Films

Awakenings through Film
The Visitor                                American Beauty            Under the Sun
Man on a Train                        Tsotsi                                Beginners
Babette’s Feast                       Angel-A                            Queen to Play
My Life                                       Il Postino
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly        Castaway
The Game                                Cherry Blossoms
Wonder Boys                           Departures
The Girl in the Café                 Kiss of the Spider Woman
Love & Death on Long Island                Another Woman
The Lives of Others                As It is in Heaven (Swedish)
Six Degrees of Separation    Lars and the Real Girl
Yes Man                                   Baghdad Cafe
Ikuru                                          Up in the Air
A Single Man

Alternate Realities or the Transpersonal through Film
The Game                                                Another Earth
Sliding Doors
Pleasantville
Stranger than Fiction
I Heart Huckabees
Run Lola Run
13 Conversations About One Thing
Amelie
Cold Souls
Angel-A
American Beauty
Truman Show
Being There
Bruce Almighty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Groundhog Day
End of the Affair
Passage to India
Howard’s End
21 Grams
Babel

Death, Dying & Grief through Film
Departures                Rabbit Hole
My Life                        In America
Dean Spanley
Shadowlands
Iris
Far from Her
Ikuru

Mother-Daughter Relationships through Film
Rachel Getting Married (scene w/ mother)      
Grey Gardens (doc & feature)
The House of Sand
Anywhere But Here
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee                              
Mermaids                                               
Postcards from the Edge                                
Joy Luck Club
One True Thing
Autumn Sonata
Interiors

Father-Daughter Relationships through Film
Proof                                            
King of California                        
The Ballad of Jack and Rose   
The Heiressn
On Golden Pond                        
My First Mister
1000 Acres
Bonjour Tristesse
The Heiress
Sink or Swim

Mother-Son Relationships through Film
Savage Grace
Murmur of the Heart
Sons and Lovers
Ordinary People

Father-Son Relationships through Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
This Boy’s Life
Riding Alone for 1000s of Miles
Ordinary People
Big Fish
Tree of Life (scenes)
The Way
Tetro
Shot in the Dark (doc)

French Films
A Very Long Engagement
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
King of Hearts
Amelie
Les Enfants du Paradis

General Good Films/Uncategorizable:
Things We Lost in the Fire                Incendies (French)
Everything is Illuminated                   Sand Pebbles
Tomorrow                                             A Separation (Iranian)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Benjamin Button
Whatever Works
Slumdog Millionaire
The Insider
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
And Now My Love
Entre Nous
Crying Game
To Kill a Mockingbird
English Patient
Adaptation
Bulworthy
Nine Lives
Things I Know About You

Documentaries
Man on Wire
Young @ Heart
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
In A Dream

Relationship
When a Man Loves a Woman
Far From the Madding Crowd                Cairo Time
Stage Beauty
Girl w/ a Pearl Earring
A Walk on the Moon
In A Dream
500 Days of Summer
Ira and Abby
Husbands & Wives
Sleepless in Seattle – When Harry Met Sally – The Story of Us
Lost in Translation
The Cuckoo
Namesake
Remains of the Day
Love in the Time of Cholera (love speech)
Feast of Love
Enchanted Cottage
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Man and A Woman
In the Mood for Love
Lantana
Woman of the Dunes
Fast Runner
Bandits
Shoot the Moon
Closer
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lars and the Real Girl
Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Ghostly Lover
The Ghost & Mrs Muir
Truly Madly Deeply
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Waking the Dead

Men’s Themes
Soldier
Elegy
I am a Sex Addict
Carnal Knowledge
The Kite Runner
Venus
The Reader
American Beauty
500 Days of Summer
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Coming of age:
  The Wackness
  The Graduate
  Katamini
  The Last Picture Show
  This Boy’s Life
  Cinema Paradiso

Sexuality/Battle of the Sexes                                  
Towelhead                                        Lolita                 
That Obscure Object of Desire                
The Secret Life of Words               The Civilization of Maxwell Bright                       
Woodsman
Breaking Up                                      Things Behind the Sun
Trust (Clive Owen)
The Adults in the Room (doc)
Kinsey
Amy’s O
Kissing Jessica Stein
Revolutionary Road
The Notorious Bettie Paige
Bliss
Intimacy
The Lover
Damage
The Piano
Venus

Women’s Films
Brick Lane                                Baghdad Cafe                    Ghost and Mrs Muir
A Doll’s House                        Pandora & the Flying Dutchman
Camille Claudel                      The Story of Adele H.
Mr & Mrs Bridge                       Shirley Valentine                
Revolutionary Road                Madame Bovary
Under the Tuscan Sun           Darling
PS I Love You                           Upside of Anger
Nights in Rodanthe                 The Heiress (Olivia de Havilland)
He’s Just Not That Into You      Queen to Play (French)
Bread and Tulips                        The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Diary of a Mad Housewife
You Me Them
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Duchess
Babette’s Feast
Alice
Facing Windows
A Price Above Rubies
Year of the Dog
Another Woman
Sirens
Me, Myself & I
The Virgin and the Gypsy
The Notorious Bettie Paige
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Ryan’s Daughter
Living Out Loud

  
Girls’ Coming of Age:
          Smooth Talk
          Stealing Beauty
          My First Mister
          Whale Rider
          Blue Car
          

Fairy Tales
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
The Fall

Shadow
Fight Club
Man on the Train
Collateral
Wolf
House of Cards
Billy Budd
The Matador
Cache
Belle du Jour