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From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 17, 2008 | Copyright information

Drama

1 The Conversation (1974)

This is Francis Ford Coppola's favourite of all his films, and Gene Hackman's, too. Hackman (below) plays a seedy surveillance expert who suffers a crisis of conscience when he suspects the couple he is bugging are about to be murdered. A film routinely dubbed 'Watergate-flavoured', this may be all about audiotapes and inflection, but it was written in the 1960s. It's bigger than mere commentary - the real subjects here are paranoia and culpability, loneliness and love.

2 Strangers on a Train (1951)

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