Annie Hall

Alvy Singer, an anxious New York comedian, narrates the rise and fall of his romance with Annie Hall, an aspiring singer he draws out of her diffidence even as the relationship strains against his own habits of mind. The film jumps through memory, direct address and fantasy as he tries to account for the ending.

For clinical readers it is notable for making analysis a running condition of a life rather than a plot point, with neurosis, desire and memory staged around years on the couch. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1978.