Top ten sexiest Movies

Top ten sexiest Movies

It starred two of the best-looking stars in Hollywood.
And now Out of Sight has been voted the sexiest film of all time in a poll of industry insiders.
The crime thriller, starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, came top in a list chosen by 100 actors, directors, critics and producers for American magazine Entertainment Weekly.
Sexy cinema: Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in a scene from 'Out of Sight' voted the sexiest film of all time
Sexy cinema: Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in a scene from 'Out of Sight' voted the sexiest film of all time
Made in 1998 and based on Elmore Leonard's novel, the judges said the combination of its two leads created the ultimate 'cinematic aphrodisiac'.
They added: 'It made Clooney a major star and gave J-Lo her most well-rounded role to date. And thanks to director Steven Soderbergh, it features a number of scenes that belong in a sexy cinema hall of fame.'
Groundbreaking: The 1940 film His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, came second in the list, its subtle innuendoes set the standard for the future of erotic cinema
Groundbreaking: The 1940 film His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, came second in the list, its subtle innuendoes set a standard
Third place: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr and Mrs Smith which sparked their real life romance
Third place: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr and Mrs Smith which sparked their real life romance
In second place was the 1940 film His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.
The experts said the film's subtle innuendoes set the standard for the future of erotic cinema.
They said its sexiest moment was when newspaper editor Grant asks Russell, a reporter: 'Want my fingerprints?' Russell drawls: 'No thanks, I've still got those.'
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's 2005 film, Mr and Mrs Smith, which sparked their real-life romance, was voted third, with the sexiest moment when the couple pat one another down on the dancefloor while 'angry, aroused and armed to the teeth'.
British actor Daniel Day-Lewis has three films in the top 50, The Last of the Mohicans (8), The Age of Innocence (23), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (34).
Hugh Grant also makes the list for the 1987 film Maurice (30), in which he shares a passionate scene in a school dormitory with male co-star James Wilby.
The top 10:

1. Out of Sight (1998)

2. His Girl Friday (1940)

3. Mr and Mrs Smith (2005)

4. Body Heat (1981)

5. Bull Durham (1988)

6. Don't Look Now (1973)

7. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

8. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

9. A Walk on the Moon (1999)

10. Before Sunset (2004)

History of Sex in Cinema

History of Sex in Cinema

Movie Title
Brief Scene Description Example
Eadweard Muybridge's Primitive Motion Studies (from 1884-1887) - The Human Figure in Motion - Descending Stairs and Turning Around Muybridge's test footage included cinematic glimpses of naked men and women in motion, such as this female walking up and down stairs
Le Coucher de la Marie (1896, Fr.) (aka Bedtime for the Bride) "Blue movie" pornographer Eugene Pirou pioneered the risque film, when reportedly, he produced this film (and other similar "smoking concert" or stag party films) in which Louise Willy performed the first striptease onscreen; the short film was directed by Léar (real name Albert Kirchner)
Fatima's Coochie-Coochie Dance (1896) This short nickelodeon kinetoscope/film of a gyrating belly dancer named Fatima (well-known for her dancing shows at the Columbia World's Exhibition in 1893) became the first film in which a scene was censored - for her gyrating and moving pelvis; it was covered up by what appeared to be a white picket fence (a grid-like pattern of white lines); there were numerous risque films that featured exotic dancers

