This film contains straightforward American accents and should be okay for intermediate students and above.
Clint Eastwood is one of the greatest actor/directors that has ever lived. His resume is absolutely stellar, including as it does Dirty Harry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Man with No Name trilogy and Play Misty for Me as actor, while his directorial work is even more impressive, including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River.
My pick though is an acting-only one, In The LIne of Fire.
Directed by accomplished story teller Wolfgang Peterson, who also directed Das Boot among others, In The Line of Fire finds Eastwood playing the ragged old agent to perfection. He plays Frank Horrigan, an aging secret service agent who failed to save JFK thirty years earlier. Breaking in yet another young rookie, Frank picks up the phone one day to be told that the current president will also die.this begins a brilliant game of cat and mouse as Frank attempts to thwart the plans of ex CIA agent John Malkowich.
Eastwood plays Frank with an incredible vulnerability for an actor known almost exclusively for his macho growl. During one scene in particular, when Frank is telling Rene Russos character Lilly Raines about the day JFK died, his bottom lip starts wobbling in a quite brilliant display from the great man.
In The Line of Fire is that rare beast, an action thriller that includes not just an incredible cast but a plot that keeps you interested from beginning to end.