Buck Henry

Mike Nichols' Oscar-winning coming-of-age comedy about a college graduate (Dustin Hoffman) caught in a romantic rut between the love of the woman he adores (Katharine Ross) and the shallow affair he had with her mother, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft). 

Barry Levinson (Rain Man) adapts Philip Roth's bestselling novel about an ageing, washed-up actor who starts to confuse performance with real life. Played by Al Pacino, the former stage legend enters an affair with a young lesbian (the great Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha) who idolises him.

David Bowie leads this cult classic sci-fi from director Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now) as Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien from a dying planet in desperate need of water.

Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 screwball comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbour Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York. Stars Gena Rowlands in an Academy Award-nominated performance.

A football player (Warren Beatty) is called to heaven prematurely, and his body cremated, leaving the bungling angel to find him a new one.

Mike Nichols directs this screen adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller satire, with Alan Arkin as Captain John Yossarian, a WWII bombardier desperate to escape the insanity of war but learning that sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.

Nicole Kidman delivers a BAFTA-nominated performance in this sly 1995 media thriller from Gus Van Sant (Elephant) as a woman willing to go to dangerous lengths to achieve her goal of being a big television personality.