Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sex-scandal"

1. The Good Wife (2009–2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm.

Stars: Julianna Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry

Votes: 83,176

2. Casino (1995)

R | 178 min | Crime, Drama

In Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods

Votes: 566,506 | Gross: $42.44M

3. Wild Things (1998)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.

Director: John McNaughton | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Matt Dillon, Denise Richards

Votes: 131,405 | Gross: $29.75M

4. The Birdcage (1996)

R | 117 min | Comedy

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest

Votes: 101,229 | Gross: $124.06M

5. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Diana must contend with a colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.

Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal

Votes: 292,695 | Gross: $46.37M

6. Disclosure (1994)

R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall

Votes: 54,571 | Gross: $83.02M

7. The Campaign (2012)

R | 85 min | Comedy

An incumbent Representative embroiled in personal scandal faces a no-holds-barred challenge from a naive newcomer funded by two unscrupulous billionaire lobbyist brothers.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott

Votes: 137,242 | Gross: $86.91M

8. The Human Stain (2003)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise

Votes: 32,339 | Gross: $5.38M

9. Scandal (1989)

R | 106 min | Drama, History

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen

Votes: 5,537 | Gross: $8.80M

10. A Very English Scandal (2018)

TV-14 | 56 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his gay ex-lover and forced to stand trial in 1979.

Stars: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge

Votes: 16,379

11. Flack (2019–2021)

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

Robyn, an American publicist working for a cutthroat London PR company that represents troubled celebrities, is adept at keeping her clients' lives appearing in perfect order, while her own falls to pieces.

Stars: Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Sophie Okonedo

Votes: 6,249

12. Wilde (1997)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.

Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle

Votes: 18,170 | Gross: $2.16M

13. Animal Instincts (1992 Video)

R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller

A cop videotapes his wife having various sexual encounters to spruce up their marriage. However, they soon land in hot water when a mobster learns of their marital activities.

Director: Gregory Dark | Stars: Shannon Whirry, Maxwell Caulfield, Jan-Michael Vincent, Delia Sheppard

Votes: 1,785

14. The Front Runner (2018)

R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.

Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Mark O'Brien

Votes: 14,207 | Gross: $2.00M

15. Primary Colors (1998)

R | 143 min | Comedy, Drama

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the United States of America.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates, Larry Hagman

Votes: 30,163 | Gross: $38.97M

16. She Hate Me (2004)

R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama

Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci

Votes: 8,259 | Gross: $0.37M

17. Dev.D (2009)

Not Rated | 144 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After breaking up with his childhood sweetheart, a young man finds solace in drugs. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is caught in the world of prostitution. Will they be destroyed, or will they find redemption?

Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Abhay Deol, Mahie Gill, Kalki Koechlin, Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Votes: 32,325 | Gross: $0.01M

18. Bad President (2021)

90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The devil encourages media personality Donald Trump to run for president of the United States, so he can have a political puppet. But throughout Trump's many gaffes, the devil wonders if he even has a chance of winning.

Director: Param Gill | Stars: Eddie Griffin, Robert Amico, Zang Angelfire, Don Baldaramos

Votes: 4,691

19. Zipper (2015)

R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

A successful family man with a blossoming political career loses all sense of morality when he becomes addicted to using an escort agency.

Director: Mora Stephens | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone, Richard Dreyfuss

Votes: 8,098

20. Slam Dance (1987)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen, Don Keith Opper

Votes: 1,816 | Gross: $0.41M

21. Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Unrated | 205 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

Directors: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas

Votes: 5,068

22. The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019–2020)

352 min | Drama, History

Story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s.

Stars: Sophie Cookson, James Norton, Ellie Bamber, Emilia Fox

Votes: 2,079

23. Untameable (2023)

60 min | Biography, Drama

As Ángel Cristo and Bárbara Rey come together, their marriage soon becomes a million-dollar business, but behind the spotlight, hide drug addiction, gambling and infidelity problems.

Stars: Jaime Lorente, Belén Cuesta, Adriana Torrebejano, Cristóbal Suárez

Votes: 439

24. The Girl (1987)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A chance encounter on the street brings a young schoolgirl and a wealthy middle-aged attorney together. Thus begins an affair that will lift him into the heights of a passionate love and plunge him into the depths of deception and murder.

Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Franco Nero, Bernice Stegers, Clare Powney, Frank Brennan

Votes: 259

25. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)

Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao

Votes: 6,148

26. God Forbid (2022)

TV-MA | 109 min | Documentary

Giancarlo Granda, former pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Hotel, shares the intimate details of his 7-year relationship with a charming older woman, Becki Falwell, and her husband, the Evangelical Trump stalwart Jerry Falwell Jr.

Director: Billy Corben | Stars: Tom Arnold, Michael Cohen, Ted Cruz, Nicole Cunliffe

Votes: 2,332

27. Seduction (1973)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Giuseppe commits to love a woman he hasn't seen in 15 years, amid dangers of seduction from her daughter.

Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Lisa Gastoni, Maurice Ronet, Jenny Tamburi, Graziella Galvani

Votes: 593

28. Paterno (2018 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno becomes embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Al Pacino, Kathy Baker, Kenneth Maharaj, Michael Mastro

Votes: 7,609

29. Reckless (2014)

60 min | Crime, Drama

In sultry Charleston, where summer is long and secrets simmer behind every door, sex and crime walk hand in hand as two adversaries, a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a southern City Attorney... See full summary »

Stars: Kim Wayans, Michael Gladis, Gregory Harrison, Anna Wood

Votes: 3,382

30. In a Wild Moment (1977)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Father takes teen daughter on holiday with friend and his teen daughter. At party, father begins affair with friend's daughter. She wants to reveal relationship, forcing father to choose between truth or deception with friend.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Agnès Soral

Votes: 667

31. Boy Bastos (2022)

116 min | Comedy

Felix is a horny young man who meets an alluring woman that will live at his house and teach him Sex 101.

Director: Victor Villanueva | Stars: Wilbert Ross, Rose Van Ginkel, Jela Cuenca, Andrew Muhlach

Votes: 641

32. The Runner (I) (2015)

R | 90 min | Drama

In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.

Director: Austin Stark | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 5,903

33. The Secrets of Hillsong (2023)

TV-MA | Documentary, Crime

Exploring one of America's most successful megachurches and the investigative reporting that lead to the dismissal of two prominent pastors.

Stars: Carl Lentz, Dan Adler, Alex French, Mike Cosper

Votes: 1,008

34. Too Close to Home (2016–2017)

60 min | Drama

A young woman is forced to return to her trailer-park beginnings after her political career is derailed by a sex scandal.

Stars: Danielle Savre, Kelly Sullivan, Brooke Anne Smith, Brock O'Hurn

Votes: 1,081

35. Public Sex (2009)

TV-MA | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

An aspiring journalist drops his inhibitions to research the UK's outdoor sex scene. He meets a certain girl in a car park, and the totally unexpected happens.

Director: Simon Ellis | Stars: Luke Treadaway, Kate Heppell, Richard Riddell, Sammy T. Dobson

Votes: 631

36. How to Create a Sex Scandal (2023)

TV-14 | 132 min | Documentary, Crime

Follows the story of a peaceful town in Mineola, Texas which was rocked in 2005 when neighborhood kids came forward with alarming information about a pedophile sex ring that operated out of a swingers club.

Votes: 808

37. Eva - Den utstötta (1969)

R | 93 min | Drama

A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and ... See full summary »

Director: Torgny Wickman | Stars: Solveig Andersson, Hans Wahlgren, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Einar Axelsson

Votes: 129

38. A Very British Sex Scandal (2007 TV Movie)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A docu-drama which chronicles the experiences and actions of Peter Wildeblood which eventually led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Great Britain.

Director: Patrick Reams | Stars: Nicholas Le Prevost, Harriet Eastcott, Sam Heughan, Barny Clevely

Votes: 887

39. Home Before Midnight (1979)

111 min | Drama

A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.

Director: Pete Walker | Stars: James Aubrey, Alison Elliott, Mark Burns, Juliet Harmer

Votes: 288

40. Phone (2002)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Investigative reporter Ji-won begins to receive a series of menacing calls. To escape the terrifying and relentless clanging of the telephone, she changes her number and moves out. But the threatening campaign of terror continues unabated.

Director: Byeong-ki Ahn | Stars: Ha Ji-Won, Kim Yu-mi, Woo-jae Choi, Ji-yeon Choi

Votes: 5,305

41. She Will Rise (TV Movie)

Biography, Drama | Pre-production

Follows the rise and fall of former Congresswoman Katie Hill.

Star: Elisabeth Moss

42. Tabloid (2010)

R | 87 min | Documentary, Crime

A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Joyce McKinney, Peter Tory, Troy Williams, Jackson Shaw

Votes: 7,288 | Gross: $0.68M

43. The Girl Next Door (1987)

95 min | Drama, Romance

Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.

Director: Alberto Salvá | Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Flávia Monteiro, Débora Duarte, Sérgio Mamberti

Votes: 231

44. The Invisible War (2012)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Crime

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca, Jessica Hinves

Votes: 7,092 | Gross: $0.07M

45. Marguerite & Julien (2015)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance

An aristocratic brother and sister embrace passion and hope as they flee from society. A story of desire, love and death beyond all morality.

Director: Valérie Donzelli | Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Frédéric Pierrot, Aurélia Petit

Votes: 1,110

46. Role/Play (2010)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A recently outed soap opera actor crosses paths with a recently divorced gay marriage activist, forcing them to confront the price of fame and the fickle nature of celebrity within the gay community.

Director: Rob Williams | Stars: Steve Callahan, Matthew Montgomery, David Pevsner, Brian Nolan

Votes: 1,217

47. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

TV-14 | 106 min | Documentary

Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn

Votes: 4,099

48. Unmasked (1950)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. His latest conquest is a shapely ex-showgirl, Doris ... See full summary »

Director: George Blair | Stars: Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 123

49. Weiner (2016)

R | 96 min | Documentary

An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and today's political landscape.

Directors: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg | Stars: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Jordan Zain Weiner, Barbara Morgan

Votes: 10,546 | Gross: $1.61M

50. Hierankl (2003)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Young student Lene is standing at the train station; she must decide whether to take the train back to Berlin where she lives or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides... See full summary »

Director: Hans Steinbichler | Stars: Johanna Wokalek, Barbara Sukowa, Josef Bierbichler, Peter Simonischek

Votes: 372