The May Irwin Kiss (1896) (aka The Kiss, or The Irwin-Rice Kiss The very first kiss on film was between a Victorian couple seen in this Edison kinetoscope in a filmed scene enacted from the Broadway stage play The Widow Jones - the titillating short 20-second film loop, with a close-up of a nuzzling couple followed by a short peck on the lips ("the mysteries of the kiss revealed"), was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship and moral reform - because kissing in public at the time could lead to prosecution
Après Le Bal (1897, Fr.) (After the Ball, Bath) Pioneering film-maker Georges Melies directed this film, with one of the earliest nude scenes in film history - it was a short black and white silent film
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore's Dance Routines (mid 1890s) Many of the earliest nickelodeon films featured the dancing of vaudeville performer Annabelle Whitford (known as Peerless Annabelle), whose routines were filmed at Edison's studio in NJ - Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894), Annabelle Sun Dance (1894), Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895), Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896), Annabelle in Flag Dance (1896), Skirt Dance by Annabelle (1896), Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (1896), Sun Dance - Annabelle (1897), etc.; male audiences were enthralled watching these early depictions of a clothed female dancer (sometimes color-tinted) on a Kinetoscope - an early peep-show device for projecting short films
The Birth of the Pearl (1901) Proprietors of the arcade parlors and nickelodeons with hand-cranked kinetoscopes, designed to provide cheap entertainment for poor, lower-class immigrants in the cities, realized that sex (or erotica) sold - as in this short provocative American Mutoscope & Biograph film about the 'birth of a pearl' in an art tableau; when the curtains were drawn to the side by two clothed chorus girls, a large oyster or clam shell was revealed in front of a painted backdrop of the ocean; as the shell opened, a sleeping or slumbering long-haired young model (wearing a flesh-colored body stocking) was curled up, but then slowly awakened from slumber and stood up
From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen (1903) This titillating short (one-minute in length) film from American Mutoscope & Biograph was designed to stimulate its audience, with the view of a woman in her dressing room mischievously undressing and smiling at the camera - but after removing clothing and standing in a long white undergarment (and slipping the strap of her garment off one shoulder), she ducked behind a screen to her right, where she continued to undress and furtively reach for other clothes; she then appeared costumed in another outfit
Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room (1905) This voyeuristic short was sexually enticing to early male audiences; after being caught 'peeping' through a keyhole while spying on a buxom female as she dressed, the humiliated man was brought into the dressing room, where chorus girls beat him with powder puffs; a similar earlier title was Biograph's Peeping Tom (1897)

Peeping Tom (1897)
Traffic in Souls (1913)
Carl Laemmle's newly-formed Independent Motion Picture Company's (IMP) first feature-length film release - the first American feature-length sex film - was the six-reel melodrama (and faux documentary) Traffic in Souls (1913) (aka While New York Sleeps). It was a "photo-drama" expose of white slavery (entrapment of young women into prostitution) at the turn of the century in NYC, although the film exploitatively promised steamy sex in its advertisements; this was one of the first films to understand that 'sex sells,' although its producers worried that a 'feature-length' film on any subject wouldn't be successful; it was the most expensive feature film of its time at $57,000, although its record earnings were $450,000
Damaged Goods (1914)
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Damaged Goods (1919, UK)
This early, dramatic sex-hygiene (venereal disease) educational film (now presumed lost) was typical of an early exploitation film with sensational content told with an educational slant; it told about how young lawyer George Dupont (Richard Bennett) contracted syphilis from a prostitute (Adrienne Morrison, Mrs. Bennett in real-life), and passed on the disease to his fiancee-wife (Senator Locke's daughter Henriette (Olive Templeton)) and baby (against Dr. Clifford's (Louis Bennison) advice); by film's end, Dupont committed suicide by drowning himself (although in the re-release, the suicide was toned down); it was a smash-hit at the box-office when re-released in 1915 by the Mutual Film Corporation, with $2 million, and caused a wave of similar films for the rest of the decade; a silent British version of the film was directed by Alexander Butler in 1919; other films in this sub-genre included The Spreading Evil (1918), The Scarlet Trail (1918), Open Your Eyes (1919), The Solitary Sin (1919), and Wild Oats (1919)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
D.W. Griffith's Civil War epic was controversial for many reasons, one of which was its racist and "vicious" portrayal of blacks and its proclamation of miscegenation, according to the NAACP; for that reason, it was the subject of bans for inciting "race hatred and race riots"; for example, in one long suspenseful scene, an emancipated former house servant/slave - an inflamed, lusty Negro "renegade" named Gus (Walter Long) chased after young Flora Cameron (Mae Marsh); although he reassured her: "Wait, missie, I won't hurt yeh", she fell from a cliff after repeatedly threatening him -- "Stay away or I'll jump"; the scene has often been misinterpreted as a rape scene, although it wasn't; however, it could be interpreted that her threatening symbolized the emasculation and 'rape' of whites in the South by a rampant black population suddenly emancipated - and destructive of the racial order; in another controversial scene, lecherous mulatto leader Silas Lynch (George Siegmann, a white actor dressed as black and acting monstrously) attacked Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) and attempted to force marriage upon her

