English-language sex comedy-drama films

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

1960 film directed by Billy Wilder

1967 film by Mike Nichols

2008 film by Michael Patrick King

Superbad is a 2007 American coming-of-age teen buddy comedy film directed by Greg Mottola, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and produced by Judd Apatow. It stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as Seth and Evan, two teenagers about to graduate from high school. Before graduating, the boys want to party and lose their virginity, but their plan proves harder than expected. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (in his film debut), Rogen, Bill Hader, Martha MacIsaac, and Emma Stone (in her film debut) provide supporting roles.

2009 film by Ken Kwapis

2013 film by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

2010 film directed by Michael Patrick King

2010 American film by Edward Zwick

2008 film directed by Nicholas Stoller

1997 film directed by Kevin Smith

2005 film directed by Duncan Tucker

2003 film by Denys Arcand

2009 film directed by Nancy Meyers

2015 American film directed by Gregory Jacobs

2004 film by Charles Shyer

2002 film by Bob Gale

1966 British film by Lewis Gilbert

2002 film by Roger Avary

Shortbus is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in an early 2000s New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspired by various underground NYC gatherings that took place in the early 2000s. According to Mitchell, the film attempts to "employ sex in new cinematic ways because it's too interesting to leave to porn." Shortbus includes a variety of explicit scenes containing non-simulated sexua

2012 film by Ben Lewin

1971 film by Mike Nichols

1975 film by Hal Ashby

2002 film by Steven Shainberg

2000 film prequel of Cruel Intentions directed by Roger Kumble

1969 film by Paul Mazursky

2009 film by Miguel Arteta

1994 film by Andrew Fleming

2012 film by Nicholas Stoller

2023 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

Pillion is a 2025 romantic dark comedy drama film written and directed by Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who start a BDSM relationship.

2022 film directed by Sophie Hyde

1986 film by Denys Arcand

1967 film by Vittorio De Sica

1970 film directed by Frank Perry

1983 film by Lewis John Carlino

2007 film by Eric Amadio

1994 film directed by John Duigan

2004 film by Spike Lee

1982 film by Boaz Davidson

1971 film by Roger Vadim

2019 film by Karen Maine

1960 film by Henry Levin

2014 film by Barry Levinson

1994 film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti

2002 film by Dylan Kidd

2017 film directed by Brian Crano

2007 film by Martin Gero

2015 film by Will Slocombe

2016 film by Kevin Pollak

1963 film by Norman Taurog

2019 film by Richard Wong

1989 film by Randal Kleiser

2012 film by Sean Garrity

2010 film by Keith Bearden

1987 film by Alan John Clarke

1997 film by Stuart Urban

1975 film by Ken Hughes