Awards-winning porn movies

Watch award-winning porn movies on ERIKALUST. From AVN and XBIZ wins to feminist and niche festival honors, we offer erotic films acclaimed for performance, storytelling, and craft.

Porn movies can be artistic, ethical, and critically acclaimed. Over the last two decades, adult cinema has evolved far beyond outdated stereotypes, with prestigious awards now recognizing excellence not only in explicit performance but also in storytelling, cinematography, diversity, consent, and authentic pleasure. Today, award-winning films in the adult industry stand alongside independent and arthouse cinema, proving that erotic storytelling can be both arousing and culturally meaningful. We have the best award-winning porn films for you to enjoy.

• We create films directed by Erika Lust but also by talented collaborators. We also offer films we love.

At the center of this selections stands Erika Lust both as a visionary director and as the creative force behind a brand that produces and selects the best of the adult industry.

Our brand functions as an arthouse platform where new voices and emerging talent are nurtured. For over twenty years, this body of work has consistently challenged industry norms while redefining what awarded films in adult cinema can look like.

Awards exist to highlight innovation, quality, and cultural impact, and Erika Lust, as director, has been at the forefront of this movement from the very beginning. Both the brand ERIKALUST and Erika Lust herself have received international recognition for artistic excellence, ethical production practices, feminist leadership, and cultural relevance. These accolades reflect a career built not only on desire and fantasy but also on values such as respect, consent, and representation.

The Impact of Award-Winning ERIKALUST cinema

Our brand has played a defining role in shaping art porn, ethical porn and feminist porn, prioritizing performer well-being, transparent consent practices, inclusivity, and genuine pleasure on screen.

Beyond entertainment, our films have contributed to broader conversations around sexual wellness, adult sex education, and diverse representation. By portraying sexuality as communicative, respectful, and empowering, ERIKALUST porn content avoids harmful narratives and invites viewers to engage with erotic content in a more conscious and informed way. This approach proves that adult cinema can be both deeply arousing and socially responsible.

Across international festivals and major industry awards, ERIKALUST as a company has received 54 award wins to date (2025), recognizing excellence in directing, writing, cinematography, performances, and individual scenes. In addition to these wins, the catalogue has earned multiple official selections and four honorable mentions, demonstrating consistent critical acclaim across major platforms, including AVN, XBIZ, XMA, and leading international film festivals. This sustained recognition underscores the long-term artistic impact and industry relevance of the brand.

For us, awards are more than trophies. They are markers of cultural dialogue, evidence that cinema, sexuality, and social values can evolve together. Each nomination and win reflects a commitment to creating award-winning films that honor pleasure, ethics, and creativity. As the industry continues to change, ERIKALUST porn Films remains a benchmark for what award-winning adult cinema can achieve.

The following awards and festivals represent real benchmarks of quality, influence, and leadership within the adult film world.

From major industry institutions that set professional standards, to values-driven awards that recognize ethical and inclusive filmmaking, and finally to niche festivals that define innovation within genres like kink and fetish, each of these honors signals a different but equally important form of impact. Together, they show how adult cinema can be evaluated not only by popularity, but by craft, vision, and cultural relevance.

Major Industry Awards

• AVN Awards
  Often referred to as the “Oscars of the adult industry,” the AVN Awards represent the highest level of mainstream industry recognition for films, performances, and technical excellence.

• XBIZ Awards
  The XBIZ Awards are one of the most respected professional benchmarks in adult entertainment, recognizing both creative achievement and industry leadership.

• XMA Awards
  The XMA Awards focus on cinematic quality and innovation, highlighting excellence in directing, writing, acting, and production design.

Cultural and Values-Driven Awards received by ERIKALUST

• Feminist Porn Awards
  The Feminist Porn Awards honor ethical production, consent, diversity, and authentic representation, making them a key cultural reference point beyond commercial success. The Toronto International Porn Festival was launched as an evolution/rebranding of the Feminist Porn Awards starting around 2016

Niche and Specialist porn Film Festivals

• CineKink
  CineKink is one of the most respected kink-focused film festivals worldwide, known for its rigorous curation and strong credibility within the fetish and BDSM communities.

• Orgazmik Zürich
  Orgazmik Zürich celebrated erotic cinema made for couples and adult audiences, valuing intimacy, narrative, and emotional realism.

• Fetisch Film Festival
  This festival is a key European platform for fetish and alternative sexuality films, rewarding boldness and genre innovation.

International Erotic Film Festivals

• Venus Fair Berlin
  Venus Berlin is one of Europe’s largest erotic industry events, where awards signal strong international visibility and market relevance.

• Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival
  This festival highlights auteur-driven erotic cinema and screenplay craftsmanship, especially within European film traditions.

These are only some of the festivals we have been part of. Now that you know what it is about, we will share with you some of our biggest triumphs.

