Sixteen Erotic Thrillers

Added on by C. Maoxian.

List via Criterion, where I found this blurb:

Sleekly stylish, deliriously plotted, and unabashedly steamy, the erotic thrillers of the 1980s and ’90s are both the ultimate guilty pleasure and an illuminating reflection of an era’s changing attitudes toward sex on-screen. As the ’70s came to a close, with studio filmmaking in decline, home video and cable on the rise, and new X-rated movies ushering in an era of “porno chic,” Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers began pushing boundaries to cash in and create popular films that could never have been made before. Often dismissed as disreputable byproducts of the video-store era, these carnal classics can now be seen as rich cultural texts, laden with tantalizing ideas about gender, the relationship between sex and violence, and the cinematic gaze.

  1. Dressed to Kill (1980)

  2. Body Heat (1981)

  3. Crimes of Passion (1984)

  4. Body Double (1984)

  5. The Bedroom Window (1987)

  6. Fatal Attraction (1987) [added later]

  7. Sister, Sister (1987)

  8. Call Me (1988)

  9. The Comfort of Strangers (1990)

  10. Basic Instinct (1992) [added later]

  11. Single White Female (1992)

  12. Poison Ivy (1992)

  13. Dream Lover (1993)

  14. Color of Night (1994)

  15. Criminal Passion (1994)

  16. Fleshtone (1994)

  17. The Last Seduction (1994)

  18. Jade (1995)