The femme fatale has been a stock character across film genres. The term is defined as a seductive or alluring woman who either causes distress or disaster for any man who becomes involved with her.

Few film archetypes have been more adored or debated than the femme fatale - beautiful, seductive, dangerous and cunning, like Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity"... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DOUBLE ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Vying for the title of France's most fashionable femme fatale are the likes of Marion Cotillard, Juliette Binoche and Audrey Tatou. This trio of award-winning actresses have characterized power and ...

Rita Hayworth in Orson Welles' "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), screening at the Coolidge for Noirvember. (Courtesy Columbia Pictures/Photofest) For a lot of people, November means football and turkey ...