Distracted By The Sexy / Live-Action Films

• 10 (1979): Dudley Moore is so distracted when a car bearing Bo Derek drives by that he drives right into another car. A police car.
• Advance to the Rear:: Thin Elk is able to ambush Company Q while they're all busy gawping at some women bathing in a nearby river.
• Axe Murdering with Hackley: During the siege on RKS, the female killer manages to avoid being killed by one of the invading victims by showing off a bit of boob to him. She then takes him away to make him not a virgin anymore, which makes him fair game to be killed.
• Back to the Future: When Marty McFly gets distracted by sexy women... while his girlfriend is right next to him. She doesn't seem too bothered, though.
• Bad Boys (1995): Exploited. Some carjackers send a hot girl to distract Mike and Marcus, after which they use their distraction to approach Mike's car and hold them at gunpoint.
• Bad Teacher: Occurs when Elizabeth is seductively dousing herself in water and rubbing herself across a car when trying to raise money.
• Blue Is the Warmest Color: Adèle gets hit with this hard when she sees Emma for the first time while they're passing each other on the street. Adèle's jaw hits the floor and she stops smack dab in the middle of the intersection, and it takes at least two cars honking at her to remind her to get out of the road.
• Born in East L.A.: This old Cheech Marin film had a couple of gags where an especially attractive Latino woman (who was one of Cheech's garage customers in the movie) would make everyone else stop in their tracks and stare whenever she walked past.
• The Break-Up: Gary (Vince Vaughn) is playing a boxing video game. Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) walks over, goes to the fridge, gets a drink and walks back to her room all while naked. Cue the trope.
• Catch Me If You Can: Frank surrounds himself with very attractive flight attendants to get past the cops who are waiting for him at the airport. It works like a charm.
• Chinese Zodiac: Jackie Chan's attractive female assistant distracts some border patrol guards by getting out of her car to ask where the toilet is, showing copious amounts of leg while at it.
• A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song: Luke is momentarily distracted upon seeing Katie naked expect for the door mat she's using to cover herself. He then promptly give her his jacket and proceeds to continuously, if subtly, check her out.
• Cradle 2 the Grave: Attempted at the beginning by Daria during the heist, only the security guard turns out to be gay. Cue Anthony Anderson's character (who is supposed to be just the getaway driver) performing Daria's role. Apparently, the security guard is a chubby chaser.
• "Crocodile" Dundee: A rather serious example. While in the Outback, Sue convinces Mick to let her go out for a walk alone to prove to him that she can. He follows along from a short distance, because he doesn't think it's safe. Eventually, Sue gets a little careless and spellbound by the scenery, and strips down to her thong bathing suit by a pool, and Mick is a little distracted, bumping his head on a branch. (But fortunately not too distracted, as his concern turns out to be truer than he thought; a crocodile tries to grab at her, and he has to leap to her rescue.)
• Desperado: Salma Hayek's character, Carolina, is introduced by having her cause an accident at an intersection while crossing the street. She just smiles and keeps on walking.
• Disclosure: Major plot point. It turns out the false accusation Meredith made against Tom was merely a premeditated distraction to stall him and prevent him from finding out that she changed his specifications on the production line in Malaysia, which sabotaged the Cd-Rom drives due to her incompetence.
• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark: This happens a lot, particularly in her movies. Men will often forget what they are doing just to get a look at Elvira's Navel-Deep Neckline. Some have even died while distracted by her sexiness.
• Ex Machina: Discussed when Caleb asks if Nathan made Ava attractive and programmed her to flirt in order to distract him the way a magician uses his hot assistant to distract the audience. Nathan denies it and instead proposes that sexual attraction gives her reason to interact with humans but later reveals that he made Ava to be specifically attractive to Caleb so she would be better able to manipulate him.
• Fantastic Four (2005): Subverted, where it appears that Reed is staring at Sue in her skin-tight outfit, but then ...
  Reed : Wow! Fantastic! Material made from self-regulating unstable molecules!
• Femme Fatale: This is done to the audience. When Laure is sexing it up with Veronica, she takes the diamond studded "clothing" off and puts it on the ground... and then picks it back up and hands it to Veronica, who slides it behind her butt. Laure then pushes the fake back out to her partner. The director, rather gleefully, points out this all happens in plain view on the camera, but viewers were probably too distracted to notice.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off: When Ferris is running home in a desperate attempt to beat his parents there, he takes a shortcut through a backyard where two women are sunbathing. He stops, walks back and introduces himself.
