Sexiest doesn’t always mean sizzling skin show or hard-hitting romantic scenes. In today’s times, filmmakers are coming up with content that is getting universal appeal and gaining good popularity among moviegoers.
“The perfect romantic night doesn’t necessarily involve a fancy date at a romantic restaurant. You can have as much fun snuggling up with your partner, best friend, or even flying solo while having a night of binge-watching flicks.”
Here are some of the sexiest movies available online on streaming platforms that you can enjoy watching with your partner.
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1. Bulbbul (Netflix)
Anvita Dutt’s period-supernatural-feminist fable, starring a striking Tripti Dimri as a mysterious demon, proves that horror doesn’t always have to be a loud and desperate one-night stand. The horror of Bulbul is rooted in the senses: old-school, sophisticated, and innately beguiling, evoking the charm of a colonial-era waist-coat and pocket-watch in a crowd of khaki police uniforms. It is one of the best horror dramas made in recent times.
2. The Big Short (Netflix)
The Big Short is one film that lampooned the Hollywoodization of sex to seduce the unsuspecting viewer into enjoying a dry “finance” movie. From its frenetic cutting to its anti-Sorkin-ish crudeness, the making of the film is amazing and hooks up the audience. In a word, Big Short is both a masterclass and satire on sexy storytelling.
3. Omkara (Zee5)
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara is a Meerut-based adaptation of Othello, which makes deceit – a hallmark of both bodily and spiritual connections – look strangely fruity. Proper casting like Saif Ali Khan as Langda Tyagi actually mirrors the film’s revisionist Shakespeare-gone-Shukla tone. The presentation is one of the major highlights of the film, apart from the stunning performances of the artists.
4. Atonement (Netflix)
Joe Wright’s adaptation of Ian McEwan’s epic novel is filmed in hues of reds and greens and unattainable goldens. The famous “library scene” – where an aspiring young writer catches an amorous couple spread up against a regal bookshelf – is both a literal and figurative fetishization of the written word. It helps that Keira Knightley, in a role marked by vampish cigarette smoke, plays a sensual tragedy.
5. War (Amazon Prime)
Starring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff in the lead roles, War is admittedly more conventional. Bullets and brawn, muscle and bronze. The action sequences in the film are shot on a lavish note and will provide an amazing experience for the audience.
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (Amazon Prime)
George Miller’s perversely unhinged film is sexy in the be(a)st sense of the term: the “action” is gloriously messy and melodic, the post-apocalyptic landscape talks dirty, the chase is sweaty and excitable, strong men team up with stronger women and a flame-flinging, jumpsuit-sporting, live-background-score-blaring guitarist called Doof Warrior is inextricably attached to a truck with a mobile stage. An adrenalin rush is just another way of being turned on.
7. Troy (Netflix/Prime)
Brad Pitt as the arrogant and peerless Achilles oozes it, and sure the Eric Bana v/s Pitt combat scene can be a Redtube video, but Wolfgang Peterson’s movie is the overall James Bond of period war epics: so suave, so sure, so roguishly gentlemanly and reckless and ruggedly handsome. It’s the absolute opposite of Mad Max – not a hair out of place, the glamorous aristocrat to Mad’s enticing drifter. The casting of Pitt as a villainous hero and, best of all, Orlando Bloom as the cowardly but humane Prince of Troy is nothing if not stimulating.
8. Drive (Netflix/Prime)
I know the brooding, neon-lit Los Angeles palette is an over-smart movie genre these days, but Nicolas Winding Refn’s Ryan Gosling starrer is simply irresistible with its poker-faced, electro-synth, sharp-metallic sex appeal. The dead-inside protagonist is the perfect antidote to Carey Mulligan’s fragility and a red-haired Christina Hendrick’s brokenness. If anything, this is simply risque filmmaking – all style, quiet substance – that deserves its own Tinder profile. (Bio: Stuntman, heist driver, heart hacker, Cliff Martinez homeboi).
9. Cold War (Netflix)
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War uses cold filmmaking to reveal a scorching tale of doom. The storytelling is mercurial and defiant – lean (88 minutes) as an epic love story spanning 15 years, a romance without the romanticization of the wait, a montage of reunions without realizing the pain of separations, and a curt black-and-white story about the colors of the time. It resists the languid language of its genre with such verve that Cold War becomes that rare, wild rebel-with-a-cause dancer at a drunken soiree. We can’t help but stare. Rudely.
10. Blue Jay (Netflix)
We all dream about returning to our hometowns as winners and being lauded by the land that bore us. Some of us, seduced by the Before Sunsets of our generation, dream of meeting a stranger and talking to them while walking quaint streets. Those are lofty expectations, but Blue Jay – about a down-and-out loser returning home and having long walks and “what if” moments with a high-school ex – is the stark reality. It’s disarming and exposed like a wound, full of hopelessness and hope and awkward history, and curiously captivating in its monochromatic depiction of lost chances and muted regrets. Sadness is sexy; even serious hardcore people agree.
11. Ishqiya (Netflix)
The kind of bristling, dangerous sexy that Vishal Bhardwaj and protege Abhishek Chaubey bring to the table riffs on the red-blooded Indian perception of the term. The allure of Vidya Balan in Ishqiya is undeniably literary – at once a small-town femme-fatale ode as well as a subversion of the way roguish male crooks tend to experience (and therefore, imagine) the notion of love from smutty novels.
12. The Great Gatsby (Netflix)
Baz Luhrmann turns literature into a musical circus of longing in his trippy but weirdly bare-chested interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. To be fair, the film is lent its sonic allure by Lana Del Rey’s haunting Young and Beautiful.
“So get hot, cozy, and comfy with your partner this coming weekend and pull out the big guns, along with these movies from the various streaming platforms!”
