EW lists the best femme fatales who have successfully seduced audiences across film and TV history.
you might’t take your eyes off them and you’d better not turn your back on them, either.
Check out our list of femme fatales that continue to haunt our dreams, ahead.
Robin Wright on ‘House of Cards’; Nicole Kidman in ‘To Die For’; Angelina Jolie in ‘Tomb Raider’; Anne Hathaway in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’; Sharon Stone in ‘Basic Instinct’.Credit: David Giesbrecht/Netflix; Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection; Stephen Vaughn; Ron Phillips/Warner Bros.; TriStar Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collections
Suzanne Stone Maretto To Die For(1995)
Blind ambition meets blonde ambition.
Suzanne (Nicole Kidman) wants fame at any cost and she’s just delusional enough to get it.
And behind every Machiavellian power-monger politician, there’s a partner just as nefarious.
Sharon Stone in ‘Basic Instinct’.TriStar Pictures
(With better hair, too.)
Bridget Gregory The Last Seduction(1994)
Beware of a woman in trouble.
Spoiler: You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.
Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon in ‘To Die For’.Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
She’sClint Eastwood’s Man With No Name with fewer clothes and fewer names.
in this case, “all the way” means “give birth immediately to an alien-human-hybrid monster.”
Lara Croft theLara Croftmovies (20012003)
Indiana Jones in skintight short shorts.
Robin Wright on ‘House of Cards’.David Giesbrecht/Netflix
Only Jolie could bring the bodacious videogame adventurer to life.
She’ll do anything for her family and anythingtoher family.
That smirk could be deadly.
October Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
Lucinda Harris Derailed(2005)
Successful, married, beautiful and bored.
Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston) is a tantalizing siren for a man looking for excitement.
Literally: She keeps cocaine in her crucifix!
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’.Stephen Vaughn
Cersei Lannister Game of Thrones(20112019)
Men are such boys.
Westeros needs a good, firm hand.
Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) is a Queen.
Peta Wilson on ‘La Femme Nikita’.Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
James Bond’s met so many women, but how many of them literally have killer thighs?
She’sJason Bournefor desperate housewives.
the blood-splattered Bride (Uma Thurman) awakes seeking vengeance.
Demi Moore and Michael Douglas in ‘Disclosure’.Brian Hamill
Just your average cowboy samurai assassin.
The central joke ofChuckis that the title should actually beSarah.
Lynn Bracken L.A. A defining role for pre-Mad MenChristina Hendricks, who plays Saffron like a chameleon.
Rosamund Pike in ‘Gone Girl’.Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox
She’s whatever you want and you’ll do whatever she desires.
Michelle Pfeiffer in ‘Batman Returns’.Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Anne Hathaway in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’.Ron Phillips/Warner Bros.
Rebecca Romijn in ‘X-Men’.20th Century Fox/ Everett Collection
Natasha Henstridge in ‘Species’.MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection
Angelina Jolie in ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’.Alex Bailey/Paramount Pictures
Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal on ‘Sons of Anarchy’.Prashant Gupta/FX
Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman in ‘Swordfish’.Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen in ‘Derailed’.Chuck Hodes/The Weinstein Company
Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘Cruel Intentions’.Melissa Moseley
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Lena Headey on ‘Game of Thrones’.Helen Sloan/HBO
Famke Janssen in ‘GoldenEye’.MGM Home Entertainment
Geena Davis in ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’.New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection
Uma Thurman in ‘Kill Bill Vol. 1’.Andrew Cooper/Miramax
Yvonne Strahovski and Zachary Levi on ‘Chuck’.Jordin Althaus/NBC
Kim Basinger in ‘L.A. Confidential’.Courtesy Everett Collection
Christina Hendricks on ‘Firefly’.FOX
Charlize Theron in ‘Aeon Flux’.Paramount Pictures
Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in ‘Double Indemnity’.Paramount Pictures/Archive Photos/Getty
Gene Tierney in ‘Leave Her to Heaven’.Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection
Charlize Theron in ‘Atomic Blonde’.Jonathan Prime/Focus Features/courtesy Everett Collection
Isabella Rossellini in ‘Blue Velvet’.De Laurentiis Entertainment Group/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty
Carey Mulligan in ‘Promising Young Woman’.Focus Features
