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CruelIntentions arrived during the teen movie boom of the late '90s but managed to stand out a bit because it embraced its R-rated tendencies and seemed like the "naughty" film you weren't really ThoughCruel Intentions received mixed reviews from critics, it was a commercial hit, grossing $75 million worldwide on a shoestring $10.5 million budget, paving its way toward cult classic status. But the movie was not always destined to be a juggernaut. Kumble, who also wrote the script, thought he was making a modest little indie, he told Cosmopolitan in 2014. CruelIntentions watch full movie in HD online on #1 Movies 🎬Totally Free 🎬No Registration 🎬High-Quality 🎬Soundtracks and Reviews. Show more. home genres Latest Movies TV-Series TV-Shows top imd b top watched Contact us. Due to a high volume of active users and service overload, we had to low down the quality of video streaming. . Clockwise from bottom left "I Can't Think Straight," "Disobedience," "Y tu mamá también," "Tongues Untied," "Querelle," and "Shortbus" Courtesy Everett Collection/Signifyin' Works and Frameline Distribution These days, queer movies come in all shapes and styles, from handsomely mounted biopics “Milk” to kid-friendly rom-coms “Love, Simon“. That’s a good thing; you want queer art to enjoy variety and novelty, and appeal to all audiences in the LGBTQ community. But sometimes, you want something very specific from a queer film; you want it to be sexy as hell. When queer movies started bubbling into the mainstream in the early ’90s via movies like “Philadelphia,” they tended to be slightly sanitized, lacking much in the way of physical depictions of intimacy. In “Philadelphia,” Hanks’ lead character famously never kisses his partner. That’s changed as the years have gone on. Thanks to films like “Brokeback Mountain,” there’s now a ton of modern examples of queer films that aren’t shy about their leads getting it on. But there’s a longer history of sexy queer cinema that goes back well before the ’90s, even if many of those movies were made from independent creators and were little seen. Some of these movies even faced censorship due to their content, like the short film “Un Chant D’Amour,” which only featured gay scenes via symbolism. Other films, like Chantal Akerman’s “Je, Tu, Il, Elle,” or Pedro Almodóvar’s “Law of Desire,” broke boundaries in how explicitly they featured gay love. There’s always discourse bubbling about the “necessity” of sex scenes in cinema, but films like Akerman’s or Almodóvar’s prove why these intimate portrayls can be vital tools — conveying something about the characters, and about queer life, that you couldn’t if everyone kept their clothes on. In celebration of Pride Month, IndieWire rounded up the 22 hottest, steamiest, and/or sexiest films in the queer canon. Titles range from cult hits and arthouse fare like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Querelle,” to more mainstream works like “Bound” and “Call Me By Your Name.” Some of the movies are balls-to-the-walls sexy, like John Cameron Mitchell’s unsimulated “Shortbus.” Others, like “Cruel Intentions,” don’t have explicit queer sex depicted in them, but get their erotic power through queer kisses and mounting sexual tension. Regardless of the films’ content, all share something in common; they’re so hot it’s hard to watch without blushing. Entries are listed chronologically, from early queer classics like “Un Chant D’Amour” to modern favorites like “God’s Own Country.” With editorial contributions by Alison Foreman. “Un Chant D’Amour” 1950 Image Credit Courtesy Everett Collection What it is A very early example of an explictly gay film, Jean Genet’s 26-minute short was banned for years due to its boundary-pushing symbolism. Told without dialogue, the story follows two prisoners — one middle-aged and one in his twenties — seperated in adjourning cells. As a voyeuristic guard looks on, the two communicate their love and lust for each other through several indirect actions; most famously, by sharing cigarette smoke through a hole in the wall. Why it’s sexy Cigarettes are certainly bad for you, but it’s hard to deny the alluring effect they produce onscreen. “Un Chant D’Amour” features some nudity in a scene where the older man masturbates, but the scenes where he shares his smoke with his younger lover are the most sensual in the film, and definitive proof a movie doesn’t need nudity or sex to be incredibly sexy. —WC “Je, Tu, Il, Elle” 1974 Image Credit Criterion Channel What it is Chantal Akerman, best known for the Sight & Sound poll topper “Jeanne Dielman,” directs and stars in “Je, Tu, Il, Elle.” As the name might suggest, the film follows its aimless protagonist’s relationships with a man and a woman a male driver she gives a handjob to, and her female ex-lover she reconnects with in a 14-minute long sex scene. Why it’s sexy I’m sorry, did you not hear the words 14-minute long sex scene? “Je, Tu, Il, Elle,” is a slow-moving film the entire first third is Julie packing to leave her apartment, and