• A Fish Called Wanda: Barrister Archie Leach is so smitten by Wanda that he leaves his briefcase on top of his car as he drives off.
• Forklift Driver Klaus: A secretary (identified as such in the credits, the only female cast member listed) walking through the warehouse distracts the male workers enough to set off the final series of accidents resulting in the title character's death.
• Get Smart:
  • Even suave super-spies aren't immune to it. In the movie, Dwayne Johnson's Agent 23 is a paragon of what an agent should be. Yet he walks straight into a support pole when the sexy secretary smiles at him.
  • When Max and Agent 99 make the parachute drop into Russia, they are able to go unnoticed by the air marshal on-board because he's busy flirting with a female flight attendant.
  • Agent 99 using the Show Some Leg trick to get into a fancy party uninvited.
• The Girl Can't Help It: Jayne Mansfield's character causes several accidents in a row.
• The Gumball Rally: Has "Emergency Plan Alpha" (played by Linda Vaughn), a very sexy blonde who distracts Franco into pulling over and letting Bannon win the race.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Interesting example of one "sexy" overshadowing another. When Hermione Granger is making her way down to the Yule Ball in a gorgeous gown, Harry's date Parvati Patil notices how beautiful she looks right away, whereas Harry is so distracted by how good his crush (and first choice for the ball) Cho Chang looks, it takes him a minute to actually notice Hermione.
• The Hidden: When the evil alien is pulled over by the cops while wearing a stripper's body, it uses its "assets" to make them drop their guard before opening fire on them.
• Hot Shots! Part Deux: Happens at the beginning where an attractive woman arrives to a Buddhist monastery where Topper Harley is hiding in order to recruit him for a rescue mission. A monk falls into a well while walking and staring at her. Later on, all monks line to up to show off their manliness.
• Ink: Part of the Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts scene involves a teenage skateboarder crashing into another person because he's distracted by the cleavage of a woman bending down to pick up some flowers.
• It's a Wonderful Life. At one point, a nameless background male character turns his head to watch Violet walk and nearly gets hit by a car as a result.
• Jewel Robbery: How the Robber and his henchmen avoid interference with their heist: place attractive blondes on the street corners to distract policemen.
• James Bond: This actually comes up quite a lot, especially invoked with the lead Bond Girl.
  • The Living Daylights. To distract Pushkin's bodyguard after an alarm is sounded, Bond forcibly strips Pushkin's girlfriend to her waist and has her stand topless facing the door as the guard enters. The guard walks in on the now topless woman, allowing Bond to get the drop on him and disable him.
  • It's cranked up in Octopussy, when the title character's all-women circus troupe invades Kamal Khan's palace.
  • Inadvertent versions occur as well — in For Your Eyes Only Bond is able to sneak into a villain's Big Fancy House because one of his guards is secretly making out with one of his Paid Harem girls.
  • In From Russia with Love, the Bulgarians kill a guard who's busy watching the belly dancer instead of doing his job.
  • Special mention must go to Vesper Lynd and her purple dress in Casino Royale (2006). Bond intends for her to enter behind him to distract his opponents from their cards. Instead, due to their Belligerent Sexual Tension up to that point, she decides to enter in plain view right in front of him, distracting him along with everyone else in the casino.
    Rene Mathis: I suppose I don't have to tell you how beautiful you look. Half the people on that table are still watching you.
• Johnny English Reborn: What happened in Mozambique- Johnny is sunbathing in the jaccuzi with a bikini-clad Honey Trap when the president was assassinated.
• Jurassic World: Has Claire making her business shirt less cumbersome by removing her belt, tying up the front of the shirt and rolling up the sleeves so she's better adapted in helping Owen search for her missing nephews through the jungle. As she reveals a lot more skin in doing this, Owen stares at her for several seconds and she gets pretty miffed about it, giving a Death Glare in response.
• Just My Luck: Ashley is doing laundry when Jake takes his shirt off in the other room. She's so distracted that she pours an entire box of detergent into the machine without noticing.
• The Longest Day: In the opening sequence, a pair of French resistance fighters are smuggled past a German checkpoint hidden in a haycart, with a gorgeous woman wearing a skimpy peasant outfit making sure the guards don't pay too much attention to it.
• The Lucky One: Beth is washing dishes when she looks out the window and sees Logan working in the yard. She's so distracted that she's scrubbing the same pot over and over again until her grandma snaps her out of it.
• Man of Steel:
  General Swanwick: What are you smiling about, Captain?
