The Conversation

BBC2 1AM - 2.50AM ★★★★★

THRILLER The 1970s was the decade for superb conspiracy movies and at the top of that particular tree is this all-time great from director Francis Ford Coppola. In one of his defining roles, Gene Hackman plays a lonely surveillance expert who is convinced he has unearthed a murder plot after recording an apparently innocent conversation in a park. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more events spiral out of control. Nightmarish and unforgettable. Dir: Francis Ford Coppola 1974, 12