a heavy-minded one, concerned with ideas of how love, desire, and relationships affect one’s identity. But the 14-minute climax ends the movie with a bang, quite literally, and made history as one of the first explicit gay love scenes in a mainstream feature. —WC “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” 1975 Image Credit ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is If you don’t already know the tragi-campy tale of Dr. Frank-N-Furter Tim Curry by heart, then you at least know this midnight movie mainstay by its sparkling reputation. Directed by Jim Sharman, from a script co-written by Sharman and playwright Richard O’Brien who first brought “RHPS” to London’s Royal Court Theater in 1973, this sci-fi cult classic tells the sordid story of a straight couple Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick caught in a rainstorm and thrust into the home of a mad scientist, his sexy Frankenstein-like creation Rocky Peter Hinwood, and a slew of dutiful servants O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, and Meat Loaf. Why it’s sexy The fishnets and big orgy finale may speak for themselves, but as a matter of sexiness “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is more than the sum of its sweat and sequins. This over-the-top musical uses scandalous choreography and monstrously funny innuendo to evoke a provactive playfulness that’s first and foremost fabulously queer. It’s a film that’s helped decades of audience members find their LGBTQ identity and chosen family with its explicit pleas to sing it with me “give yourself over to absolute pleeeeassssure.” —AF “Querelle” 1982 Image Credit Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final howl of anguish from the soul was 1982’s “Querelle,” his last and possibly gayest movie. It’s an adaptation of a novel by French libertine Jean Genet, settling into a French port city where a madame played by Jeanne Moreau runs the world, and sailors engage in explicit sex acts that turn violent Why it’s sexy Ill-fated “Midnight Express” and “Chariots of Fire” actor Brad Davis cuts an alluring figure as the title character, a criminal in love who debases himself on the docks. Xaver Schwarzenberger’s cinematography conjures a moody atmosphere that charges every frame with sexual energy. —RL “The Hunger” 1983 Image Credit ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is There was a time when every lesbian would roll their eyes at the mention of this iconic bisexual vampire thriller, which stars David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon in a love triangle of immortal proportions. That’s only because the steamy sex scene played on repeat at every lesbian bar for years. Why it’s sexy Aside from containing the first nude lesbian sex scene in a major film, “The Hunger” is dripping with yearning, curiosity, playfulness, and intrigue from start to finish. Not to mention, Susan Sarandon in a wet t-shirt. —JD “Desert Hearts” 1985 Image Credit ©Samuel Goldwyn Films/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Donna Deitch’s seminal queer classic marked the first time lesbians could go into a movie theater and see two women in love. The romantic drama told the story of a Columbia professor Helen Shaver who falls in love with a country tomboy Patricia Charbonneau while awaiting a divorce. Why it’s sexy Shot by Oscar winner Robert Elswit Paul Thomas Anderson’s frequent DP, “Desert Hearts” has a sweeping romantic look and an intimate celluloid glow. The air is charged between the two actresses, who were highly aware of the history they were making and delivered the passion. —JD “Working Girls” 1986 Image Credit Janus Films What it is Lizzie Borden’s ambitious vérité drama follows a day in the life of Manhattan sex workers working out of an Upper East Side apartment. In addition to their clients who come and go, the women must flatter a hilariously self-involved madam who overworks and underpays them. Why it’s sexy While the film showed the mundane reality of sex work in a radical way for the time, it also offered an unvarnished portrayal that’s free from the faux-titillation or stuffy moralizing that plagues contemporary movies about sex work. —JD “Law of Desire” 1987 Image Credit ©Cinevista/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Pedro Almodóvar’s NC-17 love triangle centers on gay filmmaker Pablo Quintero Eusebio Poncela, his trans sister and the actress Tina Carmen Maura, and Quintero’s obsessive fan Antonio Antonio Banderas. Why it’s sexy Any Almodóvar joint featuring Banderas is inherently lusty, but “Law of Desire” shattered propriety with its graphic guy-on-guy sex even from the film’s opening scene and featuring its gorgeous lead, as creepy and possessive as Banderas’ Antonio turns out to be. Full-frontal nudity also abounds, setting the stage for Almodóvar’s many unflinching and sexy! depictions of gay eroticism to come. —RL “Tongues Untied” 1989 Image Credit Criterion Collection What it is Marlon Riggs’ 1989 short documentary interrogates the prejudices against Black male identity