Humphrey Bogart stars in this naval courtroom drama about the trial of a group of mutineers from the US Pacific Fleet. As the trial unfolds, we learn that the ship's Captain (Bogart) was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane, and that the men relieved him of command to save their own lives. The drama is compulsive and the starry cast make the most of a mountain of words - especially Bogart, whose final disintegration in court before our eyes has become part of movie legend.

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Virginia McKenna shines as the English girl who marries a handsome young French soldier during the Second World War. Soon after, she receives word that he has been killed in action in North Africa. McKenna is then herself approached to help the war effort, by becoming a secret agent, and get the chance to avenge the death of her husband. Keep your eyes peeled for a glimpse of the young Michael Caine as an uncredited extra in this stirring account of gung-ho wartime exploits.

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With nearly every line of its script engraved on the collective unconscious, and its central performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman defining iconic cool, Casablanca is an exultant classic. With its romantic story, the songs performed by Dooley Wilson, a fantastic script and, of course, the incredibly poignant climactic sequence at the airport, Casablanca has rightly become one of the most popular - if not the most popular - films of all time.

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In Brian De Palma's brutal and disturbing fact-based Vietnam film, a Vietnamese women is kidnapped, raped and murdered by four GIs led by battle-scarred Sean Penn. But new recruit Michael J Fox is determined they shouldn't get away with murder - unlike the rest of the American soldiers in Vietnam - and the battle lines are drawn between him and Penn, the leader of the gang.

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Based on Joseph Heller's award-winning 1961 novel, Catch-22 tells the delightfully subversive tale of Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desperate to prove his own insanity so that he can be discharged from the airforce. Only problem is that his superiors know that anyone who wants to try to avoid fighting must be sane. If you use the phrase 'catch-22' in your day to day speech, now you know where it comes from.

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