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on 20 Aug 2010 03:18

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8.7

1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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3089

8.3

8.6

2. Psycho (1960)

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates

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6800

8.3

3. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield

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1630

8.2

8.7

4. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart as George Bailey

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4829

8.7

9.2

5. The Godfather (1972)

Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone

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3457

8.5

8.8

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Jack Nicholson as Randle P. McMurphy

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5949

8.4

7. The Dark Knight (2008)

Heath Ledger as the Joker

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5554

7.8

8.5

8. American Beauty (1999)

Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham

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1957

7.8

8.2

9. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

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4842

8.2

8.4

10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge

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1521

8.2

11. The Deer Hunter (1978)

Robert De Niro as Sgt. Michael "Mike" Vronsky and Christopher Walken as Cpl. Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich.

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872

8.3

12. Rebecca (1940)

Laurence Olivier as Maxim De Winter

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7764

7.9

8.7

13. Forrest Gump (1994)

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump

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3352

8.6

14. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Robert De Niro as young Vito Corleone

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1352

8.4

8.6

15. Modern Times (1936)

Charles Chaplin as The Tramp (including performances in City Lights, The Circus and The Gold Rush)

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1093

8.4

16. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence

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1888

8.3

17. The Elephant Man (1980)

John Hurt as John Merrick

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2977

7.6

18. Rain Man (1988)

Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt (including Hoffman performances in Kramer Vs. Kramer and The Graduate)

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4300

8.5

19. The Departed (2006)

Leonardo DiCaprio as William "Billy" Costigan

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8331

7.6

20. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the B... (2003)

Johnny Depp as 'Captain' Jack Sparrow

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399

8.1

21. The Hustler (1961)

Paul Newman as Eddie Felson

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2545

8.2

8.7

22. Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine

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2111

8.1

23. The King's Speech (2010)

Colin Firth as King George VI

SJMJ91's rating:

4167

8.1

8.3

24. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa

SJMJ91's rating:

1375

7.6

25. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Kevin Kline as Otto West

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2306

8.3

8.6

26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Wo... (1964)

Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove

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7385

8.2

8.9

27. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kin... (2003)

Ian McKellen as Gandalf

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1478

8.2

8.4

28. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne

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1395

8.4

29. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

SJMJ91's rating:

666

8.1

30. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Richard Burton as George

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Comments

Dan

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 14 11:11

I miss some pictures in this list, I guess It would be better with some pictures :D

SJMJ91

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 14 12:07

Yeah. I'm gonna add some pictures when I get the time to do that :)

NaZeem

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 14 12:45

consider anthony hopkins for Red Dragon also
Bradd pitt for fight club,,curious case of benjamin button

SJMJ91

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 14 12:50

Hmmmm... yeah he was great in that film but nothing compared to Silence Of The Lambs.
Well, I love Brad Pitt and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button but his performance perhaps wasn't as mesmerising or as powerful as any of these actors were in the films in this list.

SpG

Posted: 1 year, 2 months ago at Mar 3 4:30

Anthony Perkins is soooo underrated. Good :)
Wait, there's no Daniel Day Lewis!