US director Steven Spielberg has a major success with his second feature film, Jaws

14-year-old Jodie Foster stars as a drug-addicted child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver

Steven Spielberg writes and directs an inflential science fiction movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

George Lucas writes and directs a science fantasy, Star Wars, launching a narrative that will be expanded in a further five films

After making several films together, Woody Allen and his partner Diane Keaton have an Oscar-winning success with Annie Hall

Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now

Martin Scorsese directs Robert de Niro in Raging Bull

Henry and Jane Fonda, father and daughter, star with Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond

Raiders of the Lost Ark launches an ongoing series for director Steven Spielberg and actor Harrison Ford

Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson, dramatizes the rivalry between two British athletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Steven Spielberg directs E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which an alien is stranded on earth and is befriended by a young boy

Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie, plays a man who becomes a star in the persona of an actress

British director Richard Attenborough creates an epic film, Gandhi, from the life of the pacifist Indian leader

US fillm actress Grace Kelly is killed in a car accident in Monte Carlo

Milos Forman directs the screen version of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the title role, that of an almost silent killing machine, in The Terminator

Roland Joffé directs The Killing Fields, set among the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu star in Jean De Florette, adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol

The film Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, tells the story of Steve Biko, killed in police custody in South Africa

Barry Levinson directs Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in the film Rain Man

Bernardo Bertolucci directs The Last Emperor, a film based on the life of Puyi, the last in China's imperial line

James Ivory directs the film The Remains of the Day, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

Gérard Depardieu plays the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, based on the play by Edmond Rostand

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in Pretty Woman, directed by Garry Marshall

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in the film The Silence of the Lambs