Four Bollywood directors came together for 30-minute vignettes about sex from the female perspective, taking on adultery, masturbation, one night stands, and awkward power dynamics.
Hot Girls Wanted (2015)
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Sex and hotness is at the forefront of Hot Girls Wanted, but it isn’t made to get you going. Released in 2015, this documentary interrogates the pornography industry in the digital age and its high enlistment, and fast turnaround, of fresh-faced 18 and 19-year-old newcomers. While the movie drew polarizing responses from sex workers upon its release, the film remains relevant over ten years later. In 2017, a series titled Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On continued following a group of up-and-coming porn stars as they leverage their fame online.
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
This queer-adjacent movie is also a thriller, a satire, and perhaps a touch of a horror film? It also features way more skin than it should be allowed to, but it works
Malcolm & Marie (2019)
Sam Levinson’s black-and-white Netflix creation may have been met with middling reviews, but the film’s co-stars gave such an electrifying performance that reviewers forgave the film’s downfalls. Starring Zendaya and John David Washington, the film follows an intimate evening following a couple’s night out. Dripping in sexual energy, emotion, and chemistry, the film is a cocktail of sexiness.
Elisa and Marcela (2019)
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Elisa and Marcela tells the true story of the first same-sex marriage in Spain, in which two women, Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, posed as a heterosexual couple so they could marry in 1901.
Always Be My Maybe (2019)
Ali Wong and Randall Park have incredible chemistry in Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe. The film is practically embedded with sexual tension, as the two main characters have an intimate past that gets reexplored 15 years after the fact.
