History FemmeFatale / LiveActionFilms

* Summer in ''Film/DefinitelyMaybe'' is the sexually adventurous "bitch" that destroyed her boyfriend's career to advance her own.

* Jessica from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. She's a toon clearly created by some artist to be the perfect example, from her dangerous good looks and sultry voice to the slinky way she moves. Even her smile is suspicious. [[spoiler: It turns out that she's the RedHerring and was telling the truth all along. She really isn't bad! Just drawn that way.]]

* Madelline Linscott from ''Film/TheBlackDahlia'' is the [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine Dark Feminine]] to the sweet angelic Kay's Light Feminine, hangs around seedy lesbian bars, and has affairs behind her rich parents' back. It's in constant doubt as to whether she can be trusted. [[spoiler: Turns out she can't, and she's the one who murders Dwight while dressed as a man.]]

* Brigid O'Shaughnessy from ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'' is one of the earliest examples in noir fiction. She's directly involved in betrayal, theft, and several murders all while trying to play innocent to (not to mention seduce) the lead character throughout most of the film and the book.
* Kathie Moffat ([[Creator/StevenMoffat no relation]]) from ''Film/OutOfThePast'' is the quintessential film noir example. She lies, steals, kills at least three people, and conspires to commit another murder, uses sex to ensnare men to do what she wants, and looks great in a cocktail dress.

* The eponymous ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' is alongside aforementioned Catherine when it comes to modern iconic examples of this and Nikita managed to inspire other examples listed here such as Ada Wong from ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. A professional assassin who uses her sex appeal to murder for the French government, Nikita is actually a subversion and deeply sympathetic example being a BrokenBird who’s drug addiction was used against her by her government handlers and is torn between her work and genuine {{Love Interest|s}} Marco who wants to try and help Nikita escape from the system.

* Another great noir performance by Creator/BarbaraStanwyck as Martha Ivers in ''Film/TheStrangeLoveOfMarthaIvers''. She kills her aunt as a young child and stops at nothing to make sure no one finds out.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': Angelica is very flirtatious towards Jack and tends to manipulate him to do her father's bidding. The mermaids use their charms to lure sailors to their deaths.
* Europa trilogy by Creator/LarsVonTrier has two examples. Because these are Lars Von Trier movies, both characters are examples of ruthless deconstruction of the Femme Fatale trope, both utterly fail their agenda and turn out to be extreme versions of JerkassWoobie trope.

* Tae-ju in ''Film/Thirst2009'', who seduces Sang-hyun, [[spoiler:convinces him to murder her husband and turn her into a vampire, then turns into a gleeful killer]].
* Jessica from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. She's a toon clearly created by some artist to be the perfect example, from her dangerous good looks and sultry voice to the slinky way she moves. Even her smile is suspicious. [[spoiler: It turns out that she's the RedHerring and was telling the truth all along. She really isn't bad! Just drawn that way.]]
* Viper from ''Film/TheWolverine'', kills with a kiss… [[KissOfDeath literally]]. She does know how to use her considerable sexuality as a weapon.
%% * Emma Frost in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', who is then replaced by Angel. Mystique also [[StartOfDarkness starts to blossom into one]].
* ''Film/NakedWeapon'' is all about a MurderInc organization that kidnaps and trains young Asian girls to seduce and kill their male targets. Their favorite method of killing the target is to ''rip out the spinal cord'', which they can do in the blink of an eye. Often, they will first have sex with the mark and then offer a massage. Cue the spine attack.

