Babe, wake up! A smutty new film inspired by our favourite Y2K movies has dropped. Bottoms takes the lewd and crude sex comedies of the past and gives it a queer twist, as lesbian high school seniors PJ and Josie (played by two of the most exciting comedy actors du jour Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri) set up a girl’s fight club as a guise to seduce and hook up with cheerleaders. Starring i-D cover star Kaia Gerber as one of those cheerleaders, as well as Nicholas Galitzine as a jock, the A24 movie is bound to become a cult classic.
But if the slutty overtones of Bottoms have got you all riled up (or if you’re outside of the US and you’re blueballed waiting for an international release date for this movie), here are seven more movies that need to go to horny jail.
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The Sweetest Thing (2002)
Somewhere between Sex and The City and American Pie sits this horny af 00s comedy – written by South Park’s Nancy Pimental and starring Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair and Christina Applegate – about a group of girlies and their messy sexual escapades. Is there much of a plot? No. But what other movie would you listen to an entire musical number dedicated to penis, and then watch Selma try to detach her uvula from a man’s Prince Albert while Cameron and Christina relax her by singing Aerosmith. Chaotic? Iconic? Deranged? Arguably, all three.
The Dreamers (2003)
Set against the backdrop of the 1968 Paris Student Riots, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 2003 movie follows American exchange student Matthew (Michael Pitt) who makes friends with mysterious, free-spirited twins Isabelle and Theo (Eva Green and Louis Garrel) who share his love of film. He soon realises the siblings have a more liberated view of sex and nudity than most, though, and finds himself being drawn into their relationship, all exploring their desires together.
Benedetta (2021)
Sister Benedetta Carlini was a real nun in 17th century Italy who claimed to experience mystic visions. She was accused of lesbianism and immodesty by the papacy and imprisoned. Paul Verhoeven’s psychological drama is a fictionalised adaptation of her story that delves deep into sexual freedom and its relationship with religion. At its New York Film Festival premiere, and throughout the country upon its release, Catholic groups protested the movie, denouncing it as blasphemous.
Cruel Intentions (1999)
From Roger Kumble, the same director behind The Sweetest Thing, this cult classic teen drama stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair and Christine Baranski. Rich bitch step-siblings Kathryn and Sebastian (played by Sarah and Ryan) make a pact that if Sebastian can’t seduce the chaste headmistress’ daughter (played by Reese) Kathryn can have his car. If he can, they can have sex. Incest aside, this movie sees some iconic boarding school alt-fashion, as well as the most iconic use of “Bitter Sweet Symphony” in history.
Spring Breakers (2012)
Disney girls Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens and Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson put a big middle finger up to their sweet and innocent teen star image. Along with Rachel Korine (wife of the movie’s director Harmony Korine), the four girls go wild as they spring break in Florida. Things quickly take a dark turn, though, when they meet the rapper and drugs and arms dealer Alien (played by James Franco). The blueprint for shows like Euphoria, the A24 movie is noted for its stunning cinematography and twisted depiction of the American Dream.
Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson’s second movie and widely considered one of his best, this comedy is set in the Golden Age of Porn, the late 70s, and follows a high school dropout dishwasher, played by Mark Wahlberg, and his rise and fall in the industry as he, and his oversized dick, get caught up in drugs, clubbing and the dark side of the sexploitation world. Perfectly capturing the lewd, crude and smutty male-led industry at the time, the movie – which also stars Julianne Moore and Burt Reynolds – was nominated for three Academy Awards.
A Dirty Shame (2004)
John Waters is, of course, famed for his transgressive, kinky and queer cult films. His 2004 sex comedy A Dirty Shame is no different. Tracey Ullman’s Sylvia is a prim and prudish puritan who worries that her daughter (played by Selma Blair) is falling into the wrong crowd in their local community, a group of sex addicts. When Tracey bumps her head however, she finds her worldview changed as she opens herself up to a world of wild, sexual liberation.