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1182:(1992) — began showing up on YouTube with the government of India's Central Board of Film Certification header; an indication that India's long-standing anti-pornography stance did not extend to R-rated thrillers of the DTV era, and that the fan base for erotic thrillers in India might be large. Continuing through the present day, the Bollywood erotic thrillers include
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movements of the 20th century. These "high and low" markets for the erotic thriller overlapped but did not compete, and each fed off the other financially and artistically. The "blockbuster" erotic thrillers boosted sales for small players, who sold films to DTV markets by underscoring the similarities between their films and works by the majors.
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Internet. The increased availability of online pornography in the 1990s arguably diminished the significance of the genre. Furthermore, by
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With smaller budgets than studio films and less high-profile stars, the DTV market became hugely profitable. Between 1985 and 2005, over 700 DTV erotic thrillers were produced. In sheer size alone, the DTV erotic thriller surely demands consideration as one of the largest, specifically
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Hollywood's shift to big-budget franchises is an aversion to "'the business of making mid-budget character dramas that might or might not include physical bonding.'" As Carlee
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became more important in the direct-to-video market, as retailers stocked more copies of blockbuster films instead of more titles. For these reasons many of the pioneers of the erotic thriller film, such as Axis Films
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became notable actors in DTV films. Axis Films
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is seen as the pinnacle of the erotic thriller craze, some argue it also signaled the genre's demise. Writer
Nicholas Barber opined the film "took every aspect of the erotic thriller to such outrageous extremes that there was nowhere left for any film in the same vein to go".
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in 1987 was seen as the first visible success in the genre, as it was a critical and commercial success. The film was a mixture of psychological thriller action with brief scenes of softcore sex and illicit romance. Spending eight weeks in the No. 1 spot at the box office,
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image, DTV titles were able to meet demand for content that was geared towards adults but did not stray into outright pornography. Gerry Weber, former chief operating officer for
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film genre contains subgenres other than the noir crime film and murder mystery, including the psychological thriller, or suspense stories of illicit romance and sexual obsession. Thus, the erotic thriller participates in several genres and film styles at once, such as
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ignored or underfunded, or go directly to streaming, or become serialized in some way. And sex scenes don't appeal to the four quadrants, do they, if the four quadrants contain children as a key audience demographic lumped in with the rest of the movie-going public.
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framework that they were able to get away with the sexual explicitness that would set the tone for the ensuing decade: 'Film noir has a formality and shape to it. Its very familiar form allowed people to accept more readily the daring content that we were
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erotic thriller wave from 1985 to 2005 produced over 700 films. By the end of the 1990s, market saturation, audience fatigue, cultural changes and the rise of the
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in the femme fatale role, earned only $ 9,851,610 at the North
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Although some of these titles may not fall under the precise definition of "erotic thriller", they all fell under the thriller category (psychological or neo-noir), contained sex and/or nudity, with marketing that emphasized these lurid
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grossed more than $ 320 million worldwide, making it the biggest film of that year. Hoping to repeat the film's success, Hollywood studios released a spate of erotic thriller films over the next several years, including
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in all its forms, sniping about 'hating rugrats' and holding intimidatingly high-powered careers as stockbrokers and novelists". The most blatant depiction of the femme fatale is the character of
Rebecca Carlson, played by
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has shifted the dynamic in film productions to where actors and actresses feel less pressure to do nude scenes, and to feel more power to advocate for themselves against potentially exploitative situations.
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propel the genre into the near future, where sex, obsession, and erotic desire are played out in hypermodern settings mediated by potentially destructive technologies.
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with the intention to revitalize the erotic thriller genre, but despite the film performing well for the streaming service, those plans had reportedly been abandoned.
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as weapons. Furthermore, some films saw the male protagonist ultimately triumph over the femme fatale, subduing the threat she represents.
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deemed the 'neosexual revolution,' 'a tremendous cultural and social transformation of sexuality during the 1980s and 1990s'".
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3155:"Netflix's 365 Days Trilogy Sets Rare Rotten Tomatoes Record"
2863:"The end of erotica? How Hollywood fell out of love with sex"
2641:"The Erotic Thriller Is Still the Best Way to Talk About Sex"
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Getting Away With It: The Erotic Thriller and Its Fantasies
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2615:"Who killed the erotic thriller? | Inside Cinema"
2089:"Erotic Thrillers Owe Everything to Home Viewers"
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1719:"The Gruesome Demise of the 90s Erotic Thriller"
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3450:Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir
2821:"Direct-to-Video Family Films Are Hitting Home"
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1953:"Basic Instinct (1992) – Financial Information"
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3209:"Can HBO's The Idol Bring Back '80s Sleaze?"
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118:According to British film studies professor
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3073:"Where have all the erotic thrillers gone?"
