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Movies Like Illicit Sensations

If you liked Illicit Sensations (2000), a thriller and drama movie directed by Eric Gibson, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  2. 2Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and mystery

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  3. 3Gone Girl

    Gone Girl (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also mystery and thriller

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

  4. 4Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  5. 5Triage

    Triage (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

  6. 6Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  7. 7A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…

  8. 8Adulterers

    Adulterers (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama

    On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to…

  9. 9Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery and thriller

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

  10. 10Chloe

    Chloe (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David…

  11. 11Shirley

    Shirley (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

  12. 12Sleuth

    Sleuth (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

  13. 13Reptile

    Reptile (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery and thriller

    Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.

  14. 14Tyler Perry's Duplicity

    Tyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned…

  15. 15Crimes of Passion

    Crimes of Passion (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…

  16. 16The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller and drama

    Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his…

  17. 17Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  18. 18Manhattan Night

    Manhattan Night (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a…

  19. 19The Killing

    The Killing (1956)

    ★ 7.6/10Also thriller and drama

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…

  20. 20American Gigolo

    American Gigolo (1980)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and mystery

    Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and…

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