Love drives people nuts in Norman Jewison’s deliciously farcical comedy, which tears into absurd social mores with glee. Cher won the Oscar® for her warm performance as a woman swept off her feet by Nicolas Cage’s wolfish lover, their offbeat romance glinting in the romantic New York City moonlight.

Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award® for Best Actor with his extraordinary portrayal of a self-destructive alcoholic in this woozy masterwork from director Mike Figgis. With Oscar®-nominated support from Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas grasps at grace from the brink of a psychological void.

An endearingly goofy Nicolas Cage in his first leading role brings out the dimples in a blushing Deborah Foreman in this interclass teen romance. A 1980s new wave and power pop soundtrack sets the smitten mood of this Romeo and Juliet modernisation that paved the way for Amy Heckerling’s Clueless.

The bumbling antiheroes of this gleefully unhinged crime comedy find the American dream more out of reach than ever before. They all have their twisted reasons for chasing it anyway. In the way these determined fools catastrophically bungle their mission, Paul Schrader finds both humor and pathos.