A Fool There Was (1915) The full-bosomed Theda Bara, dubbed the "Vamp," was the screen's first femme fatale, predatory vamp (luring men to ruin and destruction) and first movie sex goddess; she was a Hollywood creation who mixed ruthlessness and dark erotic sexiness into her numerous roles - she would often appear in risque transparent costumes; Bara was first introduced as an evil temptress in this film with her character name: Vampire, and her most-famous line of all: "Kiss me, my Fool!"; the Vamp character was repeated in Bara's melodramatic The Devil's Daughter (1915) in the role of La Gioconda, and also in The Vixen (1916)

A Free Ride (1915) This film was reportedly the earliest-known silent stag ('men only') or pornographic film; because these kinds of films (with increasingly explicit amounts of nudity and sexuality) were completely illegal, they were shown in all-male locations, clubs, etc., not in mainstream theaters
Hypocrites (1915) This was Paramount's 4-reel silent film from female director Lois Weber - the most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era; it was considered a shocking and controversial film that was held up for many months because of its full nudity - a ghostly figure of the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman (Margaret Edwards) who revealed hypocritical desires for money, sex, and power

Inspiration (1915) (aka The Perfect Model) Audrey Munson (a real-life model for numerous Beaux-Arts sculptors) first appeared artistically nude as a sculptor's model (in her first of four silent films) to recreate classic artistic (nude) paintings in George Foster Platt's controversial film from the Mutual Film Corporation - telling the story of her own life; it has been claimed that this was the first known film in which a leading actress stripped down to be naked, making her the first nude film star
Behind the Screen (1916)
In this two-reeler for Mutual, Chaplin portrayed a hired worker named David at a film studio - in the film's infamous 'gay' scene, he kissed a young girl (Edna Purviance) who was dressed in masculine clothing (as a masquerading way to find work), thereby upsetting his brutish and burly foreman Goliath (Eric Campbell) who believed they were homosexual and teased them mercilessly by acting 'prissy' to mock them

Daughter of the Gods (1916) Australian-born swimming and diving champ Annette Kellermann (the "Esther Williams of the silent era" who was called "the world's most perfectly-formed woman" and billed as "the Diving Venus") had already gained attention for advocating the scandalous-at-the-time one-piece bathing suit; she caused a further stir when she was seen naked with her flowing hair under a waterfall - she was the first major female star to appear nude on screen; this controversial film, Kellermann's second feature film, was also the most expensive film of its decade at $1 million; earlier films included Siren of the Sea (1911), The Mermaid (1911), and her first feature film Neptune's Daughter (1914)
Intolerance (1916)
D.W. Griffith's epic featured bare-breasted, lightly-draped women ("virgins of the sacred fires of life") in love temples, in the tinted Babylonian sequences

Purity (1916) After her appearance a year earlier in Inspiration (1915), sculptor's model Audrey Munson also appeared nude in another silent film, Rea Burger's 7-reel Purity (1916), in a dual role, as a spirit figure and as an artist's nude model named Purity/Virtue
The Vixen (1916) In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond, who wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens (A. H. Van Buren) away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen (Mary G. Martin); she continued to seek after rich men, eventually marrying young statesman Knowles Murray (Herbert Heyes) (again stolen from Helen) - but still willing to be unfaithful with Stevens who had since regained his fortune
Cleopatra (1917) This elaborately-produced film (now presumed lost) from the Fox Film Corporation was one of vamp Theda Bara's biggest hits - as the historical Queen of Egypt Cleopatra -- noted for her risque and bare-breasted costuming; she was seen nearly nude with the contours of her breasts held by two curving gold asps; and she wore a gown with spidery embroidery over her crotch

