Basic Instinct

1992 · 2h 8m · 6.9

Thriller, Mystery

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

Paul Verhoeven

Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Bruce A. Young, Chelcie Ross, Dorothy Malone, Wayne Knight

dying and death, california, jealousy, sexual obsession, police, san francisco, california, sadism, psychopath, detective, eroticism, bisexuality, suspicion of murder, lover, striptease, celebrity, femme fatale, sociopath, dead, neo-noir, erotic thriller