I know it’s hard being in new town let’s
give it a chance okay sometimes
cinematic beauty comes packaged with an
air of mystery and danger that the hero
just cannot resist welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten femme
fatale in modern cinema you have to
leave this one has a fun these women
must be sexy sensual and dangerous for
this list though we’ve looked only at
those post-1980 movie women whom enjoy
using their allure to manipulate men and
reap the rewards thus putting them in
the tradition of the femme fatale
archetype let’s see what we can work out
which is as old as the golden era of
Hollywood itself and we should warn you
a spoiler alert is probably in order
number 10 Laura Dannon brick listen
you’re scratching at the wrong door I
didn’t know him well enough to know the
details of what she was then I just got
one to the downfall for some getting
caught up in a drug-fueled web of lies
and mystery would be emotionally Dee
railing not for Laura Dannon though who
keeps a cool head when everyone around
her is losing theirs who is this I’ll
hang up you don’t know me I’ll save you
some time I know everyone and I have all
the time in the world follow your youth
brick is neo-noir at its finest drawing
heavily from classic hard-boiled
detective stories and dannan is as
deadly a femme fatale as any who’ve come
previously you trust me now
her butter wouldn’t melt Pixy girl
village has the audience as hooked as
the film’s protagonist Brendan you’re
quite upheld ah where are you going Oh
but surely she couldn’t be an undercover
evil genius could she I don’t know but
it sounded like you did and body’s got a
right to pick arias number nine xenia
onatopp Goldeneye zinnias are gave now
on that top on and top on the top Bond
girls are known for being beautiful but
they aren’t usually this lethal
the euphemistically named onatopp is an
operative of Yanis and James eye
catching antagonists enjoy it while it
lasts very words have inspired played by
famke janssen this girl boils the femme
fatale rolled down to biological basics
guys always want to have sex with zhenya
and she is more than happy to comply but
the outcome can be fairly sinister well
I must say I’ve had a lovely evening you
once again the pleasure was all yours
onatopp looks could kill but her thighs
definitely will it’s a deadly spin on
the notion of having a crush on someone
number 8 Lynn Bracken LA Confidential
would you care for a drink yeah Scotch
straight on the one hand an exploited
sexualized call girl on the other a
clever confidence manipulator you have a
thing for helping women don’t you
officer white we’re never too sure on
whose side Lynn Bracken is or if she
even has a sight at all wondered when
you might knock on my door again officer
wife played by Kim Basinger she’s a
prostitute made to look like the famous
actress Veronica Lake and she seems to
have the entire LAPD at her beautified
beck and call
you’re the first man in five years who
didn’t tell me I look like Veronica Lake
inside of a minute look better than
Veronica Lake double-crossing comes
standard in this movie and bracken more
than holds her own with the big boys
some men get the world others get EXO %
a trip to Arizona
number seven Rachel Bladerunner I’m
Rachel Deckard a nonhuman genetically
engineered being known as a replicant
rachel is Eldon Tyrells most recent
experiment an Android implanted with a
real person’s memories so that she might
think she is human you’re reading a
magazine you come across a full-page
nude photo of a girl is this testing
whether I’m a replicant or a lesbian mr.
