Thriller films about femmes fatales

List of the best thriller films about femmes fatales according to the audience: Gone Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Red Rock West, Doctor Sleep, Body Heat, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Nocturnal Animals, Prisoners, Original Sin, The Town.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryWest Germany, USA
    Duration01:56

    This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:50

    A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

      Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

        When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
        Duration01:58

        A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:32

        Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:20

          A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, thriller
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:35

            A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
            Duration02:18

            Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
            Duration01:35

            Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA, France
            Duration02:08

            A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genreaction, thriller, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
            Duration01:53

            An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

              The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genrethriller, drama, history
              CountryUSA, Germany, India
              Duration02:39

                During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

                Markimdb: 7.1
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA

                In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:55

                  A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genrethriller, detective
                  CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

                  Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:53

                  Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:37

                  An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:35

                  Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
                  CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
                  Duration02:37

                  During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:49

                  A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

                  Markimdb: 6.2
                  Genrethriller, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:49

                  Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:59

                  Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:24

                  While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA

                  A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

                  Markimdb: 8.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, Hong Kong
                  Duration02:31

                  To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:44

                  A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

                  Markimdb: 6.2
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:32

                  A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.

                  Markimdb: 8.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:10

                  Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:04

                  A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrethriller, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration02:03

                  A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:56

                  A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
                  Duration01:41

                  A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:01

                  48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:52

                    After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrethriller, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:08

                    Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration01:58

                    Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.




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