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Best Movies With Female as Lead?


La Strada
A Woman Under the Influence

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GWTW.

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Vredens dag
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Notti di Cabiria

Put it on a tripod!


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The Letter
Mildred Pierce
Deception
The Damned Don't Cry
Roxie Hart
Cause For Alarm
All Aboout Eve
Yield To The Night
The Weak And The Wicked
Street Corner
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Pandora's Box
Prix De Beaute
Diary Of A Lost Girl
It!
The Wicked Lady
Good Time Girl
Woman In A Dressing Gown
Carve Her Name With Pride
Odette

"Barney Sloane...That's my new name...My old one's a little more Italian."

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Love Giuletta Masino in her work with Felini, my favorite Italian Director.

Also like Louise Brooks, wish I knew the problem that she had with the studios about the movie The Cannary Murder Case.

In many movies they have role more stronger than the leading actor.

As a femme fatalle: Ann Savage in Detour.

Not her best but I like to quote Claudette Coulbert's Imitation of a Life, seems that it was the first movie that a woman became very sucessful in her business without the help of a man.



There are 2 weird one.

Rebecca (by Hitchcock)although never seen or heard, Rebecca ruled the family.

In "A letter for 3 wives) not seen only heard: Addie Ross (Celeste Holm'a voice)every woman wanted to be like Addie Ross.

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Fraulein Doktor w/Suzy Kendall

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie w/Maggie Smith

The Quick and the Dead w/Sharon Stone

Joan of Arc...all of the films

The Bride of Frankenstein

Edit: 2 recent films - Both w/Emily Blunt

The Girl on the Train

Sicario

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"St. Joan" is one of my favorites. Jean Seberg was very good.

The two Elizabeth films with Cate the Great were also excellent.

Ditto "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".

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Doubt
Gone With the Wind
Roman Holiday
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Through a Glass, Darkly
Ninotchka
Inside Out
All About Eve
The Heiress
A Star is Born (1954)
The Red Shoes
Autumn Sonata
The Village
Rebecca
Charade
Brooklyn
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Three Colors: Blue
Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)

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Hairspray
Jenifer
City of the dead
Heathers
Scream

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I love Paul Verhoeven's BLACK BOOK (2006)

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The Cranes Are Flying (Criterion; war homefront; starring the 'Russian Audrey Hepburn')
The Most Beautiful Wife (Twilight Time limited edition Blu-ray; crime, Mafia, politics; isolated Morricone score)
Maborosi (yet another film about a Japanese woman who represses her emotions, but this one is good)
About Elly (holiday outing by the sea changes tone; the woman on the DVD box cover is not Elly)
The Official Story (the political awakening of an upper middle class wife and mother)

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