One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman directs this acclaimed comedy drama based on Ken Kesey's novel.

After being imprisoned for statutory rape, an unrepentant Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is transferred to a state mental hospital where he must serve out the remainder of his sentence.

Here he sets about leading his fellow inmates in a revolt against the cold and inflexible Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) and the hospital's systematic oppression of its patients.

The film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Nicholson) and Best Actress (Fletcher).