Classic series of femmes fatales

The Valentine’s theme gets a hard edge with some film noir. Femmes fatales are in abundance here, none more so than in The Killers (Universal, €14.99), Robert Siodmak’s classic take on Ernest Hemingway’s story.

Ava Gardner plays the dangerous woman mixed up with thug Burt Lancaster’s death.

In The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett delivers a masterful mix of manipulation and corruption as Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake suffer another fatal attraction.

Others in the series include Double Indemnity, The Big Steal, Murder My Sweet, The Blue Dahlia and Crossfire.