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It is almost impossible for me to make this list and all the preceding capture most of the ones I'd name. So, I'll stick to a (bigger than Top 5), great performances list -
Classics -
The Man Who Would Be King (Connery & Caine)
Zulu (Michael Caine)
The Sand Pebbles (Steve McQueen)
Sunset Boulevard (William Holden)
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (Robert Mitchum)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum)
The Sting (Robert Shaw, Paul Newman)
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau)
Charlie Varrick (Walther Matthau)
Liam Neeson (Rob Roy)
Jaws (Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss)
American Grafitti (Richard Dreyfuss)
The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman)
Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman, John Voight)
Three & Four Musketeers (Oliver Reed, Michael York)
Newer -
Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges)
Fargo (Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Bill Macy)
Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins & Jody Foster)
American Psycho (Christian Bale)
Gladiator (Russell Crowe, Oliver Reed)
Election (Matthew Broderick)
Sid & Nancy (Gary Oldman)
The Fifth Element (Gary Oldman, Bruce Willis)
The 12 Monkeys (Bruce Willis)
Brazil (Jonathan Pryce)
Fisher King (Jeff Bridges)
Alien (Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm)
Whew!
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