in even America’s gayest corners; not only white and straight homophobia against Blacks but gay-loathing and racism within the community itself. Why it’s sexy While Riggs seeks to query the hypersexualization of Black men in history, the documentary is hardly an academic text. Its celebratory, artfully rendered representation of Black male bodies and Black male sexuality is a joyous one, finding the poetry in anatomy and forms that are typically commodified for titillation’s sake only. —RL “Bound” 1996 Image Credit ©GramercyPictures/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is The Wachowskis made their feature debut with “Bound,” a 1996 crime thriller romance starring two lesbian women. Violet Jennifer Tilly is the abused girlfriend of mobster Caesar Joe Pantoliano. When ex-con Corky Gina Gershon is hired to renovate the apartment next door to her and Caesar’s, the two fall in love and lust, and hatch a scheme to steal $2 million from the mob. Why it’s sexy The lesbian sex scene in “Bound” is only 20 seconds long or so, but it was groundbreaking at the time and still holds up as pretty hot today. And the film outside the one scene is hot as hell too, with Tilly and Gershon sharing a charged chemistry that makes all their scenes sizzle. Plus if you find the aesthetic of “The Matrix”with all that leather and ’90s punk looks arousing, this film — where both women look a lot like Trinity — was practically made for you. —WC “High Art” 1998 Image Credit ©October Films/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Writer/director Lisa Cholodenko conjures up exquisite neighbors-to-lovers tension in this 1998 indie romance, starring “Breakfast Club” icon Ally Sheedy as an ellusive, famous photographer and Radha Mitchell as the up-and-coming, twenty-something Syd who falls into her orbit. Why it’s sexy “High Art” is a gorgeous, if intermittently painful slow-burn story of fraught connection that makes a meal of its lead actors’ innate chemistry and lingers in dreamy scenes of comingled sex and melancholy. —AF “Cruel Intentions” 1999 Image Credit ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Writer/director Roger Kumble puts a ludicrously lurid spin on “Dangerous Liasons” in this 1999 teen drama starring Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar as overly close step-siblings who team up to ruin the reputations of two girls at their elite Manhattan private school. Why it’s sexy “Cruel Intentions” is nothing if not tawdry and taboo the sort of silly, underbaked sex dramedy you can’t actually recomend with a straight face. Seriously, its romantic climax only works if you have a super squishy soft spot for Counting Crows — and even then, it’s got a better chance at making you giggle than swoon. But to deny the LGBTQ impact of the “Cruel Intentions” kiss is to reject a coming-out catalyst for a generation of queer women; not to mention, one of the best scenes in spit kink cinema. Selma Blair plays the naive Cecile Caldwell opposite Gellar’s temptress antagonist Kathryn for a smooch in Central Park. It’s just “practice” for boys, of course a transparent exercise heralded by Gellar’s nonchalant delivery on the line, “How else do you think girls learn?” Kathryn’s explicit kissing instructions “Now, I want you to massage my tongue with yours…” bumped up against Cecile’s excited curiosity “That was cool…” isn’t well tied to the rest of the film and certainly panders to the male gaze. But the earnestness of the scene’s setup and that one glistening strand of lip gloss connecting Kathryn and Cecile is nothing if not the movies’ greatest monument to sapphic picnics and lesbians locking lips. —AF “Y tu mamá también” 2001 Image Credit ©IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Julio Gael García Bernal and Tenoch Diego Luna are two horny teen boys and best friends with girlfriends that they’re all too eager to cheat on. When the girls go away on vacation, the duo meet the gorgeous Louisa Maribel Verdú at a wedding, and wind up taking her on a somewhat pointless road trip through rural Mexico that unlocks some deep seated secrets between the two. Why it’s sexy It’s hard to think of three hotter people to lead a movie than Verdú and a young Bernal and Luna. But the film doesn’t rest on the beautiful faces of its leads; it’s stuffed to the brim with hot moments, from the opening sex scenes of Julio and Tenoch with their girlfriends to a succession of hook-ups Louisa has with the boys. The unbelievable chemistry of the leads reaches its apex with a sweaty three-way dance, and the way the film builds on the repressed desires the teen boys have for each other may just be the single hottest thing about it. —WC “Shortbus” 2006 Image Credit ©Think Film/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is John Cameron Mitchell films are always hilarious, provocative, and deeply felt, but in “Shortbus” he weaves multiple compelling narratives not an easy feat into a gorgeous revery of a bohemian New York that already slipping away at release. Set in the early aughts, the film has a timeless nostalgia about it, like a time capsule of some bygone era of sexual freedom that maybe everyone feels they just barely missed out on. Why it’s sexy Yes, “Shortbus” is unique because it features real, unsimulated sex — some of the most playful, acrobatic, and creative sex you’ll ever witness — but it’s also incredibly moving. “Shortbus’ isn’t about sex,” Mitchell told IndieWire in 2022. “It uses sex as a medium, as a delivery system for ideas and characters and emotions, just like Hedwig [and the Angry Itch]’ uses music. Sex is our music in Shortbus.’ We really only did one sexual rehearsal. I just went with what they wanted to do.” —JD Read IndieWire’s complete interview with John Cameron Mitchell. “I Can’t Think Straight” 2007 Image Credit ©Regent Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Adapted from her novel of the same name, writer/director Shamim Sarfi’s “I Can’t Think Straight” stars Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth as an engaged woman and the beautiful artist-type she falls for as her fiance Daud Shah readies for their much anticipated wedding day in the background. Why it’s sexy We’re still in dire need of a properly lovely lesbian rom-com, and “I Can’t Think Straight” doesn’t deliver in all of the ways you might hope. Its humor is fizzy and fun “But some of my best friends are Lebanese!” until falling flat at all the wrong times, and hitting pacing problems aplenty. But the chemistry between Ray and Sheth is undeniable, building steadily across familiar genre scenes three cheers for pictureseque garden flirting! and culminating with a steamy first encounter that brilliantly, if somewhat unethically capitalizes on the innate thrill of a forbidden affair. —AF “Weekend” 2011 Image Credit Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Andrew Haigh’s what-might-have-been romance follows Nottingham gays Russell Tom Cullen and Glen Chris New on a weekend-long fling interrupted when Glen drops the bomb he’s moving to the a day later. Why it’s sexy Russell and Glen share all manner of steamy confidences and a few graphic sex scenes of their own involving explicitly shown bodily fluids. But perhaps hotter and heavier are the moments of intimacy they share knowing the clock is ticking on the time they have left. “Weekend” shows us what “Before Sunrise” didn’t over the course of a whirlwind affair that of course would’ve included a lot of sex. —RL “Stranger By the Lake” 2013 Image Credit ©Strand Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is This taut French thriller takes place at a lakeside cruising ground for gay men, where a menacing presence is lurking in the woods. After witnessing a forced drowning, one man finds himself indelibly attracted to the dangerous stranger. Why it’s sexy More than subtle framing and lingering stares, filmmaker Alain Guiraudie delivers full-on French film in his laissez faire portrayal of gay sex, while weaving it seamlessly into his riveting and twisted narrative. —JD “The Duke of Burgundy” 2014 Image Credit ©IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Evelyn Chiara D’Anna is a maid who lives and studies lepidopterology — butterflies and moths — under the older Cynthia Sidse Babett Knudsen a domineering lecturer. Cynthia is cruel, strict, and mean-spirited, and frequently reprimands and chastizes the meaker Evelyn. At least, that’s how the movie presents it at first, before the actual, BDSM-fueled dynamics of their relationship become far apparent. Why it’s sexy For starters, the film just looks sexy. Inspired by ’70s sexploitation flicks, Peter Strickland made “The Duke of Burgundy” into a visual feast, with gorgeous costumes and soft sensual lighting that helps convey the intense sexual tension between the two women at the film’s center. And they have a ton of it; the film builds their tumultuous dynamic and their struggles to find mutual pleasure slowly, until the desire to see them rip each other’s clothes off becomes almost unbearable. —WC “The Handmaiden” 2016 Image Credit Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Based on the Sarah Waters’ novel “Fingersmith,” Park Chan-wook’s gorgeous period drama follows the surreptitious romance between a pickpocket Kim Tae-ri and the heiress Kim Min-hee she is hired to con. Why it’s sexy In addition to some truly creative and titillating BDSM scenes, “The Handmaiden” mined the endless opportunities for erotic tension found in the power dynamics and mind games between queer women. —JD “God’s Own Country” 2017 Image Credit ©Samuel Goldwyn Films/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Francis O’Connor’s quietly romantic debut feature stars Josh O’Connor in his breakout role as Johnny a young sheep farmer forced to run his family’s farm in the wake of his dad’s stroke. Bitter and closed off, Johnny spends his free time engaging in meaningless hook-ups, but things change for him when Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe Alec Secăreanu gets hired to assist during lambing season. Why it’s sexy There’s a ton of sex in “God’s Own Country” from the start – with