Basic Instinct

Basic Instinct (1992) — watch online the erotic thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. A Carolco Pictures production, 127 minutes, shot in San Francisco.

Detective Nick Curran (Douglas) catches the case: a rock star stabbed to death with an ice pick in his own bed. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell (Stone), a novelist who wrote an identical murder scene in her latest book. Every interrogation turns into a trap — Catherine is calm, sharp, and clearly in control of the room, while Nick finds himself sliding from investigation into obsession.

Screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. Released in March 1992 on a $49 million budget, the film grossed over $352 million worldwide — one of the top-earning thrillers of the decade. The interrogation scene became a permanent fixture of pop culture. Stream Basic Instinct (1992) online on iFILM.