BY: Amanda Jane Stern

Not too long ago we took a look at 6 period pieces that really get your heartbeat up. Of course, there’s a lot more searingly sexy period movies that are hot, so now let’s take a look at another 4 movies that show, no matter the century, we like to get sexy.

Anna Karenina

Yes, in our last list on sexy period pieces we covered the Keira Knightley-starring The Duchess, but Knightley is back with another bodice-ripper. Here she stars as the titular Anna Karenina, the wealthy socialite married to Alexei Karenin (Jude Law). She falls for the dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Their illicit romance is not confined to pining stares. No, they get hot and heavy real fast.

Dangerous Liaisons

This story is so sexy that the French novel it was adapted from has been adapted several times. For this list, we are focusing on the 1988 Stephen Frears adaptation. This movie is all about sexual games. Seriously, it revolves around a manipulative woman (Glenn Close) who schemes with the seductive Valmont (John Malkovich) to seduce her other ex-lover’s new wife (Uma Thurman), all the while Valmont is also seducing another woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). 

The Favourite

This movie is not only a sexual romp, but a wonderful film that was nominated for several Academy Awards, with Olivia Colman even winning the Oscar for Best Actress. Set in the early 18th century at the court of Queen Anne (Colman), the movie follows the close relationship between Anne and her lover/confidante Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz). When Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, she comes between the two lovers by introducing the Queen to a few new things…

Marie Antoinette

Let them eat cake? Well, sure, but we’re not talking about the kind of cake that comes from an oven. This Sofia Coppola movie focuses on Marie Antoinette’s life in the years leading up to the French Revolution. While about a real person, this movie is by no means a traditional biopic. Instead, the movie views Marie as a tragic figure, a young woman thrust into a world she did not know in an unwelcoming country. But, just because she was a lonely woman doesn’t mean she didn’t entertain herself with lovers.