One siren poster features Jane Fonda as "Barbarella" in the 1968 erotic science-fiction film.

WSJ: Posters of the Big Screen

He now offers this fictionalized, leeringly erotic, self-justifying drama about the making of that film.

NEWYORKER: Exterminating Angels

She also worked with Kate Winslet on the 1999 film Holy Smoke and Meg Ryan in the 2003 erotic thriller In the Cut.

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Many argue that the way that the erotic has moved into mainstream bookshops is merely another example of the lengths publishers and film makers will go to dress up sex, and then sell it.

ECONOMIST: Erotica