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Here is a selection of my favorite films, including docos and television series.

All of them are worth looking at in conjunction with the questionaire, THE DRAMA REPORT - The Essential Questions. 

THIS LIST IS REGULARLY UPDATED

Recommended Films 

The Lives of Others
10 Canoes
Turtles Can Fly (Iranian film)
Divided We Fall
Le Vieue de San Pierre  (Widow of San Pierre)
Character                                     
Wages of Fear
The Pianist
Lagaan
Open Hearts

Runaway Train
Forbidden Games
The Mother
Sexy Beast
Beneath Clouds
Central Station
City of God
Behind the Sun
Show Me Love
Burnt by the Sun

Tremors
Vengo
Gadjo Dilo
No Man’s Land
Manhunter
Gaslight (with Ingrid Bergman)
One-Eyed Jacks
Prisoner of the Mountains
I’m the King of the Castle
Jaws

Blackboards (Iranian)
A Time for Drunken Horses (Iranian)
Die Hard
Whale Rider
Black Orpheus
Witness
A Jury of Her Peers (30-min – Oscar winner)
Goodfellas
In the Name of the Father
Ponette

Staying On (with Trevor Howard)
Nashville
The War Zone
Sweet Sixteen
American History X
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
The Godfather – Pts 1 and 2
The Letter (w Bette Davis)
Duel                                                                                                                                      The Song of Sparrows

The Conversation

Escape from Sobibor
The Plunderers                                                                                                                   Samson and Delilah                                                                                                             Blue Eyelids                                                                                                                          The Rain People

TELEVISION
Dunera Boys (TV mini-series)
Edge of Darkness (BBC-TV mini-series)
Queer As Folk -1 & 2 (BBC-TV mini-series)
Oz (TV drama series)
Requiem for a Heavyweight
A Very British Coup (TV mini-series)
Traffic (BBC-TV mini-series)
Over There (TV drama series)
Death of a Salesman (w/ Lee J Cobb)
The Man in the Glass Cage
Nowhere Man (TV drama series)
Out (BBC Drama series)


DOCUMENTARIES
Shoah
Best Boy
Grey Gardens
Bus 174
Capturing the Freidmans
The Staircase
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Brother’s Keeper
Sherman’s March
Saint Genet
Promises
One Day in September
Divorce Iranian Style
The Unknown Chaplin
Titicut Follies
Touching the Void
Mr Death
Thin Blue Line
Dancing Outlaw


DIRECTORS:

JOHN CASSAVETES:
A Woman Under the Influence
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Gloria

INGMAR BERGMAN:
The Virgin Spring
Cries and Whispers
Scenes from a Marriage

EMIR KUSTERICA:
Time of the Gypsies
When Father Was Away on Business
Black Cat White Cat
Underground

SIDNEY LUMET:
Twelve Angry Men
The Pawnbroker
The Verdict
Network
Dog Day Afternoon

AKIRA KUROSAWA:
Rashoman
High and Low
Seven Samurai

SATYAJIT RAY:
Enemy of the People
Deliverance
The World of Apu
Aparajito
Pather Panjali