The Spy Who Loved Me

Essential, and the best Moore film by consensus, including Moore's own. It is the one that gets his version of the character exactly right: light, unbothered, extremely good at his job, and placed in a film large enough to carry the tone.

The structure is the reason it works. Bond is paired with a Soviet agent of equal rank on a joint operation, which means a partner rather than a conquest, and the film's best idea is that she discovers partway through that he killed her lover on an earlier mission and has to decide what to do about it afterwards. Barbara Bach's Anya is written as a professional throughout.

Ken Adam built the supertanker interior on a stage constructed at Pinewood specifically for it, which is still standing and still named after the series, and the scale of the final act has not been matched. The pre-title ski jump off the edge of a cliff, ending with a Union Jack parachute, is the most famous stunt in the series and was done for real.

Richard Kiel's Jaws is the one Moore-era henchman who works, silent and indestructible and genuinely unsettling before the sequel made him a clown. If you watch one Moore film, this is the one.