5 x 5: Five Favorite Films from Five Favorite Actresses

[onetet]

Following up on the recent 5 x 5 Directors thread:

5 x 5: Five Favorite Films by Your Five Favorite Directors

...here's a thread to highlight your favorite films and performances from some of your favorite actresses. Off the top of the dome:

Isabelle Adjani:
1)Possession
2)Nosferatu
3)The Driver
4)The Tenant
5)One Deadly Summer

Catherine Deneuve:
1)Repulsion
2)Belle de Jour
3)Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4)Dancer in the Dark
5)Pola X

Claudette Colbert:
1)Palm Beach Story
2)Midnight
3)Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
4)It Happened One Night
5)It's a Wonderful World

Isabelle Huppert:
1)The Piano Teacher
2)Coup de Torchon
3)Going Places
4)La Ceremonie
5)White Material

...and I surprised myself with this choice, but had to admit that there probably isn't a young actress working today who's been in more interesting projects with a more interesting array of directors:

Chloë Sevigny:
1)Zodiac
2)Brown Bunny
3)American Psycho
4)Trees Lounge
5)Gummo

Hanna Schygulla and Anna Karina are also among my tops, but I excluded them in favor of others, as each of them would've resulted in lists dominated by specific directors (Fassbinder and Godard, respectively).

[chris_sc77]

5x 5 actress edition


EVA GREEN
1. Casino Royale
2. The Dreamers
3. Kingdom of Heaven director's cut
4. Perfect Sense
5. Franklyn

ROSARIO DAWSON
1. 25th Hour
2. Sin City
3. He Got Game
4. Death Proof
5. Alexander Revisited


MILLA JOVOVICH
1. The Fifth Element
2. He Got Game
3. The Messenger
4. Stone
5. Kuffs

JENNIFER CONNELLY
1. Once Upon a time in America
2. Waking the Dead
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. Hulk
5. House of sand and fog

KATE WINSLET
1. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
2. Titanic
3. Hamlet
4. Little Children
5. Mildred Pierce

[Doctor Jack]

Vivien Leigh

1. Waterloo Bridge
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Sidewalks of London
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
5. That Hamilton Woman


Ingrid Bergman

1. Notorious
2. Casablanca
3. Gaslight
4. June Night
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


Deborah Kerr

1. Quo Vadis
2. Black Narcissus
3. The Innocents
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. From Here to Eternity


Naomi Watts

1. 21 Grams
2. King Kong
3. The Impossible
4. Mulholland Drive
5. The Painted Veil


Keira Knightley

1. Atonement
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Pure
4. Anna Karenina
5. Never Let Me Go

[Mandalorian]

This reveals a fundamental flaw in my so-called love of film. I thought of a bunch of actresses, but could only honestly list five favorite films for three of them. I couldn't find a complete five that are genuinely "favorites" for any of the others.

[jamesdevil]

Juliette Binoche

1. Three Colors: Blue
2. The English Patient
3. Cachè
4. Certified Copy
5. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

Ingrid Bergman

1. Casablanca
2. Notorious
3. Stromboli
4. Spellbound
5. Indiscreet

Elizabeth Taylor

1. Giant
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
4. Cleopatra
5. Butterfield 8

Judy Garland

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Meet Me In St. Louis
3. A Star Is Born
4. Ziegfeld Girl
5. Till The Clouds Roll By

Tilda Swinton

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. The Deep End
3. Michael Clayton
4. The War Zone
5. Burn After Reading

[toddly6666]

Jennifer Connelly:
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Dark City
3. Labyrinth
4. Higher Learning
5. The Rocketeer

Charlize Theron:
1. Aeon Flux
2. Devil's Advocate
3. The Road
4. Snow White and the Huntsman
5. Prometheus

Gong Li:
1. Raise the Red Lantern
2. To Live
3. The Story of Qui Ju
4. Shanghai Triad
5. Miami Vice

Penelope Ann Miller:
1. The Shadow
2. Kindergarten Cop
3. Adventures in Babysitting
4. Carlito's Way
5. The Artist

Monica Bellucci:
1. Malena
2. Dobermann
3. The Apartment
4. Brotherhood of the Wolf
5. Matrix Reloaded

[Hucksta G]

Ranking films and not performances:

Natalie Portman:
1. Black Swan
2. Heat
3. V for Vendetta
4. Leon: The Professional
5. The Darjeeling Limited

Jessica Chastain:
1. Take Shelter
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. The Debt
4. Lawless
5. The Help

Kate Winslet:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Little Children
3. Revolutionary Road
4. Heavenly Creatures
5. The Reader

Michelle Williams:
1. Blue Valentine
2. Shutter Island
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. Take This Waltz
5. Syencdoche, New York

Amy Adams:
1. The Master
2. The Fighter
3. The Muppets
4. Man of Steel
5. Catch Me If You Can

sucked leaving out Carrie Mulligan, Monica Bellucci, Charlize Theron, Merryl Streep and Jennifer Connelly etc.