Deckard just answer the questions please
she’s not exactly villainous but she’s
also not someone you’d want to fall in
love with either kiss me in true film
noir style however our hero Harrison
Ford’s Rick Deckard does exactly that
despite being tasked with retiring her I
want you
which means on me played by Sean young
she has the look and she has the lines
I’m not in the business
she’s a futuristic femme fatale heavily
indebted to the ones of yesteryear I am
the business number six mal Cobb
inception I’m asking you to take a leap
of faith
it’s rare that the description a
dream-like visit could be attributed to
a female character and not be a positive
thing your world is not real simple
little thought that changes everything
malkov is Dominic Cobbs deceased wife
and the nightmarish subconscious
projection that serves as the main
antagonist in Inception
I can’t stay with her anymore because
she doesn’t exist
a ghostly character played by Maggie el
Cuchillo
she is beautiful but she has us on the
edge of sanity a creation of Dawn’s own
neurosis the clues in her name what are
you doing here I thought you might be
missing me
mal Cobb is malevolent maladjusted and
malicious you keep telling yourself what
you know but what do you believe what do
you feel
number five lore a sh and Lily watts
femme fatale do you know what time it is
our next entry takes the femme fatale
roll out of the supporting and into the
leading giving this film noir it’s to
the point title
careful Rebecca Romain plays the leading
lady here or should we say leading
ladies as Laura Ashe
she’s a double-crossing diamond thief
for hire as Lily Watts
she’s a well-placed well-timed
doppelganger call me Lily okay
set against a Parisian backdrop this
film keeps us glued to the screen in
more ways than one as the plot twists
are just as beautiful and seductive as
the female lead number 4
suzanne stone maretto to die for suzanne
maretto is my married name my own name
is suzanne stone with an appropriate
surname given her heart is likely made
of it
suzanne stone was a breakthrough role
for nicole kidman on TV is where we
learn about who we really are because
what’s the point of doing anything
worthwhile if nobody’s watching the
aspiring wife of the wealthy larry
maretto
she’s a weather girl with her eyes on
becoming a nationally recognized news
anchor it has always been my dream to
become such a messenger I look to you
gentlemen now to make that dream a
reality
when maretto starts asking for kids and
a family life however stone doesn’t take
kindly to their conflicting ambitions I
love kids
I absolutely love them but a woman it
might feel with the baby has two strikes
against her where most would just get a
divorce and move on this woman trades
sexual favors in a bid to arrange her
husband’s homicide and you have to do
you have to do it’s an outrageous
solution that only a femme fatale could
concoct
number three Bridget Gregory the last
seduction I know what a friend of mine
did yeah she had her husband killed dad
Bridget Gregory is arguably the most
sociopathic character on this list and
she steps into third place by stepping
over more than a few dead bodies I want
you to go back with me we really do and
all I have to do is kill someone while
you go apartment hunting we can do it
together played by Linda Fiorentino she
switches on the seduction like she’s
turning on a tap she sets up murders
like she’s taking out the trash okay
who who do you want me to erase what do
you want me to kill hmm this Cahill guy
in New York Brigid becomes embroiled
with Mike as she’s on the run from her
husband clay and the climax of this
movie involves a confrontation of
disturbing proportions between all three
so you were gonna have me kill your
husband rarely seen without a cigarette
in her mouth she’s smoking hot and
seriously dangerous I can be very nice
to each other
number two
Maddy Walker body heat I know you you’re
the one that doesn’t like to talk about
the heat too bad I tell you about my
chance the Floridian summer provides a
sweltering setting for our next movie
and our scintillating second place er
sure can flex her fatally feminine
muscles I love it Maddy Walker is
another wife looking to bunk off her
husband and her lover and unscrupulous
lawyer Ned Racine volunteers to do the
dirty work wanna see you again he’ll be
dead as the plot progresses Maddie gets
Ned increasingly tangled up in the
details of the crime making him the
prime suspect in the investigation
there’s some men once they get a whiff
of it they trail you’re like a hound a
master manipulator and a serial seducer
Maddie spins the most complicated web of
lies of any femme fatale on this list my
temperature runs a couple of degrees
high around 100
I don’t mind the engine or something
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
my name’s Bonnie Bonnie castle is a
no-shit father I can take most of the to
finality Sondra North America come you
know me play and this has proved
something I’ve always suspected that
