Martin Sheen journeys through Vietnam and Cambodia to terminate flipped-out renegade US colonel Marlon Brando. But his mission becomes a screaming trip into madness, stunningly realised by Coppola's hallucinogenic direction and a cast dragged from Hollywood's Narcotics Anonymous.

Vintage, multiple award-winning Billy Wilder satire-cum-romance with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

Impressive portrayal of the cycle of violence among the poor, young criminals in the slums of Rio De Janeiro. Based in reality, it features the all-out gang war that took place in the early 1980s and was documented in the renowned source novel of the same name.

Polanski's masterly film noir takes us back to the days when Los Angeles was a small town. Jack Nicholson stars.

Ex-criminal Ray Winstone's idyllic retirement is disrupted when Ben Kingsley asks, nay demands, that he do one more job. Another Brit-gangster flick. No wait, come back!

We know what the year 2001 looks like now, and it doesn't look much like Kubrick's vision. But 2001: A Space Odyssey itself still looks immaculate. Spectacular, trailblazing and philosophical, it's an undisputed masterpiece.

Alfred Hitchcock presents a 3000-mile chase across America. Cary Grant stars.

Paris never looked more romantic than in this fractured, amoral tale of a Bogart-obsessed fantasist who shoots a cop and takes up with an old flame.

An astonishingly imaginative, poignant, genre-defying tale of teen love, insanity and time travel. The feature debut of US filmmaker Richard Kelly, starring upcoming talent Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Gleeful, thoroughly entertaining 80s time travel yarn that stars Michael J Fox as a teen who heads back in time, only to muddle his own parents' courtship.

The film that gave us the action heroine, in the shape of Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley, and presented space travel as just another job. It's a tour-de-force of suspense, slasher antics and good old-fashioned sci-fi.

A wry and poignant comedy concerning the undercurrent of feelings between middle-aged actor Bill Murray and philosophy graduate Scarlett Johansson when they meet in a Tokyo hotel. Sofia Coppola's follow-up to The Virgin Suicides.

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman star in Frank Darabont's memorably moving prison-set fable, adapted from a short story by Stephen King. Robbins' young banker is accused of a double-murder but refuses to let his spirit be broken.

By mixing two of India's greatest loves - cinema and cricket - Aamir Khan's debut production has become the new benchmark for Bollywood and the first Indian classic of the 21st century.

Tarantino pushed storytelling to its limit to create this movie of interconnected stories, starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta and Uma Thurman.

歷劫佳人 Touch of Evil

Another Orson Welles masterpiece. The big man stars as a corpulent US cop, facing off against Charlton Heston's Mexican narcotics officer over the border and over murder, corruption and abduction.

A boy, a girl and an aborigine: Nicolas Roeg's mesmerising debut.

黑水仙 Black Narcissus

Classic thriller from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger set in a remote Himalayan convent. Stars Deborah Kerr.

鄰家少年殺人事件 Boys in the Hood

To a smart rap track, teenager Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr) is trying to stay upright in a city determined to claw him down through violence, drugs and racism. The ultimate 90s coming-of-age film.

Hollywood's A-list line up to see themselves lampooned in Robert Altman's movie-biz satire. Tim Robbins is the ambitious studio exec who accidentally murders a writer.

A Second World War film made in 1985, as the Soviet Empire was itself on the verge of collapse, showing the horrors endured by the population of Byelorussia.

An intoxicatingly intense murder story with lesbian overtones, based on the real-life case that shocked 50s New Zealand.

歌聲儷影 A Night at the Opera

The pinnacle of the Marx Brothers all-singing, all-falling-about comedy career. A big-budget blend of farce and extravagant musical numbers, it sees Groucho, Harpo and Chico infiltrating high society in the guise of opera promoters.

A real-life story from Hollywood hot-shot director Steven Soderbergh, starring Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich, a legal secretary and single mum who takes on a giant utility corporation.

猜火車

The blackly comic tale of a motley crew of Edinburgh heroin addicts and Mark Renton's escape to (hopefully) a better life was the funniest, bleakest British film of the 1990s.

Martial arts epic from premiere Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. Asian superstars Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Donnie Yen act out a Rashomon-style story set in the 3rd century BC.

