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Bananas (1971)

Woody Allen’s Fielding Mellish travels from New York to the fictional republic of San Marcos and somehow becomes part of a revolution. A fast, anarchic political comedy with Louise Lasser, Howard Cosell and music by Marvin Hamlisch.

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Take the Money and Run (1969)

Woody Allen’s first fully original feature as director follows hopeless criminal Virgil Starkwell through robberies, prison and repeated disaster. A fast, inventive mock-documentary that established the comic voice of his early films.

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What’s Up, Tiger Lily (1966)

Woody Allen transforms a Japanese spy film into an absurd comedy through new dialogue, editing and music from The Lovin’ Spoonful. An unusual but fascinating beginning to his feature film career.

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Match Point (2005)

A dark, elegant tale of ambition, desire and luck, set among London’s wealthy elite and driven by one of Woody Allen’s most unsettling moral questions.

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Sleeper (1973)

Woody Allen wakes up 200 years in the future in one of his fastest and funniest early comedies, mixing science-fiction satire, physical comedy, Diane Keaton and New Orleans jazz.

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Love and Death (1975)

A wildly funny collision of Russian literature, war, philosophy and romance, with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton at the centre of one of his sharpest early comedies.

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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

A warm, funny and deeply human portrait of family, relationships and the search for meaning, featuring one of Woody Allen’s finest ensemble casts.

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Annie Hall (1977)

A funny, inventive and bittersweet look back at a relationship, with Diane Keaton’s unforgettable performance at the centre of one of Woody Allen’s defining films.

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Manhattan (1979)

A romantic, bittersweet portrait of New York, photographed in luminous black and white and set to the music of George Gershwin.

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