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  1. Femme Fatale (2002 film) Femme Fatale. (2002 film) Femme Fatale is a 2002 erotic thriller film [2] [3] written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. [4] Upon its release, Femme Fatale received mixed reviews from film critics ...

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    • Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbra Stanwick) – Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Often imitated, yet never surpassed. Based on James M. Cain’s novel of the same name, Billy Wilder’s noir classic brought audiences one of the most memorable villainesses in Phyllis Dietrichson, profoundly brought to life by Golden Age actress Barbra Stanwick.
    • Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) – Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981) Loosely based on the noir classic Double Indemnity, the neo-noir film Body Heat would opportune Kathleen Turner a career defining role as the seductive man-eater Matty Walker.
    • Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) – Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) In one of the most diligently crafted films on this list, Chinatown is a neo-noir film that embraces post-modernism.
    • Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) – Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) Catherine Tramell is undisputedly the raunchiest entry on this list due to a certain infamous leg crossing scene.
    • Inception – Mal Cobb. “Inception” starts off with a conniving Mal blackmailing her husband Dom, and we could already tell that she is bad news. It isn’t long until we are told that Mal is actually dead in real life, and the Mal we see in the dream sequences is nothing more than a figment of Dom’s imagination.
    • Black Swan – Nina Sayers and Lily. There are two candidates for this entry, because the villainy comes from the dissolving mind of the anxious Nina Sayers.
    • Brick – Laura Dannon. In Rian Johnson’s career-sparking mystery, Brendan is a detective in a juvenile sense; a high school teenager trying to figure out the inner workings of life.
    • Side Effects – Emily Taylor. This is a weird thriller that is based in the minds of its characters without being a metaphorical representation of one’s cranial capacity (see: “Inception”).
  2. Film Movie Reviews Femme fatale2017. Femme fatale. 2017. 1h 40m. Drama ...

    • Phyllis Dietrichson - Double Indemnity. Femme fatales generally fall into two categories as far as looks go. You'll see those with black hair and black outfits (what you would typically expect from the black widow type), or the icy blond who wears white (see: "Body Heat" and "Basic Instinct").
    • Ellen Berent Harland - Leave Her to Heaven. In terms of the brunette leading ladies of the '40s, the two most beautiful were probably Ava Gardner and Gene Tierney, and both effectively weaponized their beauty as femme fatales.
    • Veda Pierce - Mildred Pierce. The two youngest femme fatales on this list — the teenage Veda and Kathryn in "Cruel Intentions" — are arguably the evilest.
    • Kitty Collins - The Killers. Many of the best noirs are adaptations of equally brilliant books, and 1946's "The Killers" is no exception. The movie is based on a story by Ernest Hemingway, and was one of the few adaptations that he didn't despise.
  3. A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.

  4. Here's the plot: "A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris ...

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