  Captain Farris: I just think he’s kinda hot.
• The Marriage Chronicles: Used as a therapy technique. The three husbands are tasked to write twenty things they love about their wife. Then, the stripper enters. It works on two of the three men.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Captain America: The First Avenger: When Peggy Carter sees Cap's muscular body for the first time, Hayley Atwell completely forgot about filming and quite unintentionally groped Chris Evans' very real (and very impressive) pecs. The directors decided to Throw It In!. A nurse standing in the background can also be seen staring at Cap's chest.
  • Iron Man 2:
    • Natasha Romanoff is changing into her Spy Catsuit in the back of a car, while Happy Hogan tries and fails to ignore what he can see in the rear-view mirror. After nearly crashing, she tells Happy to watch the road, and he makes a heroic effort to ignore the leg that stretches up right across the back window.
    • Also happened for real while filming; apparently, the first time Scarlett Johansson walked onto the set in her Spy Catsuit (which was so tight she was forced to go commando), the film crew mysteriously fell silent.
  • Thor: Darcy Lewis constantly gets distracted by Thor's attractiveness. So does Jane Foster.
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Natasha uses this on one of the pirates, who can't figure out where the redhead came from on a freighter in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron: Wanda Maximoff begins lusting heavily over Vision as soon as he comes to life and she sees he's one naked 6'4" synthezoid. Pietro later catches her continuing to check Vision out as they're gearing up for the final battle and roughly tosses a jacket at her to make her knock it off.
  • Ant-Man: Hope van Dyne doesn't like Scott much in the beginning. That doesn't stop her from checking out his abs though.
  • Captain America: Civil War: Vision starts feeling about Wanda the same way she has since Age of Ultron. His affection towards her becomes so strong he gets distracted when checking if she's okay (and checking her out at the same time) and because of that, when told to incapacitate Sam Wilson, he misses and shoots James Rhodes instead.
  • During the opening flashback fight in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Wenwu faces off against Ying Li, the guardian of Ta Lo. During the fight, the warlord is absolutely entranced by her. The duel ends in a stalemate, and the two would never fight again...
• The Mask: This is why Cameron Diaz's character is sent to meet the nerdy Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carey).
• The Matrix: Has one of the most memorable examples in the "Woman in the Red Dress" scene. Morpheus and Neo are walking in a crowded part of the Matrix while Morpheus is instructing him that they can't trust anyone still plugged into the system. Neo is distracted by a gorgeous woman who strolls by in a red dress, and when Morpheus asks if he was paying attention and Neo looks back at her, she's turned into an agent about to kill him. Morpheus freezes the program, reveals it to be a test, and points out the message: Agents can be anyone.
• Memoirs of a Geisha: Has a scene with the Mameha (Michelle Yeoh) teaching the protagonist, Sayuri (Zhang Ziyi) that a true geisha can stop a man with her eyes. She demonstrates and then asks Sayuri to do so, which Sayuri does to a passer by riding a bicycle, causing him to crash.
• Mirror, Mirror: Prince Alcott keeps getting robbed and his clothes stolen. Snow White stares at him the first time. The Queen eventually screams, "Oh my God, can someone please get this man a shirt so I can concentrate!" Prince Alcott also gets distracted by Snow White in a lovely dress.
• The Naked Gun: In the second film, Frank fights an assassin who has come to kill Jane (who is in the shower). She hears the ruckus and pulls open the shower curtain to see what's up, whereupon both Frank and the Assassin stop in mid-grapple to stare.
• National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets: Riley Poole is holding a bag full of indiscriminate (but obviously breakable) objects when a pretty girl walks by and asks for his autograph. He's so excited that he's finally recognized as himself (rather than as The Lancer to Ben), and a girl is actually paying attention to him, that he drops the bag immediately.
• Neighbors: Mac notices that Kelly can't help but check out Teddy in his tank top.
• On the Buses films:
  • While driving his bus in On the Buses, Stan sees a girl washing her car with her knickers visible and honks his horn at her. While doing so, he unknowingly drives through a puddle and soaks Blakey.
  • In Mutiny on the Buses, Sandra bends over and gives Blakey a good view of her knickers to distract him during the darts tournament.
  • In Holiday on the Buses, the sight of Joyce's bare breasts causes Stan to lose track of what he is doing, and he nearly drives into a car that has the right of way.
• Pitch (2009): Belial distracts Jim from the task at hand by playing a fantasy of his high school crush. Jim manages to throw off the fantasy, but loses precious time because of it.
