Lolita (1962)

Fresh from Strangelove, you will spot Peter Sellers again, this time as Clare Quilty, the shadow trailing James Mason's Humbert, with Kubrick shooting so he could catch whatever Sellers improvised. The film is most interesting for how it handles the novel. Under pressure from the Production Code, the book's most notorious material is implied rather than shown, and the result plays as a black comedy of manners. Vladimir Nabokov received the sole screenplay credit and an Oscar nomination, though Kubrick and producer James B. Harris reworked much of his script. It was also the first film Kubrick made in England, where all his later films were shot.