This Sporting Life (1963)

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Country: United Kingdom

"This Sporting Life" is a fantastic film, and it was a brutal directorial debut for Lindsay Anderson. We don't see corny dialogue nor bullshit melodrama and if you think that you saw the best actor in the world in the hands of Marlon Brando in "On The Waterfront", I challenge you to see Richard Harris in "This Sporting Life", his performance is absolutely perfect and brutal as a frustrated and lonely young man, whether in the rugby field, in the bar scenes, playing with the kids, or having a fist fight on the streets, his acting is always solid and his partner Rachel Roberts as Margaret Hammond gives us a great performance too. 

The iconic image of the film I would say is the one where in which we can see the power plant behind the rugby field, it shows us how the English working class lived after the World War Second, and how the English society recovered itself after years of bombings and fire, this is British neo-realism at its best.