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Lots of great movies listed, but what I find most captivating are actors who can convey an emotion with no words--only their facial expressions.

 

One of my absolute favorites is Diane Lane in Unfaithful who delivered a magnificent performance in sexual discovery,  abandonment, guilt, and desire when her adulterous character is returning home by train after her first tryst with Olivier Martinez's sexy bookdealer…

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Bette Davis as Margo Channing in "All About Eve" (1950). | Atrizes clássicas, Bette davis, Fred ...

 

Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950)

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Lots of great movies listed, but what I find most captivating are actors who can convey an emotion with no words--only their facial expressions.

 

One of my absolute favorites is Diane Lane in Unfaithful who delivered a magnificent performance in sexual discovery,  abandonment, guilt, and desire when her adulterous character is returning home by train after her first tryst with Olivier Martinez's sexy bookdealer…


That scene is fire. Diane Lane nails it.

Loved the movie too. 

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J. K. Simmons in Whiplash.

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Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942)

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Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking.

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Ray Liotta in Goodfellas (1990)

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Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer!!

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Love Bette Davis movies.

Others: Mr. SkeffingtonDark Victory and The Corn is Green

 

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I can’t believe I said Hopkins instead of Perkins in Psycho. 🤪

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