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* In ''Film/FortyFive'', Kat uses what Liz describes as her natural weapons ("tits, hips, and lips") to seduce Vic, Reilly, Jose, and Liz and drop hints until one of them decides to take out Big Al for her.

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* ''Film/MexicanHayride'': Played with by Dagmar, who tries to seduce Bascom in order to apparently steal the money he's earned by selling stock in a phony silver mine. He's turned off by her coming on so strong though, and she later turns out to be legitimately trying to help him avoid being robbed by his partner.
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* Nazi Vamps like Ilsa Haupstein (from ''Film/Hellboy2004'') and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schneider#Elsa_Schneider Dr Elsa Schneider]] from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Unrepentant and black-hearted bitches. Also examples of The Vamp and EvilIsSexy.

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* Nazi Vamps like Ilsa Haupstein (from ''Film/Hellboy2004'') and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schneider#Elsa_Schneider Dr Elsa Schneider]] from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Unrepentant and black-hearted bitches. Also examples of The Vamp and EvilIsSexy.

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* [[DrFakenstein Doctor Frank-N-Furter]] from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is a male example, albeit a CreepyCrossdresser (or [[VillainSong in his words]], "a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania"). Note that while many other seductive male crossdressers in fiction try to manipulate other men's libido by posing as sexy women, Frank is quite openly a man, just one who prefers feminine clothing. And he [[DepravedBisexual doesn't limit his targets to men]] either; he's quite good at seducing AnythingThatMoves. Of course, what else would you expect from Creator/TimCurry in his prime?

