The Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer Italian-set summer romance about a teenage boy who falls in love with his father's apprentice is absolutely electric.

And, for a Guillermo del Toro protagonist, sometimes that means feeling it for an amphibious humanoid stuck inside of the high-security government laboratory where you work. Velvet Buzzsaw stars Jake Gyllenhaal in an oddly steamy film (seriously, the sex appeal in the film makes no sense, but it is there) about a supernatural force that comes for those in the art world whose desire for more has overtaken their appreciation of art. Its masterful sex scene is one to be studied by filmmakers for years to come, as it balances subtlety with poignancy, and withholding with release. One of the best scenes involves a van, a principal, a porn, and a cringeworthy phone volume issue that is all too relatable. Make no mistake though, it doesn’t miss the opportunity to lean into one universal teenage truth—always thinking about sex.

Eventually, Hollywood wizened up and realized that sex was as normal as it was necessary to depict on film. Before a movie about nerds and numbers became our favorite baseball flick, there was Bull Durham—where Kevin Costner’s Crash Davis and Susan Sarandon’s Annie Savoy find themselves doing the only thing that could make minor league baseball interesting. The heated relationship is dialed up even further, however, by an underlying crime: the relationship is a scam to seduce the heiress into losing her inheritance. Booksmart elevates the horny coming of age genre with a bit more of a thoughtful spin on leaving high school and your best friends behind.

Following the life of Chiron, a young, queer Black man growing up in Miami, the film’s sensual cinematography and weighted tones of latent sexual expression paint a vivid and complex exploration of identity. Two roommates—played by Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen—get in some financial shit, so they try to make some money in the adult film biz. Based on Sarah Waters’s novel, Fingersmith, The Handmaiden tells the story of two women, one Japanese heiress and one Korean woman. Nevertheless, the tale about a guy who seems to be a good luck charm for women unlucky in love is surprisingly sweet.Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone star as Queen Anne, Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, and Abigail Masham in Yorgos Lanthimos's incredible 2018 dark period comedy. Along with a marathon of ebbing homoerotic tension, the film features an infamous scene between Pattinson and a mermaid figurine. Robert Eggers’s analysis of two stranded lightkeepers, played by Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, isolated on a remote island together for two weeks is as bizarre as it is strangely horny.