Fahrenheit 451

All printed materials are destroyed and banned, and firemen start fires in this adaptation of author Ray Bradbury's cautionary near-future parable of an oppressive society in which free thought is verboten. Starring Oskar Werner as the conflicted, book-burning Montag and Julie Christie in a dual role, the sci-fi drama was the only English-language film to spring from the mind of French auteur François Truffaut.