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, romantic, serious, realistic and sexual films and TV shows about / with sexual tension, male nudity, sex scene, sex, nude, erotica, female nudity, love and romance, lust and relationships plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
sexual tension

TOP 10 movies tagged as sexual tension: Adore (2013), 365 Days (2020), Survival Island (2005), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Basic Instinct (1992), Orpheus' Song (2019), Sex/Life (2021), The Blonde One (2019), House on the Rocks (1974).
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List of sexual tension movies
35K

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, emotional, erotic, romantic, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, adultery, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, mother son relationship, sexual relations, love affair, sex, beach ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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92K

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, passion, lust, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, mafia, rich man poor woman, strong sexual content, captive woman, oral sex ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
sicily, warsaw poland, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, 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, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, scenic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
island, survival, sex scene, love triangle, sexual tension, husband wife relationship, cheating wife, shipwreck, desert island, romantic rivalry, marital infidelity, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
caribbean
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
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, disturbing, sincere, lgbt cinema, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, summer, love, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, coming out, gay teenager, homosexuality, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
italy, europe, mediterranean sea
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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, sincere, thought provoking, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, art, painter, painting, maid, master and servant, jealousy, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, portrait, fall in love ...
Time:
17th century, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
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, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, seduction, murder, dangerous attraction, sexual tension, dying during sex, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two best friends from Berlin win a trip to Greece. On their excursion, they get lost on an island. They wander in the woods until they find an abandoned village where they encounter a mysterious creature, who calls himself Hercules. They spend the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, melancholic, sexy
Plot:
gay, sexual tension, lgbt, repressed sexuality, male nudity, gay love, greek, friendship, male objectification, bodybuilding, narcissism, gay couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece
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23K

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
sexual pleasure, sexual relations, passion, sexual fantasy, marriage, love triangle, seduction, sex, horny wife, sexual attraction, sexual desire, romantic triangle ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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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, bleak, erotic, surprise ending, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, male homosexuality, closeted homosexual, homosexual, gay relationship, gay erotica, homosexuality, lgbt, homoeroticism, male male relationship, gay father ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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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:
eroticism, stepmother stepson relationship, stepmother, nude bathing, incest, older woman younger man, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, manipulative woman, cheating wife, older woman younger man relationship, age-gap relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
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:
gothic, sexy, romantic, sweet, clever ...
Plot:
union soldier, american civil war, girls' school, wounded soldier, sexual tension, girl, seduction, suspense, civil war, southern belle, american south, confederate soldier ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
virginia
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18K

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
The journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, captivating, sensual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, double life, lesbian love, psychology, female protagonist, jealousy, unrequited love, dark past, lesbianism, alter ego, lesbian couple ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, connecticut, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
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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, emotional, atmospheric, erotic, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, strong sexual content, bohemian life, cheating wife, adultery, cuckold, love and romance, female nudity, horny wife, love triangle, male nudity, husband wife estrangement ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
paris france
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21K

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what ...
Style:
emotional, sexual, disturbing, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay love, coming out, homosexuality, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, gay slur, forbidden love, infidelity, love affair, male male relationship ...
Place:
germany
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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:
sitcom, not serious, sexy, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
group of friends, sexual tension, friendship, womanizer, looking for sex, love and romance, couples, best friends, singleness, sexual relations, lifestyle, casual sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois
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55K

Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, sexy, sexual, dark ...
Plot:
writer's life, rape, sexuality, perversion, priest, emperor, writers, eccentricity, sadism, sex, corporal punishment, lust ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1790s, regency period
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cheating wife, bored housewife, interracial sex, cuckold, marital crisis, sexual obsession, extramarital affair, erotica, black man white woman relationship, adultery, pillow talk, horny wife ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, emotional, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, vacation, friendship, beach house, secret, repressed homosexual, friends, friend, unrequited love, group of friends, declaration of love, accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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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, emotional, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, mentor, nervous breakdown, haunted by the past, funeral, sexual tension, family problems, parents and children, family relations, drinking problem, love, love story ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, new jersey, usa, alabama
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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:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, taboo sex, sex with a minor, sex, older woman younger man sex, milf, aging, ship, unlikely couple, love affair, fall in love, destructive relationship ...
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various stages ...
Style:
erotic, homoerotic, touching, captivating, anthology ...
Plot:
gay, homoeroticism, gay crush, male nudity, erotica, lgbt, cousin cousin relationship, male objectification, gay erotica, lust, gay interest, gay teenager ...
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, romantic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbt teen, gay teenager, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, love and romance, teenage love, gays and lesbians, gay interest ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
belgium, france, europe, flanders
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the while they are under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, recovery, family problems, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, family in crisis, doctors and patients, bittersweet, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Style:
sexy, humorous, surreal, meditative, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
breakup, artist, introspection, stopped time, sexual attraction, workplace, supermarket, time freeze, insomnia, student, painting, art school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
After twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him as well. This sets off ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exhibitionism, cuckold, sexploitation, infidelity, voyeurism, erotica, desire, older man younger woman marriage, true love, sexual tension, family problems, obsessive love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, italy, venice
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Ágata suffers from a psychological disorder which prevents her from experiencing pleasure in all aspects of her life. Marc, through the use food, endeavours to help her overcome her problem.
Style:
erotic, sexy, captivating, romantic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, erotica, unsimulated sex, eroticism, sexual pleasure, sex scene, masturbation, sexual dysfunction, erection, coitus, explicit sex, male masturbation ...
Place:
spain, galicia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, psychological, sexy, artsy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, voyeurism, sex, obsession, orgy, disguise, adultery, infidelity, lust, sexuality, secret society, prostitute ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Emmanuelle, a svelte, naive young woman, is en route to Bangkok where she'll join her new husband. He works for the French Embassy and has a lovely home, several dedicated servants, and an expensive car at his disposal. Once Emmanuelle arrives, ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, controversial, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual arousal, erotica, sex scene, emmanuelle, sexploitation, sex, sexual promiscuity, sexuality, lesbian, strong sexual content, sexual relations, infidelity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
bangkok thailand, asia, thailand, france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 189 min.
TV show
Story:
Set between the years 1642 and 1660, "The Devil's Whore" charts the progress of the English Civil War through the eyes of the a 17 year old girl, the fictional Angelica Fanshawe.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, epic ...
Plot:
parliament, revolution, battles, treason, civil war, political unrest, betrayal, state affairs, rebellion, sexual tension, husband wife relationship, throne ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.
Style:
captivating, light, sincere, sentimental, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, friendship, closeted gay, male homosexuality, puberty, homoeroticism, friendship between boys, gay love, gay lead character, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, gay sex ...
Place:
argentina
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