The erotic thriller is a film and literary genre which consists of erotica and thriller, which, especially in North American, has steadily increased in popularity since the 1980s.

The genre includes such films as Body Heat, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Fear, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Wild Things, Bound, In the Cut, "Lust, Caution", Poison Ivy, Crash, Color of Night, Eyes Wide Shut, The Crush and most recently Obsessed.

See also

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

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