Jack Nicholson

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this newsroom rom-com from Oscar-winning filmmaker James L Brooks (Terms of Endearment) centres on a love triangle between a news producer and two very different reporters.

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.

A drop-out (Jack Nicholson) from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. Five Easy Pieces is a key work in the American New Wave with its haunting portrait of alienation and one of Nicholson's greatest performances.

Dennis Hopper's Cannes- and Oscar-nominated counter-culture classic, following two men as they motorcycle across the great American wilderness to a soundtrack of rock and rebellion.

In Roger Corman's adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story, a magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.