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Sounds on Screen: Femme Fatale
28 Apr 2026

Sounds on Screen: Femme Fatale

Soundtrack

A musical love letter to the femme fatale, one of cinema's most enduring and complicated archetypes. The trope of the feminine interloper using her womanly charms to villainous or manipulative ends is one that predates the moving image by thousands of years – but its most famous examples are on film.

Featuring music and excerpts from Dangerous Liasons, Fatal Attraction, The Love Witch, Venus in Furs, The Maltese Falcon and more.

Selected and mixed by Florence Scott-Anderton.

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Tracklist

  • Vangelis
    Prologue (Bitter Moon, Dir. Roman Polanski, 1992)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (The Fourth Man, Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1983, Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Basic Instinct, Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1992, Edit)
  • Meiko Kaji
    Shura No Hana (Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 & Lady Snowblood, 1973)
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto
    Bolerish
  • John Barry
    Main Title
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Dangerous Liaisons, Dir. Stephen Frears, 1988, Edit)
  • Gabriel Yared
    37°2 Le Matin
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (The Killers, Dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946, Edit)
  • Manfred Mann
    Erotic Interlude (Venus In Furs, Dir. Jesús Franco, 1969)
  • Miles Davis
    Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 4) (Elevator To The Gallows, Dir. Louis Malle, 1958)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (To Die For, Dir. Gus Van Sant, 1995)
  • Zbigniew Preisner
    Damage (Damage, Dir. Louis Malle, 1992)
  • John Barry
    Kill For Pussy
  • Bernard Herrmann
    Carlotta’s Portrait (Vertigo, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Batman Returns, Dir. Tim Burton, 1992)
  • George S. Clinton
    Main Title
  • Anna Biller
    Fairy Lady Harp Music (The Love Witch, 2016)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Double Indemnity, Dir. Billy Wilder, 1944, Edit)
  • George Fenton
    I Had The Dream Again
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1988, Edit)
  • Joseph Vitarelli
    Return To New York
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Fatal Attraction, Dir. Adrian Lyne, 1987, Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Scarlet Street, Dir. Fritz Lang, 1945)
  • Jerry Goldsmith
    Love Theme From Chinatown (Main Title)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Cruel Intentions, Dir. Roger Kumble, 1999, Edit)
  • Me'Shell Ndegéocello
    Poison Ivy
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Dir. Russ Meyer, 1965, Edit)
  • Miles Davis & Marcus Miller
    Submission (Siesta, Dir. Mary Lambert, 1987)
  • Curtis Hanson
    Bloody Christmas (L.A. Confidential, 1997)
  • Isabella Rossellini
    Blue Velvet
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Leave Her To Heaven, Dir. John M. Stahl, 1945, Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Gilda, Dir. Charles Vidor, 1946, Edit)
  • Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra & The Starlighters
    Kiss (Niagara, Dir. Henry Hathaway, 1953)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Dir. Tay Garnett, 1946, Edit)
  • Brigitte Bardot
    Dis-Moi Quelque Chose De Gentil (And God Created Woman, Dir. Roger Vadim, 1956)
  • David Michael Frank
    A Merciful Murder
  • Craig Armstrong Feat. Elizabeth Fraser
    This Love (Cruel Intentions, 1999)
  • Warren Hill
    The Passion Theme (Radio Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Detour, Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945, Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Lost Highway, Dir. David Lynch, 1997, Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Audition, Dir. Takashi Miike, 1999)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (The Maltese Falcon, Dir. John Huston, 1941, Edit)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Inside, Dir. Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, 2007)
  • Mark Isham
    Romeo Is Searching
  • Le Peuple De L'Herbe
    Sexual Attraction
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Femme Fatale, Dir. Andre R. Guttfreund, 1991)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (The Crush, Dir. Alan Shapiro, 1993)
  • Curve
    Chinese Burn (Lunatic Calm Mix)
  • Unknown Artist
    Excerpt (Ms. 45, Dir. Abel Ferrara, 1981)
  • Enigma
    Principles Of Lust (Everlasting Lust Mix)
  • Zbigniew Preisner
    Memories Are Made For This
  • Moodswings Feat. Chrissie Hynde
    Spiritual High (Single White Female, Dir. Barbet Schroeder, 1992)