# Recommend Erotic/Softcore films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929 "2005-09-28T22:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/1 "2005-09-28T22:54:26Z")
My wife and I have decided that straight-up porn isn’t right for couple’s viewing. Doesn’t do anything for her, basically. What we’re looking for is _hot_, _steamy_, etc. films that aren’t just people banging. The old “Red Shoes Diaries” are in the neighborhood of the right idea. Could be even more explicit than those (the Red Shoes having been intended for broadcast). Needless to say, the films that are door-opens-to-pizza-guy-in-too-tight-shirt-while-the-silicone-enhanced-blonde-accidentally -drops-the-money-to-boing-chicka-bow-bow music is too far. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/2 "2005-09-28T22:56:41Z")
[Videodrome](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/3 "2005-09-28T23:17:06Z")
Not to say the acting’s particularly good, but [**Play Time**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110846/) stands out as being particularly hot and fairly uninhibited without being overtly graphic. Plus, Jennifer Burton is absolutely smokin’ (though the rest of the cast isn’t bad either). ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/4 "2005-09-28T23:21:05Z")
Misty Mundae in [Spiderbabe](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AOV6X/qid=1127950457/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5838705-5472941?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846). TRUST ME. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/5 "2005-09-28T23:32:25Z")
[Two Moon Junction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096324/)… Sherilyn Fenn… mmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/6 "2005-09-28T23:54:16Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > [Two Moon Junction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096324/)… Sherilyn Fenn… mmmm… I was going to recommend this one. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/7 "2005-09-29T00:05:13Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > [Videodrome](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/8 "2005-09-29T00:40:20Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > [Videodrome](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)? [_Crash_ is way hotter](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GrahamWellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@GrahamWellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrahamWellington)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/9 "2005-09-29T01:41:54Z")
I’ve heard “These Bases are Loaded” is a good one. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/10 "2005-09-29T02:08:25Z")
Maybe films by director Tinto Brass, such as Trasgredire (Transgressions). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/11 "2005-09-29T02:28:00Z")
You rang? Let’s see…I can think of: [_When Night is Falling_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114916/) (More romantic, though it’s pretty erotic) [_Wild Orchid_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100934/) (I prefer the unrated version. Yow.) [_The Lover_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/) (Oscar nominated. Plus, I checked…the actress was 19.) [_Henry & June_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099762/) (Also Oscar nominated) [_Original Sin_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218922/) (Unrated version. With Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.) [_Bound_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115736/) [_Firelight_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/) (Erotic content is sure there, but there’s not a lot of it. The rest of it is cold rooms and corsets. LOTS of corsets. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…) [_Better than Chocolate_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168987/) (Pretty much ibid. Except no corsets.) ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/12 "2005-09-29T02:50:40Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > [_Crash_ is way hotter](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/). 😉 So true, yet so wrong nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/13 "2005-09-29T03:09:46Z")
“Delta of Venus” was pretty hot. While Videodrome and Crash are great (if creepy) films, I sure wouldn’t recommend either to someone looking for softcore. ---
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/14 "2005-09-29T03:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth] You rang? Let’s see…I can think of: [_Henry & June_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099762/) (Also Oscar nominated) [_Bound_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115736/) Can I add my TWO THUMBS UP for these two? ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/15 "2005-09-29T04:06:47Z")
> [@Interrobang!?](#): > > > [@Cervaise](#): > > > > Crash is way hotter. 😉 > > So true, yet so wrong nonetheless. Hey guys, [I reviewed Crash once](http://web.archive.org/web/20010303214746/208.56.131.140/film/r/film15.htm), back when I was the second-best writer on a two-person team of movie reviewers. Seems I didn’t find it all that hot, but I was probably missing something. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/16 "2005-09-29T04:07:47Z")
[Secretary](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/) ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/17 "2005-09-29T04:32:07Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Secretary](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/) Oooooohh, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/18 "2005-09-29T05:39:28Z")
Well, there are the classics: _9½ Weeks_ _Wild Orchid_ _Body Heat_ _The Last Seduction_ _Final Analysis_ _Bound_ Some newer stuff, that isn’t really softcore porn but are very sexual: _Swimming Pool_ _Dreamers_ _Laurel Canyon_ _The Weight of Water_ I was never a fan of Michael Douglas or Sharon Stone as erotic leads, but if you are maybe: _Basic Instinct_ _Fatal Attraction_ _Sliver_ _Disclosure_ James Spader and Linda Fiorentino both made a career of erotic films. (Though never together.) I’ve only seen a few, but reading through their imdb listings is like walking down a softcore porn aisle at the video store. I’d offer _Crash_ as good, if a bit strange. Ditto with _Secretary_. Spader is a freak. The fact that Holly Hunter and Maggie Gyllenhal are the respective female leads in those two films is excellent casting, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/19 "2005-09-29T14:07:02Z")
I must also heartily endorse _Secretary_, which isn’t exactly softcore, but is certainly erotic. I rented this flick with my wife to pass the evening time while holing up in a Bar Harbor B&B during an October rain storm. I certainly expected weird, but not life-affirmingly hot weird. I mean, this is a _sweet and romantic_ dom. flick, which I thought quite impossible, as my personal tastes don’t stray very far from the conventional. Very pleasantly surprised was I. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-erotic-softcore-films/323929/20 "2005-09-29T15:00:50Z")
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