Barry Lyndon (1975)

Kubrick’s meticulously designed and rapturously shot adaptation of Thackery’s novel may not strike one as the most obvious work of art to emerge from this tumultuous landscape, but its exploration of social mobility, imperial decline and performative identity – as presented through the travails of Ryan O’Neal’s eponymous, barely heroic protagonist – somehow resonated perfectly with those anxious times.

A landmark in cinema and now celebrating it's 50th Anniversary, Barry Lyndon endures not only as an aesthetic triumph but as a complex meditation on power, class, and the theatricality of history. You will need to book your own ticket. Meet on the first floor.