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Here is a selection of my favorite films, including docos and television series. All of them provide compelling examples of DRAMATIC STORYTELLING, and some - like Blue Eyelids - evidence the power of those essential dramatic elements, MYSTERY & SUSPENSE.

Watch this space for continual updates. Short film section will be added soon.


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

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
53 Days of Winter

Nil By Mouth
I’m Not Scared
The Fast Runner
The White Balloon (Iranian film)
Once Were Warriors
Aliens
Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources
My Father’s Glory
My Mother’s Castle
The Browning Version
Suddenly Last Summer
American Splendor
Alive

The Castle
When A Stranger Calls (Horror)
Hud
Lost in Translation
Working Girl
Last Train From Gun Hill
The Searchers
Stand by Me
Il Postino
Yolngu Boy
Hell in the Pacific
Deliverance (Directed by John Boorman)
City Lights
Chinatown

Misery
Seven
Fallen
El Mar
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 Conversation
Escape from Sobibor
Blue Eyelids                                                                                                                                                 Beauty in Trouble



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)
The Wire


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


SHORT FILMS

Omnibus                                                                                                                 One Froggy Evening 

 

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