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3474:The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema
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3153:Burlingame, Russ (August 26, 2022).
3040:Kenigsberg, Ben (January 23, 2014).
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1818:"The Erotic Thriller's Little Death"
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5855:List of American independent films
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2613:Bray, Catherine (April 22, 2020),
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3179:Latif, Leila (October 19, 2021).
2986:"Let women make erotic thrillers"
2984:Bender, Abbey (October 2, 2019).
2861:Helmore, Edward (June 16, 2019).
2675:Otterson, Joe (August 19, 2022).
2498:Nelson, Carrie (March 13, 2012).
2456:Clarke, Cath (January 21, 2010).
2428:Barber, Nicholas (June 3, 2021).
1501:Juzwiak, Rich (August 13, 2021).
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1071:(2013) and the South Korean film
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3432:. New York City: Harpercollins.
2819:Matzer, Marla (April 16, 1997).
2458:"The double life of Atom Egoyan"
1816:Roberts, Soraya (May 24, 2019).
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5268:Documentary Film Movement
5176:American eccentric cinema
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5248:Cinema of Transgression
4382:Cinema of Transgression
3327:Andrews, David (2006).
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5398:New French Extremity
5308:German Expressionist
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5081:Contemporary Western
4861:Environmental issues
4392:New French Extremity
4350:New French Extremity
4175:Softcore pornography
4170:Hardcore pornography
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3469:Williams, Linda Ruth
3453:. New York: Twayne.
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1068:Stranger by the Lake
367:Therese and Isabelle
18:Erotic thriller film
6578:1980s introductions
5586:Children and family
5560:Yugoslav Black Wave
5433:Nuevo Cine Mexicano
5318:Nigerian Golden Age
5283:European art cinema
5186:Australian New Wave
3129:Fifty Shades Darker
3078:The Washington Post
3019:The Washington Post
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1371:Don't Worry Darling
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783:Post-classic period
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652:followed suit with
488:Single White Female
476:A Kiss Before Dying
349:(1960). Though the
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120:Linda Ruth Williams
6136:Mixed martial arts
5884:Major film studios
5478:Pure Film Movement
5458:Polish Film School
5358:Italian neorealist
5338:Hong Kong New Wave
4940:Mexican sex comedy
3997:German underground
3242:The New York Times
3214:The New York Times
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5488:Romanian New Wave
5363:Japanese New Wave
5029:Sword and sorcery
4945:Nazi exploitation
4527:Mumbai underworld
4283:Planetary romance
3302:Lo Specchio Scuro
2895:Lo Specchio Scuro
2826:Los Angeles Times
2003:Los Angeles Times
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1604:Lo Specchio Scuro
1301:I May Destroy You
1268:The Next 365 Days
1227:(2017), in which
1146:The Boy Next Door
979:people at the top
887:Wachowski sisters
717:Two Moon Junction
654:The Movie Channel
599:sexually harassed
530:Indecent Proposal
482:Consenting Adults
458:Presumed Innocent
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5555:Vulgar auteurism
5550:Toronto New Wave
5540:Telefoni Bianchi
5535:Sword-and-sandal
5353:Italian futurist
5348:Iranian New Wave
5211:British New Wave
5024:Sword-and-sandal
4905:Rape and revenge
4846:Mouth of Garbage
4692:Tentacle erotica
4640:Goona-goona epic
4620:Extraterrestrial
4507:Heroic bloodshed
4141:Occult detective
3972:Christmas horror
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1401:Vulgar auteurism
1332:Fatal Attraction
1173:Animal Instincts
1114:Deadly Seduction
1063:art-house cinema
983:Christian values
970:Basic Instinct 2
922:Mulholland Drive
909:'s media satire
863:David Cronenberg
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821:Linda Fiorentino
817:William Friedkin
789:box office flops
759:Cultural factors
729:Red Shoe Diaries
446:Fatal Attraction
440:Fatal Attraction
403:William Friedkin
341:Alfred Hitchcock
294:Double Indemnity
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200:Linda Fiorentino
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6429:Romantic comedy
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5984:Semidocumentary
5909:Minimalist film
5899:Message picture
5894:Maximalist film
5788:Database cinema
5771:Computer screen
5731:Black-and-white
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5654:
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5520:Soviet parallel
5443:Parallel cinema
5438:Pan-Indian film
5368:Kammerspielfilm
5303:French New Wave
5223:Budapest school
5206:Brighton School
5181:New Objectivity
5163:
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5126:Science fiction
4758:Bruceploitation
4667:Girls with guns
4613:Turksploitation
4487:Gentleman thief
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4238:Science fiction
4084:Minimalist film
4079:Maximalist film
4057:Science fiction
4017:Japanese horror
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1978:"Sliver (1993)"
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1406:Social thriller
1392:
1338:American Gigolo
1052:
1043:#MeToo movement
952:
936:Stanley Kubrick
836:
785:
761:
738:Chicago Tribune
634:family-friendly
632:as part of its
619:direct-to-video
611:
595:Michael Douglas
557:and written by
413:Dressed to Kill
400:
336:Dressed to Kill
303:Kathleen Turner
279:
254:American Gigolo
245:
228:Volkmar Sigusch
178:
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64:sexual thriller
60:erotic thriller
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5919:Modernist film
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5131:Singing cowboy
