Erotic thrillers by the decade

Fair Play

The erotic thriller enters the MeToo era with this brilliantly twisty tale from first-time director Chloe Domont. Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich play co-workers at a hedge fund whose hidden relationship is tested when she’s promoted over him. Netflix

The Handmaiden

Park Chan-wook’s rapturous 2016 Korean thriller begins with a con man enlisting a handmaiden in his scheme to snare a wealthy heiress. When the women’s relationship becomes sexual, attention turns to the men pulling their strings. Prime

Swimming Pool

In this languid 2003 thriller, Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier play a crime novelist and a younger free spirit who become accidental housemates at a villa in southern France. Things take a disturbing turn when a waiter fancied by both becomes a conquest for one. $4 on demand

The Last Seduction

From Basic Instinct to Eyes Wide Shut, the 1990s was a golden age for the erotic thriller, but this may be the decade’s best. Linda Fiorentino stars as a femme fatale who manipulates her medical-student husband into working a cocaine deal, then drafts another man to kill him. $4 on demand

Body Heat

With all respect to Brian De Palma (Body Double) and Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction), the best erotic thriller of the 1980s belongs to Lawrence Kasdan, whose story of a doltish lawyer and his wealthy mistress is set ablaze by Kathleen Turner and William Hurt. $3 on demand

Last Tango in Paris

Bernardo Bertolucci’s still controversial 1972 drama portrays the intense, disturbed sexual relationship between Marlon Brando’s widowed American and an attractive young Frenchwoman played by Maria Schneider. MGM+