Breathless [À bout de souffle] Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave. Film noir 1960 90 mins Jean-Luc Godard The Immortal One The debut feature from famed novelist and screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet is a daring examination of fantasy and memory set in Turkey. Drama 1962 101 mins Alain Robbe-Grillet Shadows John Cassavetes' directorial debut follows the relationship between a mixed-race woman and a white man. Drama 1959 82 mins John Cassavetes Loving Memory An unsettling portrait of love and loss by the director of Top Gun. Drama 1970 52 mins Tony Scott Unrelated On a Tuscan break a fortysomething woman finds herself drawn to the company of a group of partying teens, including a young Tom Hiddleston (in one of his earliest roles). Drama 2008 96 mins Joanna Hogg Radio On Chris Petit's cult classic is one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema – a haunting blend of edgy mystery story and existential road movie. Road movie 1979 100 mins Chris Petit Distant Voices, Still Lives Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. Biopic Historical drama 1988 84 mins Terence Davies Sanshiro Sugata Kurosawa’s assured debut film about a young man’s spiritual journey through the study and practice of judo. Crime Drama 1943 79 mins Akira Kurosawa The Falls Peter Greenaway's epic first feature, constructed as an excerpt from an imagined, filmic directory listing everyone affected by VUE – the Violent Unknown Event Animation & Artists Moving Image 1980 195 mins Peter Greenaway In Which We Serve Noel Coward and David Lean direct this affecting drama of a Royal Navy crew recalling their lives in flashback, as their ship sinks. War 1942 114 mins David Lean and Noël Coward
