1980s

• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• Body Heat
  Body Heat
  Body Heat is a 1981 American neo-noir film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It stars William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, and Mickey Rourke. The film is inspired by Double Indemnity....
  
  (1981)
• Cat People
  Cat People (1982 film)
  Cat People is a 1982 American erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell and John Heard. The film co-stars Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley, Jr. and John Larroquette. Jerry Bruckheimer served as executive producer...
  
  (1982)
• Body Double
  Body Double
  Body Double is a 1984 American thriller film directed by Brian De Palma starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, and Gregg Henry. The film is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Rear Window, and Dial M for Murder. The original musical score was composed by Pino Donaggio...
  
  (1984)
• Tightrope
  Tightrope (film)
  Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle.-Plot:A young woman walks home from her birthday party. She is stalked by a man in distinctive sneakers. After dropping one of her presents, a police officer offers to...
  
  (1984)
• Fatal Attraction
  Fatal Attraction
  Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American thriller blended with horror, directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. The film centers around a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end, resulting in emotional blackmail, stalking...
  
  (1987)
• Sea of Love (1989)

1990s

• Basic Instinct
  Basic Instinct
  Basic Instinct is a 1992 erotic thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone....
  
  (1992)
• Blown Away
  Blown Away (1992 film)
  Blown Away is a 1992 erotic thriller film starring Corey Haim, Nicole Eggert and Corey Feldman.- Plot :After her mother dies in a car accident, 17 year-old Megan lives a reckless lifestyle. She begins a relationship with Rich , who works at her father's ski resort...
  
  (1992)
• Poison Ivy
  Poison Ivy (film)
  Poison Ivy is a 1992 thriller and drama film directed by Katt Shea. Andy Ruben transformed Melissa Goddard's story into the screenplay. It stars Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt and Cheryl Ladd. The original music score is composed by David Michael Frank. The film was shot in Los...
  
  (1992)
• Single White Female
  Single White Female
  Single White Female is a 1992 American erotic thriller based on John Lutz's novel SWF Seeks Same. The film stars Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh and is directed by Barbet Schroeder.-Plot:...
  
  (1992)
• Body of Evidence (1993)
• Boxing Helena
  Boxing Helena
  Boxing Helena is a 1993 romantic drama film and the debut feature film by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. The film stars Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn as the eponymous Helena.-Plot:...
  
  (1993)
• The Crush (1993)
• Sliver
  Sliver (film)
  Sliver is a 1993 film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas...
  
  (1993)
• Color of Night
  Color of Night
  Color of Night is a 1994 American erotic mystery thriller film produced by Cinergi Pictures and released in the United States by Hollywood Pictures. Directed by Richard Rush, the film stars Bruce Willis, Jane March, Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, and Scott Bakula...
  
  (1994)
• The Last Seduction
  The Last Seduction
  The Last Seduction is a neo-noir 1994 film directed by John Dahl.The movie features Linda Fiorentino as the femme fatale, Peter Berg as a small town man whose one night affair turns into more than he wanted, and Bill Pullman as Fiorentino's husband who is chasing her and running from loan sharks at...
  
  (1994)
• Jade
  Jade (film)
  Jade is a 1995 erotic thriller film written by Joe Eszterhas, produced by Robert Evans, directed by William Friedkin and starring David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna and Michael Biehn. The original music score was composed by James Horner...
  
  (1995)
• Bound
  Bound (film)
  Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by the Wachowski brothers. Violet , who longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar , enters into a clandestine affair with alluring ex-con Corky , and the two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of mafia money.Bound...
  
  (1996)
• Wild Things
  Wild Things
  Wild Things is a 1998 erotic thriller film starring Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Theresa Russell and Bill Murray. It was directed by John McNaughton. In some countries the film was released as Sex Crimes...
  
  (1998)
• Eyes Wide Shut
  Eyes Wide Shut
  Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 drama film based upon Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle . The film was directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and was his last film. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually-charged adventures of Dr...
  
  (1999)
  (Although partly marketed as such, this film's status as an "erotic thriller" has been challenged. See Eyes Wide Shut Genre and Marketing.)

2000s

• Unfaithful (2002)
• In the Cut
  In the Cut
  In the Cut is a 2003 American erotic thriller and mystery film, written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Campion's screenplay is an adaption of the novel of the same name by Susanna Moore...
  
  (2003)
• Killing Me Softly
  Killing Me Softly (film)
  Killing Me Softly is an erotic thriller 2002 film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Based on the novel by Nicci French , it introduces several substantial changes to the story and focuses heavily on the intense sexual relationship between the two lead...
  
  (March 2003)
• Swimming Pool
  Swimming Pool (film)
  Swimming Pool is a 2003 thriller film directed by François Ozon and starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. The plot focuses on a British crime novelist, Sarah Morton, who travels to her publisher's upscale summer house in Southern France for solitude to work on her next book...
  
  (2003)
• Lust, Caution (2007)
• Chloe
  Chloe (film)
  Chloe is a 2009 erotic thriller directed by Atom Egoyan, a remake of the 2004 French film Nathalie.... This version stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried in the title role...
  
  (2009, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics
  Sony Pictures Classics
  Sony Pictures Classics is an art-house film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment founded in December 1991 that distributes, produces and acquires specialty films from the United States and around the world. Its co-presidents are Michael Barker and Tom Bernard...
  
   on March 26, 2010)

2010s

• Secret Love
  Secret Love (2010 film)
  Secret Love is 2010 South Korean film by Ryu Hoon-i which started Yoo Ji-tae and Yoon Jin-seo previously worked Oldboy. -Cast:*Yoo Ji-tae as Jin-Woo / Jin-Ho*Yoon Jin-seo as Yeon-Yi*Jeong In-gi as Father Choi-Shin*Ji Dae-han as Hiker...
  
  (2010)
• The Housemaid
  The Housemaid (2010 film)
  The Housemaid is a 2010 South Korean melodramatic thriller film directed by Im Sang-soo. The story focuses on Eun-yi, played by Jeon Do-yeon, who becomes involved in a destructive love triangle while working as a housemaid for an upper-class family. Other cast members include Lee Jung-jae, Seo...
  
  (2010)

See also

• List of thriller films, look for sub-genre erotica within each sub-list by decade