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This is an ongoing list of film recommendations, organized by themes. The list represents a subjective take on films that would be worth spending some time exploring. Some of these will be linked to a full review; some you're just going to have to take a bigger leap of faith with. Feedback is most welcomed. Enjoy!

.::. A Question of Faith/Life and the Universe
* 2001: A space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
* Dekalog (The decalogue; Kieslowski, 1989)
* Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
* Monty Python's Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
* Nattvardsgasterna (Winter Light; Bergman, 1962)
* The New World (Malick, 2005)
* Stalker (Tarkovsky; 1979)
* Ta'm e guilass (Taste of Cherry; Kiarostami, 1997)

.::. Aging
* A streetcar named desire (Kazan; 1951)

.::. Facing Death

* Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal; Bergman, 1957)
* Ikiru (To Live; Kurosawa, 1952)
* Smultronstället (Wild strawberries; Bergman, 1957)
* Wandafuru raifu (After Life; Koreeda, 1998)

.::. Family Dynamics
* Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003)
* Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
* The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)
* The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach, 2005)
* Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers; Bergman, 1972)

.::. Fear and Violence

* Dai-bosatsu toge (The Sword of Doom; Okamoto, 1966)
* La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
* Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog; Resnais, 1955)
* The Pianist (Polanski, 2002)

.::. Gender Identity and Sexuality
* Far from heaven (Haynes, 2002)
* Happy Together (Wong, 1997)
* Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
* My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991)
* Tarnation (Caouette, 2003)

.::. In Therapy
* Metallica: Some kind of monster (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 2004)

.::. Intimate Encounters
* A Fei Zheng Chuan (Days of being wild; Wong, 1991)
* Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale & Wise, 1991)
* Before Sunset (Linklater, 2001)
* Chung Hing Sam Lam (Chungking Express; Wong, 1994)
* City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
* L'avventura (The fling; Antonioni, 1960)
* Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
* McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
* Vertigo (Hitchcock; 1958)

.::. Living with illness

* A woman under the influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
* Away from her (Polley; 2007)
* Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Wiene, 1920)
* Sasom i en spegel (Through a glass darkly; Bergman, 1961)

.::. Marriage
* Away from her (Polley, 2007)
* A woman under the influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
* In the Moood for Love (Wong, 1999)
* Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes from a marriage; Bergman, 1973)
* Solaris (Soderbergh, 2002)
* Sunrise: A song of two humans (Murnau, 1927)
* Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu; Mizoguchi, 1953)

.::. Media

* Cache (Hidden; Haneke, 2005)

.::. Parent-Child Relationship
* Hostsonaten (Autumn Sonata; Bergman, 1978)
* Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story; Ozu, 1953)

.::. Political Persuasion/Social Dynamics

* Der untergang (Downfall; Hirschbeigel, 2004)
* Do the right thing (Lee, 1989)
* Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
* Metropolis (Lang; 1927)
* Shijie (The world; Jia, 2004)
* Syriana (Gaghan, 2005)
* Talaye Sorkh (Crimson Gold; Panahi, 2003)
* Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)
* Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low; Kurosawa, 1963)
* Zhantai (Platform; Jia, 2000)

.::. Women roles and behaviour

* Cleo de 5 a 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7; Varda, 1961)
* Death Proof (Tarantino, 2007)
* The Descent (Marshall, 2005)
* Kill Bill (Tarantino, 2003)
* Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
* Sunrise: A song of two humans (Murnau, 1927)
* Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)
* Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers; Bergman, 1972)

.::. Youth abandonment/Growing Pains
* Dare mo shiranai (Nobody knows; Koreeda, 2004)
* Hotaru no haka (Grave of the fireflies; Takahata, 1988)
* L'enfant (The Child; Dardenne and Dardenne, 2005)
* Les quatre cents coups (400 blows; Truffaut, 1959)
* Lilja 4-ever (Moodysson, 2002)
* Riri Shushu no subete (All about Lily Chou Chou; Iwai, 2001)
* Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away; Miyazaki, 2001)

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