all of Johnny’s flings — and neither O’Connor or Secăreanu are particularly shy about baring their bodies on screen. But the sexiest thing about the movie is the way Gheorghe slowly breaks down Johnny’s barriers, and gets the icy man to become tender and loving; sometimes, emotional intimacy is what’s hottest. —WC “Disobedience” 2017 Image Credit Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Sebastián Lelio’s burning-yet-elegant “Disobedience” is more than the familiar feminist rebellion you might think. In the exquisitely melancholic lesbian romance, Rachel Weisz plays Ronit, an excommunicated Jewish woman who unexpectedly returns home after the death of her father. She’s soon reunited with her old friend Dovid, a conflicted Alessandro Nivola, and Esti, David’s wife and Ronit’s secret childhood sweetheart — played by a shapeshifting Rachel McAdams. Why it’s sexy The trio’s impromptu exploration of freedom, intimacy, and the conflicts inherent therein offers not just a compelling LGBTQ love story, but a powerful reflection on the rules we choose to follow and those we fight to defy. It also spurs the pièce de résistance of spit kink cinema in a sex scene between Ronit and Esti that’s deeply authentic in its consideration of lesbian connection a frantic flurry of empassionaed embraces and fingers sliding into mouths. The scene was something of A Moment in 2017, and remains a subject of playful debate among sapphic cinephiles. Whether you think it’s sexy or not, no one forgets their first time seeing the “Disobedience” spit. —AF “Call Me By Your Name” 2017 Image Credit ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection What it is Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning summer romance, written by James Ivory, finds Elio Timothée Chalamet and Oliver Armie Hammer falling in love over one hot summer in Italy. Why it’s sexy Guadagnino infamously pans to a tree during a moonlit-scene in which Elio and Oliver finally get around to fucking, but the movie is sexiest for all the tension simmering in the lead-up. Also, Chalamet perhaps bravely bares quite a lot for a then-ingenue actor in one particularly juicy scene for the ages where he masturbates into a ripe peach. In the original André Aciman novel, Oliver eats said peach unlike in the film, a moment clearly too explicit for Guadagnino, but he and Ivory nevertheless let our imaginations do the work. —RL Daily Headlines Daily Headlines covering Film, TV and more. My Fault is the latest soapy Spanish film on Amazon Prime and it’s a complete mish-mash of different ideas – in the worst way possible. There’s a little bit of the After series, sprinkled with the steaming scenes of 365 Days. There’s also influences of the Fast and the Furious series, alongside a healthy dose of Cruel Intentions 2. Yes, the sequel, not the first movie. My Fault also known as Culpa Mia in Spanish is a bit of a mess but it’s a watchable mess all the same. This very often falls in the realm of absolute car crash but just like seeing a pile-up on the side of a highway, you feel bad for looking but can’t tear your eyes away from the horror. This teen romance centers on Noah, a plucky 17 year old who has to leave her town behind and move in with her mother’s boyfriend, Will. He has his own company, a big villa and a hunky son called Nick, whom Noah “hates” until she doesn’t, as it’s immediately clear that there’s some serious sexual tension between the pair. What ensues from here are a bunch of clichés strung together with toe-curlingly cringy dialogue. There are brief flickers of obstacles for the pair to overcome, including past trauma for Noah, an ex-boyfriend who comes back into the picture and a half-arsed attempt at a love triangle involving nice-guy Mario. As the film reaches its third act, the picture whiplashes away from cheesy romance and tropes into all-out action thriller territory. While the earlier parts of the film portray a couple of street races, the incredulous way this charges into its final act is hilariously mismanaged. I’m not going to spoil the big climax here but good luck not laughing at the way the “villain” is dispatched by the end. That’s right, on top of everything else Culpa Mia tries to juggle, there’s a mastermind sending threatening messages to Noah too. As a result, all these competing ideas push aside anything as deep as character development or a competent story. Noah and Nick may have unresolved past trauma, but they still play into archetypal tropes that we’ve seen a number of times across different films in the past. To make matters worse, everyone else in this film are so forgettable and bland that you’ll wonder why you’re even watching. But watch it you probably will! This absolutely falls on the side of being a guilty pleasure, as you’ll find yourself morbidly curious to find out what happens next in the story. If you do decide to take the plunge, be prepared to cringe and laugh your way through this one. Read More My Fault Mia Culpa Ending Explained Feel free to check out more of our movie reviews here! Watch Now Stream Cruel