In a world recently departed from black and white, David Hemmings' aloof fashion photographer cuts a velvet dash through Swingin' Sixties London, in Antonioni's endlessly-referenced modish thriller. Cool soundtrack courtesy of jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Uncool cameo courtesy of Janet Street-Porter.
Decades before Natural Born Killers, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's ultra-violent outlaw lovers tore up the screen as style icons Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, with Dunaway's sassy clotheshorse anticipating Pulp Fiction's Mia Wallace.
With his star in the ascendant, an insectoid Bob Dylan (the original skinny trousers and shades) vomits fire at every journalist, girlfriend and shanty-singing folkie within a 20-yard radius. Alongside Ondi Timoner's Dig!, still the hippest rockumentary in the house.
Adrenaline junkie and "Last American hero" Barry Newman leads the cops a merry dance through the desert in his Dodge Challenger, in this cultish 'existentialist road movie'. An influence on everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Bobby Gillespie.
Say Guten tag to the German New Wave. A stunning portrait of obsession from the (above averagely eccentric) director Werner Herzog, as Klaus Kinski's insane conquistador sells his companions down the Orinoco in his lust for El Dorado gold. Krautrockers Popol Vuh supply the hypnotic score.