Mack Sennett's "Bathing Beauties" Comedy pioneer and "King of Comedy" Mack Sennett popularized his sexually-appealing "bathing beauties" starlets (usually uncredited swimsuit models, although some became famous leading ladies, such as Juanita Hansen, Phyllis Haver, Gloria Swanson and the original bathing beauty Mabel Normand) by having them appear bare-legged in his cheaply-made popular slapstick comedies; although he was accused of exploiting their bodies by the Temperance Movement, they remained popular
Isle of Love (1918) (aka An Adventuress (1920)) Young starlet Virginia Rapp (with the screen name of Rappe), who was later portrayed as the victim in the rape/murder case/scandal involving silent film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle on Labor Day 1921, appeared in this film (she ultimately appeared in small roles in about 10 films during her short career); she had developed a trampish reputation as one who would frequently strip and sometimes modeled in the nude; her biographical information claimed multiple abortions, venereal disease, dabbling in prostitution, and an out-of-wedlock child raised by foster care; in any event, she laid the blame on Arbuckle before her death four days later of a ruptured bladder
Tarzan of the Apes (1918) In this ten-reel silent film that was the first screen version of Edgar Rice Burrough's jungle character, Tarzan at ten years old (Gordon Griffith as younger ape-boy Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln as adult) was almost nude for much of the first half of the film; the breasts and buttocks of African natives were also briefly shown
Anders als die Andern (1919, Germ.) (aka Different From the Others) This silent film (only half of it survives) by director Richard Oswald was reportedly the first representation of male homosexuality ("the third sex") in a feature-length film, and the first screen depiction of a gay bar (with gay males and butch females); it was also notable for sympathetically portraying homosexuality; the two ill-fated lovers were prominent pianist Paul Korner (Conrad Veidt) and his young music student, Kurt (Fritz Schulz); the film had a tragic ending (suicide for Korner) due to the effects of blackmail (threats of exposure), jail time for violating anti-homosexuality statutes, and the social stigma of being outed; the film was banned by the Nazis and all prints were ordered destroyed, although one incomplete print surfaced in the Ukraine; the film's themes were repeated in Victim (1961, UK), with Dirk Bogarde.
Back to God's Country (1919, Can.) This exploitative melodrama, by actress/writer/producer Nell Shipman (and directed by David Hartford), was probably the most successful Canadian silent feature film; it featured the first full-frontal female nudity of a "star" in the history of cinema (in a nude-swimming scene, although she was covered by a flesh-covered leotard of some kind); it was taglined: "Is the Nude Rude?" - and due to its lurid advertising, it became the highest-grossing Canadian film made during the silent era

Male and Female (1919)
A production by Cecil B. DeMille, this film starred Gloria Swanson as snobby, pampered socialite Lady Mary Lasenby, seen in a half-naked risque bathing scene, and in a dreamy "King of Babylon" flashback as a Christian slave girl in a leopard skin - including her descent into a Babylonian lion's den wearing a dress of pearls and feathers; these kinds of scenes were typical of DeMille's brash and extravagant Biblical epics - an excuse to combine religion with sex

Best and Most Memorable Film Kisses Part 3

Best and Most Memorable Film Kisses Part 3

Film Title
Description of Kiss in Movie Scene
Example
Bloodrayne (2005)
Aggressive Stand-up Kisses
In notorious director Uwe Boll's video game adaptation, a vampire sword-and-sorcery action film, Rayne was the title character in 18th century Eastern Europe -- a beautiful but vengeful half-human, half-vampire Dhampir (Kristanna Loken), whose patriarchal father was evil ruler Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley); in the film, she aggressively seduced Sebastian (Matthew Davis), one of three vampire hunters from the ancient Brimstone Society; she grabbed iron cell-bars that Sebastian was backed up against - and proceeded to kiss and have sex with him, standing up, similar to the scene in The Last Seduction (1994)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Two Cowboy Kisses: First Intimate Kiss and Reunion Kiss
Nervous ranch-hand Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) grew close while herding sheep in the summer on an isolated Wyoming mountain - Ennis rebuffed Jack's daring attempt to kiss him in a tent, but then returned sheepishly with his hat in hand and accepted their first kiss - before their first sexual experience together
Much later in the film during their reunion four years later, the two hugged each other tightly -- Ennis, nervously looking around, then forcefully grabbed Jack and pushed him into a secluded spot by stairs where they kissed hungrily - while Ennis' wife Alma (Michelle Williams) accidentally spied on their embracing passion from above and turned away; this kiss was voted "the best screen kiss of all time" by a 2007 online poll conducted by Europe's DVD rental company LOVEFiLM.com


