Top 100 erotic thrillers

47 Mr Brooks

This is pure entertainment, two hours of a story that grabs you right from the start and never let's go.

A very involving story.

46. Casino royale

This movie has it all, spectacular locations from Prague, London, miami and nassau - and amazing actions involving the superb Aston Martin DB5 couple in a high-speed mountain chase, a rush to stop a fuel tanker at Miami Airport.

45. Gravity

It's a visual paradise. Ground breaking, beautiful and technically perfect. The film transports you to space in every cinematic way possible. The visual effects are so brilliantly executed it makes you wonder if they were shot in space.

The film is a visual masterpiece.

Very random list you have going here. And if these are numbered in order of preference, then some truly bizarre ordering. Great that you found and appreciate the likes of After Dark, My Sweet and the two Atom Egoyans (Exotica and Chloe), and having bonafide classics like Kasdan's Body Heat, Eastwood's Play Misty For Me, and Harold Becker's Sea of Love alongside trash like The Crush and Basic Instinct 2 is fine and dandy and all, but there are sooooo many others that you missed. Some of them very good movies, some just genre trash that you clearly should see and enjoy.



Anyway, if you want some more so-called erotic thrillers, some of which I consider very good to great movies (and some more firmly erotic than others, pun intended), the ones I would recommend first are...

The Hot Spot (1990, Dennis Hopper)
The Grifters (1990, Stephen Frears)
Night Moves (1975, Arthur Penn)
Tightrope (1984, Richard Tuggle)
Dead Calm (1989, Philip Noyce)
Angel Heart (1987, Alan Parker)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
Dead Again (1991, Kenneth Baranagh)
Romeo is Bleeding (1993, Peter Medak)
The Getaway (1972, Sam Peckinpah)
The Getaway (1994, Roger Donaldson)
Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula)
The Cooler (2003, Wayne Kramer)
Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)
Body Double (1984, Brian DePalma)
Bad Timing (1980, Nicolas Roeg)
Wild Things (1998, John McNaughton)




And since you like Richard Gere in Unfaithful so much, also track down...

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977, Richard Brooks)
American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader)
Internal Affairs (1990, Mike Figgis)
No Mercy (1986, Richard Pearce)
Final Analysis (1992, Phil Joanou)
Breathless (1983, Jim McBride)

Alec Baldwin was in a few, too...

Miami Blues (1990, George Armitage)
Malice (1993, Harold Becker)
Heaven's Prisoners (1996, Phil Joanou)
as well as the aforementioned The Getaway (1994) and The Cooler

Some great foreign entries in the genre include...

la femme Nikita (1990, Luc Besson)
The 4th Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Nagisa Ôshima)
Swimming Pool (2003, François Ozon)
The Blue Room (2014, Mathieu Amalric)
Next Door (2004, Pål Sletaune)

And here are a bunch of others that I wouldn't call objectively great films by any stretch, but are anywhere from underrated to decent to trash which you may find amusing....

Against All Odds (1984, Taylor Hackford)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981, Bob Rafelson)
No Way Out (1987, Roger Donaldson)
The Killer Inside Me (2010, Michael Winterbottom)
The Bedroom Window (1987, Curtis Hanson)
Goodbye, Lover (1998, Roland Joffé)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986, Hal Ashby)
Liebestraum (1991, Mike Figgis)
Dot the i (2003, Matthew Parkhill)
Shattered (1991, Wolfgang Petersen)
Palmetto (1998, Volker Schlöndorff)
Single White Female (1992, Barbet Schroeder)
Femme Fatale (2002, Brian DePalma)
Out of Time (2003, Carl Franklin)
Clay Pigeons (1998, David Dobkin)
The Locusts (1997, John Patrick Kelley)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992, Curtis Hanson)
Birthday Girl (2001, Jez Butterworth)
Cat People (1982, Paul Schrader)
52 Pick-Up (1986, John Frankenheimer)
Last Embrace (1979, Jonathan Demme)
Bad Influence (1990, Curtis Hanson)
Fear (1996, James Foley)
Poison Ivy (1992, Katt Shea Ruben)

And here are some I think are just awful, but considering how much you like the turd that is The Color of Night, you may find these to be masterpieces...

