A wonderfully adapted film based round the exploits of Cicero, aka Elyesa Bazna, the Albanian born valet (Mason at his best) of the British ambassador to Turkey, who sold secrets to the Germans during 1944. The valet's gentlemanly pretensions are put to the test in this tale of espionage and romantic intrigue. Ace.

Godard's hugely influential debut went on to inspire a new wave of French cinema and this is the film which epitomised the iconoclasm of the early Nouvelle Vague. Belmondo is the hip gangster, modelled on Bogart, whose escapades, including shooting a cop, leave him and his girlfriend on the run from both the cops and his enemies. The insolent casual style and cool moods make this the ultimate film noir.

As a young pilot returns home in May 1945, a relationship is formed as he desperately contacts a radio operator before bailing out of the sky. He lives, evading his celestial escort, meets the aforementioned operator and falls in love. But he must face a heavenly court to decide if he should live or die. Amazing.

Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a well-to-do widow gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits from her college-age children. Cary then meets a handsome younger man, Ron (Rock Hudson), who owns a small landscaping business. Ron is a follower of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and "hears a different drummer", enjoying a life focused on nature; he is deliberately uninterested in the gossipy opinions of ot find out more...

Ava Gardner is superb in this glitzy Hollywood reprise of the Cinderella story. She is Maria, the Hollywood starlet who rises from poverty and spends all her time trying to deny and forget her past, much to her own unhappiness. Touching glamorous and superbly directed by Mankiewicz.

Working class anti-hero Midge moves from Chicago to LA, shits on just about everybody, including his new girlfriend and those that he meets in the corrupt and brutal world of professional boxing in which he makes his way. A public hero he may be, but the cost of success is his soul.

An all-star cast hunts a fortune reportedly stashed by Hepburn's now dead, thieving husband. Everything about "Charade" sets off what Hepburn and Grant did best, romantic thrillers with some great one liners (watch out for his to her on the boat) and is swept along by Mancini's wonderful score and chic Parisian settings.