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It's not a film about a femme fatale specificly, but rather it's a film about the concept of a femme fatale in general. What I feel De Palma explicitly highlights is the inevitability inherent in this.
May 15, 2024 · 10 of the Most Dangerous Femme Fatales in Cinema. By Alyssa Miller · May 15, 2024. Dangerous and alluring, femme fatales have been a staple archetype in Hollywood since film noir graced the silver screen. While the “fatal female” or “lethal woman” has changed over the years, her prominence as a complicated woman looking to ruin a man ...
Apr 28, 2024 · Famous Femme Fatales Every Film Student Must Know. From Rita Hayworth’s sultry whispers in Gilda to Sharon Stone’s icy manipulations in Basic Instinct, the femme fatale archetype has captivated cinema audiences for decades. In this article, I’ve cherry-picked essential femme fatales from cinema history that are essential knowledge for any ...
'Femme Fatales' was an anthology series which was hosted by the enigmatic Lilith. Each story was a lovely, contemporary crime thriller in the tradition of classic films and beloved TV shows.
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- Lou
- The Mother
- Night Teeth
- Wild Things
- Gypsy
- Haseen Dillruba
- Wingwomen
- Love to Hate You
- Monica, O My Darling
- Bulbbul
This crime thriller is directed by Anna Foerster and follows Allison Janney’s Lou Adell, an elderly loner woman who is a former CIA field agent with over 25 years of experience. After a mother, Hannah (Jurnee Smollett), reaches out to her for help when her daughter Vee (Ridley Asha Bateman) is kidnapped by a murderous hitchhiker (Logan Marshall-Gre...
Directed by Niki Caro, this action thriller follows Jennifer Lopez as the femme-fatale mother/former U.S. military operative codenamed “The Mother” as she tries to protect her estranged daughter from arms dealer Hector Álvarez and his men. However, her relationship with her daughter Zoe (Lucy Paez) is strained as she had to give Zoe away 12 years a...
A movie about femmes who are literally fatal, ‘Night Teeth’ is a horror comedy that is set in a reimagined Los Angeles where vampires and humans are living together in peace, thanks to a truce. In such a world, Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), a substitute chauffeur, gets his first passengers in the form of friends Zoe (Lucy Fry) and Blaire (Debby Ryan...
In this cult classic, we have not one but two femme fatales, Suzie (Neve Campbell) and Kelly (Denise Richards), who chalk out a plan with their high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon). It involves defaming Lombardo with a rape accusation, after which his defamation case against the girls will bring them money from Kelly’s mother’...
‘Gypsy’ deals with the story of a therapist, Jean (Naomi Watts), who gets way too much involved in her patients’ lives than what can be called healthy. One day, unable to restrain herself, Jean tracks down Sidney, the girlfriend of one of her patients. Sidney is an attractive woman, and slowly, the two of them begin to develop an intimacy. In this ...
A romantic thriller directed by Vinil Mathew, ‘Haseen Dillruba’ (Gorgeous Beloved) follows three people: Rishi, his wife Rani, and Rishi’s cousin Neel. When Rishi’s severed hand is found at Rishi and Rani’s house after an explosion, the police suspect Rani of the murder, having proof of her sexual relations with Neel. But the evidence isn’t enough ...
‘Wingwomen’ is a French action comedy directed by Mélanie Laurent. It is based on the graphic novel “The Grand Odalisque” by Florent Ruppert, Jérôme Mulot, and Bastien Vivès. The movie tells the story of two femme fatales/professional thieves, Carole (Laurent) and Alex (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who hire the third member, Sam (Manon Bresch), a professi...
‘Love to Hate You’ is a South Korean web series starring Kim Ok-Vin, Kim Ji-hoon, Teo Yoo, and Go Won-Hee. It is not strictly a femme fatale plot but one that does include a femme fatale in the true sense of the phrase. The series centers on two characters. Yeo Mi-Ran is a lawyer, and though she enjoys sex with men, she doesn’t like them and rather...
Filled with twists and unpredictability from start to finish, ‘Monica, O My Darling’ is an Indian Hindi-language thriller starring Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, and Sikandar Kher. It tells the story of Jayant, a robotics expert, whose life begins to unravel after he gets into a sexual affair with the company’s secretary, Monica Machado...
From director Anvita Dutt Guptan comes this Indian Hindi-language horror story about a femme fatale who is a witch. Set in the Bengal presidency in the 1880s, it tells the story of Bulbbul (Tripti Dimri), a woman who was married off to a man named Thakur Indraneel (Rahul Bose), who is 20 years older and has since been living in his mansion. The fil...
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For now (until new female badasses come and make their mark on cinema), here are the 10 strongest femme fatale characters of the 2000s. Note: There will be spoilers for each entry, so stay clear if you have not seen one of these films and do not want to have plot details revealed.