• Police Academy: The gym is a dangerous place to be while Callahan is working out.
• Rafiki: Kena is often shown unable to look away from Ziki, who's beautiful, before they become a couple.
  Ziki: I've noticed the way you look at me.
• Rat Race: The brothers Duane and Blaine drive beside a pair of punk girls and one of them is heavily pierced. Blaine, who's driving, shows her his own piercings. She tops him by opening her shirt, revealing two nipple rings attached to chains that go down below. Duane and Blaine are both awe-struck, but while Duane gets over it, Blaine is so distracted that he veers off the road and into a monster truck rally.
• The Replacements: Because the Sentinels' cheerleaders are almost all strippers, during their second game, the cheerleading squad breaks into an incredibly sexy and over the top dance sequence, which distracts the opposing team, and the referee, and results in the entire team being called for a penalty.
• RoboCop (1987) provides a female-on-male example as Murphy and Lewis pursue a gang of crooks. Lewis catches one criminal urinating in a corner and holds him at gunpoint. He smugly puts his hands up and turns around (without pulling up his pants). Even though Lewis knows he's trying to distract her, she can't resist taking a peek downward. As soon as she does, the crook knocks her gun away.
• So Fine: A trailer for this movie about someone who invented bottomless jeans, solely featured the various accidents befalling men who saw a woman walking down the street in them.
• A Song Is Born: The professors have this problem around Honey Swanson.
• Starsky & Hutch: Starsky and Hutch get very distracted while they're questioning a sexy cheerleader, for the very good reason that she strip naked before them, ready to take a shower. Their questions, the few they manage to mumble anyway, get farther and farther away from the investigation, including "What's your weight?"
• Superman III: The slapstick opening credits are sparked off by someone ogling a super-hottie. And Disaster Dominoes, down they go.
• The Sweetest Thing: Cameron Diaz looking for a lipstick in a moving car causes a biker to crash.
• Swordfish: After Stanley sees Ginger bathing topless, he bumps into a table when he leaves.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014): Vernon, when struggling to control a speeding 18-wheeler down a steep mountainside. April leans out the window to try and capture footage of the Turtles fighting the Foot Clan, with her butt end prominently displayed.
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Early in the film, an unnamed woman was subjected to a Marilyn Maneuver courtesy of a misplaced grate... which leads to a massive car pile-up. That lasts for six minutes onscreen.
• Undercover Brother: Parodied when Undercover Brother is fighting with two mooks while White She-Devil and Sistah Girl are duking it out. When the cat fight turns into clothes-tearing and ends up in the shower, not only do the three men stop fighting, they set up seats and popcorn.
• Under the Skin: An alien disguised as Scarlett Johansson drives around picking up men and taking them back to her place. They seem to be so distracted by the thought of performing a lewd act with her that they fail to notice that they are in a black void room. When the floor starts to swallow them up, it's too late.
• Vengeance! (1970): The protagonist (on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge for his brother, as the title states) and his Hooker with a Heart of Gold girlfriend would team up in assassinations, with her flirting with mooks or distracting enemy guards so he can sneak in and kill off his intended targets.
• Wargames: David can escape his holding cell because the guard is coming onto the secretary.
• Weekend at Bernie's: Shortly after Bernie's death, a young, blonde, busty woman comes into his house wearing a teeny bikini and asks the two male protagonists if they've seen Bernie. (She wants to know if the beach party is still on.) She has no idea that they - and the audience, most likely - are staring at her. (They clearly aren't used to beachgoers who dress like that.)
• We're the Millers: This is how Rose manages to get the drop on Pablo and save her "family" from being executed.
• What Planet Are You From?: A woman walks into a bank wearing a white dress that looks like a net, making her underwear visible. The employees start tripping and bumping into things.
• Working Girl: Harrison Ford completely distracts all women present whenever he walks through a scene. Needless to say this is completely believable.
• X-Men: Apocalypse: Charles Xavier can hardly think straight when he meets Moira MacTaggert again, and this is Played for Laughs.

• Played for Laughs in The Last Jedi. During an otherwise tense sequence, Rey uses her Force bond with Kylo Ren to demand an answer as to why he killed Han Solo. She trails off as she realizes that she barged in on Kylo in his chambers .... Shirtless. She is noticeably flustered throughout the scene.
  Rey: Have-- have you got a cowl or something-- anything you can put on over that?!