[spanky87]

Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Funny Face
Sabrina
Love in the Afternoon

Winona Ryder
Heathers
Reality Bites
Girl, Interrupted
Mermaids
A Scanner Darkly

Rita Hayworth
Gilda
The Lady From Shanghai
You Were Never Lovelier
Affair in Trinidad
The Loves of Carmen

Isabelle Huppert
The Piano Teacher
Story of Women
La Ceremonie
Amateur
Copacabana

Uma Thurman
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Hysterical Blindness
Gattaca
Tape

[MovieMan31]

So the two Hepburns and Blanchett are easily my top three favorites. I'm a big fan of Foster and Zeta-Jones as well, but they could potentially be replaced by others such as Meryl Streep or Bette Davis, or another once I've had a chance to see more of their films.

Katharine Hepburn
The African Queen
The Philadelphia Story
The Lion in Winter
On Golden Pond
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Audrey Hepburn
Sabrina
Breakfast at Tiffany' s
Charade
Roman Holiday
Two for the Road

Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Aviator
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Jodie Foster
Silence of the Lambs
Contact
Panic Room
Taxi Driver
Anna & the King

Catherine Zeta-Jones
The Mask of Zorro
Entrapment
Traffic
Chicago
Ocean's Twelve

[jasonjl]

Originally Posted by spanky87

Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Funny Face
Sabrina
Love in the Afternoon

Originally Posted by MovieMan31

Audrey Hepburn
Sabrina
Breakfast at Tiffany' s
Charade
Roman Holiday
Two for the Road

You guys don't like My Fair Lady?

[spanky87]

Originally Posted by jasonjl

You guys don't like My Fair Lady?

I'll take Funny Face over My Fair Lady any day. Audrey Hepburn having her singing voice dubbed in MFL just kills the experience and performance for me.

Wouldn't call it a bad film though but definitely nowhere near my top 5 Hepburn films.

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by jasonjl

You guys don't like My Fair Lady?

Hepburn was so close to making my list of 5. I wouldn't have put My Fair Lady on there either. One of her weakest films and performances.

[MovieMan31]

Originally Posted by jasonjl

You guys don't like My Fair Lady?

I liked it, just not top 5 for me.

[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

Ranking films and not performances:

Natalie Portman:
1. Black Swan
2. Heat
3. V for Vendetta
4. Leon: The Professional
5. The Darjeeling Limited

Jessica Chastain:
1. Take Shelter
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. The Debt
4. Lawless
5. The Help

Kate Winslet:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Little Children
3. Revolutionary Road
4. Heavenly Creatures
5. The Reader

Michelle Williams:
1. Blue Valentine
2. Shutter Island
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. Take This Waltz
5. Syencdoche, New York

Amy Adams:
1. The Master
2. The Fighter
3. The Muppets
4. Man of Steel
5. Catch Me If You Can

sucked leaving out Carrie Mulligan, Monica Bellucci, Charlize Theron, Merryl Streep and Jennifer Connelly etc.

Ha! Probably would choose many of the same. Hell I will. This is a tough list, I'm not a huge die hard of specific actresses usually (except Mrs. Portman).

Natalie Portman
1. Garden State
2. Closer
3. Black Swan
4. Leon The Professional
5. Mars Attacks (half joking.)

Christina Ricci
1. Buffalo 66
2. Monster
3. The Ice Storm
4. Prozac Nation
5. Pumpkin

Noomi Rapace

1,2 3. Dragon Trilogy
4. Prometheus
5. Passion

Ingrid Bergman
1. Rossellini Films
2. Casablanca
3. Notorious
4. Spellbound
5. Joan of Arc

Chloe Grace Moretz:
1. Kick Ass 2
2. Kick Ass
3. Let Me In
4. 500 Days of Summer
5. Hugo (Bleh about this movie though)



My 5 1/2 answer is Kate Winslet (I don't have a top 5 for her as I don't love most of her movies, but the ones I do love are magnificent. She is just incredible.)
1. Eternal Sunshine
2. Little Children

[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

This reveals a fundamental flaw in my so-called love of film. I thought of a bunch of actresses, but could only honestly list five favorite films for three of them. I couldn't find a complete five that are genuinely "favorites" for any of the others.

Don't feel bad. This was really hard for me too. I am just an actor guy sadly.

