The movie stars Antonio Banderas of Evita and The Mask of Zorro fame with supermodel turned actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Peter Coyote. Femme Fatale establishes director Brian De Palma as a director of contemporary film noir.

Although a master of psychological thrillers, De Palma's movies are packed with romance, horror and gangster melodramas. Some of his other movies includes Mission Impossible, The Untouchables, Spy Kids 2, Dressed to Kill and Carrie, which garnered two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Shot entirely in Paris and its surroundings, the story revolves around the manipulative and alluring seductress Laure (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), who plays a crucial role in a sultry jewel theft and abruptly leaves the world of crime.

Laure, later, refashions herself as a respectable woman with a high-profile political life and soon captures the attention of Nicolas (Antonio Banderas).

But serving an agenda of his own, Nicolas shatters Laure's carefully crafted world with one shutter click of his seditious camera.

Suddenly exposed to the world and vulnerable to her enemies, Laure is determined to use her considerable assets - and Nicolas' instincts - to reinvent her identity and once again escape her past. But as she tries to seduce Nicholas, Laure finds her quest for revenge complicated by their mutual attraction.