This Isn't a Trick — Hulu's Movie and TV Show Offerings For October Are All a Sexy Treat

You may plan to devote October entirely to terror and gore in honor of Halloween, but if you ever get tired of bingeing slashers and horror flicks, a sexy movie or TV series might serve as a nice change of pace. Scary movies and sexy movies have a lot in common, after all — they both get your heart racing and are likely to leave you a little sweaty by the end. Whether Saw or Hocus Pocus is more your thing, Hulu has plenty of sexy movie and TV show offerings for when you're Halloween'd out, and they're seriously all a treat.

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American Beauty
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American Beauty

What happens when a telesales operative in the midst of a midlife crisis suddenly can't stop looking at his daughter's sexy cheerleader bestie? A family slowly unravels in a majorly dramatic way — and Kevin Spacey has a lot of fantasies about a naked Mena Suvari bathed in rose petals.

When it's available: Oct. 1

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Be Cool
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Be Cool

This crime-comedy film — which was adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1999 novel of the same name — reunites Pulp Fiction costars John Travolta and Uma Thurman for more sexual tension and more iconic dance scenes after Travolta's Chili Palmer moves from directing to the music industry. The best part: the movie that precedes this one, Get Shorty, will also be available on the same date.

When it's available: Oct. 1

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Love Crimes
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Love Crimes

In this sexy thriller, a gorgeous assistant district attorney teams up with a police lieutenant to lure a renowned photographer (and known sexual predator) into her own trap by posing as a repressed schoolteacher — though it eventually seems as though the DA is no longer playing a role, but actually falling in lust.

When it's available: Oct. 1

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Rent
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Rent

A group of amazingly good-looking young people living in the East Village (including Rosario Dawson, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs) struggle to pay rent and experiment with drugs and their sexuality in this scintillating adaptation of the Broadway show.

When it's available: Oct. 1

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Basic Instinct
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Basic Instinct

When a sexy, mysterious crime novelist (played by Sharon Stone) becomes a murder suspect, she decides to seduce the homicide detective (Michael Douglas) to throw him off her trail. Though Ryan Reynolds parodied the famous leg-crossing scene in Deadpool 2, it doesn't do justice to the sexiness of Stone's original move.

When it's available: Sept. 1

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Sliver
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Sliver

Based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name, this erotic thriller revolves around a successful young editor (played by Sharon Stone) who moves into a new building and meets a sexy neighbor (played by William Baldwin), only to learn that he isn't quite as nice and innocent as he seems.

Watch Sliver on Hulu.

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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

In this thriller, Sam Rockwell appears to be nothing more than a TV producer and host at the top of his game, but secretly, he's supposedly a covert assassin working for the CIA (who also happens to be juggling a hot female operative played by Julia Roberts and a sexy free spirit played by Drew Barrymore).

Watch Confessions of a Dangerous Mind on Hulu.

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Step Up
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Step Up

Though this may touch a nerve for anyone who shipped former couple Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, this dance romance about the star-crossed love affair between a disadvantaged street dancer and a privileged modern dancer is still sexy as hell.

Watch Step Up on Hulu.

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The Transporter
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The Transporter

When an ex-Special Forces operator (played by Jason Statham) is recruited to kidnap the daughter of a lethal Chinese crime lord, he thinks it's going to be an easy job — but that's only because he doesn't know that the crime lord's daughter is a feisty, sexy troublemaker played by actress and model Shu Qi.

Watch The Transporter on Hulu.

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The Layover
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The Layover

Admittedly, this movie is pretty ridiculous, but when you have Alexandra Daddario and Kate Upton battling to win Matt Barr while waiting for their plane to take off from St. Louis, you know things are going to get hot.

Watch The Layover on Hulu.

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A Year Ago in Winter
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A Year Ago in Winter

In this sensual German flick, a troubled dancer named Lilli begins an erotic relationship with an artist, Max, whom her mother commissions to paint a portrait of Lilli and her late brother. Definitely not at all complicated.

Watch A Year Ago in Winter on Hulu.

