🍆 FILMS - EROTIC THRILLERS ---------------------------------- ❗= letterbox ⓒ = criterion 🔪 = horror 🌏= foreign ♻️ = rewatch 🎄= holiday ⭐= priority 🤪= psychotronic ❤️ = liked Erotic thriller is a direct descendant of the classic film noir; sleazy, saxophone-soundtracked potboilers from the 1980s and ’90s, a.k.a. the genre’s Golden Age. The erotic thriller also has its roots in the mystery genre, the horror genre, European art cinema and pornography. Almost 300 erotic thriller films were made in the 1990s alone. Like much technology, erotic content was the driver to the VCR’s mainstream success. The higher quality Betamax format eventually lost out to VHS because Sony elected not to put out adult films on its version. A dumb decision, since by the time the 1980s rolled around, erotic films accounted for more than half of videotape sales. - [x] Body Double (1984) 6.8 114m❗- Palma ⭐ crit - [x] Crimes of Passion (1984) 6.4 107m crit ❤️ - [x] The Last Seduction (1994) 7.0 110m ❗x 2 - DTV - [x] Crash (1996) 100m 6.4 ❗⭐ - [x] Basic Instinct (1992) 137m 7.1 - Verhoeven & Eszterhas - [x] Sanctuary (2022) 96m ⭐kanopy 6.2 - [x] Body of Evidence (1993) 109m 4.6 kanopy - [x] Exotica (1994) 103m 7.0 crit - [x] Jade (1995) 5.3 95m - Eszterhas appletv - [x] Stroker (2013) ⭐ 99m 6.7 - library - [x] Sea of Love (1989) 6.8 113m ❤️ - [x] The Devil's Honey (1986) 5.2 83m ❤️ - [x] Stripped to Kill (1987) - DTV 88m 4.6 - [x] Color of the Night (1994) 121m 5.2 - [x] The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) 104m 6.2 - [x] The Big Easy (1986) 102m 6.5 - [x] Black Widow (1987) 102m 6.4 - [x] Bound (1996)❗x 2 kanopy 105m 7.3 ⭐ - [x] Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 6.6 104m ⭐ - [x] The 4th Man (1983) 102m 7.2 ❗ 🌏 ⭐ - [x] Don’t Worry Darling (2022) 123m 6.3 - [x] La Piscine (1969) 🌏 7.1 122m ⭐ - [x] In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 🌏 crit 109m 6.6 ⭐ - [x] The Handmaiden (2016) 8.1 145m ❗x 4 🌏 ⭐ - amz - [x] Dangerous Liaisons (1988) 7.5 119m - [x] Play Misty for Me (1971) 102m 6.9 - [x] Bitter Moon (1992) 7.2 139m - dl - [x] American Gigolo (1980) 117m 6.3 - paramount - [ ] Stranger by Lake (2013) 🌏 6.9 100m - cock in Hitchcock - [ ] Femme Fatale (2002) - 114m 6.2 Palma - [ ] Presumed Innocent (1990) 127m 6.9 - [ ] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) 6.6 122m - [ ] The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) ⭐ - [ ] New Rose Hotel (1998) 93m 5.2 - [ ] Demonlover (2002) 5.9 129m crit - [ ] Swimming Pool (2003) 102m 6.7 - [ ] The Skin I Live In (2011) 120m 7.6 🌏❗x 2 ⭐ - [ ] Lust & Caution (2007) 🌏 158m 7.5 - [ ] Benedetta (2021) 🌏 6.7 131m - [ ] Babygirl (2024) 6.2 114m - [ ] The Hot Spot (1990) 130m 6.4 - [ ] The Comfort of Strangers (1990) 6.3 crit - [ ] The Voyeurs (2021) 117m 6.1 - [ ] Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) - [ ] Blind Date (1984) 103m 4.9 - [ ] Excitation (1977) - [ ] Wild Side (1995) 96m 5.6 - [ ] Birthday Girl (2001) 6.0 93m - erotic thriller comedy? - [ ] In the Cut (2003) 5.4 119m - [ ] Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) 102m 6.8 - black - [ ] A Snake of June (2002) 77m 6.8 🌏 - [ ] Jagged Edge (1985) - [ ] The Housemaid (2010) 6.4 107m 🌏 - [ ] Damage (1992) - [ ] The Piano Teacher (2001) - [ ] Blue Steel (1990) - [ ] Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) 6.7 136m - [ ] Dream Lover (1993) 103m 6.2 - [ ] Strange Darling (2023) 7.1 97m - [ ] Holiday (2018) - [ ] Zandalee (1991) 100m 4.3 nick cage? - [ ] China Moon (1994) 6.3 99m - [ ] Deep Water (2022) 5.5 115m - [ ] Fair Play (2023) 6.4 113m - [ ] Unfaithful (2002) - [ ] Shattered (1981) - [ ] After Dark, My Sweet (1990) - [ ] Double Lover (2017) 🌏 - [ ] Elle (2016) - [ ] Above Suspicion (1995) - Reeves spine - [ ] Liquid Dreams (1991) - [ ] Wild Orchid (1988) - [x] Body Heat (1981) - [x] Cruising (1980) - [x] Malice (1993) - [x] Fatal Attraction (1987) - [x] Wild Things (1996) - [x] Cat People (1982) - [x] Poison Ivy (1992) - [x] Angel Heart (1987) - [x] Cruel Intentions (1999) - [x] Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - [x] Disclosure (1994) - [x] Boxing Helena (1993) - [x] The Crush (1993) - [x] Fatal Instinct (1993) - [x] Indecent Proposal (1993) - [x] Fear (1996) - [x] Wild Things (1998) - [x] Mulholland Drive (2001) - [x] Swimfan (2002) - [x] Black Swan (2010) - [x] Knife+Heart (2018) - [x] Saltburn (2023) - [x] Knife in the Water (1962) - [x] The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) - [x] Diabolique (1955) - [x] Dead Ringers (1988) - [x] Don't Look Now (1973) - [x] Gone Girl (2014) - [x] Single White Female (1992) - [x] Vertigo (1958) - [x] Dressed to Kill Directors: - [ ] De Palma (2015) 7.4 110m Directors Brian De Palma - [x] Dressed to Kill - [x] Body Double - [ ] Femme Fatale Paul Verhoeven - [x] The 4th Man - [ ] Benedetta - [x] Basic Instinct - [x] Showgirls Writers: Joe Eszterhas - [x] Basic Instinct - [x] Jade - [x] Sliver - [x] Show Girls - [ ] Jagged Edge Actors: * Michael Douglas * Mickey Rourke * Richard Gere * James Spader * Sharon Stone * Linda Fiorentino * Glenn Close * Kathleen Turner * Demi Moore * Greta Scacchi Books * The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema * Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller https://archive.org/details/sexythrillsundre0000mart/page/164/mode/1up?view=theater The direct-to-video, or DTV erotic thriller is a mostly unexplored terrain. Over 700 erotic thrillers were produced from 1980-2000, compared to the 80-odd studio films made during that same period. https://letterboxd.com/matoliver/list/the-erotic-thriller-in-contemporary-cinema/ https://letterboxd.com/jlalibs/list/erotic-thrillers-forever/ http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes The Erotic Thriller’s Little Death https://longreads.com/2019/05/24/the-erotic-thrillers-little-death/ They Kill for Love: Defining the Erotic Thriller as a Film Genre https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1093&context=engl_fac https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/07/06/the-reshaping-of-the-human-body-by-modern-technology/ https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/crash-david-cronenberg-jeremy-thomas Erotic Thrillers + Sex Comedies + Erotic Dramas Erotic Dramas - [ ] The Lover (1992) 115m 6.8 🌏 - [ ] The Pillow Book (1995) 🌏 Erotic Horror - [ ] Antichrist 🔪 - [ ] Spermula (1976) 103m 🌏 - [ ] Possession (1981) ♻️ - [ ] Decoys (2004) Historically Important - [ ] Ecstasy (1933, Czech) 🌏 - [ ] The Witch (1952) - [ ] La Dolce Vita (1960) 🌏 Erotic Thrillers + Sex Comedies The term "Golden Age of Porn", or "porno chic", refers to a 15-year period (1969–1984) in commercial American pornography, in which sexually explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, and the general public. A Life in Dirty Movies (2013) - doc on Sarno Therese and Isabelle (1968) - Radley Metzger French-American romantic erotic drama film Midnight Cowboy (1969) first major Hollywood production under the MPAA's new X rating to win an Oscar for Best Picture. Swedish influence on sexual cinema was pronounced, not only in Bergman's films but, for example, in Vilgot Sjöman's scandalous I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) and I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) Swedish-American filmmaker Joe Sarno. nudie-cuties > roughies > white coaters Nudie cuties were soon supplanted by "roughies," which commonly featured male violence against women, including kidnapping, rape and murder Roughies Lorna (1964) Scum of the Earth! (1963) "white coaters," because, in these films, a doctor dressed in a white coat would give an introduction to the graphic content that followed, qualifying the film as "educational." Motion Picture Production Code * industry guidelines for the self-censorship from 1934 - 1968 * in 1968, after several years of minimal enforcement, the Production Code was replaced by the MPAA film rating system. - [ ] 9½ Weeks (1986) 117m 5.9 - [ ] Birth (2004) - [ ] Thirst ⭐🌏 - [ ] La Belle Noiseuse (1991) 🌏 - [ ] Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) - [ ] Nekromantik (1987) 🌏 - [ ] Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) - [ ] Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) 🔪 - [ ] Earthquake Bird (2019) - [ ] The Beast (1975) - [ ] Blue Movie (1969) 5.1 - [ ] Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) 6.2 - [ ] The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) - [ ] The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) - [ ] Mona (1970) - [ ] Deep Throat (1972) - [ ] Behind the Green Door (1972) - [ ] Necromania (1971) ed wood - [ ] Nightdreams (1981) * - [ ] Café Flesh (1982) * - [ ] Last Tango in Paris (1972) 129m 6.9 - [ ] I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) 6.1 - [ ] I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) 6.1 - [ ] Mudhoney (1965) 6.4 - [ ] 50 