This Oscar-winning comedy plays the Holocaust for laughs, with Italian Jew Guido (Roberto Benigni) turning the horrific reality of a concentration camp into a vivid fantasy land in order to his shield his young son Joshua from the terrible truth. Although the film begins as slapstick, there are obvious undertones of darkness, and these ultimately serve to underline the atrocities committed within the concentration camps.

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This star-studded Second World War action-film is a big, long, loud spectacular from the days when 'epic' filmmaking really meant something. With 42 international stars (including John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Sean Connery), The Longest Day depicts the D-Day landings at Normandy from both the Allied and German perspectives, and its scope in story and production is nothing less than mammoth.

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Set in Russia against the backdrop of the Napoleonic War, Love And Death is a highly enjoyable trawl through the travails of Allen's liberal neuroses. Allen is Boris, a useless coward obsessed with his cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton). When war breaks out he gets himself fired from a cannon and winds up a national hero, then reluctantly gets tangled up in a plan to assassinate Napoleon. A fine mix of the cerebral and the absurd, it's a rare minute that doesn't pass without someone saying something you wish you'd said yourself.

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