A femme fatale is a seductive and mysterious character who use their charm and beauty to persuade other characters to do dangerous and even life threatening things such as murder. The earliest known femme fatale characters are demons, vampires, enchantress's and witches. The french phrase 'femme fatale' translates in english to 'deadly woman'. Although in most films the femme fatales use their sexual charm, some just lie to men to get what they want and sometimes they are in situations that they cannot escape from. Not all film noir films are the same but most of them have the same typical storyline of an evil woman character and a gullable male character, however there are some where the femme fatale actually turns into the heroine of the story and becomes good.
