Can't afford a trip to Venice? Helsinki too far-flung for your remaining vacation days? That's no reason to deny yourself eclectic erotic thrills. Get thee to a video store and rent a DVD featuring hot sex (or a stunning recreation thereof) in strange lands.

 

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Butter, apparently, is not just for toast.

 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Daniel Day Lewis with a faraway gaze… and an erection in Prague. Oh yes, Lena Olin is in there, too.

 

37°2 le matin (akaBetty Blue, 1986)

The movie opens with Beatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade going at it like crazy in France. And there's more where that came from.

 

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

One older woman (Well, 28) gives two younger boys some sexual schooling in Mexico

 

Kissed (1996)

OK, Molly Parker is doing it with dead bodies but give us something else sexy from Canada and we'll step aside.

 

Porky's (1982)

Oh! Here's something else from Canada. Kim Cattrall and whoever that guy was getting nasty in the locker room.

 

Lucía y el sexo (aka Sex and Lucia, 2001)

Spanish waitress hits the Balearic Islands with sex on her mind and little on her bosoms.

 

Summer Lovers (1982)

Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen have the ultimate threesome amid the whitewashed villas and blazing sky of the Greek Islands.