Preferably older movies, 1930s-1970s... Doesn't matter if the woman is homeless, a prostitute, just someone all alone trying to make it in this world.. Those characteristics tend to bring up some great movies.
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
shareKLUTE (1971) which features what's probably the best naturalistic acting performance of all time, by Jane Fonda.
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Judy Davis in HIGH TIDE (1987). I've never seen this, but she got great reviews for playing a drifter.
France's McDormand in MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (2008)
Christine Lahti (to a degree) in HOUSEKEEPING (1987)
Ironweed. Meryl Streep.
Hell! Most of the characters were down and out!
Miss Barbara Stanwyck in almost anything .
Susan Hayworth in the chilling "I Want To Live". Almost any good old dame in early films of the 30's - 50's.
Constance Towers in the kind-of-awful-yet-kind-of-good THE NAKED KISS (1964)
TRAILER: http://youtu.be/fW8mMv0n2lA
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