Kids in America (2005)
Longest Kiss
In Filmsite's selection of memorable kisses, where would the list be without this film? - the story of a teen romance built upon reproducing famous screen kisses, such as the short kiss in the rain in Say Anything... (1989) between John Cusack and Ione Skye, or the birthday kiss in Sixteen Candles (1984), or the red-bikinied Phoebe Cates' poolside fantasy kiss in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); the film ended, and established the world record for the longest on-screen kiss, with an uninterrupted kiss between film-obsessed student Holden Donovan (Gregory Smith) and girlfriend Charlotte Pratt (Stephanie Sherrin) lasting just over six minutes during the end credits, to the tune of Brother Love's "Summertime"; Holden explained how he wanted to recreate the 3-minute and 5-second screen kiss from the film You're in the Army Now (1941) between Jane Wyman and Regis Toomey; to meet his "challenge" and "rewrite a little bit of film history," Charlotte removed Holden's glasses and began the 6-minute kiss with the command: "ACTION"



Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
Sizzling 'Best Kiss'
The romantic and sizzling interplay between co-stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (as assassins John and Jane Smith targeting each other) in this action/comedy consequently led to Pitt's divorce from Jennifer Aniston and his close partnering with Jolie; the film was nominated with MTV's Movie Award for Best Kiss, and lost to Brokeback Mountain's same-sex kiss, for the scene in which their passionate brawl led to violent love-making


Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Modernized Kisses
Additional kissing scenes were added to this changed version of Jane Austen's novel, especially in the schmaltzy sugary ending (in the US-released version with an extended 8-minute sequence) - in which the couple kissed in a moonlit haze of post-nuptial bliss on a terrace as he repeatedly whispered and called her: "Mrs. Darcy... Mrs. Darcy"; in the original book, there was no kissing between Darcy and Elizabeth; in the film, self-involved Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and feisty and outspoken Lizzie (Keira Knightley) met frequently with longing looks and kisses




Extended Scene
V for Vendetta (2005)

Masked Kiss
In this comic book fantasy, the futuristic thriller told about a mysterious, verse-spouting vigilante and anarchistic freedom fighter code-named V (Hugo Weaving) - with a permanent Guy Fawkes mask - and his quest to topple a fascist British government run by Chancellor Adam Sutler (John Hurt); his plan was to blow up Parliament on November 5th, 2020 - the anniversary of Fawkes' execution in 1605; alternatingly protective and cruel, a terrifying, uneasy and inspiring relationship developed between V and his protege - radicalized young TV production assistant Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman) - in the dancing scene in V's secret lair, she kissed his mask

Walk the Line (2005)
On Stage Proposal Kiss
Onstage in the middle of the duet of Jackson between country singer Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon), he stopped the song; he said that he couldn't sing anymore unless she married him; after being together for many years, he apologized to her for saying and doing a lot of things which hurt her, and promised to never do those things again; then he proposed with: "I'm asking you to marry me. I love you, June. Now, I know I said and done a lotta things—that I hurt you—but I promise, I'll never do that again...You're my best friend. Marry me" -- and she agreed by quietly saying "All right" with a slight nod of her head; as they kissed each other, he hoisted her up in his arms and twirled her around


Cashback (2006, UK)
Frozen Time Kiss
In this low-budget British romantic comedy, sketch-art student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) had the ability to freeze time (in his rich fantasy world); in the film's final scene, he showed blonde girlfriend Sharon (Emilia Fox) how time could be stopped during a snowfall, while describing in voice-over his ideas on love: "Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love was. Love is there if you want it to be. You just have to see that it's wrapped in beauty and hidden away in between the seconds of your life. If you don't stop for a minute, you might miss it"; with time-frozen, they kissed each other within the fantastical scene; in contrast, earlier in the film when he experienced his first kiss with Sharon, he described how very awkward it was: "That first kiss - I've always made such a mess of it"

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
A Pirate's Betrayal Kiss
After pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) returned after cowardly fleeing the Black Pearl in a longboat by himself when it was in danger of being crushed by the Kraken - a fearsome giant sea monster with tentacles, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) breathlessly spoke: "You came back. I always knew you were a good man"; as the crew abandoned ship, expecting another attack from the beast, she then seemingly rewarded him for his loyalty by giving him a long, protracted passionate kiss, as they backed him up against the mast of the Black Pearl -- when a click was unexpectedly heard - she had used the kiss to deceptively distract Jack long enough to manacle him to the ship; she knew that the beast only wanted him when she confessed the beast's intentions to him: "It's after you, not the ship. It's not us. This is the only way, don't you see?" She added as she leaned in closer before pulling away: "I'm not sorry." Jack, with a seemingly proud smile on his face and rapt attraction to her, replied: "Pirate" - as if her betrayal claimed further kinship with him



