The femme fatale in the movies has held our attention since Hollywood's golden age but the archetype has evolved, say NPR staff in movies panel.

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The femme fatale – French for “fatal woman” – has been undermining men for as long as, well, there have been men and women. One could make an argument that Eve, the first woman in the Bible, didn’t do ...

Fifty years ago next week, audiences got their first glimpse of Elizabeth Taylor sitting atop an enormous sphinx as the titular character in 1963's Cleopatra. She was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt ...

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.

Femme fatales have been around for a long time and continue to be an indelible figure in cinematic history, including in the upcoming Netflix film "Hit Man." The femme fatale is a figure that dates ...

If you've ever read a hardboiled detective novel, or seen a film noir, the first scene of SundanceTV's new southern crime thriller Hap & Leonard will seem very, very familiar. "Here comes trouble," ...

This week, Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” picks up the femme fatale and takes her for another run at her usual narrative — seducing a good man with doe eyes and promises of sex and money. Things have ...