Intentions is not available for streaming. Let us notify you when you can watch it. SynopsisSlaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized Intentions - watch online streaming, buy or rentWe try to add new providers constantly but we couldn't find an offer for "Cruel Intentions" online. Please come back again soon to check if there's something new. Videos Trailers, Teasers, FeaturettesRatingDirector Cast Popular movies coming soon Upcoming Drama movies Sony Pictures Releasing "Cruel Intentions" celebrated its 20th anniversary a few years ago. I attended a screening and was surprised by the variety of people in attendance. I was expecting people like me, who'd seen the film when they were younger and remembered it as something fun, a little trashy, and a time capsule of the late '90s. The theater was about three-quarters full, and the audience was made up of people of all ages. Older, younger, everything. Upon my rewatch, I realized how much I underestimated the film; "Cruel Intentions" is a gutsy and strange movie, a tale of scandal and intrigue that features a pair of pretty despicable leads and a depressing if moralistic ending. It also has a cast of some of the most lascivious teens caught on camera. "Cruel Intentions" was released during a time where these sorts of stories were possible. It's a movie that I can't imagine getting made today. More than a great movie, "Cruel Intentions" was a cultural moment — it spawned one of the leading celebrity relationships of the time and depicted a hero of the '90s as a sex and drug addict. There is no equivalent to it, but there are a variety of releases that share some of its DNA. These '90s movies are riffs on the erotic thriller, all attempting to somehow recapture the magic — and box office success — of "Fatal Attraction," yet still trying to do their own thing. They're companion movies, featuring young casts and some very bad people. Dangerous Liaisons Warner Bros. Starring Glenn Close, a big name in the erotic thriller genre, "Dangerous Liaisons" is most definitely not a teen film. It's a period piece, based on a play and novel of the same name, which served as the inspiration for "Cruel Intentions." This film is set in Paris in the 18th century, and follows the Marquise de Merteuil Close and the Vicomte de Valmont John Malkovich as they ruin the lives of those who surround them. Like "Cruel Intentions," the story takes a turn when real feelings get involved, and when the game stops being fun. Directed by Stephen Frears and rounded out by cast members Keanu Reeves, Uma Thurman, and Michelle Pfeiffer, "Dangerous Liaisons" is romantic and a little bit evil, completely entrancing in its actors' willingness to have fun in their beautiful period outfits. The bits and pieces that felt out of place in "Cruel Intentions" fit perfectly in a pre-revolution Paris, and are made all the better when brought to life by performers like Close and Malkovich. Cruel Intentions 2 Columbia TriStar Home Video "Cruel Intentions 2" is a pretty terrible movie, but don't let that stop you from watching Amy Adams' take on Kathryn Merteuil. Released a year after the original film's debut and trying to ride on the wave of its success, "Cruel Intentions 2" is a prequel that slightly revises the story, following younger iterations of Kathryn Adams and Sebastian Robin Dunne as they become the terrible people we meet in the original film. "Cruel Intentions 2" is all about Kathryn and Sebastian's relationship, which is built as if it's a romantic comedy, except with way more sex scenes and cheesy dialogue thrown in the mix. Sebastian is rewritten to be kind of a shy guy, corrupted by Kathryn once he enters her orbit, and is dazzled by the rich and depraved world of Manhattan. It's not a great origin story, but who says a movie has to be good to be enjoyable? Again, it stars Amy Adams! Fear Universal Pictures Released in 1996 and perfecting Reese Witherspoon's early good girl persona, "Fear" tells the story of Nicole Witherspoon and how her life is disrupted when she meets the mysterious David Mark Wahlberg, a handsome and attentive boy who turns out to be completely unhinged. What starts off as a story about a girl moving into a new town and meeting her dream guy quickly devolves into a stalker story, filled with concerned parents and friends, some scary twists, and murder. Unlike "Cruel Intentions," "Fear" takes its plot very seriously, which can lead to some accidentally hilarious moments. It also suffers from some very dated politics and cheesy dialogue. Still, it's a seminal entry into the teen erotic thriller genre a term we just coined, which are sadly in very short supply. It's also an important part of Wahlberg's and Witherspoon's early careers. Finally, "Fear" features Alyssa Milano as the complicated best friend, as well one of the best and wildest sex scenes I can think of — it's set on a roller coaster, to the beat of the Sundays' "Wild Horses." Poison Ivy New Line Cinema While her name has yet to appear on this list, Drew Barrymore is an important actress for these types of