List of erotic thriller films

Erotic thriller is a film genre defined by a thriller with a thematic basis in illicit romance or erotic fantasy.[1] Though most erotic thrillers contain scenes of softcore sex, the frequency and explicitness of those scenes varies.[2] If a film is a thriller with scenes of softcore sex or nudity, it is probably not an erotic thriller unless illicit romance or erotic fantasy is central to the dramatic conflict,[3] as in Body Heat, Fatal Attraction, and Night Eyes 3. Many crime thrillers, action films, and slasher films contain softcore sex and/or nudity but are not erotic thrillers. Likewise, if a film is not identifiably a thriller, it is probably not an erotic thriller but simply a work of softcore erotica[4] or perhaps even erotic melodrama.[5]

Precursors to the erotic thriller

The late 1980s to the mid-1990s are regarded as the "classic period" of the erotic thriller.[6] In his book Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir, Robert Barton Palmer claimed “perhaps the most popular genre in the 1990s, the so-called erotic thriller [...] is a direct descendant of the classic film noir”.[7] However, many films of the 1960s and 70s also provocatively mixed noir themes with softcore sex, erotic fantasy, and voyeurism.[8] Some of these films are so close to what are now defined as erotic thrillers, it is likely their video box covers, if they had them at the time of their release, would be indistinguishable alongside 1990s erotic thrillers on a shelf at Blockbuster Video.[9] When the word "erotic" began to adhere to "thriller" during the 1980s to describe a sudden boom in noir-like thriller films with sexually provocative content,[10] a new genre began to take shape.

List of films: 1940–1970

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1958

1962

1966

1969

List of films: 1970–1980

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

List of films: 1980–1990

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1987

1988

1989

List of films: 1990–1996

1990

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1995

1996

List of films: 1997–2007

1997

1998
  • Confessions of a Call Girl (a.k.a. Double Identity)
  • Dangerous Invitation
  • Dead by Dawn
  • Devil in the Flesh
  • The Escort II
  • Exposé (a.k.a. Footsteps)
  • Extramarital
  • Fatal Pursuit[a]
  • Interlocked: Thrilled to Death (a.k.a. A Bold Affair)
  • Intimate Nights
  • Losing Control[a]
  • Mistress of Seduction
  • Naked Lies
  • New Rose Hotel
  • Psycho Sisters
  • Rebecca’s Secret
  • Sheer Passion
  • Tainted Love[a]
  • Testing the Limits[a]
  • The Tribe
  • Ultimate Love Games
  • When Passions Collide
  • Wild Things
  • Zero Woman: Dangerous Game, Japanese erotic-thriller

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2007

List of films: 2008–present

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2011

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2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2021

Miscellaneous crossover films

Post-period crossover films

References
  1. Martin (2007), pp. 17–18
  2. Andrews (2006), p. 136
  3. Karagiannidou (2006), p. 29.
  4. Karagiannidou (2005), p. 31.
  5. Williams (2006), p. 390.
  6. Williams (2005), p. 4.
  7. Palmer (1994), p. 168.
  8. Williams (2005), p. 79.
  9. Williams (2005), p. 79.
  10. Williams (2005), p. 15.
  11. "Trans-Europ Express and Successive Slidings of Pleasure Detailed". Blu-ray.com. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  12. "Dial Help".
  13. "Obsession: A Taste for Fear".
  14. "Bedroom Eyes II".
  15. "Loos".
  16. "Jezebel's Kiss".
  17. "Sexual Response".
  18. "Breaking Point".
  19. "Double Cross".
  20. "Lady in Waiting".
  21. "Save Me".
  22. "Sensation".
  23. "Tryst".
  24. "Electra".
  25. "Starstruck / Deception (2000)". Best--Erotica.
  26. "MOVIES & MANIA | Goddess of Love – Canada, USA, 2015 – reviews". 2016-07-13.
  1. Williams, Linda Ruth (2005). "The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema". Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. p. 306. ISBN 0-253-21836-5.
  2. Martin, Nina K (2007). "Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller". Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press. P. 000. ISBN 978-0-252-07437-0
  3. Keesy, Douglas (2001) "They Kill for Love: Defining the Erotic Thriller as a Film Genre". CineAction, Volume 56, Summer July 1, 2001, pages 44–53.
  4. Karagiannidou, Aneta (2006). "Getting Away With It: The Erotic Thriller and Its Fantasies" (Thesis). Aristotle University.
  5. Palmer, R. Barton. "Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir". New York: Twayne, 1994. ISBN 978-0805793246
  6. Andrews, David. "Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts". Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0814210222
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