If you’re wondering where to watch our award-winning films, you’re in exactly the right place. Below you’ll find a curated guide to the most awarded ERIKALUST films, based purely on award wins, including wins for films, performances, directing, writing, and individual scenes.

Each title listed here is available to watch, and each has earned recognition for a clear reason. Think of this as your guide to why these films won and why they’re worth watching.

Primary S3

Written and directed by Casey Calvert, Primary is a ERIKALUST original series that explores diverse and authentic modern-day relationships through bisexual sex stories, threesome scenes and groupsex.

• XMA Award – Best Screenplay (2024)
  AVN Award – Best Director (Casey Calvert, 2024)
  XMA Award – Best Supporting Actress (Victoria Voxxx, 2024)
  AVN Award – Best Supporting Actress (Victoria Voxxx, 2024)
  AVN Award – Best Screenplay – Movie or Limited Series (2024)

Ashford Manor

In a playful homage to the work of Jane Austen, set in the Recency Era, Ashford Manor follows Annabel (Nicole Kitt) and her friend Beatrice (Jasmine Tea) as they pursue love and sexual awakening. This is another original ERIKALUST series. It is directed by Inka Winter.

• XMA Award – Best Art Direction (2024)
  XMA Award – Best Actress – Lead (Nicole Kitt, 2024)
  AVN Award – Best Cinematography (2024)
  
  Going Up

It's the opening night of "The Voices Are Loud," the edgiest play the Curtis Theater Group has mounted in its 27-year history. The house is sold out. It's a few hours until the curtain. Everything is set... until it isn't. Chaos reigns, and the clock is ticking as the cast and crew do everything they can to keep the show from falling apart. Going Up is a queer porn Lust Cinema original series directed by Casey Calvert.

• AVN Award – Best Release (2023)
  XBIZ Award – Feature Movie of the Year (2023)
  AVN Award – Best Leading Actor (Seth Gamble, 2023)
  

Five Hot Stories For Her

Written and directed especially for women and couples, Five Hot Stories for Her is Erika’s first feature-length work. A compilation of five modern, intelligent, erotic vignettes, this was the film that put Erika on the map as a new leader in adult films for women and served as a direct challenge to the mainstream industry. With some of the finest storytelling in explicit film with beautiful shot BDSM sex scenes, Five Hot Stories for Her rightfully launched Erika’s career into the spotlight and is still one of the cornerstone classics of good porn.

• Feminist Porn Award – Movie of the Year (2008)
  Eroticline Award – Best Adult Film for Women (Venus Fair Berlin, 2007)
  Ninfa Award – Best Spanish Screenplay (Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, 2007)

Handcuffs

Handcuffs is a short film directed by Erika Lust, based on a real experience, shot in the darkly chic Coppelia bar of Barcelona. The camera follows a kinky couple portrayed by Natalia Paris and Paco Roca, who don't realise that a curious voyeur is following their every exhibitionist move...Or do they?

• Feminist Porn Award – Sexiest Short Film (2010)
  CineKink – Best Experimental Short Film (2010)
  Cupido Filmpris – Winner (Norway, 2012)

Cabaret Desire

A Madame introduces each client to a lady or gentleman, who will take them deep into a world of evocative recitation. Words flow gently as desire smoothly invades every inch and every crevice. This is a roleplay sex film directed by Erika Lust.

• Feminist Porn Award – Movie of the Year (2012)
  CineKink Audience Choice Award – Best Narrative Feature (2012)
  Orgazmik Award – Best Film (Couples) (Zürich, 2011)
  

Sorrow Bay

• Directed by Casey Calvert, and also starring Aiden Starr, nothing is exactly as it seems in this lesbian porn Lust Cinema Original adult thriller. This visit to Sorrow Bay is spooky, scary, and very sexy.

• AVN Award – Best Supporting Actress (Kira Noir, 2023)
  XBIZ Award – All-Girl Movie of the Year (2023)
  

XConfessions Vol. 1

• The first collection of Erika Lust’s prolific XConfessions series, Ten short films, handpicked from the dirtiest works and the forbidden fantasies anonymously submitted to XConfessions.com.

Feminist Porn Award – Hottest Straight Vignette Series (2014)
Fetisch Film Festival – Best Feature-Length Film (Germany, 2014)

XConfessions Vol. 2

• 10 erotic stories are portrayed in this film directed by Erika.

• Feminist Porn Award – Hottest Straight Vignette Series (2015)
  

We Are The Fucking World

This porn documentary film features 9 performers, including Trans, non-binary, queer and cis-gendered people. Olympe de G., the fantastically popular Guest Director directed this for Erika Lust, adding a delicious dose of diversity and truly open, accepting, and beautiful pleasure

• Feminist Porn Award – Most Tantalizing Trans Short (Toronto International Porn Festival, 2018)

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