• Siren (2010): While driving, Ken is distracted by Rachel's legs (and higher) exposed by her skirt, to the point that he almost collides with a truck coming the other direction.
• Invoked by Marian in The Music Man; she realizes that Charlie (the traveling salesman who wants to expose Harold Hill) is attracted to her, so she tries to keep his attention on her until he runs out of time to do anything but catch his train. (Unfortunately, Charlie decides that exposing Hill is more important than making his train.)
• At a crucial moment in Tower Heist, Manuel distracts the security team by showing them a copy of French Playboy featuring one of the tenants.
• In Bank Shot, Streiger is showing his team some old surveillance footage of Ballentine. The camera temporarily loses Ballentine when it swings away from him to focus on the cleavage of the woman walking next to him.
• This is a weakness of Ken's in King of Thieves. While keeping lookout during the burglary, he is distracted by a woman in her lingerie in one of the buildings opposite. Later, when leaving the pool, he turns to follow the ass of an attractive woman walking past.
• Done deliberately by the eponymous villain in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, who has his Robot Girls attracting the attention of their Honey Pot targets with a Conspicuous Trenchcoat worn over a skimpy gold bikini.
• In The Car: Road to Revenge, the cop assigned to watch Daria's house is distracted by the sight of her undressing in front of a window. The point where she notices him and draws the curtain is the point where he is grabbed by the gang and has a drill shoved through his skull.
• In The Great Bank Robbery, Lydia rides up to the bank as a distraction on horse whilst nearly fully naked, her only coverings behind small flowers over her nipples and crotch.
• In Seven (1979), Jenny slowly strips to reveal her bikini, and then bends provocatively over the engine of her pickup at the gas station to distract Kimo's mooks so they don't notice what Cowboy is doing to their car. It works.
• In Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent, Kurt runs over Becky because he is looking down at Ashley's ass as she bends over the beer cooler.
• Graduation: When Carl comes back to the bank to return the keys to Polly, he gets distracted by Suzie at the front counter and stops to flirt with her: oblivious to Polly frantically gesturing to him from her father's office.
• In Hot Spur, the first of O'Hare's men to enter the mining shack is distracted by the naked form of Susan hanging by her wrists. As he attempts to untie her, Carlo throws a knife into his back.
• In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted are in Bill's room studying. Bill's stepmom Missy brings them some snacks. Bill's dad sees them and comes in, asking how the studying is going. Bill straight up tells his dad that they're going to fail. Bill's dad, looking at Missy's butt, can only respond "Great." Then he pays Bill and Ted to leave the room so he and Missy can get it on.
• In Just One of the Guys, Terry poses as a high school boy and winds up handing out towels in the locker room. She is clearly interested in what she sees.
• Keeping Up with the Joneses: Karen talks about being with Natalie in her underwear then pretends she fell for her to distract Scorpion so that she can pass a knife over.
• In Beach Party, Rhonda stretches in a bikini to distract male surfers so they wipe out.
• During the opening credits of Hunk, two beautiful women crossing the road as so distracted by Hunk that they collide with each other.
• The Archer:
  • Rebecca distracts Michael while she's doing her punishment detail cleaning the floor by doing this with her breasts rubbing against it while wet, so that Lauren can sneak into the office and make a call (phone privileges being restricted).
  • Lauren later acts like she'll have sex with Michael in return for leniency from another punishment, distracting him so she and Rebecca can escape.
  • More positively, Lauren and Rebecca are distracted from Bob returning home because they're in the shower at the same time and are starting to get feelings for each other.
• The Hour of the Pig: Albertus, the village priest, briefly does a double take as a nude nun walks past him in the bathhouse (just as he was discussing which people one shouldn't view naked per the Bible), greeting her and then crossing himself.
• The Big Clock: When the elevator stops at the floor of Styleways fashion magazine, all of the men inside lean forward to ogle the models in the office. Later, one of the witnesses cannot give more than a vague description of George because he was too focused on 'the beautiful blonde' (Pauline York) who was with him.
• Rosaline: Rosaline tries to plead with Dario to help her fix things, but can't eloquently do so because he's not wearing a shirt.
• Doctor in Trouble: When the Master-at-Arms is chasing after Dr. Burke, he briefly stops to admire Eve in a bikini.
• Lost in a Harem: Invoked when Prince Ramo has Hazel seduce his uncle Nimativ so Peter and Harvey can steal his hypnotic rings. Nimativ has a thing for blondes, which is why Ramo chose Hazel specifically for the job.

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