Forgotten Great Film Performances

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Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Lucas García in the film Canoa: A Shameful Memory.
Cate Blanchett as Lucinda Leplastrier in the film Oscar and Lucinda.
Brenda Fricker as Maggie McCabe in the film The Field.
Ray Winstone as Arnold “Frenchie” French lifts a finger in a bar in the film The Departed.
Sam Neill as Anthony sports a suit and red tie as he leans on a mantel in the film Yes.
Kevin Costner as Robert “Butch” Haynes in the film A Perfect World.
Brion James as Arthur Coddish guffaws in an oversized black flat cap in the film Crimewave.
Seth Gilliam as Sugar Watkins has been spattered by green goo in the film Starship Troopers. He sports an army helmet outside.
Molly Grue tears up while holding the Unicorn’s face in the film The Last Unicorn.
Emma Roberts as April sits on a couch in the film Palo Alto.
Piper Perabo as Rachel and Anthony Stewart Head as Ned sit in a limousine in formal wear in the film Imagine Me & You.
Jürgen Prochnow as Sutter Cane spreads his arms in a church in the film In the Mouth of Madness.
Rinko Kikuchi as Bang Bang wears a black hat, fur coat, and red gloves as she points a gun on a porch. The film is The Brothers Bloom.
William L. Petersen as Richard Chance points a gun in the film To Live and Die in L.A.
Benedict Wong as Kyo holds a paper bag of groceries in the film Nine Days.
Rosario Dawson as Chelsea Brown beams at a party in the film Top Five.
Mariah Carey as Anna Weiss in the film Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire.
Tony Jaa as The Hunter aims a bow and arrow in the mountains in the film Monster Hunter.
Lou Diamond Phillips as Cisco talks on the phone in the film The Big Hit.
John Turturro as Arnold reads a book of Latin American Poetry to Julianne Moore as Gloria Bell. Both sit inside and wear glasses in the film Gloria Bell.
Jane Fonda as Kimberly Wells holds a clipboard in a power plant in the film The China Syndrome.
Teyonah Parris as Lysistrata peers into the camera in front of a lot in the film Chi-Raq.
Walter Brennan as Doc Velie wrinkles his mouth indoors in a cowboy hat, dress shirt, and dark tie in the film Bad Day at Black Rock.
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa gawks outside at night in the film Rocky Balboa.
Ray Wise as Don Hollenbeck in the film Good Night, and Good Luck.
Larry Miller as Walter Stratford in the film 10 Things I Hate About You.
Robert Duvall as Bob Hodges grips his service gun in the film Colors.
Tom Noonan as Mr. Ulman sits suited in a living room chair leaning on a cane in the film The House of the Devil.
Idris Elba as Colin Evans stands on a doorstep in the rain at night. Taraji P. Henson as Terri Granger answers the door, in the film No Good Deed.
Arjun Rampal as Mukesh Mehra in the film Om Shanti Om.
Paul Sparks as Mark frowns with his hands in his pockets in the film Thoroughbreds.
Nobuko Miyamoto as Ryoko Itakura smokes a cigarette and lowers her sunglasses in the film A Taxing Woman.
Kate Hudson as Darcy Rhone in the film Something Borrowed.
Rose Byrne as Lori sits forcing a smile in the film The Meddler.
Eva Mendes as Kay M. in the film Holy Motors.
Roger Allam as Arnold Royalton holds a bouquet and stands in front of a purple private plane in the film Speed Racer.
David Tomlinson as George Banks squints from his foyer in the film Mary Poppins.
Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in the film The Fifth Element.
Toshiro Mifune as Detective Murakimi in the film Stray Dog.
James Badge Dale as Tyrone S. Woods and Saif Braik as Roadblock Militiaman in the film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
Holt McCallany as Jerry Manning, A.K.A. The Beast, peers through bars in a prison yard in the film Shot Caller.
Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart covers her mouth in the film The Others.
Dorothy Malone as Acme Bookstore proprietress in the film The Big Sleep.
Brendan Fraser as Clayton Boone works in a garden in the film Gods and Monsters.
Antonio Banderas as Armand sits in the dark with a candle in the film Interview with the Vampire.
Brent Briscoe as Lou Chambers in the film A Simple Plan.
Marina Vlady as Juliette Jeanson in the film Two or Three Things I Know About Her.
Jeff Daniels as Richard Dunn and Emma Stone as Abby sit in a restaurant booth with fries and a large Pepsi cup with a straw, in the film Paper Man.
Yaphet Kotto as Parker in the film Alien.
Marilyn Monroe as Rose Loomis smokes a cigarette in bed in the film Niagara.
Denise Richards as Kelly Lanier Van Ryan stands on a beach at night in the film Wild Things.
Holmes Osborne as Eddie Darko gawks from behind the wheel of his car in the film Donnie Darko.
Ione Skye as Clarissa sits in class in the film River’s Edge. Credited as Ione Skye Leitch.
William Forsythe as Sheriff John Quincy Wydell in the film The Devil’s Rejects.
Fairuza Balk as Paula in the film Personal Velocity: Three Portraits.
Daniel Kaluuya as Jatemme Manning in the film Widows.
Alberta Watson as Risa Walker in the film The Sweet Hereafter
Simon Yam as Lam Lok holds up a bowl in the film Election.
William Richert as Bob Pigeon gives a thumbs-up in the film My Own Private Idaho.