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* [[DrFakenstein Doctor Frank-N-Furter]] from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is a male example, albeit a CreepyCrossdresser (or [[VillainSong in his words]], "a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania"). Note that while many other seductive male crossdressers in fiction try to manipulate other men's libido by posing as sexy women, Frank is quite openly a man, just one who prefers feminine clothing. And he [[DepravedBisexual doesn't limit his targets to men]] either; he's quite good at seducing AnythingThatMoves.just about anyone. Of course, what else would you expect from Creator/TimCurry in his prime?
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* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': Tanya as [[PornNames "Spot White"]]. Granted, she didn't want to be a sex worker but, in an attempt to make the best of a bad situation, she takes a fellow prostitute's advice to heart and uses men's lust to her advantage. One clear example is one she blackmails herself out of prostitution by seducing a policeman -- he used her services during a masquerade party. She also threatens him with revealing their encounter.
* The character of Irma Vep in the 1915 french silent film serial ''Film/LesVampires''. Her name is an anagram of "Vampire".
* Played with in ''Film/BeyondTheLights''. Noni is clearly NOT a vamp. However, thanks to the [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl hyper-sexualized image]] forced upon her by her record label, Kaz's father THINKS she is and warns his son not to get involved with her because "this one ain't First Lady material". Needless to say, Kaz does NOT take his advice!
* In ''Film/BodyHeat'', Mary Ann Simpson is explicitly labeled "The Vamp" in her high school yearbook. [[spoiler: She's Kathleen Turner's character, which we've been lead to believe is Matty Tyler Walker, and is playing Ned Racine, the real Matty Tyler, and her husband for all they are worth.]]
* ''Film/BlackWidow1987'', played by Theresa Russell, a serial killer of rich men she married, ostensibly for their money. Has a strong [[HoYay bisexual theme]] as well.
* ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' and ''Film/TheParentTrap1998''. In this case, it takes the twin girls wreaking havoc on The Vamp to make Dad realize that he's about to marry a gold-digging bitch, which was completely obvious to everyone else from the moment the woman appeared on the screen. She'll likely overlap with the RichBitch in this case.
%%* Kris Bolin from ''The Temp''
* The 1967 version of ''Film/Bedazzled1967'' has Lust, played by Raquel Welch. The Devil herself (played by Elizabeth Hurley) is one in [[Film/Bedazzled2000 the 2000 version]].
* Silent film actress Theda Bara in...pretty much anything, but especially 1915's ''Film/AFoolThereWas'', where she's actually billed as "The Vampire". The film even quotes Rudyard Kipling's poem (see Literature below).
%%* The woman from the city in silent classic ''Film/{{Sunrise}}''.
* A whole series of FilmNoir movies made in the 1940s and '50s: Phyllis in ''Film/DoubleIndemnity'', Kathie from ''Film/OutOfThePast''. Even Creator/MarilynMonroe's character in ''Film/{{Niagara}}''.
* A significant portion of Creator/MarleneDietrich's career was built on such titles as ''Devil Is a Woman''.
* Conchita in Bunuel's ''That Obscure Object of Desire''. Hell, it took two actresses to carry all this vampishness.
* Kara is even referred to as such in the 2006 high school noir, ''Film/{{Brick}}''.
* ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007). Susan tries to seduce the protagonist, Russell Marsh, as part of the [[ReligionOfEvil Cult of Dagon's]] plan to have him pass on his seed (creating a HybridMonster). As Russell is gay, her charms don't work on him, so she drugs and rapes him instead.
* In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', amazingly hot college girl Alice is intent upon getting with Sam for unclear reasons. [[spoiler: She's a Decepticon spy. Pretender-style Decepticons can take on a human form.]]
* Bridget in ''Film/TheLastSeduction'' (1994).
* Suzanne Stone, the VillainProtagonist of ''Film/ToDieFor'' (1995), is a partial parody of The Vamp - she's beautiful, utterly ruthless, manipulative...and dumb as a post.
* Lady Kaede in ''Film/{{Ran}}'' starts out as a LadyMacbeth to her husband. After he's killed in battle, she becomes a Vamp to his brother, seducing and becoming a Lady Macbeth to him and making him order the death of his wife, Lady Sue.
* In ''Film/DrJekyllAndMsHyde'', Dr. Richard Jacks tampers with his ancestor's formula and adds estrogen, hoping to eliminate male aggression. His female alter-ego, Helen Hyde, uses her beauty and feminine charm to seduce the men at Dr. Jacks' company and climb to the top. She'll even injure anyone who gets in her way.
* In ''Film/DraculasDaughter'', the actual vampire Countess Marya Zaleska tries to play this role with Dr. Geoffrey Garth. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when the Head of Scotland Yard tells his man-servant that he is going hunting "vampires", to which the latter replies: "But I always understood you went after them with chequebooks, sir."
* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', Dana Barrett plays this role once she becomes possessed by Zuul, one of Gozer's demonic Terror Dogs. She becomes a wanton seductress whose sole mission is to bring about the coming of Gozer through mating with another demon, Vinz Clortho. She first tries quite aggressively to bed Peter Venkman when he arrives for a date with Dana, then later completes her mission when she finds and mates with Vinz, who has possessed her neighbor, Louis Tully.
* Nazi Vamps like Ilsa Haupstein (from ''Film/Hellboy2004'') and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schneider#Elsa_Schneider Dr Elsa Schneider]] from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Unrepentant and black-hearted bitches. Also examples of The Vamp and EvilIsSexy.
** The TropeCodifier for this particular sub-group is the titular ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS''.
* Creator/MyrnaLoy was stuck playing this type of role for years in early Hollywood, often with an additional ethnic flavor; the success of ''Film/TheThinMan'' helped her escape to better parts. Ironically, she ended her career being best known for wholesome wife-and-mother parts.