[Monarch_of_Media]

I'm only doing currently, because I really don't have any classic actresses I would call my favorites.
* = Trade outs if you don't want to count (essentially) cameo roles

Zooey Deschanel:
1). (500) Days of Summer (My favorite movie ever)
2). Elf (Favorite Christmas movie AND one of favorite movies period ever)
3). Bridge to Terabithia
4). Yes Man
5). The Happening (one of my favorite comedies ever)(Yes I put that next to the correct movie)

Jennifer Lawrence: (Guarantee American Hustle goes on here too)
1). Silver Linings Playbook
2). X-Men First Class
3). The Poker House
4) Winter's Bone
5). The Hunger Games

Anne Hathaway: (I've really only seen her bad movies, but love her)
1). Les Miserables
2). Dark Knight Rises
3). Get Smart
4). Princess Diaries
5). Alice in Wonderland

Emily Blunt:
1) Looper
2). The Adjustment Bureau
3). The Muppets
4). The Five-Year Engagement
5). Dan in Real Life

Anna Kendrick:
1). 50/50 (One of my favorite movies ever)
2). Pitch Perfect
3). ParaNorman
4). Scott Pilgrim vs The World (does this count?)
5). Up in the Air
*Rapture Palooza*

Honorable Mention/Trade out for Blunt (It varies on how I feel that day as to which of these 2 are placed where)

Chloe Grace Moretz:
1) (500) Days of Summer (does this count?)
2) The Poker House
3) Kick Ass
4) Kick Ass 2
5) Dark Shadows (Bad movie, good performance)

*Carrie* (Again, Bad Movie, good performance)

[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by Monarch_of_Media

I'm only doing currently, because I really don't have any classic actresses I would call my favorites.
* = Trade outs if you don't want to count (essentially) cameo roles

Zooey Deschanel:
1). (500) Days of Summer (My favorite movie ever)
2). Elf (Favorite Christmas movie AND one of favorite movies period ever)
3). Bridge to Terabithia
4). Yes Man
5). The Happening (one of my favorite comedies ever)(Yes I put that next to the correct movie)

Jennifer Lawrence: (Guarantee American Hustle goes on here too)
1). Silver Linings Playbook
2). X-Men First Class
3). The Poker House
4) Winter's Bone
5). The Hunger Games

Anne Hathaway: (I've really only seen her bad movies, but love her)
1). Les Miserables
2). Dark Knight Rises
3). Get Smart
4). Princess Diaries
5). Alice in Wonderland

Emily Blunt:
1) Looper
2). The Adjustment Bureau
3). The Muppets
4). The Five-Year Engagement
5). Dan in Real Life

Anna Kendrick:
1). 50/50 (One of my favorite movies ever)
2). Pitch Perfect
3). ParaNorman
4). Scott Pilgrim vs The World (does this count?)
5). Up in the Air
*Rapture Palooza*

Honorable Mention/Trade out for Blunt (It varies on how I feel that day as to which of these 2 are placed where)

Chloe Grace Moretz:
1) (500) Days of Summer (does this count?)
2) The Poker House
3) Kick Ass
4) Kick Ass 2
5) Dark Shadows (Bad movie, good performance)

*Carrie* (Again, Bad Movie, good performance)

Ah crap I forgot Chloe. Now I have to replace someone

[hasslein]

Raquel Welch
Fantastic Voyage
100 Rifles
One Million Years BC
Mother Juggs and Speed
Three Musketeers

Pam Grier
Coffee
Jackie Brown
Foxy Brown
Black Mama White Mama
Friday Foster

Sofia Vergara
Three Stooges
Chasing Papi
Grilled
Smurfs
Machete Kills

Bernadette Peters
The Jerk
Pennies From Heaven
Silent Movie
The Longest Yard
Vigilante Force

Ann Margret
C.C. & Company
Magic
Tommy
Twice in A Lifetime
The Villain

[Gerby]

Ruth Gordon
1. Rosemary's Baby
2. Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?
3. Where's Poppa?
4. Harold & Maude
5. Lord Love A Duck

Claudia Jennings
1. The Unholy Rollers
2. Truck Stop Women
3. Gator Bait
4. Moonshine County Express
5. The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

Margaret Rutherford
1. Murder She Said
2. The Happiest Days Of Your Life
3. Passport To Pimlico
4. I'm Alright Jack
5. Murder At The Gallop (watching Miss Marple doing the twist is a sight to behold)

Mary Woronov
1. Eating Raoul
2. Death Race 2000
3. Rock n Roll Highschool
4. Night Of The Comet
5. Terrorvision

Sheila Keith (the scariest woman in the history of cinema)
1. The House Of Whipcord
2. Frightmare
3. The Comeback
4. House Of Mortal Sin
5. House Of Long Shadows

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by hasslein

Raquel Welch
Fantastic Voyage
100 Rifles
One Million Years BC
Mother Juggs and Speed
Three Musketeers

Pam Grier
Coffee
Jackie Brown
Foxy Brown
Black Mama White Mama
Friday Foster

Sofia Vergara
Three Stooges
Chasing Papi
Grilled
Smurfs
Machete Kills

Bernadette Peters
The Jerk
Pennies From Heaven
Silent Movie
The Longest Yard
Vigilante Force

Ann Margret
C.C. & Company
Magic
Tommy
Twice in A Lifetime
The Villain

You like tits.