Sexiest lesbian and gay love scenes on Netflix Instant

Sexy takes on many forms — physical, intellectual, artistic. Netflix Instant has some amazing demonstrations and, since sexy is subjective, here’s a rounded list to capture a few for your consideration.

High Art (1998) 

The ladies: Syd is a young, underappreciated editor’s assistant at Frame, a magazine dedicated to photography. Lucy is a once-famous photographer who left the industry inexplicably and now lives a low key life in the same building as Syd.

The atmosphere: In an underlit apartment in New York City littered with snapshot photography and dust-clouds of heroin, the former photographer opens her door to find a fresh-faced neighbor who’s investigating a leak in the building. The attraction isn’t instant; it has that slow build that makes you want to physically press the two together before long. The dark, gritty themes surrounding Lucy’s life juxtaposed with the ambition and lightness in her seductress (Syd, yes) is a push-pull continuum that makes for some intense ground that you need to break.

Keep the Lights On (2012)  

The guys: Erik is a Danish filmmaker who’s fallen for Paul, an American attorney and secret drug addict. Together, they’re a combustible couple both emotionally and sexually, whose on-screen chemistry doesn’t feel forced.

The atmosphere: With diffused lighting capturing the bright lights/big city scene, “Keep the Lights On” is another arty installment for the instant queue. The film is rife with hooking up, and an angsty emotional current of rejection and insecurity infuses the scenes with an angry grudge-romp element that most of us won’t admit to liking in real life.

The L Word (2004-9)  

 “Jenny and Marina’s Bathroom Break“  

The ladies: Jenny is a young writer who’s just come to Los Angeles to be with her boyfriend and start her career when she finds herself being (not unwelcomely) eyeballed by the powerfully sexy (and Italian) Marina, a lesbian who is also attending the neighborhood soiree.

The atmosphere: The downtempo electronica, the flawless skin and sparkling eyes, the body language drenched in “I want” — the tension must go somewhere. After scintillating and alluring close-ups of the ladies’ eyes and lips as they wax poetic on an author they both take pretty seriously, we’re riding shotgun in the taxi to Grindtown for the first of many chemistry-laden pairings in the series.

Room in Rome (2010)  

The ladies: Two women (who’ve probably modeled at some point in their lives) can’t seem to get enough of one another in a sex-fueled fest of seduction, classical art, abs, nipples, and intense bonding.

The atmosphere: Natasha is into guys, but that doesn’t stop Alba from seducing the everlovin’ freak out of her. In a hotel room steeped in Rome’s … well, romanticism, the duo make use of every bit of the beautifully toned anatomy their Mama gave ‘em. Because Natasha is Russian and Alba is Spanish, there’s plenty of music and sexuality in their voices alone, but combined with the notion that this film didn’t need a wardrobe budget (it’s just skin everywhere, holy cow), you’ve got a film that’s definitely one to watch with someone you yourself might want to get a room with.

Weekend (2011)  

The guys: Russell and Glen are two fast-talking, good-looking Englishmen whose one-night stand felt too right to end, which may or may not be a bad thing: Glen is moving to America in a week.

The atmosphere: “Weekend” shows the intimacy of someone discovering “the little things” about his new lover and explores the intricacies of two men getting to know each other — an element that gay male cinema has so often glossed over on its way to bigger themes. “Weekend” works up the sexy in their handsome leads with pacey, believable dialogue, and incredibly risque sex scenes that don’t let an R-rating keep much from the imagination.