Thanks for the suggestions! I'll be passing them on. I'm very tempted to stick a Kate Hepburn movie on the list just to see if he notices.

I have to say, you all have done a much better job than the people here at the law school, who can't seem to figure out that the movies they're giving me are about foreign law not international law. I suspect it's just because fun questions like this are seem so few and far between when the dark cloud of final exams gathers over the university.

Just saw your request, Sparky. Gentleman's Agreement comes to mind. If you want something off the wall like an Errol Flynn war movie, Objective Burma! could fit (one character is killed in what could only be called torture).

I think Salvador would work, Sparky.

DS9 episode "Duet" is a great piece on torture. Also Death and the Maiden.

Also Death and the Maiden.

That's the one I was trying to think of! Very disturbing. Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley are just amazing.

That's the one I was trying to think of! Very disturbing. Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley are just amazing.

Yeah, it's still a little stagey, but the performances (as you would expect from those two) are so strong. As a writer, you can only hope to have people like Kingsley and Weaver enacting your words.

Or...Emma Thompson or Cate Blanchett or Daniel Day Lewis or Gary Oldham, or....

Continuing thanks... things like Death and the Maiden don't count, however, unless there's an international law element in it. If I remember correctly, that one, for example, takes place in an unnamed country with all domestic participants. So, there's no treaty to invoke, etc. Domestic torture? Meh.

The problem a lot of my law school suggestions had were that they were about people in a country not their own getting in trouble because of that country's domestic laws. Again, no real international law element.

We need war crimes tribunals, extraditions, treaties, etc... Agreements between nation states up for debate.

Well, in the Munich vein, there's always Raid on Entebbe. Not only do you get James Woods singing in Hebrew, you get Israel doing things to Ugandan airspace that I am pretty sure are really, really illegal. (In, all things considered, a well-intentioned way.)

I know there's more than one movie about refugees arriving in new countries (i.e. not just their own country beating the everliving hell outta them) and human rights, but the only title I can think of is a mediocre mid-90s movie called Turtle Bay starring Joan Chen. That's set in Indonesia, I think, but I don't remember where the refugees come from.

And there's got to be something Costa-Gavras-y that would fit this bill (I just don't know what).

In all honesty, I can't see how a film series based on international law is a good idea.

Henry V

I just watched (some of) Bull Durham in the past couple of weeks (thanks, amych!) and I can note that 1. it is totally freaky to be able to pinpoint the location of almost every outdoor shot in the movie, which was in fact shot in Durham, 2. it is EVEN MORE FREAKY to find Kevin Costner sexy, still, even after knowing what he's done since, 3. Tim Robbins is almost unbearably watch-from-the-hall-y, and 4. Susan Sarandon, who was only 42 at the time, was hott, and is still hott now that she's 60, and she's older than my MOM. Also (5., if you're counting) Hollywood does a crap job of casting non-white people, which in a movie set in my city and about baseball players is especially jarring. There's like, one black and one hispanic in the whole thing, and the hispanic guy has a chicken bone cross he rubs on his bat for chrissakes.