早餐俱樂部 The Breakfast Club

Quintessential 1980s teen fare from John Hughes, with the Brat Pack mulling over the meaning of life one Saturday morning detention.

芬妮與亞歷山大 Fanny and Alexander

Winner of four Oscars, Bergman's fantastical family saga follows a year in the life of a young Swedish boy at the turn of the last century. Visually dazzling, endlessly thought-provoking and, despite being over five hours long, utterly absorbing.

粉紅火鶴 Pink Flamingos

Breakthrough movie for Baltimore auteur John Waters. Drugs, corpulence, campery and dog-egg eating drag queens, it's all here.

Bette Davis excels as an aging diva in the six times Oscar Winner. Sit back and 'Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night'.

疤面煞星 Scarface

Al Pacino stars in this Brian De Palma directed, Oliver Stone scripted remake of the classic 30s gangster film. A Cuban immigrant ruthlessly builds a crime empire in 1980s Florida.

Arnold Schwarzenegger reteams with James Cameron to reprise his career defining role as the near-indestructible robot in this sequel that is as spectacular as it is thought-provoking, heavy in both special effects and subtexts.

藍色情挑

An extraordinary film. The first in Kieslowski's acclaimed Three Colours trilogy is cerebral yet compelling, looks and sounds superb, and features a mesmerising performance from Juliette Binoche.

天才一族

Brilliant ensemble piece about an eccentric family of geniuses, with three child prodigies turned neurotic adults, an overly ambitious mother and Gene Hackman as a charming rogue of a father.

A star-studded cast is led by sinister Alec Guinness in this vintage slice of Ealing Comedy. A gang of thieves get more trouble than they bargained for when they rent rooms in the Kings Cross home of little old lady.

鬥陣俱樂部 Fight Club

A man and his new best friend make soap, form an unlicensed boxing club and set-up a terrorist organisation. Intense drama starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, and directed by David Fincher.

A moody, intelligent Western starring John Wayne in his most complex role as Ethan Edwards, the eternal outsider.

Surreal noir about Hollywood corruption, originally shot for American television. A naive wannabe starlet arrives in town only to become embroiled in a passionate lesbian relationship and a shadowy conspiracy surrounding a new movie.

Michael Caine's first, and best, excursion as Len Deighton's spy Harry Palmer. A celebration of Britain during the 1960s and a fine thriller to boot.

Scorsese took a break from the gangster films to make this brilliantly executed piece about a stand-up, who will stop at nothing to get his big break on TV.

Hannibal the cannibal makes his first appearance on screen in this prequel to The Silence Of The Lambs. Starker and less sensational, with a cracking opening scene, it offers a revealing glimpse into a murderous mind.

活死人黎明 Dawn of the Dead (Director's Cut)

George A Romero's sequel to Night of the Living Dead follows a group of survivors who hole up in an abandoned shopping mall as the world is overrun by flesh-eating zombies.

A young warrior prince gets involved in the conflict between magical beasts and ruthlessly progressive humans in this mature, complex, epic anime from Hayao Miyazaki.

Nic Cage and Holly Hunter kidnap babies in this sharp, inventive comedy of errors from the Coen brothers.

酒店 Cabaret

A sensitive young Englishman falls into the whirl of pre-War Berlin, and the arms of the equally dizzying Sally Bowles, in this dazzlingly choreographed story of love, decadence - and Nazi stormtroopers.

如此運動生涯 This Sporting Life

It's about rugby league, beer, grit and tough lads, but it's also a profound commment on relationships loaded with symbolism and rich in emotion.

Visual brilliance combines with snappy satirical humour to create one of the best films of the 80s. Undoubtedly Terry Gilliam's masterpiece.

Suitably insane collaboration between writer-director-producer Werner Herzog and his on-off leading man Klaus Kinski, who stars as a Spanish conquistador on a ruthless, fruitless hunt for El Dorado.

Mike Leigh's superb comedy-drama of family relationships. Heart-rending, bitter and delightful by turn.

窮山惡水 Badlands

Atmospheric fictionalisation of the deeds of two murderers who killed their way across the US Midwest in the late 50s. Terrence Mallick directs Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.