The Sexiest Movie Scenes Ever

2 min readNov 4, 2024

That had absolutely no sex.

Far from the Madding Crowd. – The Schlesinger 1967 version. That scene where Frank Troy (Terence Stamp) swishes his sabre at Bathsheba (Julie Christie). So sexy. It helped that they were both two of the most beautiful people on planet Earth. But… Swish! Thrust! Oh my God. Worked for me.
Ghost. Who knew pottery could be sexy. So, sooo sexy? Huh.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. So Robert Redford trains his pistol (so many penis substitutes in this list, lol!). Anyway he points his pistol at Katherine Ross and orders her to undress. Total Dom sexy – which would have been horrible, but turns out she was his girlfriend and they were just playing! So was super sexy, but still safe. Hot. Hot. Oh goodness, so hot that when it was shown on T.V. many years later. The whole family was watching but my Dad got super uncomfortable and didn’t believe it was appropriate for (17 year old) me to watch!
Cyborg. Pretty much a trash action flick…but there is this one scene. Ground level back view of Jean Claude van Damme standing feet apart. Panning upwards. Just a total hit to anybody with hormones.
The Great Gatsby. The original with Mia Farrow and Robert Redford. They touch. She is a careless rich girl. He is nouveaux riche. Wealthy but not quite the thing. And in love. (Him, not her – She’s in like). Desperately, tragically in love. In the whole film that is the one time. The only point of contact, of intimacy. Totally heartbreaking.
Dirty Dancing. There are so so many sexy scenes. But that last one. Run run run….lift! Fly. Whoosh! It’s totally sex. Wheeee!
Scent of a Woman. That tango.
Say Anything. John Cusack holding that boombox up above his head to let Ione Skye know how much he loves her. Goosebump sexy.
Terminator. Michael Biehn was an unlikely hero. And maybe an unlikely nomination for sexiest film scenes without sex. But we got it. We understood why Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) fell for him so fast. Everything about their interaction just felt authentic.
Some Like it Hot. The scene where Marilyn Munroe’s character – Sugar - is trying so, soo hard to seduce Tony Curtis’ character - Joe.
Bonus 😄! North by North West. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint competing in the flirting Olympics, with the best script ever written prior to Oceans 11. This. This is what I am talking about.

….”No, not lucky. Naughty, wicked, up to no good. Ever kill anyone? Because I bet you could tease a man to death without half trying. So stop trying, huh?”