* Lady Marsh in ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' seduces both men [[PsychoLesbian and women]] to their doom.
* Mini from ''Mini's First Time'' has elements of [[FemmeFatale Femme]] and FilleFatale, but her utter soullessness qualifies her for this trope.
* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail,'' the castle Anthrax is filled with 160 young blondes and brunettes who lure handsome knights by lighting a grail-shaped beacon. Once a handsome knight arrives at the castle, they try to tempt him into sexual activities. This is a subversion though, as these women don't seem to have any evil motives for doing this. Their only stated reason for doing this is loneliness.
%%* Ariel in ''Alien Intruder''.
* Elektra King in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. She's really keen on having a relationship with Bond and guilt-tripping him, and the reveal that [[spoiler:she's the true BigBad of the film]] cements her as this, to the point that [[spoiler:she thinks that [[YouWouldntShootMe Bond wouldn't shoot her]]. She's wrong]].
%%* Kathryn in ''Film/CruelIntentions''.
%%* Debbie in ''Devil In The Flesh''.
* The leading role of [[ShowWithinAShow the theater troupe's play]] in the silent comedy ''Exit Smiling'' is a vamp, and is the role that the heroine is constantly trying to score.
* Not only was Francesca in ''Film/GhostShip'' involved in the mass murder, but she also seduced one of the crooks into killing his comrades before offing him herself. Unfortunately for her, her feminine wiles don't work on [[spoiler: supernatural beings]], but even after death she's still just as much a vamp as she was in life, tempting [[spoiler:Greer]] and leading him to his doom. Inverted when Francesca's backstory reveals that [[spoiler:said supernatural being]] actually seduced ''her'' into playing her role in the scheme.
--> ''Benvenuto a bordo'' [[note]]Welcome on board[[/note]]
* Angelique in ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'' is a demon currently occupying the body of an attractive woman and seduces her victims only to kill or torture them to death later on.
%%* In "Film/TheTenCommandments1956", Nefertiti is this role.
* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Kelly in ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}''. Her plan to break up Teddy and Pete's [[HeterosexualLifePartner bromance]] is to make out with both Peter ''and'' Teddy's girlfriend and then coercing the pair into have sex. She also claims that this isn't the first time she came between two guys.
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', when he reveals that the test was actually to see if Ava could manipulate Caleb, Nathan claims that she used her feminine charm to deceive him and does not care about him at all. [[spoiler:This turns out to be true - she escapes the facility alone and leaves Caleb locked in it to die]].
* [[DrFakenstein Doctor Frank-N-Furter]] from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is a male example, albeit a CreepyCrossdresser (or [[VillainSong in his words]], "a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania"). Note that while many other seductive male crossdressers in fiction try to manipulate other men's libido by posing as sexy women, Frank is quite openly a man, just one who prefers feminine clothing. And he [[DepravedBisexual doesn't limit his targets to men]] either; he's quite good at seducing AnythingThatMoves. Of course, what else would you expect from Creator/TimCurry in his prime?
-->''I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm one hell of a lover...''
* In ''Film/TheShining'', the ghost in room 237 seduces Jack with an illusory youthful form, only to reveal herself as a necrotic old woman during their embrace.
* The Amazon Queen Farida in ''Film/SinbadOfTheSevenSeas'' is a beautiful evil enchantress employed by [[BigBad Jaffar]] to enthrall Sinbad and his crew.
* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': [[spoiler:Akikazu's daughter Kanako.]] She uses her charm and femininity to screw everybody around her. When Ogata is bullied she acts disinterested since she doesn't seem to care for the weak. Then she saves the narrator from some bullies just to [[spoiler:set him up and completely destroy him afterwards, after he has fallen in love with her]].
* One villain in ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' is the {{golddigg|er}}ing trapeze artist Cleopatra, who marries Hans (a sideshow performer with dwarfism) with the intent to kill him for his fortune and then marry the strongman Hercules.
* In ''Film/ThePhantomOfCrestwood'', Jenny Wren is an extremely attractive young woman who earns her living through her 'relationships' with older, wealthy (and usually married) men. Her plan for retirement is to {{blackmail}} her paramours for a staggering amount of money.
* In ''Film/ThirteenWomen'', Ursula keeps the swami and Burns under thumb through a combination of hypnosis and raw sex appeal.
* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': Despite the film's title, only Cisserus qualifies for this. She hypnotizes or seduces men to feed on.
* Dame Vaako in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick''. She uses her charms to lure Riddick into the Necromonger stronghold for interrogation. She also uses sex to manipulate her husband, Vaako, to overthrow the Lord Marshal.
* Santánico Pandemonium in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''.
* Yan Erh is one of the main villains from ''Film/HeroesOfSung'', who seduces the film's main hero by pretending to be a mugged victim, and coerces him into bedding her while intending to have him killed after stealing a valuable jade seal from him.
* In ''Film/LustForGold'', Julia Thomas strings both Pete and Walz along, playing them off against each other to her advantage.
* ''Film/{{MFA}}'': After her rape and her AccidentalMurder of Luke, Noelle reinvents herself as a vamp: using her newfound confidence to seduce sexual predators to their deaths.
* Alexa in ''Film/Seven1979'', who uses herself as bait to lure the Hermit into a position where she can kill him.
* In ''Film/FortyFive'', Kat uses what Liz describes as her natural weapons ("tits, hips, and lips") to seduce Vic, Reilly, Jose, and Liz and drop hints until one of them decides to take out Big Al for her.

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