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Entries Tagged as 'Femme fatale'

Fight Club (1999)

September 30th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Synopsis
“People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden,” narrates a young man we will know only as The Narrator (Edward Norton) as someone holds a gun barrel in his mouth. Minutes before he’s about to witness dozens of other office buildings explode in a controlled demolition, he explains how he […]

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Tags: Based on novel · Bathtub scene · Black comedy · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Femme fatale · Paranoia

Play Misty For Me (1971)

August 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
Disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) opens his show at jazz station KRML in Carmel by promising “a little verse, a little talk, and five hours of music to be very, very nice to each other by.” A regular female caller phones in and purrs, “Play ‘Misty’ for me.” Winding down at […]

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Tags: Cult favorite · Femme fatale · Music · Psycho killer · Small town · Woman in jeopardy

Memento (2001)

July 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Synopsis
“So where are you? You’re in some motel room. You just, you just wake up and you’re in a motel room,” narrates Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) as he tries to figure out what he’s doing in the motel. Lenny meets Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) and is able to remember that this is a […]

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Tags: Based on short story · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Femme fatale · Interrogation · Murder mystery · Paranoia · Prostitute · Psychoanalysis

L.A. Confidential (1997)

June 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Synopsis
In Los Angeles of the early 1950s, Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe) stops on his way to deliver his fellow cops booze for a Christmas party. White visits a wife beater and settles the […]

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Tags: Based on novel · Crooked officer · Femme fatale · Gangsters and hoodlums · Interrogation · Murder mystery · Prostitute · Shootout