vanity and Happiness are incompatible
softer then satin
and the stars
Cheers my friends call me Catherine what
Manny Vasquez used to call you bitch
mostly number 1 Catherine Tramell Basic
Instinct Sharon Stone is no stranger to
the femme fatale role as she first
demonstrated in Total Recall the jobs
real the agency set it up oh sure but
her Basic Instinct beauty Catherine
Tramell is trouble and temptation
personified something that’s captured in
one of the most iconic scenes in
Hollywood history it’ll make any rules
NIC I go with the flow a crime novelist
who takes her background research very
seriously she’s one of the most
memorable examples of this character
type in modern filmmaking as the movie
itself is a conscious effort to update
the film noir genre could I change into
something more appropriate let me take a
minute come on in she uses men and women
equally
she doesn’t heed morals and quite
famously she also doesn’t need underwear
it’s nice
she’s femme fatale finery and a cut
above the risk a rest you’re gonna make
a terrific character Nick do you agree
with our list which femme fatale did we
forget well I heard a sound last night
that sounded sort of like a car crash
and well I want to know if there was an
accident on Mulholland Drive can you
tell me what happened
for more devilishly dangerous top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com you look so familiar
haven’t we met before somewhere
only in my dreams
give it a chance okay sometimes
cinematic beauty comes packaged with an
air of mystery and danger that the hero
just cannot resist welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten femme
fatale in modern cinema you have to
leave this one has a fun these women
must be sexy sensual and dangerous for
this list though we’ve looked only at
those post-1980 movie women whom enjoy
using their allure to manipulate men and
reap the rewards thus putting them in
the tradition of the femme fatale
archetype let’s see what we can work out
which is as old as the golden era of
Hollywood itself and we should warn you
a spoiler alert is probably in order
number 10 Laura Dannon brick listen
you’re scratching at the wrong door I
didn’t know him well enough to know the
details of what she was then I just got
one to the downfall for some getting
caught up in a drug-fueled web of lies
and mystery would be emotionally Dee
railing not for Laura Dannon though who
keeps a cool head when everyone around
her is losing theirs who is this I’ll
hang up you don’t know me I’ll save you
some time I know everyone and I have all
the time in the world follow your youth
brick is neo-noir at its finest drawing
heavily from classic hard-boiled
detective stories and dannan is as
deadly a femme fatale as any who’ve come
previously you trust me now
her butter wouldn’t melt Pixy girl
village has the audience as hooked as
the film’s protagonist Brendan you’re
quite upheld ah where are you going Oh
but surely she couldn’t be an undercover
evil genius could she I don’t know but
it sounded like you did and body’s got a
right to pick arias number nine xenia
onatopp Goldeneye zinnias are gave now
on that top on and top on the top Bond
girls are known for being beautiful but
they aren’t usually this lethal
the euphemistically named onatopp is an
operative of Yanis and James eye
catching antagonists enjoy it while it
lasts very words have inspired played by
famke janssen this girl boils the femme
fatale rolled down to biological basics
guys always want to have sex with zhenya
and she is more than happy to comply but
the outcome can be fairly sinister well
I must say I’ve had a lovely evening you
once again the pleasure was all yours
onatopp looks could kill but her thighs
definitely will it’s a deadly spin on
the notion of having a crush on someone
number 8 Lynn Bracken LA Confidential
would you care for a drink yeah Scotch
straight on the one hand an exploited
sexualized call girl on the other a
clever confidence manipulator you have a
thing for helping women don’t you
officer white we’re never too sure on
whose side Lynn Bracken is or if she
even has a sight at all wondered when
you might knock on my door again officer
wife played by Kim Basinger she’s a
prostitute made to look like the famous
actress Veronica Lake and she seems to
have the entire LAPD at her beautified
beck and call
you’re the first man in five years who
didn’t tell me I look like Veronica Lake
inside of a minute look better than
Veronica Lake double-crossing comes
standard in this movie and bracken more
than holds her own with the big boys
some men get the world others get EXO %
a trip to Arizona
number seven Rachel Bladerunner I’m
Rachel Deckard a nonhuman genetically
engineered being known as a replicant
rachel is Eldon Tyrells most recent
experiment an Android implanted with a
real person’s memories so that she might
think she is human you’re reading a
magazine you come across a full-page
nude photo of a girl is this testing
whether I’m a replicant or a lesbian mr.