Shades of Grey (2015) - [x] Vampyros Lesbos (1971) - [x] Nina Forever (2015) ⭐🔪 - [x] In the Moon for Love (2000) ⭐🌏 - [x] Sugar Cookies (1973) - [x] Bottoms (2022) - [ ] Liquid Assets (1982) - [ ] Kiss & Tell (1980) - [ ] Ballgame (1980) - [ ] Roommates (1981) - [ ] The Seduction of Lynn Carter (1974) - [ ] 8 to 4 (1981) - [ ] Dracula Sucks (1978) - [ ] Public Affairs (1983) - [ ] The Young Like it Hot (1983) - [ ] Sex World (1978) - [ ] Garage Girls (1980) - [ ] Boys in the Sand (1971) - [ ] Cashback (2006) 102m 7.1 The Piano Teacher 2001 Shame 2011 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Wings (1927) Hell's Angels (1930) Call Her Savage (1932) Boccaccio ’70 (1962) The Favourite (2018) Killer Joe (2011) Enter the Void (2009) Benedetta (2021) Elmer Gantry (1960) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Seven Year Itch (1955) Contempt (1963) Promises! Promises! (1963) Looker (1981) The World According to Garp (1982) Children of a Lesser God (1986) - [x] Vibrations (1968) 6.4 1h 15min - [x] Sin in the Suburbs (1964) 6.3 - [x] The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974) 6.5 - [x] Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) 5.8 - [x] Belle de Jour (1967) 7.7 - [x] Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) 6.7 - [x] Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8 - [x] Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) 7.3 - [x] Sex and Fury (1973) 6.7 - [x] Manji (1964) 7.0 - [x] All the Sins of Sodom (1968) 6.0 - [x] The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) horror 5.7 - [x] Sin You Sinners (1963) - hypnotic noir 4.5 - [x] Underwater Love (2011) - 5.7 - [x] Showgirls (1998) - [x] Knock Knock (2015) - [x] Secretary (2002) - [x] Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - [x] Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town (1975) 5.7 - [x] School of the Holy Beast (1974) 6.6 - [x] Lickerish Quartet (1970) 6.0 - [x] Kill Ugly TV (2015)- 5.7 1 h 15 m erotic psychological drama - [ ] The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) 4.7 - [ ] Warm Nights Hot Pleasures (1964) 5.1 - [ ] Therese and Isabelle (1968) 6.2 - [ ] Camille 2000 (1969) 5.8 - [ ] Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) 4.3 - [ ] Lorna (1964) 5.9 - [ ] Vixen! (1968) 5.7 - [ ] Felicity (1978) - 5.2 - [x] Rubber's Lover (1996) 6.3 jap horror - [ ] Caligula (1979) 5.4 - [ ] Daddy, Darling (1970) 4.9 danish seductress - [ ] Odd Triangle (1968) 5.9 - [ ] Scum of the Earth! (1963) 5.2 - [ ] The Pornographers (1966) 7.3 - [x] Vampire Ecstasy (1973) - erotic horror - [ ] Let My Puppets Come (also called Let My Puppets Go) is a 1976 - [ ] Shame (2011) - [ ] The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989) - [ ] Betty Blue (1986) - [ ] All Things Fair (1995) - [ ] Exotica (1994) - [ ] Venus in Furs (1969) - [ ] Y Tu Mamá También (2001) - [ ] Last Tango in Paris (1972) - [ ] Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) - [ ] The Piano Teacher (2001) - [x] Body Heat (1981) - [ ] The Last Seduction (1994) - [ ] The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) - [ ] Salon Kitty (1976) - [x] Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984) Joseph Sarno - [ ] Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) - [x] Sin in the Suburbs (1964) - [ ] Warm Nights Hot Pleasures (1964) - [ ] The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974) Radley Metzger - [ ] Therese and Isabelle (1968) - [ ] Camille 2000 (1969) - [x] Lickerish Quartet (1970) Russ Meyer - [ ] The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) - [ ] Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) - [ ] Lorna (1964) - [ ] Mudhoney (1965) - [x] Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - [ ] Vixen! (1968) - [x] Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Pink film (ピンク映画, Pinku eiga) - [x] Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) - [x] Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 - [x] Sex and Fury (1973) - [x] Manji (1964) - great lesbian film (also know as Swastika) - [ ] Porno Jidaigeki: Bohachi Bushido - [x] Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) - [x] Blind Beast (1969) - [ ] In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - [ ] Violated Angels (1967) - [ ] Gate of Flesh (1964) - [ ] School of the Holy Beast (1974) - [ ] Watcher in the Attic (1976) - [ ] Ichijo’s Wet Lust (1972) - [x] Underwater Love (おんなの河童) (2011)