Diana Scott Julie Christie in an Oscar winning performance is an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana's long-suffering boyfriend. The film also won Oscars for Best Original Story and Screenplay, and Costume.

French wartime comedy co-written and directed by Gerard Oury. When a British bomber is shot down over Paris during the Second World War, the crew members become separated as they parachute into the Nazi-occupied city. One lands on the scaffold of an amiable painter and decorator, Augustin Bourvil. Another lands on top of a concert hall and is rescued by patriotic conductor Stanislas Lefort Louis de Funes. The third ends up in the otter enclosure of a Parisian zoo. Meanwhile, the Germans are hot on their trail as they attempt to make their escape into the neutral zone of Southern France.

Mike Nichols directs this 1960s comedy drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. After graduating from college, Ben Braddock Hoffman returns to his wealthy parents' South Californian home unsure of what he wants to do next. Feeling pressurised to get on with his life, the young Braddock escapes into an aimless affair with Mrs Robinson Bancroft, an older, married woman and friend of the family. The pair meet regularly, with neither expecting anything serious from the relationship, but this seemingly simple situation becomes complicated when Ben meets and begins dating Elaine Ross - Mrs Robinson's daughter. Featuring a score written by Paul Simon and performed by Simon and Garfunkel, the film was nominated for six Oscars and won for Best Director.

US comedy directed by Mel Brooks. Failed Broadway producer Max Zero Mostel and timid accountant Leo Gene Wilder come up with a foolproof plan to make a fortune, by staging a musical which is guaranteed to flop and close after one night. A mad Nazi seems to have the perfect raw material - a tribute to the Fhrer entitled 'Springtime for Hitler'. However, the show is taken for a comedy classic, and becomes an overnight success. The two schemers, now faced with financial ruin, decide to blow up the theatre in a desperate bid to cut their losses.

Audrey Hepburn stars in this 1960s musical drama based on George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion'. Professor Henry Higgins Rex Harrison, an expert in phonetics, accepts the challenge of transforming lowly cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle Hepburn into an upper-class lady through elocution lessons.

Classic action drama starring Michael Caine, Nol Coward and Benny Hill. Upon leaving jail, petty criminal Charlie Croker Caine inherits a carefully planned gold theft in Italy. With the original mastermind of the plan murdered, Croker needs financial backing and finds it in Mr Bridger Coward, a quintessential English crime boss still incarcerated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Bridger supplies Charlie with his own gang of bank robbers, getaway drivers and computer whizz-kids and helps him plan the heist which results in the world's biggest traffic jam.

Businessman David Mann Dennis Weaver is driving on a lonely stretch of highway when he notices that he is being followed by a huge, menacing diesel truck. The truck then starts trying to push him off the road, and despite Mann's attempts to defuse the situation, it soon has him engaged in a punishing duel to the death. Originally made for American television but given a cinema release in the UK, this was director Steven Spielberg's feature debut.