Deckard just answer the questions please
she’s not exactly villainous but she’s
also not someone you’d want to fall in
love with either kiss me in true film
noir style however our hero Harrison
Ford’s Rick Deckard does exactly that
despite being tasked with retiring her I
want you
which means on me played by Sean young
she has the look and she has the lines
I’m not in the business
she’s a futuristic femme fatale heavily
indebted to the ones of yesteryear I am
the business number six mal Cobb
inception I’m asking you to take a leap
of faith
it’s rare that the description a
dream-like visit could be attributed to
a female character and not be a positive
thing your world is not real simple
little thought that changes everything
malkov is Dominic Cobbs deceased wife
and the nightmarish subconscious
projection that serves as the main
antagonist in Inception
I can’t stay with her anymore because
she doesn’t exist
a ghostly character played by Maggie el
Cuchillo
she is beautiful but she has us on the
edge of sanity a creation of Dawn’s own
neurosis the clues in her name what are
you doing here I thought you might be
missing me
mal Cobb is malevolent maladjusted and
malicious you keep telling yourself what
you know but what do you believe what do
you feel
number five lore a sh and Lily watts
femme fatale do you know what time it is
our next entry takes the femme fatale
roll out of the supporting and into the
leading giving this film noir it’s to
the point title
careful Rebecca Romain plays the leading
lady here or should we say leading
ladies as Laura Ashe
she’s a double-crossing diamond thief
for hire as Lily Watts
she’s a well-placed well-timed
doppelganger call me Lily okay
set against a Parisian backdrop this
film keeps us glued to the screen in
more ways than one as the plot twists
are just as beautiful and seductive as
the female lead number 4
suzanne stone maretto to die for suzanne
maretto is my married name my own name
is suzanne stone with an appropriate
surname given her heart is likely made
of it
suzanne stone was a breakthrough role
for nicole kidman on TV is where we
learn about who we really are because
what’s the point of doing anything
worthwhile if nobody’s watching the
aspiring wife of the wealthy larry
maretto
she’s a weather girl with her eyes on
becoming a nationally recognized news
anchor it has always been my dream to
become such a messenger I look to you
gentlemen now to make that dream a
reality
when maretto starts asking for kids and
a family life however stone doesn’t take
kindly to their conflicting ambitions I
love kids
I absolutely love them but a woman it
might feel with the baby has two strikes
against her where most would just get a
divorce and move on this woman trades
sexual favors in a bid to arrange her
husband’s homicide and you have to do
you have to do it’s an outrageous
solution that only a femme fatale could
concoct
number three Bridget Gregory the last
seduction I know what a friend of mine
did yeah she had her husband killed dad
Bridget Gregory is arguably the most
sociopathic character on this list and
she steps into third place by stepping
over more than a few dead bodies I want
you to go back with me we really do and
all I have to do is kill someone while
you go apartment hunting we can do it
together played by Linda Fiorentino she
switches on the seduction like she’s
turning on a tap she sets up murders
like she’s taking out the trash okay
who who do you want me to erase what do
you want me to kill hmm this Cahill guy
in New York Brigid becomes embroiled
with Mike as she’s on the run from her
husband clay and the climax of this
movie involves a confrontation of
disturbing proportions between all three
so you were gonna have me kill your
husband rarely seen without a cigarette
in her mouth she’s smoking hot and
seriously dangerous I can be very nice
to each other
number two
Maddy Walker body heat I know you you’re
the one that doesn’t like to talk about
the heat too bad I tell you about my
chance the Floridian summer provides a
sweltering setting for our next movie
and our scintillating second place er
sure can flex her fatally feminine
muscles I love it Maddy Walker is
another wife looking to bunk off her
husband and her lover and unscrupulous
lawyer Ned Racine volunteers to do the
dirty work wanna see you again he’ll be
dead as the plot progresses Maddie gets
Ned increasingly tangled up in the
details of the crime making him the
prime suspect in the investigation
there’s some men once they get a whiff
of it they trail you’re like a hound a
master manipulator and a serial seducer
Maddie spins the most complicated web of
lies of any femme fatale on this list my
temperature runs a couple of degrees
high around 100
I don’t mind the engine or something
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
my name’s Bonnie Bonnie castle is a
no-shit father I can take most of the to
finality Sondra North America come you
know me play and this has proved
something I’ve always suspected that
vanity and Happiness are incompatible
softer then satin
and the stars
Cheers my friends call me Catherine what
Manny Vasquez used to call you bitch
mostly number 1 Catherine Tramell Basic
Instinct Sharon Stone is no stranger to
the femme fatale role as she first
demonstrated in Total Recall the jobs
real the agency set it up oh sure but
her Basic Instinct beauty Catherine
Tramell is trouble and temptation
personified something that’s captured in
one of the most iconic scenes in
Hollywood history it’ll make any rules
NIC I go with the flow a crime novelist
who takes her background research very
seriously she’s one of the most
memorable examples of this character
type in modern filmmaking as the movie
itself is a conscious effort to update
the film noir genre could I change into
something more appropriate let me take a
minute come on in she uses men and women
equally
she doesn’t heed morals and quite
famously she also doesn’t need underwear
it’s nice
she’s femme fatale finery and a cut
above the risk a rest you’re gonna make
a terrific character Nick do you agree
with our list which femme fatale did we
forget well I heard a sound last night
that sounded sort of like a car crash
and well I want to know if there was an
accident on Mulholland Drive can you
tell me what happened
for more devilishly dangerous top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com you look so familiar
haven’t we met before somewhere
only in my dreams
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