Personal Favourites: Female Screen Actors

By: Trolley Freak

An alphabetical list with three of my favourite films by each one.

Related Lists:

Personal Favourites: Male Screen Actors
Top 10: Japanese Film Stars

Anna Karina (A Woman Is A Woman, Vivre Sa Vie, Pierrot Le Fou)

Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Wait Until Dark)

Ayako Wakao (Floating Weeds, Red Angel, Irezumi)

Barbara Stanwyck (Ball Of Fire, The Lady Eve, Double Indemnity)

Catherine Deneuve (Belle De Jour, Mississippi Mermaid, The Last Metro)

Dominique Sanda (Une Femme Douce, The Conformist, The Garden Of The Finzi-Cortinis)

Emmanuelle Béart (Manon Of The Spring, Mission: Impossible, Nathalie…)

Grace Kelly (Rear Window, To Catch A Thief, High Society)

Greta Garbo (Anna Karenina, Camille, Ninotchka)

Hanna Schygulla (Katzelmacher, Effi Briest, The Marriage Of Maria Braun)

Hideko Takamine (Floating Clouds, When A Woman Ascends The Stairs, Yearning)

Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, The Bells Of St. Mary’s, Notorious)

Ingrid Thulin (Brink Of Life, The Silence, Cries And Whispers)

Irm Hermann (The Merchant Of Four Seasons, Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Fox And His Friends)

Isabelle Adjani (The Story Of Adele H, Possession, One Deadly Summer)

Julie Christie (Billy Liar, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Don’t Look Now)

Kinuyo Tanaka (The Life Of Oharu, Sansho The Bailiff, Alone On The Pacific)

Liv Ullmann (Persona, Hour Of The Wolf, The Passion Of Anna)

Machiko Kyô (Rashômon, Gate Of Hell, Ugetsu)

Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant, Martha, Satan’s Brew)

Maria Schell (The Last Bridge, Le Notti Bianche, The Odessa File)

Marilyn Monroe (Niagara, Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot)

Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, Touch Of Evil)

Michele Morgan (Port Of Shadows, Remorques, The Fallen Idol)

Setsuko Hara (Late Spring, Tokyo Story, The End Of Summer)

Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment, Irma La Douce, Terms Of Endearment)

Theresa Russell (Bad Timing, Eureka, Insignificance)

To be updated…

• 01
  A Woman Is a Woman
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 02
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 03
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 04
  Roman Holiday
  William Wyler
• 05
  Sabrina
  Billy Wilder
• 06
  Wait Until Dark
  Terence Young
• 07
  Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 08
  Red Angel
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 09
  Irezumi
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 10
  Ball of Fire
  Howard Hawks
• 11
  The Lady Eve
  Preston Sturges
• 12
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 13
  Belle de jour
  Luis Buñuel
• 14
  Mississippi Mermaid
  François Truffaut
• 15
  The Last Metro
  François Truffaut
• 16
  Une femme douce
  Robert Bresson
• 17
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 18
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  Vittorio De Sica
• 19
  Manon of the Spring
  Claude Berri
• 20
  Mission: Impossible
  Brian De Palma
• 21
  Nathalie...
  Anne Fontaine
• 22
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 23
  To Catch a Thief
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 24
  High Society
  Charles Walters
• 25
  Anna Karenina
  Clarence Brown
• 26
  Camille
  George Cukor
• 27
  Ninotchka
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 28
  Katzelmacher
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 29
  Effi Briest
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 30
  The Marriage of Maria Braun
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 31
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 32
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 33
  Yearning
  Mikio Naruse
• 34
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 35
  The Bells of St. Mary's
  Leo McCarey
• 36
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 37
  Brink of Life
  Ingmar Bergman
• 38
  The Silence
  Ingmar Bergman
• 39
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 40
  The Merchant of Four Seasons
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 41
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 42
  Fox and His Friends
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 43
  The Story of Adele H.
  François Truffaut
• 44
  Possession
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 45
  One Deadly Summer
  Jean Becker
• 46
  Billy Liar
  John Schlesinger
• 47
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Robert Altman
• 48
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 49
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 50
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 51
  Alone on the Pacific
  Kon Ichikawa
• 52
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 53
  Hour of the Wolf
  Ingmar Bergman
• 54
  The Passion of Anna
  Ingmar Bergman
• 55
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 56
  Gate of Hell
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 57
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 58
  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 59
  Martha
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 60
  Satan's Brew
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 61
  The Last Bridge
  Helmut Käutner
• 62
  Le notti bianche
  Luchino Visconti
• 63
  The Odessa File
  Ronald Neame
• 64
  Niagara
  Henry Hathaway
• 65
  Bus Stop
  Joshua Logan
• 66
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder
• 67
  The Blue Angel
  Josef von Sternberg
• 68
  Shanghai Express
  Josef von Sternberg
• 69
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 70
  Port of Shadows
  Marcel Carné
• 71
  Remorques
  Jean Grémillon
• 72
  The Fallen Idol
  Carol Reed
• 73
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 74
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 75
  The End of Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 76
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 77
  Irma la Douce
  Billy Wilder
• 78
  Terms of Endearment
  James L. Brooks
• 79
  Bad Timing
  Nicolas Roeg
• 80
  Eureka
  Nicolas Roeg
• 81
  Insignificance
  Nicolas Roeg