Basic Instinct: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 4 h 4 min. Two movies following the manipulative and seductive novelist Catherine Tramell.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Basic Instinct (1992)

   2 h 8 min · ★ 7.0

   Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

2. 
   Movie 2

   Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

   1 h 56 min · ★ 5.0

   Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell…