In "I Think I Love My Wife," Chris Rock plays a married man who can't stop fantasizing about other women and finds the ultimate temptation in Kerry Washington. There have been approximately a gazillion movies in which some guy is mooning over some woman he can't have, and in some instances, infatuation turns to obsession. To wit, our list of the top 10 temptation-inducing sirens of the silver screen — some are innocuous and some deadly.

 

1. Dolores "Lolita" Haze (Sue Lyon) in "Lolita" (1962)
No obsession ever proved more destructive than that of Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita." James Mason is brilliant as the erudite professor who marries his landlady, the shrill Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), just to be close to her flirty teenage daughter, Lolita. When Charlotte discovers, via Humbert's journal, that his feelings for Lo are decidedly unpaternal, she runs into the street... and an oncoming car. Humbert's subsequent attempt to make Lolita his own is hampered by the obstructions of Hollywood ne'er-do-well Clare Quilty (a terrific Peter Sellers), suspicious acquaintances and Lolita's own feisty rebelliousness. To say it ends badly for all involved is putting it mildly. While time has rendered the film somewhat less controversial (although the 1997 remake still had trouble finding a distributor), its depiction of desperation, obsession and self-destruction remains painfully palpable.

 

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So, what's the lesson here, fellas? Stay single? Keep your roving eyes averted from that bewitching redhead you see at Starbucks every day? Don't try to date teens? There are many things we can learn from these movies, but the main thing to remember is don't watch any of these films with your significant other. You will get smacked.