80s/early 90s Yuppie Thrillers

It was a fantastic time for gritty, sexually explosive thrillers. AIDS lingering in the background made straight people sexually repressed and it came out in their entertainment choices.

Michael Douglas was the king of this genre with Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Disclosure. I would say A Perfect Murder would have been the end of this era and he was finally the villain.

Sharon did Basic Instinct and Silver. And Demi did Indecent Proposal and Disclosure.

R2 good point, APM was the bookend to close the chapter. It had all the elements but with class and was more grown-up.

1988's "Masquerade" with Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly.

Love love love THE JAGGED EDGE. Glenn has never looked better.

I'm not gonna be IGNORED Dan!

I'll add The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Pacific Heights to the canon.

Dream Lover, with James Spader when he was still cute

BAD INFLUENCE with James Spader and Rob Lowe is a good one.

Don’t forget the craptastic ill-advised American remake of Diabolique with Sharon, Isabelle Adjani and Kathy Bates

R9 they were so gay

Yes R11 it’s kind of a gay erotic thriller. Bonus.

Sliver

Unlawful Entry with Kurt Russell and Ray Liotta. Sounds like a porn title which may be why it’s fallen into obscurity.

Final Analysis

Malice

Don't forget me!

Dressed To Kill, a fabulous trashy thriller classic.

China Moon

Consenting Adults

[quote]It was a fantastic time for gritty, sexually explosive thrillers. AIDS lingering in the background made straight people sexually repressed and it came out in their entertainment choices.

I wonder how true this is? I feel - by the 90's, at least - people had moved on from the AIDS era, but I could see this in, say, Fatal Attraction.

Dressed To Kill feels like a different animal, R17. That said, it's a great film.

R19 I don’t think they’d moved on just yet, just more used to it. The fear was there, it had moved to the subconscious.

Dressed To Kill was like a foreshadowing of AIDS, sex = death. AIDS was just around the corner.

Oh, I've got one! Guilty as Sin, from 1993, with Rebecca de Mornay and Don Johnson. Also, I was just thinking about how the John Grisham adaptations (The Firm, in particular) were like the respectable older siblings of these types of movies.

Wow that one at R22 must be good and cheesy.

[quote]I feel - by the 90's, at least - people had moved on from the AIDS era, but I could see this in, say, Fatal Attraction.

AIDS was a complete death sentence until 1996, and for years after protease inhibitors it was still often fatal and very disabling for many who were HIV+. No one had "moved on" by the 90s. Not sure why you would think that. Many of us lost friends well into the late 90s, and PrEP was still over a decade away.

Color of Night was hysterical

[quote] Love love love THE JAGGED EDGE.

Not enough to get its title correct, apparently.

It's just "Jagged Edge." No "The."

Deceived, with Goldie Hawn

THIEF OF HEARTS. Steven Mayer. Naked.