The Graduate (1967)

Mike Nichols' 1967 black comedy — in which a directionless college graduate has an affair with his girlfriend's mother — launched Dustin Hoffman to stardom, introduced Simon and Garfunkel to cinema, and earned 104 million on a 3 million dollar budget. Its final scene, in which the couple escapes a wedding only to sit in silence on a bus realizing their mistake, was voted by Empire magazine the greatest ending in cinema history.