Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
Gleen Close was a psycho for sure. It's just that... you know...
she isn't that sexy.
The rabbit scene was a laugh-riot though.
Sharon Stone - Basic instinct
Sharon Stone really was born to play these 90's erotic movies. Even something otherwise utterly mediocre like Sliver 1993 becomes good because she's in it.
Angelina - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Meh, that's one of the least erotic BDSM scenes in cinema history.
And just an abysmal film overall.
Give me crazy ass
Girl Interrupted Jolie any day.
Good out-of-the-way pick there, Tufts!
Honestly, Disclosure was probably Demi Moore's best role. Pretty average movie overall but she shines in it.
Isabella Rossellini - Blue Velvet
I wouldn't even have thought about Rossellini before seeing it on these lists. I guess she's an inversion of the trope? In that, she appears mysterious and seductive at first, but then quickly turns out to be a severely damaged and exploited woman in need of help.
Femme Fatale subversions... sort of like
Malena?
Unlike the aforementioned Sliver or Disclosure, not even Halle Berry could salvage Swordfish.
Jane Greer in
Out of the Past? Eh, she didn't do much for me. Just lacked the gravitas of the role.
This is a cool gif though.
Another inversion of the trope! (I guess?)
Faye Dunaway did some great stuff in the 60's-to-70's.
Chinatown, Network, Bonnie and Clyde, all superb stuff. So good that I've forgiven her for appearing in that piece of shit
The Champ.
Eva Green in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Easily the best thing in that movie.
Eva Green really has created a niche for herself with these Vamp roles. Playing super-evil villainesses without their clothes on.
Leaving aside the fact that the cast includes Jan-Michael Vincent, David Carradine, and John Saxon
C'mon, Bullitt.
One of those people doesn't deserve to be mentioned next to the others!
2) Lizabeth Scott in Too Late for Tears. Holy shit, you want to talk about a money hungry gold digger? Watch this vicious femme fatale's fangs and claws come out when her and her husband accidentally come upon a bag of money. Super underrated film noir that I myself only saw for the first time recently on Turner Classic Movies.
So is this one of those situations when an actor only has one good role and they nail it absolutely perfectly?
Lizabeth Scott was always good at looking beautiful and dreamy. But I'm still recovering from the staccato acting in Desert Fury.
3) Gene Tierney in
Leave Her to Heaven. Aside from my massive crush on her and the fact that her beauty is rendered in magnificent Technicolor, Tierney is terrifyingly unmoored in her pursuit of
@Yotsuya's pal Cornel Wilde.
@MusterX, I know I missed out on your previous evil Top Theme, but, belatedly, I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more evil scene than when
Tierney famously watches Wilde's crippled younger brother drown because she's jealous of the time Wilde spends with him instead of with her
I've never seen this movie (Why haven't you goaded me to watch this movie yet?). But just from Martin Scorcese's presentation of this movie and that scene in his documentary
A Personal Journey Through American Movies, I believe everything said here 100%.
4) Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna in Cat People. Going in the complete opposition direction, this is a wholly sympathetic portrayal of what I can only describe as an unintentional femme fatale - a femme fatale who wants desperately not to be one and whose struggle not to be one is the narrative and thematic driving force of the film.
That's an interesting and creative pick for sure. Another subversion of the trope.
5) Jean Simmons in Angel Face. The fucking definition of entitled. And Muster, I just said that I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more evil scene than Gene Tierney watching Cornel Wilde's brother drown in Leave Her to Heaven - well, if there's a scene that can give that one a run for its money, it's the last scene in Angel Face.
Damn... forgot that one for my list.
Simmons is kind of unassuming in how downright ineffectual she is as a femme fatale. However, in the game of murder and seduction, she has a MacReady-esque approach to dealing with her situations whenever she fails.
I laughed when I looked at which posters voted for My Japanese Wife Next Door because it was exactly who I would have expected (I voted for it as well)
Lamo.
Yeah... I had exactly the same reaction.<45>