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Great Male Performances

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Average listal rating (102 ratings) 8.1  
1. Bruno Ganz
in Der Untergang (2004)
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Average listal rating (169 ratings) 8.2  
2. Robert Mitchum
in The Night of The Hunter (1955)
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Average listal rating (105 ratings) 8  
3. Richard Burton
in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

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Average listal rating (44 ratings) 7.8  
4. Peter Finch
in Network (1976)
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Average listal rating (1927 ratings) 8.6  
5. Robert De Niro
in The Godfather part II (1974)


in Taxi Driver (1976)


in Raging Bull (1980)


in Cape Fear (1991)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (1623 ratings) 8.6  
6. Jack Nicholson
in Chinatown (1974)


in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)


in The Shining (1980)


in Batman (1989)


in As Good As It Gets (1997)


in The Departed (2006)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (337 ratings) 7.8  
7. Malcolm McDowell
in Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Average listal rating (397 ratings) 8.7  
8. James Stewart
in Vertigo (1958)
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Average listal rating (1772 ratings) 7.7  
9. Samuel L. Jackson
in Pulp Fiction (1994)


in Jackie Brown (1997)
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Average listal rating (131 ratings) 8.3  
10. Klaus Kinski
in Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
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Average listal rating (956 ratings) 8.1  
11. Sean Connery
in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
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Average listal rating (216 ratings) 7.4  
12. Rutger Hauer
in Turks Fruit (1973)
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Average listal rating (641 ratings) 7.6  
13. Harvey Keitel
in Bad Lieutenant (1992)


in Reservoir Dogs (1992)


in Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Average listal rating (1415 ratings) 8.3  
14. Gary Oldman
in Dracula (1992)


in Leon (1994)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (1381 ratings) 8.7  
15. Al Pacino
in The Godfather - trilogy (1972,1974,1990)


in Serpico (1973)


in Scarface (1983)


in Heat (1995)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (354 ratings) 6.9  
16. Mickey Rourke
in Sin City (2005)


in The Wrestler (2008)
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Average listal rating (720 ratings) 8.2  
17. Ryan Gosling
in Drive (2011)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (98 ratings) 6.5  
18. Tom Berenger
in Platoon (1986)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (1373 ratings) 8.6  
19. Heath Ledger
in The Dark Knight (2008)
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Average listal rating (427 ratings) 8.6  
20. Daniel Day-Lewis
in My Left Foot (1989)


in Gangs Of New York (2002)


in There Will Be Blood (2007)
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Average listal rating (1346 ratings) 8.4  
21. Edward Norton
in American History X (1998)


in Fight Club (1999)
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Average listal rating (147 ratings) 6.2  
22. Burt Reynolds
in Boogie Nights (1997)
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Average listal rating (482 ratings) 7.4  
23. John Hurt
in The Elephant Man (1980)
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Average listal rating (543 ratings) 6.9  
24. Michael Clarke Duncan
in The Green Mile (1999)
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Average listal rating (359 ratings) 8.5  
25. Christoph Waltz
in Inglourious Basterds (2009)


in Django Unchained (2012)
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Average listal rating (9 ratings) 8.1  
26. Markku Peltola
in Man Without a Past (2002)
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Average listal rating (125 ratings) 7.8  
27. Anthony Quinn
in La Strada (1954)

Average listal rating (39 ratings) 7.5  
28. Warren Oates
in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
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Average listal rating (126 ratings) 8.2  
29. Gary Cooper
in High Noon (1952)
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Average listal rating (1264 ratings) 8.6  
30. Anthony Hopkins
in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Average listal rating (761 ratings) 7.7  
31. Sean Penn
in Mystic River (2003)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (308 ratings) 8.7  
32. Orson Welles
in Touch Of Evil (1958)
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Average listal rating (111 ratings) 7.5  
33. Eli Wallach
in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
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Average listal rating (601 ratings) 6.7  
34. Michael Madsen
in Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (2967 ratings) 8.7  
35. Johnny Depp
in Edward Scissorhand (1990)


in Ed Wood (1994)


in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (460 ratings) 8.1  
36. Javier Bardem
in No Country For Old Men (2007)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (817 ratings) 7.7  
37. Russell Crowe
in Gladiator (2000)


in Beautiful Mind (2001)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (66 ratings) 7.8  
38. Robert Shaw
in Jaws (1975)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (2343 ratings) 7.9  
39. Brad Pitt
in 12 Monkeys (1995)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (410 ratings) 7.2  
40. Michael Douglas
in Wall Street (1987)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (2052 ratings) 7.6  
41. Bruce Willis
in Die Hard (1988)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (359 ratings) 8.7  
42. Humphrey Bogart
in The Treasure of The Sierra Madre (1948)
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Average listal rating (608 ratings) 7.1  
43. John Goodman
in Barton Fink (1991)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (108 ratings) 6.3  
44. Pat Morita
in The Karate Kid (1984)

Average listal rating (1115 ratings) 8.2  
45. Kevin Spacey
in The Usual Suspects (1995)


in American Beauty (1999)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (701 ratings) 8.7  
46. Marlon Brando
in On The Waterfront (1954)


in The Godfather (1972)


in Apocalypse. Now (1979)
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Average listal rating (201 ratings) 6.7  
47. Brad Dourif
in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (471 ratings) 7.8  
48. Jeff Bridges
in The Big Lebowski (1998)


in Crazy Heart (2009)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (215 ratings) 8.5  
49. Henry Fonda
in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)


in 12 Angry Men (1957)


in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (824 ratings) 7.8  
50. Viggo Mortensen
in The Lord of The Rings - trilogy (2001,2002,2003)


in A History of Violence (2005)


in Eastern Promises (2007)
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Comments

Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 23 15:01
Don't agree with everyone, but I think of Colin Firth in The King's Speech :)
Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 23 15:06
Really good list, great work.
Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 24 4:18
Oh I love this list, mainly because I'm a movie buff myself.
Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 24 7:06
What shall i say? Its Perfect! (There could be added some more but doesnt matter), excellent work!
Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 24 12:44
James Franco in 127 hours. He was brilliant. Anyway, you have my vote. Great list.
Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 24 13:01
Very good list. Excellent!
Posted: 1 year, 4 months ago at Jan 5 6:12
I'm expecting Tom Hank....
Posted: 1 year, 4 months ago at Jan 5 9:48
i would have included bogart in the african queen, eli wallach in the magnificent 7, marlon brando in streetcar, rod steiger in the pawn broker, and clint eastwood in unforgiven & gran torino. also paul newman, burt lancaster, jack lemmon, and james stewart for any one of a few different roles. terrific list though, and you have my vote..
Posted: 7 months, 3 weeks ago at Sep 28 11:57
Pat Morita sticks out like a sore thumb, otherwise it's a great list.

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