Lumet's complex and atmospheric thriller is based on a real event. Pacino is superb as the neurotic and incompetent gay bankrobber who needs the money from the robbery to finance his lover's sex change operation. The film's beauty is it's closely detailed psychological observation. Excellent.

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A formidable gangster thriller later to be cribbed by Tarantino. An itchy crew of criminal cronies grab a metro carriage of civilians and demand $1 million ransom, causing the kind of chaos in New York City that a traditional train heist causes the cavalry. But, once they've got the ransom, how on earth do they expect to get away? find out more...

A very dated but still entertaining slice of 60s kitsch. McQueen is the incredibly debonaire playboy millionaire, led to commit robbery through boredom, countered by Dunaway, the implausibly glamorous fraud investigator. Much period posing and split-screen shenanigans, with fun results. find out more...

Audrey Hepburn gives a fantastically theatrical performance as Suzi Hendrix, a blind woman terrorised in her own home by a gang of ruthless criminals intent on retrieving a doll stuffed with heroin that Suzi's husband has unwittingly smuggled for them into the country. A wonderfully claustrophobic and gripping cat-and-mouse thriller featuring a deliciously devilish turn from Alan Arkin.

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