movies, perhaps kicking it all off with "Poison Ivy." Released in 1992, when the genre was just starting to take hold, director Katt Shea approached the film as a teenage take on "Fatal Attraction." The story follows Sylvie Sara Gilbert, a girl with money and no friends, who quickly befriends the enigmatic Ivy a perfectly-cast Drew Barrymore, going through her wild-child years, who, having no family and no ties, moves into her home. Ivy grows close to Sylvie's parents and starts to infiltrate her life, seducing Sylvie's father and slowly driving Sylvie's mother insane. The film has many twists and turns, some of which might strain your patience, but Barrymore is captivating, launching a franchise that blossomed into a four-movie series although Barrymore only appeared in the first installment. Like many films on this list, "Poison Ivy" has the required girl-on-girl make-out scene, some questionable politics, and really great hair. It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and developed a substantial following that remains influential to this day. It's wild fun. The Skulls Universal Pictures While "The Skulls" is not as focused on horny teenagers as the rest of these films, it's very concerned with privilege and money, something that it shares with "Cruel Intentions." "The Skulls" follows Luke Joshua Jackson, a newly admitted student at Yale University, who's considered an outsider because he doesn't come from a wealthy family. He's thrilled once he's invited to join the secret society known as the Skulls, a group of wealthy and privileged people that quickly turns out to be more than what Luke bargained for. Co-starring Paul Walker, Christopher McDonald, and Craig T. Nelson, "The Skulls" is an undeniably dated movie, the type of thriller that no longer gets made and that is overtly serious when the source material doesn't require it, but its focus on teen concerns and the power of money make it into a fitting follow up to "Cruel Intentions." It's a pair of films that make for an interesting double feature, delving into similar waters with very different tones. Mad Love Buena Vista Pictures Again, the '90s were like the Wild West for teen stories; there's a little bit of everything. Just look at "Mad Love," which stars Drew Barrymore as a girl with borderline personality disorder It's tonally very different from most of these films, and while it's primarily a love story, it has some comedy, and plenty of drama. The film follows Matt Chris O'Donnell and Casey Barrymore, and the many ups and downs of their relationship. Casey wreaks havoc, sets off fire alarms, gets institutionalized, and runs away, all with the support from Matt, who's hopelessly in love with her. While the overall tone of the film is light, "Mad Love" goes to some dark places, and retains the flair for drama that we see in the majority of these films; the endings aren't happy, and the characters are heavily damaged, especially the women. As tends to happen in this kind of movie, there's a lesson to be learned at the end, but the trauma that these characters endure remain. Election Paramount Pictures Reese Witherspoon has always done interesting work, but she came into herself with "Election." As Tracy Flick, Witherspoon epitomizes the type-A character, a model that's been replicated with lesser skill in all sorts of TV shows and movies. Tracy is conniving and annoying, yet still incredibly fragile. It's a role that's informed almost everything that Witherspoon has done since — she pushed the character in a hilarious and sweet direction for "Legally Blonde," and reinvented it as a gossipy but harmless housewife in "Big Little Lies." It's also something of a trick Witherspoon plays with both our perceptions and her established on-screen persona, which makes it jarring when Tracy lets her inner madness out. "Election" follows Jim Matthew Broderick, a high-school teacher who gets way too involved in the school election. When Jim sees that Tracy Flick Witherspoon, his annoying student whom he won't admit he hates, has a chance to become class president, he enlists the popular but dumb jock Paul Chris Klein to run against her, setting off a chain of events that shows that the worst person involved in all of this is the adult who got dragged into this mess in the first place. "Election" is one of the best films on this list, a hilarious comedy that contrasts adults with teens and that highlights, without being didactic, the responsibility that the former owes the latter. Wild Things Sony Pictures Releasing "Wild Things," mostly known for featuring a topless Denise Richards, is often called trash. I'm here to say that it's not. Released in 1998, it's a film that drips with a neo-noir mood, set in the Everglades to the beat of a swoony score and featuring an endless stream of double-crossing characters. While more concerned with the lives of adults than "Cruel Intentions," the two teens at the center of the film, Suzie Toller Neve Campbell and Kelly Lanier Van Ryan Denise Richards, are everything but forgettable. They also make out, checking off