Atonement (2007)

Unbridled Kisses of Love - Misinterpreted
In the library scene, privileged Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and 'secret' boyfriend, servant/cook son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) first physically expressed their unbridled erotic love for each other with passionate kisses and a confession of love. Wearing a green backless dress that was hiked up, Cecilia was awkwardly positioned on a ladder up against a stack of books as they began to make love. They were interrupted by Cecilia's younger, impressionable and mistaken sister Briony (Saoirse Ronan), a budding and imaginative playwright who was so shocked that she subsequently wrongly accused Robbie of 'raping' her young cousin Lola Quincey (Juno Temple) because of sexual misunderstanding - and altered their lives forever

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Young Crush Mistletoe Kiss
Young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) experienced his first kiss in the fifth film of the series with girlfriend Cho Chang (Katie Leung), at Christmastime; she pointed out the mistletoe above them and they enjoyed a simple, prolonged kiss -- afterwards, Harry attempted to describe the kiss to his friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), who asked: "Well, how was it?"; Harry gave a one-word description: "wet"; Hermione asserted: "I'm sure Harry's kissing was more than satisfactory" and then described why Cho was recently sad and crying so much (and not because of the kiss), but because of her deceased boyfriend from the previous film and other issues: "She's feeling sad about Cedric and therefore confused about liking Harry and guilty about kissing him, conflicted because Umbridge is threatening to sack her Mum from the Ministry and frightened of failing her OWLs because she's worrying about everything" - Ron exclaimed: "One person couldn't feel all that. They'd explode"


My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Blueberry Pie/Cream Kiss
At the conclusion of writer/director Wong Kar-wai's debut English-language film, in a very moody scene, soul-searching, love-lorn, broken-hearted loner Elizabeth (singer Norah Jones in her acting debut) after a 300 day road-trip cross-country, was sleeping with her head resting on the counter of a NY cafe where she had started months earlier after the diner's proprietor Jeremy (Jude Law) had kissed her -- now, Jeremy noticed left-over cream from her helping of blueberry pie a la mode below her luscious lips, and came close to kiss her (from a top view), in slow-motion - and she reciprocated this time; in voice-over, she said: "It took me nearly a year to get here. It wasn't so hard to cross that street after all. It all depends on who's waiting for you on the other side," as Norah Jones crooned the tune The Story


Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

"Just Kiss"
During a ferocious sea battle, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) was married by pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) to long-time love Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) on the deck of the Black Pearl amidst swordfights; Barbossa had only seconds to say: "You may kiss...Just kiss"; but a few moments later, Will was mortally stabbed in the heart by tentacle-faced pirate captain Davy Jones (Bill Nighy); Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) was able to stab Jones' heart and kill him (using Will's hand, in order to have Will become his replacement as the Flying Dutchman's immortal captain), allowing Elizabeth and Jack to escape as Will's heart was cut out of his body by his father "Bootstrap Bill" (Stellan Skarsgard) and placed in the chest; Will was reborn and became the new captain of the resurrected Dutchman, destined to sail as its captain (with his father) for eternity; he made love to Elizabeth (now Mrs. Turner) on his one day in 10 years allowed on land before saying a final goodbye and departure, and they promised to see each other again in a decade; Elizabeth promised to keep Will's beating heart safe in the chest ("It's always belonged to you") - and they kissed one last time at the water's edge - he told her: "Keep a weather eye on the horizon"




