3. Bound (1996)
Before The Wachowski Brothers entered The Matrix, the writing-directing duo made their debut with this funny, tense and sexy neo-noir. Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, the seemingly ditzy girlfriend of a mobster; Gina Gershon plays Corky, the maintenance woman in their apartment building who just got out of prison. Violet's attraction to Corky is instantaneous, and eventually the two cook up a scheme to steal $2 million in stashed cash from Violet's boyfriend. A ridiculous amount of contrived meetings and flirting leads to an intense – but artfully photographed – love scene between the two women.