Gutsy Women From Fave  Films - Name Your Fave :)

Top 5 

Sigourney Weaver - Alien

Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde (and to some extent Network)

Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity

Susan Saradon and Geena Davis - Thelma and Louise 

Claudia Cardinale - Once Upon a Time in the West

some others....  

Carmen Maura - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Tippi Hedren - Marnie

Winona Ryder - Heathers

Anjelica Houston - The Grifters

Ava Gardner - Night of the Iguana

Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

jodie foster - the silence of the lambs

Audrey Hepburn--Charade

Susan Sarandon -- Thelma and Louise

Hillary Swank -- Million Dollar Baby

Helen Slater -- The Legend of Billie Jean

Mia Sara -- Legend

Mary Stewart Masterson -- Fried Green Tomatoes

Kathy Bates -- Misery