If you want a hot movie, watch The Big Easy, The End of the Affair, or The English Patient. Even Basic Instinct looks infinitely more interesting than what appears to be a higher budget Lifetime movie with some PG-13 bondage.
Speaking of Lifetime movies, I was amused by this plot of every Lifetime Original Movie ever listing:
In the comments there's a link to TvTropes's Lifetime Movie of the Week.
- A strong and ravenously independent (yet still somehow vulnerable and naive) woman meets a handsome and wealthy man who she makes very clear she does not need in order to feel complete.
- They have a fairy tale romance.
- She doesn’t really want to marry him, but does anyway, because hell, why not.
- Despite the fact that she now lives in a palace with her new husband and wants for absolutely nothing while having the hottest sex you can have offscreen of a TV-14 production, Wifey is not content. Somehow this is her husband’s fault.
- Since she’s quit her job (for whatever reason) Wifey fills her days obsessing about her husband’s dark, mysterious past. (Variant: it’s her step-daughter’s dark, mysterious past.)
- Wifey does some research and turns up a string of dead ex-wives dating back to antiquity. This manifests as a montage of either internet research or newspaper archives, depending on how old the re-run is.
- Wifey finally turns up the answer, too horrible to bear, but doesn’t leave because why bother.
- She gets trapped in her giant, decadent house with her husband, who now knows she knows, so now she has to die like all the rest.
- The power goes out.
- DEUS EX MACHINA
- Wifey (now Widowey) summarizes the entire movie to her close friend and/or therapist, declaring that “everything will be alright now”.
- Dramatic musical crescendo aaaaaaaaaaand roll credits!
You mentioned 2 hot movies starring Ralph Fiennes. Is that a coincidence or a contributing factor?