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Desperately Seeking Susan
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Desperately Seeking Susan

In Madonna's first major screen debut, she plays Susan, a mysterious NYC woman whose series of personal ads draws New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) into her world as a voyeur — though Roberta ends up becoming a more active participant than she ever imagined.

Watch Desperately Seeking Susan on Hulu.

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Endless Love
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Endless Love

Based on Scott Spencer's 1979 novel of the same name (as well as the 1981 movie adaption), this predictable but irresistible romance revolves around a privileged teen and a troubled young man, who, following their high school graduation, find themselves falling madly, intensely in love, despite their parents' disapproval and their inevitably different paths.

Watch Endless Love on Hulu.

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Good Luck Chuck
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Good Luck Chuck

Is this movie — which stars comedian Dane Cook as a man cursed to watch every woman he has sex with marry the next man they date — ridiculous? Yes. Is Jessica Alba irresistibly sexy in it? Absolutely yes. Also, shout-out to a young Sasha Pieterse for playing the freaky goth girl who curses Cook's character at a childhood party.

Watch Good Luck Chuck on Hulu.

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Honey 2
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Honey 2

Everyone knows that sequels are never as good as the original (especially when they don't even include the actors from the original movie), but there's no denying that Kat Graham — who plays a formerly incarcerated teen with a passion for dance — is incredibly hot in this one nevertheless. (And don't worry — the original with Jessica Alba is also available to stream.)

Watch Honey 2 on Hulu.

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Into the Blue
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Into the Blue

Four incredibly good-looking young divers (played by Jessica Alba, Paul Walker, Scott Caan, and Ashley Scott) discover a downed airplane full of cocaine while exploring a shipwreck in the Bahamas and find themselves pursued by some angry drug dealers — what more could you want from a movie? (Bonus: you can also watch the sequel right after for a bikini-filled marathon.)

Watch Into the Blue on Hulu.

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The Princess of Montpensier
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The Princess of Montpensier

Even if you're not into period romances, this dreamy French flick — which tells the story of heiress Marie and her love triangle between the Prince of Montpensier (whom she's supposed to marry) and a soldier named Henri de Guise (whom she actually loves) — is still a thrill to watch.

Watch The Princess of Montpensier on Hulu.

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The Rules of Attraction
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The Rules of Attraction

Based on the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, this dark comedy revolves around Sean Bateman (the younger brother of American Psycho's Patrick Bateman) as he and his college buddies experiment with drugs, sex, and music. With a cast that includes James van der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Kate Bosworth, and Jessica Biel, among others, it may just be one of the sexiest casts of all time.

Watch The Rules of Attraction on Hulu.

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Unmade Beds
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Unmade Beds

In this British comedy-drama, a guy from Spain and a woman from Belgium both end up in London to attempt to cope with their own issues, and when alcohol and random hookups don't work, they eventually meet and find their solution in each other.

Watch Unmade Beds on Hulu.

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No Strings Attached
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No Strings Attached

When two longtime friends (Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher) decide to start getting physical without any romantic attachment, it isn't long before the casual sex becomes a lot less casual than they had anticipated.

Watch No Strings Attached on Hulu.

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Young & Beautiful
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Young & Beautiful

In this French drama, a young sex worker begins to explore relationships with men outside of her work, and, damn, does it get sensual.

Watch Young & Beautiful on Hulu.

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Closer
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Closer

In this strange, brutal movie, an American stripper and a London writer (played by Natalie Portman and Jude Law, respectively) fall in love after Portman is hit by a taxi in front of him, and despite the odd start, it turns into a relationship and a novel. Everything seems wonderful, until the writer gets bored and transfers his attention to a gorgeous photographer (played by Julia Roberts).

Watch Closer on Hulu.

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The Lovers
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The Lovers

Set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war over two different time periods and continents, this epic time-travel romance tells the stories of two sets of lovers: a brain-dead marine archaeologist (Josh Hartnett) who was injured saving his wife (Tamsin Egerton) from the wreck of a colonial British East Indiaman in 2020, and a 1778 ship captain who romances a Maratha warrior, whom the archeologist dreams of in his coma.

