20 Greatest Opening Movie Scenes Of All Time

13. A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange still makes for an uncomfortable watch forty years on from its original release, and its opening instils that feeling almost immediately.

Wendy Carlos' score combines perfectly with Malcolm McDowell's stare - and later narration - to intimate the dystopia Alex and his droogs reside. Alex himself is concerned with nothing more than a bit of the old "ultra-violence", and in hammering home the extreme nature of this future, Kubrick sets the action inside a hyper-sexualised locale, adapting Anthony Burgess' novel with the same kind of satire that made it so successful when it initially released years earlier.