tension: Adore (2013), House on the Rocks (1974), Three (2005), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Children of the Salt (2018), Natalie (2010), The Beguiled (2017), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Plants (2015), Little Blue (2022).

List of sexual tension movies

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 6.2
 39K
Adore (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style: sexy, erotic, romantic, emotional, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, adultery, sexual tension, older woman younger man sex, sexual relations, sexuality, female sexuality, love affair, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, new zealand
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House on the Rocks (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a ...
Style: erotic, controversial
Plot: stepmother stepson relationship, eroticism, stepmother, incest, nude bathing, sexual tension, older woman younger man relationship, cheating wife, older woman younger man, older woman younger man sex, sex with stepmother, seductress ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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 4.9
 11K
Three (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked after a yachting accident with their former servant, Manuel.
Style: sexy, erotic, suspense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: island, survival, desert island, cheating wife, romantic triangle, shipwreck, sex, romantic rivalry, love triangle, sex scene, sexual tension, lust ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: caribbean
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style: enigmatic, erotic, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: artist, painter, painting, art, master and servant, sexual tension, nymphet, teenage girl, society, couple relations, maid, portrait ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place: holland, netherlands, europe, america
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Children of the Salt (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old man, in the agony of death, asks his children to cremate his body and scatter the ashes in the sea. Willing to fulfill the last wish of the elderly, as a rite of passage the youngsters unknowingly transgress the traditions of their father. ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: incest, teenage sexuality, brother sister kiss, sex with sister, incestuous sex, sexual relations, coming of age, loss of father, death of father, family life, social problems, sexuality ...
Time: 2010s
Place: venezuela
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 4.6
 699
Natalie (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: People who have build a wall around themselves. A sculptor Jun-hyeok, an art critic Min-woo, and a modern dance student Mi-ran. A mystery melodrama about the love and secrets of the three people.
Style: sexy, erotic, contemplative, enigmatic, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nude model, explicit sex, erotica, sensuality, passionate sex, sex, fetish, sculptor, infidelity, art, love and romance, muse ...
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 6.3
 66K
The Beguiled (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in ...
Style: sexy, gothic, suspense, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: union soldier, american civil war, wounded soldier, girl, sexual tension, sex scene, amputee, girls' school, teenage girl, murder, jealousy, seduction ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 2017, 2010s
Place: virginia
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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place: italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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 5.5
 282
Plants (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story: For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. She washes him, changes his nappies, and cuddles up to him in bed. From time to time she reads to him from a comic called ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: sexual content, sexual desire, sex scene, teenage sexuality, family problems, lifestyle, female protagonist, sexual tension, seduction, public nudity, coming of age, comic book ...
Place: chile
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 5.5
 189
Little Blue (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Xiao Lan’s first sexual experience is on the beach with a football jock from her school. When the boy leaks a photo of her in a sexually compromising position online, Xiao Lan’s entire world collapses. Alone without anyone to help, she turns to ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: sex, self discovery, introspection, life is a bitch, sexual frustration, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, sexual activity, male female relationship, relationships, sexual awakening, sexual dysfunction ...
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 6.9
 108K
Secretary (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, psychological, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: bdsm, sexual perversion, workplace romance, sadomasochism, obsession, sex scene, fetish, secretary, masochism, masochist, sexual relations, power relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.5
 26K
Ammonite (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Style: sexy, psychological, period piece, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, lesbian love, lesbian couple, lesbianism, lesbian sex, scientist, sapphic, lesbian cunnilingus ...
Time: 1840s, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 2020s ...
Place: london, england
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 5.5
 153
Changes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: sex with brother in law, dysfunctional marriage, unfaithful boyfriend, family relations, sexual tension, husband wife relationship, family problems, mother and daughter, male female relationship, relationship problems, sexual relations, attempted seduction ...
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 5.8
 957
Scarborough (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Set over three days, two different couples - each comprising of a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough to seek an escape from the constraints of every day life.
Style: romantic, hot
Plot: teenage sexuality, forbidden love, lovers, secret lover, teacher student sex, older woman younger man relationship, sexual tension, secret love, love affair, hiding, teacher student relationship, teachers and students ...
