10 Movies Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome Scene

10. The Interrogation - Basic Instinct

Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller Basic Instinct is unquestionably best known for establishing Sharon Stone as an in-demand Hollywood femme fatale, but be honest - how much do you remember outside of that interrogation scene?

Basic Instinct's defining set-piece isn't one of serial killer Catherine Tramell's (Stone) grisly murders, but rather a deliciously trashy scene where she uses her sexuality to taunt the police as they question her about a recent killing.

Stone, oozing intimidating sexiness throughout the scene, wraps the cops around her fingers as she smokes seductively and passes them longing, confident glances.

This is before she commits the pièce de résistance: crossing her legs and fleetingly flashing her nether-regions to the sweaty, slack-jawed cops.

The scene immediately entered the pop-culture pantheon and has been widely parodied - and paused - in the near-three decades since. But beyond this, what of Basic Instinct does anyone ever actually talk about, let alone remember?

Despite its hefty 128-minute runtime, you'll be hard-pressed to find many who can recount much of the plot or even individual scenes outside of this single five-minute sequence.