Movies with Sexy Moments That Are Not Sex Scenes

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That title is a bit of a mouthful.  What I mean by it is that there are sexy moments in the following movies, but they are not scenes in which people are having sex.  I’m not saying that sex doesn’t happen in the movie; it just doesn’t happen in that scene.

An example is the trunk scene in Out of Sight (1998.)  If you’ve seen the movie, you know what I am talking about.  Part of the time in that scene Clooney and Lopez are talking about Faye Dunaway movies.  Her movie The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) makes this list – for a chess game (seriously.)  Smaller movies that people might have missed are Sirens (1993) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), both coincidentally having plots about painters.

None of those scenes even have so much as a kiss in them (although kisses follow.)  Let’s add a few more that do involve kisses.  Let’s start with a wanted kiss that doesn’t happen in Dangerous Liaisons (1988.) We’ll then move on to a kiss on the hand from Don Juan Demarco (1994.)  Finally, let’s have a full on lips to lips kiss from Pump Up the Volume (1990.)

You can find my posts for these movies here:

Out of Sight (1998)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Sirens (1993)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Don Juan Demarco (1994)
Pump Up the Volume (1990)

On to the reviews…

Movie – Out of Sight (1998)

Back before Oscar nominations, a string of talked about movies, and an even longer string of talked about romances, George Clooney was just the guy from the TV show ER who was getting by on his charm and who was trying to make the transition to movies.  Back before American Idol, “J-Lo”, a music career, and Ben Affleck, there was just Jennifer Lopez, an up and coming actress.  It was at this point in both their lives that the movie Out of Sight came along and it forever changed the way that I saw both of them.

Movie – The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

More people have probably seen the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair that starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.  That was a remake of the 1968 film of the same name that starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.  I like both equally, but for different reasons.  For this post I will concentrate on the 1968 version, which includes a very sexy….chess game.

Movie – Sirens (1993)

The movie Sirens features early roles for Hugh Grant and Tara Fitzgerald.  They would re-team two years later for The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.  In Sirens it is much more Fitzgerald who gets to be sexy rather than Grant.

He plays a young reverend that has come to Australia with his wife (Fitzgerald) in the 1930s.  He is asked to visit an artist (Sam Neill) who has painted a scene that the church considers blasphemous.  The reverend is to convince the artist to withdraw the painting.  He thinks this will be easy.

Movie – Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

Girl with a Pearl Earring came out the same year as Scarlett Johansson’s movie Lost in Translation.  While the latter is much better known she ended up getting Golden Globe Best Actress nominations for both.  I consider her performance in Girl with a Pearl Earring not only better than her performance in Lost in Translation, but also better than any other performance in her career.

Movie – Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Dangerous Liaisons is based on the 1782 novel Le liaisons dangereuses, which has been adapted many times.  The 1999 movie Cruel Intentions is another example.  The novel captured all the decadence, sin, and plotting that was going on in the French courts at the time.  The fact that it has been adapted so many times shows that stories about these subjects never go out of style.

Movie – Don Juan Demarco (1994)

A couple of years ago I was discussing the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie with a co-worker.  She mentioned she had “a thing” for Johnny Depp.  I told her that if that was the case then she had to see his movie Don Juan Demarco.  She smiled fondly, and a little naughtily, and said that she had.

Movie – Pump Up the Volume (1990)

Pump Up the Volume is one of those semi-forgotten movies.  It stars Christian Slater, who’s earlier movie Heathers overshadows this one.  In fact, this movie pretty much is Christian Slater.  He is in almost every scene and he gets to play two very different personalities.  I’m here to remind people of this movie and to let you know why I feel it should not be forgotten.