10. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
As a man its hard to dislike anything with Audrey Hepburn in it, though Blake Edwards classic adaption of Truman Capotes novel does leave a sour taste in the mouth. A wistful, romantic comedy at heart, the movie is undoubtedly an entertaining success on the whole, showcasing Manhattan as we all imagine it to be, though more recently it has been marred by controversy that was largely ignored at the time. Described by the New York Times as broadly exotic in 1961, Mickey Rooneys portrayal of Japanese man Mr Yunioshi isnt borderline racist, its fully blown racist. Kitted out with ridiculous buckteeth, Rooneys cringe-worthy, stereotypical performance as Yunioshi really would have offended had it been played by an Asian actor, never mind a white man with yellow-face makeup. Despite the scene being brought to the attention of the modern media in 1993s Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Rooney maintains that people loved Mr Yunioshi: "Blake Edwards wanted me to do it because he was a comedy director. They hired me to do this overboard, and we had fun doing it. Never in all the more than 40 years after we made it not one complaint. Every place I've gone in the world people say, God, you were so funny." I wonder how many of those people were Japanese?