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.

Angelina Jolie, Anna Chapman, Naomi Campbell – celebrities, spies and divas who the media love to hate. The modern day female icon holds much in common with the archetypal femme fatale, whose enduring ...

Meg Walsh joins a long list of women from history whose beauty was their downfall, writes Carol Hunt It's a haunting, unsettling image. The naked body of a beautiful woman is found floating gently in ...