Movies like Basic Instinct
If Basic Instinct's mix of california, jealousy and sexual obsession stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Basic Instinct's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: police, sadism, psychopath · Also mystery and thriller · From the same decade (1990s)
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Lost Highway
1997 · Directed by David Lynch · 134 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: jealousy, police, eroticism · Also thriller and mystery · From the same decade (1990s)
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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Body Double
1984 · Directed by Brian De Palma · 114 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: police, neo-noir, erotic thriller · Also mystery and thriller
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills.
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Cruising
1980 · Directed by William Friedkin · 102 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: police, detective, american giallo · Also mystery and thriller
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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The Salton Sea
2002 · Directed by D.J. Caruso · 103 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: california, detective, neo-noir · Also mystery and thriller
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his…
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Unfaithful
2002 · Directed by Adrian Lyne · 124 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: eroticism, lover, erotic thriller
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Crash
1996 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: sexual obsession, sadism, eroticism · From the same decade (1990s)
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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Crimes of Passion
1984 · Directed by Ken Russell · 107 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: detective, erotic thriller
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
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The Dark Knight
2008 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 152 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: sadism, neo-noir
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets.
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Frenzy
1972 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: police
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer.
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Hellraiser
1987 · Directed by Clive Barker · 93 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: sexual obsession
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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Strange Darling
2024 · Directed by JT Mollner · 97 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: erotic thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.