Favorite Female Perfs

1. Irene Jacob in The Double Life of

2. Audrey Tautou in Amelie

3. Winona Ryder in Reality Bites

4. Eva Green in The Dreamers

5. Jennifer Connelly in The House of

6. Faye Wong in Chungking Express

7. Gay Hamilton in Barry Lyndon

8. Anna Karina in Pierrot le Fou

9. Grace Kelly in Rear Window

10. Maria Cucinotta in Il Postino

11. Chantal Goya in Masculin Feminin

12. Zooey Deschanel in Winter Passing

13. Rose Byrne in Adam

14. Marion Cotillard in Jeux d’enfants

15. Irene Jacob in Three Colors: Red

16. Robin Tunney in Cherish

17. Anna Karina in Vivre sa Vie

18. Brigitte Bardot in A Very Private Affair

19. Shanyn Sossamon in The Rules of Attraction

20. Audrey Tautou in Dirty Pretty Things

21. Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde

22. Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour

23. Monica Belucci in Malena

24. Emily Mortimer in Young Adam

25. Emily Blunt in Sunshine Cleaning

26. Janet Leigh in Psycho

27. Jennifer Connelly in Waking the Dead

28. Mili Avital in Dead Man

29. Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being

30. Cybil Shepherd in The Last Picture Show

31. Salma Hayek in Desperado

32. Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being

33. Penelope Cruz in Volver

34. Marion Cotillard in A Good Year

35. Carla Gugino in The Jimmy Show

36. Monica Belucci in Malena

37. Rosario Dawson in He Got Game

38. Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles

39. Audrey Tautou in Hors de Prix

40. Rosario Dawson in Kids

... and, well, Rachel McAdams in pretty much anything where the director is smart enough to commit a decent amount of time to her screenface. Same goes for Grace Kelly. And Jennifer Connelly.

Written by Mister Listerman