* Vivian, from noir classic ''Film/TheBigSleep,'' is set up to be the typical Femme Fatale, such as being involved in several shady deals, gambling, and [[spoiler:admitting to help cover up a murder]] all while trying to manipulate detective Marlowe into doing what she wants. Where the novel plays the trope completely straight, the film changes up the game by making her turn heroic halfway through the picture instead.
* In the classic noir, ''Film/{{Fallen Angel|1945}}'', Linda Darnell plays Stella who doesn't care about double-crossing romantic partners or stealing.
* ''Film/TooLateForTears'': Jane (played by Lizabeth Scott) is the cruelest, most without principle femme fatale ever put to screen.
* ''Film/AForeignAffair'' has Creator/MarleneDietrich as a woman with Nazi affiliations who has an American Captain lusting for her.
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', regardless of what Ava's motivations were, she does use her charm to manipulate Caleb. In fact, this is even invoked as a TuringTest by her creator.
-->'''Nathan:''' Ava was a rat in a maze. And I gave her one way out. To escape, she’d have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy, and she did. Now if that isn’t true AI, then what the fuck is?
* Katherine "Kitty" March from ''Film/ScarletStreet'', '''and how'''. A model turned amateur scam artist, she wraps the main character around her finger with lies, faux sweetness, and alleged helplessness. Meanwhile, she and her ''real'' boyfriend completely ruin the lead's life in the process.

* ''Film/{{Detour}}'': Vera sees through Roberts' ruse and blackmails him. She insists that they should milk the situation for all they can, instead of trying to distance themselves from it.
* The German movie ''Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer'' has a rare example where the Femme Fatale is UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}. She is a [[TheChanteuse nightclub singer]] who seduces a closeted public prosecutor so that he can then be blackmailed by political opponents. Previously the singer's boyfriend had been arrested by the authorities for public indecency (homosexuality being illegal at that point in time in the 1950s) and she was offered a reduction to his sentence in return.
* Madelline Linscott from ''Film/TheBlackDahlia'' is the [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine Dark Feminine]] to the sweet angelic Kay's Light Feminine, hangs around seedy lesbian bars, and has affairs behind her rich parents' back. It's in constant doubt as to whether she can be trusted. [[spoiler: Turns out she can't, and she's the one who murders Dwight while dressed as a man.]]
* ''Film/TheDreamers'' evokes this trope with Isabelle - who is comfortable [[IncestSubtext being naked around her brother and watching him masturbate]]. There's something very erotically dangerous about her - so it's no surprise that when the movie turns out to be happening during the 1968 Paris riots that Isabelle and her brother immediately get involved. Isabelle's actress Creator/EvaGreen nearly got typecast as Femme Fatales after this.

* ''Film/FemmeFatale2002'' naturally has as its main character a female thief like this, played by Creator/RebeccaRomijn.
* ''Film/DeadlyPickup'' has Breezy Johnson, who [[DepravedBisexual seduces men and women alike]], kills them while having sex with them, and steals their valuables.
* Barbara Matthews in ''Film/DriveACrookedRoad''. Her boyfriend Steve sends her to act as a HoneyTrap to recruit Eddie into being the gang's GetawayDriver.

* Vera in ''Film/{{Quicksand}}'' is a low-rent version of this. It is implied that a lot has happened in her life before she started working as a cashier in Dan's favourite diner. She latches on to Dan as shortcut to getting her longed-for [[PrettyInMink mink coat]]. She doesn't tell him to steal for her--he does that off his own bat--but once she finds out, she is happy to encourage him. And, when things go south, she rats him out to the cops in an attempt to save her own skin.

* The eponymous ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' is alongside aforementioned Catherine when it comes to modern iconic examples of this and Nikita managed to inspire other examples listed here such as Ada Wong from ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. A professional assassin who uses her sex appeal to murder for the French government, Nikita is actually a more subverted and deeply sympathetic example being a BrokenBird who’s drug addiction was used against her by her government handlers and who’s torn between her work and genuine {{Love Interest|s}} Marco who wants help try and escape from the system.

* Dr. Elsa Schneider in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. She seduces both Indiana and his father to gain vital information for the Nazi’s mission to find the Holy Grail. Like most femme fatales, she couldn’t overcome her biggest FatalFlaw - {{greed}}. In a LiteralCliffhanger, she thought she could reach the grail with a free hand in time for Indiana to pull her up. Unfortunately, he can’t hold her slippery gloved hand and [[DisneyVillainDeath she falls to her death]].