Body of Evidence (1993, Uli Edel)
Boxing Helena (1993, Jennifer Chambers Lynch)
Still of the Night (1982, Robert Benton)
In the Cut (2003, Jane Campion)
Jade (1995, William Friedkin)
Obsessed (2009, Steve Shill)
The Fan (1981, Edward Bianchi)
Love Crimes (1992, Lizzie Borden)
The Seduction (1982, David Schmoeller)
Zandalee (1991, Sam Pillsbury)

And then there is a whole giant bin of potboilers from the 1980s and 1990s that were either straight-to-video or made for cable and are almost uniformly just awful. But they were absolute mainstays flipping around at 3:00am back in the day, or at your local video store. The queen of these '80s erotic thrillers is probably Shannon Tweed, the buxom Playboy Playmate turned nighttime Soap star (on "Falcon Crest"), turned cheap-o video star who (thankfully) always took her shirt off and eventually turned into KISS's Gene Simmons' longtime companion and reality TV co-star. Some of her many "classics" include (I think you have one of these on your list)...

Scorned (1994)
Cold Sweat (1993)
Sexual Response (1992)
Night Fire (1994)
Night Eyes 2 (1991)
Last Call (1991)
Forbidden Sins (1999)
Dead Sexy (2001)
Victim of Desire (1995)
Singapore Sling (1999)



But there are dozens and dozens of that level of stinker that were mass produced in the '80s and '90s. Some of them are now hopefully lost in the mists of time and bowels of Blockbuster Video.

And since you seem to like this garbage, try tracking down the anthology TV series "Red Shoe Diaries" (1992-1999) which ran on Showtime and "The Hitchhiker" (1983-1991) which ran on HBO.

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2 or 3 appear on my list higher up. And thanks for the recommendation. I will add them them to my watch list.

44. Memento

A man with no short term memory tries to solve a murder. The scenes in the movie are played in reverse.

By playing the scenes in reverse you experience the confusion he under goes throughout the film. Showing some of the scenes in chronological order creates suspense that builds as the two timelines converge.

The somewhat rushed pace doesn't give you enough time to adequately analyse the events during the movie.

43. Face/off

The plot is great; fairly psychological and quite interesting. The acting is excellent; every single major part is well-played.

The characters are all well-written and credible, right down to the most minor one. The action is cool and very stylish, in every single action scene.

The theme of the story is great; of course, the story is completely unlikely, with the face-switching and all, but once you get past that, once you descend disbelief, you will enjoy this film throughly.

The script is excellent, plenty of action, drama and thriller parts.

42. The girl with the dragon tattoo

This is a masterful film, it's one you should definitely check out. It's directed, written and acted well and succeeds in everything it sets out to do. You feel the emotion and darkness of the film.

Out of the last few erotic thrillers you posted, my favorite is Sea of Love.

41. Disclosure

It's a very well-done film with a great cast. It gives a good understanding of the American legal system and sexual harassment, and proves that sexual harassment works on two levels.

40. Guilty as sin

Slow but interesting thriller from lumet. The film creates a type of cat and mouse game between the two lead characters that's well written and fairly suspenseful.

This film is a bit slow but it's got a good story and some genuine suspense.

39. Jagged edge

This is a well-written and extremely entertaining psychological thriller which unsurprisingly was also a major box office success.

It's a murder mystery which features some interesting characters, numerous unexpected developments and some great performances from an exceptional group of actors.

38. Someone to watch over me

This was a wonderful film, almost like an opera. Tom berenger had the perfect look, new York accent, and mannerisms of the cop. Mimi Rogers was classy and irresistible as the woman in the high society apartment. The dilemma of their animal attraction to each other while knowing they had no real future together was haunting. The classical music underlined the tension beautifully.

37. Never talk to strangers

I like this sort of film, the kind of mystery in which you can't pick out the murderer until the end of the film. It's not billed as a mystery, though, but that's what it is. Although primarily a mystery, it spends a lit of time as a romance between the two principals, and then switches gears before the onset of tedium.

This is an absorbing, if uneven, murder mystery.

36. Fatal attraction

This is an excellent movie about a Psycho who falls in love with Douglas and once ye begins to realise he's doing the wrong thing she just won't leave him or his family alone.

It is an excellent suspense thriller that moves like a rollercoaster and keeps your attention from the beginning credits to the end credits.

35. Obsessed

With a rocking soundtrack, great script and cast, this is a blast of stupid fun and without a doubt the sextet and most entertaining thriller of that year.

Is that Finchers Dragon Tattoo or the Swedish one?

That would be fincher's one. I haven't seen the swedes one yet.

I thought to myself "100 erotic thrillers??? Really??!?!?" Then see you have changed the last half to thrillers. I knew it!!

I'm adding more erotic thrillers now because I have watched a few more in the last couple of days. So I am back on track with this.