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4967:Shoshimin-eiga
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4955:Nunsploitation
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4950:Pornochanchada
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4603:Blaxploitation
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2836:
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2799:
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2344:
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2332:
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2317:
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2275:
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1932:
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1388:
1229:Rosario Dawson
1167:Body Chemistry
1106:Dating to Kill
1074:The Handmaiden
1051:
1048:
1041:Moreover, the
1009:Gomes writes,
965:Basic Instinct
951:
948:
931:Eyes Wide Shut
895:Basic Instinct
891:Basic Instinct
834:Basic Instinct
826:Basic Instinct
815:, directed by
809:Basic Instinct
784:
781:
760:
757:
752:Fatal Instinct
743:Leonard Maltin
699:Shannon Whirry
683:Joan Severance
679:Andrew Stevens
610:
607:
591:Barry Levinson
589:, directed by
555:Paul Verhoeven
553:, directed by
550:Basic Instinct
542:Color of Night
512:Final Analysis
500:Unlawful Entry
399:
396:
362:Radley Metzger
358:gothic fantasy
331:Brian De Palma
278:
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260:Color of Night
244:
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195:Basic Instinct
177:
174:
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140:Nina K. Martin
136:
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98:Basic Instinct
93:Paul Verhoeven
76:sexual fantasy
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6603:2020s in film
6601:
6599:
6598:2010s in film
6596:
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6593:2000s in film
6591:
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6588:1990s in film
6586:
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6583:1980s in film
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6480:
6477:
6475:
6474:Sci-fi horror
6472:
6470:
6469:Sci-fi comedy
6467:
6465:
6464:Sci-fi action
6462:
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6387:Giant-monster
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6305:Comedy horror
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5964:Postmodernist
5962:
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5957:
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5954:Participatory
5952:
5950:
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5924:Musical short
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5835:Found footage
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5741:Cinéma vérité
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5979:Sceneggiata
5867:Live action
5845:Independent
5825:Film Ă clef
5793:Docufiction
5761:Compilation
5736:Blockbuster
5704:Traditional
5699:Stop-motion
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5493:Slow cinema
5483:Remodernist
5298:Free Cinema
5278:Erra Cinema
5243:Cinema Novo
5121:Revisionist
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4566:Psychedelic
4554:Apocalyptic
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4315:Slow cinema
4288:Space opera
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3866:Fantastique
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3736:Video essay
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2991:The Outline
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2931:Lady Beware
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1863:Martin 2007
1851:Keesey 2001
1797:Palmer 1994
1672:Martin 2007
1636:Martin 2007
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1544:Keesey 2001
1444:Martin 2007
1380:The Voyeurs
1366:Adrian Lyne
1355:The Voyeurs
1249:trilogy on
1102:Passionflix
917:David Lynch
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422:Body Double
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6567:Categories
6261:Historical
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6116:and themes
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5934:Neorealist
5929:Mythopoeia
5914:Mockbuster
5879:Low-budget
5820:Featurette
5653:technique,
5651:By format,
5530:Surrealist
5525:Structural
5403:New German
5393:Neorealist
5388:Mumblecore
5328:Heimatfilm
5288:Film d'art
5253:Cinéma pur
4987:South Seas
4960:Sex report
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960:entirely.
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586:Disclosure
567:psychopath
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6479:Superhero
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6256:Economics
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6202:Christian
6195:Animation
6170:Animation
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5293:Film gris
5164:or period
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5009:Superhero
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4709:Jidaigeki
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4477:Detective
4435:Buddy cop
4425:Body swap
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4335:Financial
4298:Tokusatsu
4293:Steampunk
4209:Bromantic
4181:Malayalam
4160:Crossover
4136:Detective
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4052:Religious
3908:Tech noir
3903:Pulp noir
3893:Film noir
3768:Melodrama
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3672:Slapstick
3662:Screwball
3622:Gross out
3585:Christian
3563:Adventure
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6295:Cannibal
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4457:Colonial
4447:Cannibal
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4278:New Wave
4273:Military
4231:Thriller
4199:Romantic
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4067:Splatter
3962:Cannibal
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6266:Slavery
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