We all know the value of a good date movie, but we also know that they’re no sure thing. Most of the time guys just feign interest in the movie, but women aren’t nearly as easy to fool as most guys who try this may think. The real successes lie in films that transcend the gender-divide in ways that get both men and women to watch them, to stay interested, and maybe even grow closer in the process. These can range from cute comedies with sex as a theme to nearly outright porn dressed up as art. Whatever the case, these 15 movies are all great for getting couples — or would-be couples — comfortable enough to occupy the sofa long after the credits have rolled.
Monster’s Ball
One wouldn’t think to include Monster’s Ball on any such list, but it’s a winner. The story is disturbing, morbid, and raw — and so is the sex. The movie was notorious upon release for stunning audiences into stricken silence, as the men all adjusted their pants, and the women collectively blushed a few shades red. The plot is so engrossing, that when coupled with these carnal sex scenes, viewers tend to forget just how depressing it should be and wind up feeling a bit on the frisky side.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Before Zack and Miri released, most thought that it would just be another funny movie that would prove to be far too crass for any serious interest. All were proven happily wrong when it turned out to be one of the most heartfelt, hilarious, and sex-ridden films of the decade. The movie’s golden, being able to attract both male and female audiences while maintaining at its core a story about a bunch of hapless morons making a porno. Any pair of would-be lovers could easily sit through this movie to find themselves sharing the same couch cushion by the time end-credits roll.
The 40 Year Old Virgin
A total sleeper, The 40 Year Old Virgin combines romantic comedy and modern crass-slapstick to produce one hell of a show. Women love the movie just as well as men, if for nothing else for the archetypal “guy humor” they find throughout the film. Guys love it because it’s flat-out hilarious, start to finish. The romantic portion of the comedy really picks up toward the end, which makes girls happy, and all the while everyone’s watching a movie entirely about getting laid. It’s contagious.
A History of Violence
Critically acclaimed for good reason, A History of Violence combines some hard-hitting actors with an equally strong story line. It also showcases some of the hottest on-screen sex in mainstream film-history. The movie drips with drama, among other things, ranging from scenes of murder and mayhem to 69 and animal-lust on a staircase. This is good stuff for any couple that’s ever gotten a little heated.
American Pie
Nobody can forget the phenomenon that was American Pie, but nobody really ever stops to consider it as viable anymore when it comes to foreplay-movies. The entire movie was about sex, in one way or another. There wasn’t any way around it, and there wasn’t a scene that didn’t somehow hinge on it. This movie still gets men and women alike to sit, laugh, and slowly find themselves more than a little sidetracked with thoughts of sex.
Basic Instinct
1992 was a long time ago, especially for Sharon Stone’s looks, but that doesn’t matter when it comes to Basic Instinct — the movie’s so filled with sex that it’s fresh in any decade. Who can forget the infamous chair scene? The dialogue from this movie outguns most pornos, and the affect it has on anyone watching it is pretty strong. There are a great many 80’s classics, but this is the kind that gets people pregnant.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
One of the darkest, sexiest romances of all time was made into film, starring some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and it still makes an impression today. Bram Stoker’s Dracula isn’t just another average vampire movie, it’s a vampire movie with the likes of Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci dipped in freaky vampire sex, and lots of it. The romance portion gets girls mad with harlequin fantasies, while the vampire-hunting, orgy-filled portions please men and women alike.
Eyes Wide Shut
For a movie titled Eyes Wide Shut, this film left eyes wide open in theaters worldwide when it was released in 1999. The movie’s entire plot revolves around sex — cheating, orgies, scandal, secrets — you name it, this film’s got it. We’re talking about a husband and wife sneaking out on each other, only to find that they’ve both joined the same weird, masked sex-orgy cult. We’re talking Nicole Kidman naked, many times. Chicks get a young pre-scientology Tom Cruise to ogle, too.
9 1/2 Weeks
Pioneering the many acts that can be done to or involving food that require a trusted sexual partner, 9 1/2 Weeks is a classic 80’s bedroom-romance. Ironically, half the sex takes place outside the bedroom, in places as down and dirty as an alley — in a thunderstorm. A young Kim Basinger gets it on almost constantly with an equally young Mickey Rourke, and they mean business. The movie is the classic tryst story that chicks seriously dig, and in this case most guys don’t seem to mind too much, either.
Desperado
Normally referred to as a man’s movie, Desperado is too swiftly — and wrongly — discounted as having no appeal to women. The fact is, most women who’ve seen the film love it, and it has a pretty massive female following. It may be a movie about a gunfighting mariachi, but it’s a movie about a gunfighting mariachi who falls in love. This movie is packed with sexual innuendo when it’s not flat-out in the middle of a sex scene, and sex scenes with Salma Hayek should never, ever, be forgotten.
Team America: World Police
This may seem an odd one to add, but the appeal of Team America is extremely wide. The movie is made by none other than Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who see to it that nearly everything they make is not only hilarious, but offensive and strewn with sex as well. In this case, it’s raunchy puppet-sex, the kind that makes you laugh so hard you cry, while suddenly needing to adjust yourself. Much like South Park, both men and women love this one. Just be sure to spring for the unrated version if you want the most bang for your buck.
Last Tango in Paris
When Last Tango in Paris was released in 1972, the MPAA gave it an X-rating, which wouldn’t change until 1997. That should provide some bearing to those unfortunate enough to never have seen this gem. It’s basically a young Marlon Brando hooking up with a random, hot, young, nameless french girl over and over again, while flirting with the idea of actual romance — but never quite getting there. Women love it, and guys are surprised to find that it’s just a few steps shy of actual porn, not to mention the classic butter scene. Look it up, you won’t be sorry.
Boogie Nights
An all-star cast got together to make Boogie Nights what it was. The movie was about the up and coming porn industry, and how its rising stars fall from grace. There’s a lot to be depressed about in this movie, but much like Monster’s Ball, the plot, characters and rampant sex scenes cloak it all so well that viewers aren’t too bothered by it. This one’s bound to cause some frisky intermissions.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
While styled as an action flick, Mr. and Mrs. Smith goes large on the romance, and even bigger on the sex when it makes its debut. Men have about as much difficulty staring at Angelina Jolie as women do staring at Brad Pitt, and there was so much sexual tension between the two that they made their relationship a reality after filming. There’s just something about angry, violent, dirty sex in a messy kitchen that drives women wild.
9 Songs
The absolute most graphic, raunchy, forbidden-fruit-good mainstream movie ever to hit the screen without a XXX-rating, 9 Songs is not for the faint of heart. Experienced, established couples need only apply for this one, since watching this for the first time with a girl you’re not already in a relationship with is almost sure to get you slapped and shunned. The sex scenes in the movie are not simulated, and they make it very clear that this is so. The scenes go so far that there is absolutely no distinction between them and hardcore pornography, save for the fact that they’re in a critically acclaimed, rather artsy, feature film with an indie soundtrack. If your girl is down with the raw stuff, then this movie is guaranteed to result in at least one, if not several, pause-button intermissions that may or may not require cleanup afterward.
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CJ
December 13th, 2009 - 6:20:32 PM
Body of Evidence should be on this list! Boogie Nights ha! What state? State of California?!? I know what state Im in Jack!
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