The Hunger (1983)

The setting is less NYC than some fever dream invented by director Tony Scott (who never met a billowing curtain he didn't like). Still, this modern-day vampire flick contains one classic femme-on-femme seduction: a sex scene between bloodthirsty Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon, getting in too deep.

The 10 best sex scenes in New York movies

Weird, wild and impossibly verbal (how could we ever shut up?), these are the best sex scenes in movies about New York

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Unsurprisingly, when New Yorkers get between the sheets onscreen, the results are intense, neurotic and yappy. (Want transcendent happy sex? Try Paris or Hollywood.) Still, we cherish our homegrown movie sex scenes, painfully awkward though they may be. Here are ten of the most essential NYC couplings.

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