The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Best Kiss of Their Lives (So Far)
Nuclear reactor worker Homer Simpson (voice of Dan Castellaneta) saved the town of Springfield by throwing a doomsday bomb into an immense dome while driving a motorcycle with mischievous Bart (voice of Nancy Cartwright); after the explosion, he then reconciled with his wife Marge (voice of Julie Kavner), and as he drove out of town with her on his motorcycle, they shared a long, arcing kiss; Marge sighed: "Mmm. Best kiss of my life" - Homer corrected her warmly: "Best kiss of your life so far!" as they drove into the sunset
Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Copy-Cat Upside-Down Kiss
After saving pretty blonde lab partner Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) when Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) caught her falling from a 62-story New York skyscraper during an out-of-control crane building disaster, a "Key to the City" ceremony was held to honor the superhero; during the ceremony, Spider-Man first appeared upside down on the stage - as the crowd encouraged: "Kiss him, Kiss him!"; he agreed and gave Gwen permission: "Go ahead, lay one on me...They'll love it"; she peeled back his face mask and smooched with him - not realizing that the well-publicized kiss would cause a significant rift between him and jealous long-time love Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) in the audience; they had just imitated the famous, very-special kiss from the first film in the series that he had experienced in the rain with her



The Duchess (2008)

Forbidden Kisses
The thwarted happiness of witty and attractive aristocrat Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) who was set up and trapped in an emotionally-distant arranged marriage as the Duchess of Devonshire with callous but regal and powerful Duke of Devonshire William Cavendish (Ralph Fiennes) -- although a faithful spouse, she was unable to produce a male heir (at first) for her philandering husband and found love instead with rising politician and childhood sweetheart Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper); during a secret meeting with him when he noticed that she was upset, he asked: "Would it help to unburden yourself?...Please tell me what is wrong", and she told him: "I fear I've done some things in life too late and others too early" - they kissed; when he apologized for overstepping his bounds, she kissed him a second time more passionately; later, after bearing a son for her husband, she engaged in an extra-marital affair with Charles on several occasions, notably during a vacation (without her husband) at Bath -- rebelling against the double-standard imposed by her loathsome husband who had his own live-in mistress Lady Elizabeth 'Bess' Foster (Hayley Atwell); Georgiana's affair produced a love-child, which she had to give up in the film's most tear-jerking scene



Hancock (2008)

An AllHeart Kiss
In the epilogue of this fantasy super-hero film set in present-day Los Angeles, super-hero Mary Embrey (Charlize Theron) kissed her struggling public relations agent husband Ray (Jason Bateman); although she was an immortal super-hero, she had chosen to be mortal and vulnerable, wishing to "Love, connect, grow old, die"; she had separated from her superhero husband 'John Hancock' (Will Smith) for the last time so that he could continue to save people and lives ("You're built to save people more than the rest of us. That's who you are. You're a hero. The insurance policy of the gods. Keep one alive. You. To protect this world") for she knew that if they were together, they would weaken and die; by a phone call, Hancock revealed that he had been on the moon, painting it with Ray's logo - the "AllHeart Symbol" representing world-changing charitable giving; he called Ray (and family) and told him: "You're gonna change the world. Good job, Ray," as the loving couple kissed in front of the symbol, and Ray asked himself about the defacement: "Will I get in trouble for that?"


Milk (2008)

Gay Kiss
Gay activist and San Francisco's City Supervisor and community organizer Harvey Milk's (Sean Penn) brazen love of life and quest to bring gay rights and support the disenfranchised over a six year period, with an early pick-up scene of closeted corporate NY insurance salesman Harvey meeting up in a subway corridor with one of the future loves of his life -- Scott Smith (James Franco) and proposing to kiss him before he turned 40 (at midnight); he asked: "You're not gonna let me spend my birthday all by myself, are you?" and their almost spontaneous kiss-on-the-lips; they proceeded to Harvey's apartment where they listened to 33 rpm records, drank wine, and ended up in bed where they shared birthday cake together
The Reader (2008)

Underage Kiss
Uneducated, repressed 36 year-old tram conductor Hanna Schmitz (Oscar-winning Kate Winslet) engaged in an erotic, passionate and secret summer-time affair with a 15 year-old virginal German schoolboy named Michael Berg (David Kross, and Ralph Fiennes in adulthood) in post WWII Berlin (1958), after a chance meeting when she helped him as he was suffering from the onset of scarlet fever; a few months later, she bathed him and dried him off, while nude herself, after he had dirtied himself with coal dust in her basement; their first physical encounter was initiated by her as she stood behind him and realized his sexual excitement; she bluntly stated: "So that's why you came back" - she turned him around as he told her: "You're so beautiful"; she asked: "What are you talking about?" and kissed him gently on the lips; she then said: "Look at me, kid" - forever after calling him 'kid'; he eagerly reciprocated the kiss and she instructed: "Slowly, slowly, shh..." as she tenderly kissed him again; in the next scene at his family's dinner table, he was preoccupied in his erotic thoughts, remembering their first sexual intercourse together that afternoon; they would continue having sex on a regular basis, after which he would read literature outloud to her (The Odyssey, Huckleberry Finn, and The Lady with the Little Dog among others)



Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

"This Is Our Destiny" Kiss
In this rags to riches Bollywood-like film, slumdog millionaire Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) expressed a life-long devotion to the female 'third musketeer' in a trio of orphaned children - he eventually rescued the beautiful yet unattainable (until the end) fellow slum orphan Latika (Freida Pinto as teen) - a semi-willing underworld concubine of an underworld gangster; they experienced a fairy-tale ending of a kiss at the train station - when he spotted her across the tracks, he crossed to meet her (with quick flashbacked images of his long journey) - he told her: "I knew you'd be watching" to which she replied: "I thought we'd meet again only in death"; he removed her head covering and noticed the long thin scar she had received from one of her abductors on the left side of her face during an earlier aborted rescue; he lovingly kissed her scar (the film reversed itself and he saw her from above on the train platform before the kidnapping), and then told her: "This is our destiny" (she replied: "Kiss me") before kissing her on the lips; the image freeze-framed and slowly dissolved to black, with choice "D: It is written" superimposed on the screen



Twilight (2008)

Resisting the Deadly Consequences of a Kiss
The strained, teenaged love relationship - unconsummated and one of dangerous attraction - between pale, intrigued and mesmerized 17 year-old new-girl-in-school Isabella ("Bella") Swan (Kristen Stewart) and handsome, icy-to-touch, immortal vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), with their first dramatic kissing scene, in her bedroom, where he often watched her sleep because it was "fascinating" to him; he told her: "I always want to try one thing. Just stay very still. Don't move" - as he slightly gasped, he moved closer and pecked her on the lips -- then she hungrily reciprocated and grabbed his head; they both panted as she fell back on her bed with him on top of her, still kissing; but then he suddenly jumped back and commanded: "Stop it." She apologized: "I'm sorry." He replied: "I'm stronger than I thought," but she felt otherwise: "Yeah. I wish I could say the same." He revealed his major fear: "I can't ever lose control with you." Without sexually consummating their love, he remained with her for the night.
In the final romantic scene of the young couple dancing at their high school prom under an outdoor gazebo, Bella professed her dying love for him, surrendered her neck to him, and they kissed: (Bella: "I dream about being with you forever..." Edward: "Is it not enough just to have a long and happy life with me?" Bella: "Yeah. For now. (voice-over) No one will surrender tonight, but I won't give in. I know what I want").





WALL-E (2008)

Sparking Robot 'Kisses'
There were two kisses between the two odd-couple characters: the title character WALL·E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) (voice of Ben Burtt) - the last lone garbage-compacting robot on Earth, and EVE (short for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) (voice of Elissa Knight), a sleek, white-shelled probe droid-robot from the spaceship AXIOM: (1) their first kiss was in outer space when EVE touched her helmet to WALL-E's binoculars and caused a spark, making him float backwards in ecstasy - the prelude to a spectacular space dance sequence, and (2) in the film's conclusion, a crushed and 'dead' WALL-E (rebuilt by EVE who used his own spare parts collection to reconstruct him) appeared to have lost his acquired sentience, personality and memories, but then remembered who EVE was - after they clapsed 'hands', and she lightly touched her forehead to his (causing a small spark of recognition); WALL-E came to life - then they enjoyed another longer kiss together



Terminator Salvation (2009)

"Second Chance" Death-Row Kiss
In the year 2003 at the Longview State Correctional Facility (in Texas), convicted death-row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), an hour away from a lethal injection, was approached one last time by terminally-ill researcher Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) to sign a consent form, to donate his body for a "noble cause." He would receive a "second chance" at life - believing wrongly that he would help save the "human race." He 'sold' himself to Cyberdyne Systems Genetics Division (in San Francisco) for a single kiss (he mused after the kiss: "So that's what death tastes like"), eventually becoming an advanced T-RIP (Resistance Infiltration Prototype) hybrid machine (but with a human heart and brain). He was summarily executed, without any final words - his last view was Dr. Kogan standing over him.