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 5.4
 5K
Curiosa (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Loüys and Marie de Régnier
Style: sexy, atmospheric, erotic, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, bohemian life, strong sexual content, cheating wife, nudity, cuckold, female nudity, adultery, love triangle, horny wife, sexual tension, husband wife estrangement ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place: paris france, algeria, france
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 3.3
 107K
365 Days (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Laura, in order to save her relationship from falling apart, goes to Sicily, where she meets Massimo. A dangerous man, the head of a mafia family, kidnaps her and gives 365 days to love him.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, erotica, dangerous attraction, passion, sexual relations, lust, rich man poor woman, oral sex, strong sexual content, captive woman, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: sicily, warsaw poland, italy
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 5.7
 624
The Crossing (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Andreas has everything a man can wish for. A wonderful wife, a big house on the country and a great job. But a sudden car accident puts him in a wheelchair. He is paralysed in his legs and he is also now impotent. Will his marriage work?
Style: tense, captivating, dark comedy, dark
Plot: sex with a stranger, cuckolded husband, cuckold, wheelchair bound, car accident, marital problem, cripple, stranger, dark secret, relationship problems, family problems, sexual fantasy ...
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 7.1
 241K
Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, detective, neo noir ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, nudity, manipulation, seduction, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, fatal attraction, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, oakland california, california ...
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 7.5
 121K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: 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.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: love affair, adultery, infidelity, passion, housewife, child abuse, small town, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, perversion, temptation, sexual pleasure ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, california
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Black & White & Sex (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Prostitute. Hooker. Sex Worker. Whore. Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her. Sometimes provocative and confronting, ...
Style: sexy, erotic, realistic, controversial, serious ...
Plot: sex scene, erotic scene, sex talk, society, couples, sex, eroticism, artists and showbiz, gender, battle of the sexes, femme fatale, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Brief Crossing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. ...
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, taboo sex, sex with a minor, sex, age difference, transgression, older woman younger man sex, ship, male female relationship, sexual tension, older woman teenage boy sex, infidelity ...
Place: europe
Is relevant?
 5.7
 4K
Fidelity (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does ...
Style: realistic, erotic, melancholic, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: sexual relations, female nudity, jealousy, extramarital affair, unsimulated sex, cheating wife, explicit sex, unhappy marriage, lust, unfaithful wife, desire, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr
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 5.6
 207
Domain (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Nadia (Béatrice Dalle) is in her 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre (Isaïe Sultan).
Style: serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, sexual tension, self discovery, teenage love, life is a bitch, youth, love and romance, addiction, adolescence vs adulthood, alcohol abuse, gay, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Only For One Night (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A married womans husband with a perfect life cheats with her sister with extreme consequences befalling them all.
Style: sexy, suspense, psychological, emotional
Plot: passion, infidelity, sister, sex scene, married, sex, female nudity, seductress, adultery, black, love and romance, extramarital affair ...
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Russian Lolita (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The action of a controversial novel "Lolita", of the famous Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, reset to present day Russia. A mother and her daughter are running short of money and are thankful that they could rent a room to a writer. The ...
Style: erotic, sexy, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: lolita, sex with a minor, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, girl man relationship, sex, fat woman, teenage girl, bare breasts, seduction, voyeur, pedophile, promiscuous daughter ...
Place: russia
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Friends with Benefits (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Revolving around a group of twentysomething singles as they navigate the difficult, sometimes rewarding, often confusing world of dating. Loyal and devoted to one another, these friends are never too busy to help a member of the group who might be ...
Style: sexy, sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: sexual tension, group of friends, casual sex, love and romance, friendship, womanizer, couples, best friend, lifestyle, sexual relations, singleness, dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
Style: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, dangerous attraction, sexual tension, love, serial killer, sex scene, split personality, sexual awakening, killer, woman in danger, stalking, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, puerto rico, san francisco
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 6.3
 3K
Absent (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sebastiano teaches high school gym classes and coaches swimming. He’s got a job, a girlfriend, and a pretty normal life. But as young Martin starts to infiltrate Sebastiano’s life, his world will get turned upside down. Eerie from the first ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, suspense ...
Plot: obsession, lgbtq, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, gay interest, unrequited love, gay seduction, gay crush, male nudity, teacher student relationship, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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The Blonde One (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Womanising Juan must quickly find a flatmate after his brother moves out. In moves Gabriel (the blonde of the title), Juan's stoic and very handsome co-worker, who is recently widowed and struggling to support his young daughter. What starts ...
Style: disturbing, erotic, bleak, surprise ending, suspense ...
Plot: gay, gay love, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay relationship, homosexual, gay erotica, gay interest, gay romance, male male relationship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: sexual tension, funeral, mentor, haunted by the past, family problems, parents and children, family relations, drinking problem, chess, coming of age, love story, love ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 70s ...
Place: new orleans, louisiana, southern usa, usa, alabama ...
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