Sentences with phrase «films erotic thriller»

Not exact matches

Expectations are fully met in Park Chan - wook's exquisitely filmed The Handmaiden (Agassi), an amusingly kinky erotic thriller and love story that brims with delicious surprises, making its two - and - a-half hours fly by.

American master Brian De Palma's latest creation, Passion (a remake of Alain Corneau's 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime), has welcomed a significantly more positive response than that of both his last two films, Redacted (2007)...

Described as a dark, erotic thriller, the film, set in Paris in 1867, follows young Therese (Olsen), who is forced by her aunt, Madame Raquin (Close), into a loveless marriage to her sick, spoiled first cousin.

Set in WWII - era, Japanese - occupied Shanghai and Hong Kong, Ang Lee's 2007 film Lust, Caution is a suspenseful erotic thriller about the sacrifices one woman makes for the survival of her country.

While Tom at the Farm is most intrinsically linked to another impeccably tense erotic queer thriller that screened in Toronto, Alain Guiraudie's Stranger By the Lake, the best film I saw at Toronto, Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves also deals with stubborn characters plagued by uncomfortable internal conflicts in a horticulture - based setting.

The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.

An influential figure in the 1970s British indie cinema, producer / director Pete Walker tested the limits of film censorship in the UK with a string of gruesome and erotic thrillers.

Director Peter Strickland follows his 2012 thriller Berberian Sound Studio and Björk's concert film Biophilia Live with this darkly comic erotic drama.

Just as Olivier Assayas's new film Personal Shopper keeps shapeshifting from horror movie to socio - economic commentary to erotic thriller to paranormal murder mystery... so this review keeps shifting as I write it.

Cat People (1982) A charmingly schlocky erotic thriller very loosely based on Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's 1942 horror film by the same name, Cat People follows the explosive sexual awakening of Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) who, upon arriving in New Orleans, slowly learns that her desires transform her into a black leopard, placing her and her new zoologist lover (John Heard) in jeopardy.

Ostensibly both a remake of the Southern Gothic erotic thriller by Don Siegel from 1971 and also an adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's 1966 novel «A Painted Devil», Coppola (who also wrote the screenplay and won the Best Director Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) smartly and slowly unravels her tale via the female gaze in a film that, if one is patient with it, slowly pulls you under its sunlit and fainéant spell.

This period adaptation of Sarah Waters» Fingersmith feels like a departure from Wook's previous work — part heist film, part erotic thriller — but aside from the setting there are numerous elements that are characteristic of the director's previous work.

It's a set of films that skirt around the trappings of an erotic thriller yet refuse to indulge in any of the lurid murderous plotting that usually goes along with it.

WHY: Director Erik Van Looy's U.S. remake of his own Dutch - language erotic thriller was filmed back in 2011 before getting shelved for three years, and that's pretty much all you need to know about whether or not the movie is any good.

The film A decade before «Basic Instinct» launched the era of the mainstream erotic thriller, Lawrence Kasdan reinvented film noir for a sophisticated modern audience with this sweaty tale of scheming femmes fatales.

It's too wide a span of films to cover, not to mention that modern film noir is practically incongruous with the more seedy, Hitchcockian elements intrinsic to the nightmarish erotic thrillers that dominated the years just prior to Fatal Instinct's release.

In Body Double, his 1984 erotic thriller that the critics were much too quick to judge and discard, Brian De Palma succeeded in creating an unforgettable film that at the same time pays an obvious tribute to the works of Alfred Hitchcock and remains somehow completely his own, coherent with his very own stylistic preferences and vision of filmmaking.

Despite a few thriller elements clearly owed to Claude Chabrol (on whose La femme infidele Unfaithful is loosely based), Lyne presents an unapologetically erotic, surprisingly mature - themed film (amidst much monumentalized puerility) despite its deficiencies and a few throbbing lulls.