[TOMT][MOVIE] One-armed femme fatale noir film
[TOMT][MOVIE] One-armed femme fatale noir film
There is noir a film I saw as a young teen that I have never been able to remember or find the name of. It was in English, likely US. I think it was a late 80s to early 90s film.
The most distinctive thing I remember about it is the antagonist was a femme fatale who loses her arm partway through the film and then wears a prosthetic.
The protagonist was a dirty cop though I don't remember specifically what he was involved in. Despite being married he also had an affair with another woman as well as also have a tryst with the antagonist.
Some scenes I distinctly remember:
* The antagonist loses her arm after the protagonist shoots her, either while she was in the backseat of a car or he dumped her body in it to move it. As he tries to drive off the antagonist is revealed as still being alive, and she tries to choke him from behind with her legs while cackling madly. Causing him to crash. Either from the gun wound trauma or the crash is what leads to her losing her arm.
* The protagonist is tricked into murdering his girlfriend because she is tied up by the window of someone he is trying to kill, probably the antagonist again. So he shoots her through a window, breaks in I think to collect whatever plot macguffin he was looking for, and realise what he has done.
* There was a weird sex scene where the cop wakes up in a bed to find the antagonist slowly putting the harness of her prosthetic arm on while otherwise naked. When she approaches the bed she asks arm on or off to which the cop says off, so she laughs and throws the arm off.
* At the end of it all the cop has been blamed for everything that has happened. They are either at the precinct or a courthouse and his former colleagues have him in cuffs. The antagonist gloats about how she has played him. As she is leaving however the cop manages to wrestle a gun from his coworker and shoots her dead. He then attempts to kill himself with the gun in his mouth but had already fired all the shots in his outburst against her. So he is just left crying while repeatedly pulling the trigger. His coworkers take pity on him and frame the shooting as him defending his coworkers from her.
* The epilogue is him living alone and dreaming about his wife coming back to him, which he knows she never will.