If You Liked Basic Instinct, Watch These Next
Finished Basic Instinct (1992) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Basic Instinct, most of them are thriller, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Graphic Desires(2023)
6.9ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
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2.Strange Darling(2024)
6.9CrimeThrillerHorrorAlso thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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3.8MM(1999)
6.5ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts…
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5.Mulholland Falls(1996)
6.0DramaMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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6.Strange Days(1995)
7.0CrimeScience FictionThrillerAlso thriller
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
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8.Farewell, My Lovely(1975)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
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9.Unfaithful(2002)
6.7ThrillerDramaRomanceAlso thriller
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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10.Wonderland(2003)
6.1CrimeMysteryDramaAlso mystery
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.
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12.Tightrope(1984)
6.2MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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14.Blue Steel(1990)
5.8ThrillerAlso thriller
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them…
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15.Lost Highway(1997)
7.6DramaThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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17.The Salton Sea(2002)
6.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso mystery and thriller
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and…
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18.The Voyeurs(2021)
6.5ThrillerAlso thriller
When Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite – inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the street. But what starts as a simple curiosity turns into full-blown obsession with increasingly…
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19.The Infernal Machine(2022)
6.3ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he…
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20.Nymphomaniac: Vol. II(2013)
6.7DramaMysteryAlso mystery
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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