Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summertime, the film is centered on Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a middle-class English teacher in the midst of researching a book project about colloquial language. One night she accidentally witnesses a ...
Director Don Schain cast his wife, Cheri Caffaro, as the sexy heroine of this violent action film. Caffaro, who had won a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest as a teenager, stars as Ginger, the frequently nude crimefighter who battles a vice ring in New Jersey. The sleazy antics on display include bondage and castration, which proved so popular ...
Lawrence Kasdan's first directorial effort is a throwback to the early days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive attorney Ned (William Hurt) is entranced by the alluring Matty (Kathleen Turner in her film debut). Ned is manipulated into killing Matty's much older husband (Richard Crenna), the plan being that ...
The director of such highly regarded films as Yellow Earth (1984) and Farewell, My Concubine (1993), Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige makes his English-language debut with this erotic thriller adapted from the novel by Nicci French. Alice (Heather Graham) is an American Web designer living in Illinois who falls for a ruggedly handsome mountain climber ...
Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) is a cold, workaholic sportswear designer, divorced and dedicated only to her job. Once strapped into that role, Joanna looks for an "out" and finds it by donning a wig and hitting the pavement as a $50/trick hooker named China Blue. Explicit scenes show her at work on her night job, including a long S and M segment ...
The second entry in the Body Chemistry film series, Voice of a Stranger stars Lisa Pescia as a talk-radio sex counselor (a recurring character in the films). Ex-cop Gregory Harrison costars as a troubled victim of child abuse who is currently into "rough sex." Harrison places a call to Pescia, who gives him erotically-tinged advice. He takes her ...
When a young man reunites with his estranged father, he becomes suspicious that pop's torturing his (the dad's) new young wife. As he becomes more involved, the son himself becomes entangled in a murder plot and is soon confused as to whether it's the dad or the young wife who is the real perpetrator. ~ All Movie Guide
Phillip Noyce directed Joe Eszterhas's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about voyeurism, starring Sharon Stone as Carly Norris, a book editor on the rebound from an emotionless seven-year marriage. Carly decides that a change of location will help her in the healing process, so she moves into a sleek Manhattan high-rise. In her new apartment, she ...
Madonna plays Rebecca Carlson, a sex bomb who parades naked in front of the open windows of her houseboat at all hours while the lobstermen catch crabs. This entry in the Basic Instinct sweepstakes poses the question: If love hurts, does sex kill? The judge and jury certainly want to find out when Rebecca's latest conquest, a multi-millionaire, ...
A woman's infidelity leads her into a web of larceny and danger in this noir-flavored independent thriller. Mia DuBois (Monica Calhoun) is a psychologist who until recently worked with the police department, counseling the survivors of victims of violent crime. While Mia has entered into a successful private practice, she's persuaded by her former ...
This thriller takes place in Blue Bay, Florida, where social-climbing guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) is indifferent to teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards), who retaliates by accusing him of rape, an accusation that leads to his suspension by the school and a rejection from the country club. He can't afford a big attorney ...
Dead On is the 1994 edition of Strangers on a Train, Double Indemnity, or what have you. Marla (Tracy Scoggins), unhappily married, finds a kindred spirit in the likewise dolefully hitched Ted (Matt McCoy). In the throes of purple passion, Marla suggests that she and Ted knock off each other's spouses. From this point forward, steamy sex scenes ...
The sophomore American film from Aussie director Bill Bennett, Tempted was improvised by the cast based on a one-page synopsis and outline. To test his wife's loyalty after he is diagnosed with a fatal disease, Charlie Le Blanc (Burt Reynolds) offers to pay financially struggling law student Jimmy Mulate (Peter Facinelli) $50,000 if the young man ...
Private Investigator Dean Thomas was just looking for a little fun when he attended an erotic pajama party for the contestants of "Search for Delilah," though business would soon take precedence over pleasure when the number one pick for the lucrative modeling contract was found floating face down in a lavish swimming pool. While most folks seem ...
In this thriller, a wealthy man's wife conspires to take his fortune and his life after she learns of his philandering. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Damian Harris directs this sleazy erotic thriller about lipstick lesbians, naked corpses, and S&M covens, starring Julian Sands. Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is a hard-driving homicide cop who drinks like a fish and curses like a sailor, investigating a series of murders which leave the (inevitably female) victims bound, naked, and eyelid-less. ...
Once Teri Hatcher hit it big on the TV series Lois and Clark, several of her less memorable earlier projects began popping out of the woodwork. The R-rated The Cool Surface is listed as a 1993 film, but one wonders. Hatcher plays Dani Payson, a beautiful aspiring actress and neighbor to playwright Jarvis Scott (Robert Patrick). Jarvis observes ...
Love Crimes, an erotic thriller directed by Lizzie Borden, explores the psychology of a con man posing as a photographer, who seduces women and then blackmails them using humiliating, revealing pictures he has taken of them. David Hanover (Patrick Bergin) preys on the hopes of women by offering them love and a possible career as fashion models. ...
Atlanta attorney Jermaine (Gary Dourdan) wants to enliven his sex life with wife Jasmine (Kenya Moore) by having a threesome. Jasmine somewhat grudgingly agrees, and Jermaine's buddy Terrance (Soloman K. Smith) hooks him up with the comely Jade (Gretchen Palmer). Jermaine enters into a secret agreement with her to pay for a ménage à trois , but ...
Radio sex therapist Kate Vernon could use a slice of her own advice in the R-rated Dangerous Touch. Against her better judgement, she falls hard for charismatic Lou Diamond Phillips. As the relationship intensifies (and we see plenty of that intensification), Phillips inveigles Vernon in a hellish world of crime, double-cross and death. Why is it ...
This 1991erotic thriller revolves around a politician caught in a sexual cover-up that is reminiscent of the real-life 1987 Gary Hart/Donna Rice scandal. After city-council member Franklin Carlyle (William Katt) is mugged and stranded while checking out a redevelopment project in a downscale neighborhood, he is befriended by an alcoholic (Rick ...
Brion James and Valerie Perrine star in this drama about a young woman who runs away from home after her father tries to force her into a loveless marriage. After she arrives in New Orleans, she discovers a strange woman is following her every move -- and stealing her lovers away from her. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
In this erotic thriller for adults only, Chris is back on the streets after serving time in prison for a crime someone else committed. Desperate for work, Chris gets word from his girlfriend of a rich man who needs some dirty work done on the sly. Chris soon finds himself involved in an abduction plot that will earn him a very big payday if all ...
A few months after his mother's death, a bereaved Sean Sager is unhappy when his wealthy father, Justin, marries Vivian, a seductive blonde with a 20-year-old son from her previous marriage. And he is even more disturbed that his stepmother may be trying to seduce him as well. Or is that his adolescent imagination? When Justin has a sudden, fatal ...
When a journalist's ex-girlfriend dies in a car crash, he becomes romantically involved with her best friend. Before long, it seems to him that both women may have been connected to shady goings-on. This suspenseful tale of erotica and mystery features performances by Virginia Madsen, Judd Nelson, Mia Sara and Timothy Daly among others. ~ Kristie ...
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