Love Potion / Live-Action Films

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• Batman & Robin: Poison Ivy's pheromones. One whiff and the victim falls helplessly in love with her.
• Comin' Round the Mountain: Wilbert is provided with one to win Dorothy over after she falls for a Winfield with a similar background to her (having moved up north and only returned home for a visit), only for he and Matt to accidentally drink it and each fall for the first person of the opposite gender they see (Matt and Al, respectively). Hilarity Ensues; fortunately, it wears off before any wedding goes off. Later, Devil Dan accidentally gets a dose, and promptly falls for Wilbert, though in his case it ends up triggering only friendship and brotherly love until it wears off.
• In The Craft, Sarah puts Chris under a love spell after he pretended to be interested in her, but turned out to just be an asshole instead. It works fine at first, until Chris becomes so enamored with Sarah that he starts stalking her, culminating in a date rape attempt. Nancy then kills him in retaliation.
• Crush: Chantal, a Wiccan girl at the school, has tried to cast love spells multiple times on Paige, but they don't work. Turns out the spell was for Paige and AJ, i.e. to get them together.
• In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, It's revealed that Queenie has dosed Jacob with a love potion; not to make him love her, as he already does, but to convince him to marry her, which he has refused to do since it's illegal in the United States for a witch or wizard to marry a No-Maj and he doesn't want her to get into trouble for his sake.
• In the movie (later, the MST3K episode) Hercules Unchained, the "Waters of Forgetfulness" are used by an evil queen to enslave Hercules and make him think she is his wife. He catches on to the ruse later, thanks to his trusty sidekick Ulysses, who manages to secretly spill the magical water anytime someone tries giving it to Hercules.
• In two other Hercules-based movies featured on MST3K, evil queens try slipping love potions to The Big Herc, only by this time he's become smart enough to spill them or spit them out. He then only pretends to be affected by them.
• In I Married a Witch, Jennifer prepares one for Wally so she can break his heart (she's evil), but she winds up drinking it by accident. Cue High-Heel–Face Turn.
• Jasminum: Natasza makes perfume that works as love potion. It has to be made for a specific couple, though.
• The 1992 Sandra Bullock movie Love Potion #9 takes a different tack from the song of the same name. The "potion" makes (temporary) changes to the voice of the person who takes it such that anyone of the opposite sex hearing them speak is attracted to them - and willing to do anything they ask (and makes members of the same sex hate them just as much). Larger doses escalate the effect dramatically, as the villainess discovers when she consumes undiluted potion (it's supposed to be diluted 1:1000 in water), inadvertently creating a Thundering Herd of men following her after she chugs it.
  • The above effects are not from the eponymous #9 potion, but from #8. The gypsy woman who sells the potion to the protagonists (and has a full range of love potions from 1 - 9, with varying effects) keeps the #9 potion, the strongest, in reserve for a later date. When the two realize they might love one another, then the #9 is imbibed by both. The gypsy warns that if they truly love one another, then their love will never die; if it is not true love, then they will not be able to stand the sight of one another.
• The Love Witch: Elaine drugs Wayne with one. However, it doesn't work, causing him to hallucinate and grow clingy before dying. It was later revealed to mostly contain jimson weed (devil's weed), which both causes hallucinations and is also highly toxic.
• In A Man with a Maid, Jack purchases a powerful aphrodisiac that he mixes into elderberry wine in an attempt to seduce Alice. It certainly works on Samson and Fanny when they drink it.
• The Party Animal: Pondo Sinatra eventually makes a potent love potion out of random chemicals in a science lab. After exposing himself to the potion, it works too well—with disastrous results.
• Perfume has Villain Protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille long to make a perfume from the scent of beautiful women. Once he finds out how to capture their scent, he goes on a killing spree, and is captured after he completes it. The perfume has... variable results: the first time he uses it, the crowd that's gathered for an execution believes he's an angel and is driven into a passionate orgy by its scent. The second time he uses it, a crowd of bums is so taken by his beauty that they eat him alive. And he wanted that to happen, because he realized the "love" that his perfume created wasn't real.
  • Well, it was more like that the perfume could not make him capable of love.
• In Practical Magic, Sally the witch makes a love spell to avoid falling in love. The spell is supposed to ensure that she only falls in love with a guy with certain specifications. She deliberately makes a list of impossible specifications, to ensure that she can only fall in love with a non-existent guy, and thus not fall in love at all. Naturally, a guy with the right specifications shows up.
  • Sally does marry before the guy she specified shows up. Her aunts see how lonely and sad she is (and that neither she or her sister are likely to be having kids soon) and cast a spell causing her and a local young man to fall in love and marry. But the ancestress' curse, the reason Sally didn't want to marry, kicks in.
• In The Shout, Crossley tells Rachel how Aboriginal magic men can take a minor possession belonging to a woman and enchant it to cause her to fall in love with him. He later does this to her by stealing a buckle off one of her shoes.
• Supergirl (1984): The witch Selena feeds Ethan a potion that will make him fall in love with the first woman he sees for the next 24 hours. After he drinks it, he wanders off and she tries to get him back by enchanting some heavy machinery. Supergirl stops the machines and then changes back to her Linda Lee identity, so Linda becomes the first woman he sees. After the potion wears off, he reveals he's fallen in love with Linda for real.
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940) featured the evil Grand Vizier named Jaffar, giving the Princess a "Blue Rose of Forgetfulness" which makes her forget all about her love for the hero. (At least until he shows up to snap her out of it.)
• In Up the Chastity Belt, Lurkalot has a sideline in making and selling aphrodisiacs. It is not known if these are effective or just a scam.
• In Were the World Mine, gay student Timothy finds a secret recipe in the script for A Midsummer Night's Dream for a magic flower that causes Love at First Sight with no gender restrictions and uses it to make many members of his homophobic hometown walk a mile in his shoes. Hilarity Ensues.
• In Willow, Madmartigan is accidently hit with a love potion and stumbles into beautiful but deadly Sorsha's tent in the middle of her army encampment (while she's in her sleepwear). He proceeds to gush over her with compliments and poetry for which she is initially annoyed, but begins to enjoy. When the potion wears off and he admits he can't remember anything he just said to her she is pissed.
• Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell: The Djinn describes how he played a hand in The Trojan War ages ago when Helen of Troy wished to be seen as the World's Most Beautiful Woman. He granted her wish by making the key players in the conflict obsessed with having her, resulting in the deaths of thousands and the end of Troy.

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