Buck Henry

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.

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.

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).