one of the teen erotic thriller requirements. "Wild Things" pushed the boundaries of mainstream Hollywood and features one of the most famous sex scenes ever made — to this day, it's still referenced in other pieces of pop culture. A brief plot breakdown that gives nothing away Sam Lombardo Matt Dillon, a handsome and popular teacher, ignores the attention of his gorgeous student Kelly and is accused of rape. Shortly after, he is accused of rape by another student, outsider Suzie. Yeah, it's a story that navigates tricky waters, and while I can't say that it does so sensibly or successfully, it's incredibly cinematic and fun. Foxfire The Samuel Goldwyn Company With the talent that's involved, it's surprising how little "Foxfire" is known. Starring Angelina Jolie, former child star and co-founder of the band Rilo Kiley Jenny Lewis, Jenny Shimizu, and Peter Facinelli, "Foxfire" is a coming-of-age story. Unlike the majority of coming-of-age films in Hollywood, "Foxfire" doesn't follow a male character. It's wholly concerned with the girls themselves. The film follows the rise and fall of Foxfire, a girl gang formed after the sudden appearance of the brooding and wise Legs Angelina Jolie. "Foxfire" is not a great film, but it is a coming-of-age story led by young girls. For a genre that's been around forever, a female touch still feels sadly novel. It tackles topics like friendship and sexual assault, and captures the allure of Angelina Jolie exceptionally well — there's a reason why, for many years, she played the mysterious girl who kicked plots into motion, or added a much-needed jolt to a variety of stories. The Crush Warner Bros. For a time, Hollywood was obsessed with Alicia Silverstone. Her youthful looks and persona made her perfect for films like "The Babysitter" and "The Crush," which are both concerned with older men who prey on her characters. Neither are very good, but "The Crush" is worth watching, serving as both a time capsule of the period and as an insightful snapshot of how Silverstone was regarded during the '90s. Like most films focused on young women who become obsessed with older men, "The Crush" follows the handsome Nick Cary Ewles as he moves to a new town, and then tries his best to resist young Adrien's Silverstone advances. So, basically, it's the type of movie that's written by a guy who didn't really understand the underlying message of "Lolita." Shot in the style of an erotic thriller, "The Crush" is oftentimes laughable; Silverstone was 15 at the time and looks even younger, kind of ruining Adrien's scary aura. Still, she does good work, and the film makes for an impressive screen debut. Most importantly, "The Crush" presents more evidence that people in the '90s were terrified of young women who were interested in sex. Kids Shining Excalibur Films "Cruel Intentions" is for babies compared to "Kids." Released in 1995 and launching the careers of an unbelievable group of actors and filmmakers, including Harmony Korine, Rosario Dawson, Chloe Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, and more, it's a film that pushed the boundaries of what could and couldn't be said about teens on screen. "Kids" follows a group of young people in New York, focusing on outrageous and unsanitized stories that put sex and drugs at the forefront. Part of the shock of "Kids" is the fact that the characters look like actual teenagers, not the Hollywood "teens" we're used to seeing, who are often played by actors in their 20s. "Kids" and "Cruel Intentions" aren't movies that are usually paired, with "Kids" being a more realistic look at the world and "Cruel Intentions" representing something much pulpier and stylized. Still, both films share a fearlessness in depicting the stressful situations that teens often find themselves immersed in, and how exposed they are to danger. To Die For Sony Pictures Releasing Like "Cruel Intentions," "To Die For" is a black comedy. Unlike "Cruel Intentions," "To Die For" wasn't targeted at any specific demographic and features some important adult characters, meaning that it has no need to settle for any kind of moralistic ending. Based on a true story, "To Die For" follows Suzanne Stone Nicole Kidman, in one of her best roles and her journey towards becoming a journalist and appearing on TV, her lifelong dream. Suzanne marries, seduces teens, and plots murders all in service of that goal, which, of course, backfires. Like most of the films on this list, "To Die For" is filled with twists, turns, and intrigue, driven by backstabbing characters who'll do anything to get what they want. "To Die For" is also special for the way in which it uses a variety of visual techniques to make for a more engaging and fulfilling ride, having the feel of a high-end mockumentary. Nicole Kidman's Suzanne is one of the best villains I can think of, a character who is wily, unpredictable, and wholly entertaining. Like almost all of these films, "To Die For" is a showcase for unrepentant women and how fun they are to watch on screen.

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