Watch The Lovers on Hulu.

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Chicago
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Chicago

Based on the musical of the same name, this criminally sexy crime flick follows the unexpected friendship that develops between famous showgirl Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and aspiring vaudevillian Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) after they are both imprisoned for murder and both seek the help of the slick Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) to get them out.

Watch Chicago on Hulu.

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28 Hotel Rooms
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28 Hotel Rooms

Before he was The Mindy Project's sexy Danny Castellano, Chris Messina starred in this indie flick as an unnamed New York novelist who, over the course of several years, finds himself returning again and again to the Seattle accountant (played by Marin Ireland) with whom he casually slept with while traveling for work.

Watch 28 Hotel Rooms on Hulu.

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Secretary
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Secretary

Based on the short story "Secretary" by Mary Gaitskill, this hilariously perverse flick stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a shy, sensitive woman named Lee who becomes the secretary for an eccentric attorney (played by James Spader) and soon finds herself swept into a wild BDSM relationship that eventually blossoms into something like love.

Watch Secretary on Hulu.

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xx/xy
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xx/xy

In this romantic drama, Coles (played by Mark Ruffalo) fulfills a million secret fantasies when he meets college roommates Sam and Thea and manages to romance them both in a wild sexual romp. Though Coles and Sam attempt to begin a relationship, it is only eight years later when he is reunited with Thea that Coles realizes whom he truly harbors feelings for.

Watch xx/xy on Hulu.

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Fifty Shades Freed
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Fifty Shades Freed

In the conclusion to the notorious Fifty Shades trilogy, billionaire Christian Grey and his now-wife, Anastasia, attempt to finally settle into a (somewhat) normal domestic relationship. But of course, these two can never manage to keep things conventional for long, and a dark event from the past suddenly comes to light.

Watch Fifty Shades Freed on Hulu.

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Queer as Folk
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Queer as Folk

This sex-filled series follows the lives of gay men and women in Pittsburgh as they traverse their careers, family dramas, ambitions, and — of course — their complicated love lives.

Watch Queer as Folk on Hulu.

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The Affair
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The Affair

This series follows the forbidden romance between a young diner waitress Alison and an aspiring novelist, telling the story from each of their perspectives (and eventually from the perspectives of their spouses) and showing how memory bias results in very different tellings of how the affair came to be.

Watch The Affair on Hulu.

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The Borgias
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The Borgias

This historical-fiction drama tells the story of the titular Borgias, a family of outsiders from Spain who try to take control of 16th-century Renaissance-era Italy through the use of any means possible, including bribery, extortion, torture, and even murder. Think Game of Thrones, but perhaps even more sex, if that's possible.

Watch The Borgias on Hulu.

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Californication
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Californication

In this series, David Duchovny plays an erratic, hedonistic novelist with a drinking problem who still harbors feelings for his ex but instead drowns his sorrows in all the debauchery and sex that Los Angeles has to offer — and believe us, there's a lot of it.

Watch Californication on Hulu.

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The L Word
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The L Word

This show is Sex and the City with hot LA lesbians, but even better, following the sexual escapades of a group of lesbians and bisexuals questioning their sexuality, hiding their identities, discovering their desires, and sleeping around — oftentimes with each other.

Watch The L Word on Hulu.

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Shameless
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Shameless

Starring the beautiful Emmy Rossum and strangely sexy William H. Macy, this incredibly raunchy and hilarious series follows a woman attempting to keep her life, her relationships, and her five younger siblings together in the South Side of Chicago, while her bumbling alcoholic father continuously wreaks havoc on them all.

Watch Shameless on Hulu.

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The Tudors
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The Tudors

Period pieces may not be your thing, but this Showtime drama (which takes place during the early years of King Henry VIII's reign) delves into the young and lustful monarch's tumultuous relationships with Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, and if you like hot and heavy romances, then we guarantee you'll like this one.

Watch The Tudors on Hulu.