This week's essential classic in the TF DVD Club is Mike Hodge's rather brilliant Get Carter - a film so good they made it twice, only much, much worse the second time.

Inspired by the rather risque phone sex between Michael Caine's Jack Carter and his gangster boss' wife, we decided to take a look at other steamy cinematic scenes that swapped the explicit for the erotic, and left almost everything to the imagination...

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

The Film: Debonair businessman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect multi-million dollar heist, until a sexy insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway) picks up his trail… and she always gets her man.

The Scene: Who knew chess could be so sexy? In a scene that plays out the movie in miniature, Dunaway’s Vicki Anderson reduces confident Crown to a bumbling boy with her sultry flirting and seductive manipulation of chess pieces.

Any of you that have seen the remake know that Rene Russo spent much of the film naked as a newborn, but it’s here, fully clothed, that Dunaway shows that being sexy has little to do with gratuitous nudity...

What It Really Means: If you didn’t notice, when she was stroking the particularly phallic bishop, it was Crown’s bishop she was suggestively massaging.

How To Recreate It: Most towns have got one of those giant chess boards, usually outside the local library. Head down there and wait for a sultry seductress to challenge you to game…

And wait, and wait, and… okay just play the hobo who’s been asking you for the past hour. When he starts stroking the bishop suggestively though, it’s probably time to scarper.

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