Favorite Movies

By Jon Favreau, 2008.

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges

After escaping from kidnappers using makeshift power armor, an ultra rich inventor and weapons maker (Robert Downey Jr.) turns his creation into a force for good by using it to fight crime. But his skills are stretched to the limit when he must face the evil Iron Monger.

By Todd Phillips, 2009.

Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis

When three friends (Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper) finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug (Justin Bartha) -- who's supposed to be tying the...

By James Cameron, 2009.

Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver

Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, and Michelle Rodriguez. The film is set in 2154, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on...

By Peter Docter, 2001.

Starring John Goodman, Billy Crystal, James Coburn

Every night, the professional scarers of Monsters, Inc., sneak into children's bedroom closets around the world, eliciting screams that they convert into the energy their world needs. Aside from a minor power shortage, life is just fine for top scarer James P. "Sulley" Sullivan.

By Peter Jackson, 2003.

Starring Sean Astin, Ian Holm, Brad Dourif

The third of the trilogy. As the shadow of Mordor grows, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is revealed as hidden heir to the ancient kings of men with the re-forged sword of his ancestors. As he, Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the other members of the scattered fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's...

By David Fincher, 1999.

Starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter

An insomnia-stricken corporate drone (Edward Norton) meets roguish rebel Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and together they form a cathartic but brutal underground society where men fight each other freely. But the line between reality and sleepless haze starts to really blur when propagandist Durden...

By Pete Docter, 2009.

Starring John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer, Edward Asner

After a lifetime of dreaming of traveling the world, 78-year-old homebody Carl (voiced by Ed Asner) is lured into an unbelievable adventure, thanks in part to the persistence of Russell, an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer (Jordan Nagai). Together, the unlikely pair embarks on a thrilling odyssey...

By Andy Wachowski, 1999.

Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

In this complex story that aspires to mythology, a computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He finds his answer with a group of strangers led by the charismatic Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne).

By Robert Zemeckis, 1994.

Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise

Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, director Robert Zemeckis's charming blend of comedy and drama stars Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, a simpleminded man who finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, he makes friends, changes lives...

By Quentin Tarantino, 1994.

Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

Fast-food-loving hit man Vince Vega (John Travolta), his philosophical partner Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis) converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip...

By Gore Verbinski, 2003.

Starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

Flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, in an Oscar-nominated performance), steals the show as a charming, carefree 17th century pirate who roams the Caribbean sea. When a rival pirate (Geoffrey Rush) pillages the village of Port Royal and kidnaps the governor's (Jonathan Pryce) daughter...

By Bryan Singer, 2000.

Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen

X-Men is a 2000 superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics characters of the same name. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film introduces Wolverine and Rogue into the conflict between Professor Xavier's X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto. Magneto intends to mutate world...

By Andrew Stanton, 2008.

Starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin

In a futuristic world, human beings have destroyed Earth and evacuated the planet, leaving the cleanup to an army of robots they've programmed to do their dirty work. Due to a mishap, the dutiful WALL-E is the only one left. But with the arrival of a female probe, the monotony of WALL-E's existence...

By Brad Bird, 2004.

Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson

Meet the Incredibles, the award-winning Pixar team's superhero family that comes out of banal, suburban hiding to don their old costumes and save the world again. Bob Parr (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) has given up his swashbuckling days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three...

By Robert Zemeckis, 1985.

Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover

Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying...

By John Lasseter, 1995.

Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts

It's tough being a toy. One day, you're at the top of the heap; the next, you're down in the dumps -- literally. Cowboy-toy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) feels threatened when space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) arrives. But they're both lost when the family moves -- and finding their way home is...

By Brad Bird, 2007.

Starring Patton Oswalt, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo

Brad Bird (The Incredibles) co-directs this Oscar-winning Pixar offering about a passionate rat named Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who thirsts for a sip of the good life, despite the questionable tastes of his rodent relatives. Growing up beneath a five-star Parisian restaurant, Remy inherits a...

By Steven Spielberg, 1998.

Starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Tom Hanks and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home. Steven Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz...

By Steven Spielberg, 1981.

Starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Get ready to globe-trot with one of the big screen's greatest adventurers. When Dr. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) -- the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist -- is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant (resting place of the original...

By Sam Raimi, 2002.

Starring Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst

After being chomped by a genetically altered spider, shy high schooler Peter Parker (Toby Maguire) is endowed with amazing superpowers. Kirsten Dunst plays Parker's smitten (not bitten!) girlfriend who willingly falls into his web, and Willem Dafoe is a mad scientist who becomes the Green Goblin ...

By Quentin Tarantino, 2003.

Starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox

In this film noir tale written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, an assassin called the Bride (Uma Thurman) is shot at her wedding by her employer, Bill (David Carradine), and other members of their assassin circle. She survives, though a bullet in her brain keeps her in a coma for five years.

By Mel Gibson, 1995.

Starring Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron (Catherine McCormack) -- his new bride and childhood love -- legendary Scottish warrior William Wallace (Mel Gibson, who also directed the film) slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire...

By David Fincher, 1995.

Starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the...

By David Yates, 2009.

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

The sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry kicks off with a bang for young Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) when he inadvertently discovers a mysterious book that sheds light on the sordid life of the evil Lord Voldemort. Preparing for inevitable battle, Harry and Dumbledore...

By Quentin Tarantino, 2009.

Starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent

A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. The face-off is about to go down -- that's if Col...

By Frank Darabont, 1994.

Starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden (Bob Gunton). During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be...

By Peter Jackson, 2002.

Starring Sean Astin, Bernard Hill, Brad Dourif

The second installment of director Peter Jackson's trilogy finds Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli (John Rhys-Davies), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) search for the orc-captured Merry (Dominic Monaghan)...

By Sam Mendes, 1999.

Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch

Lester Burnham (Spacey) is dead. This isn't any shock--Lester tells you this himself in his opening narration. It's the time leading up to his death Lester wants to remember. Lester is a middle-aged drone with a brittle, status-conscious wife, Carolyn (Bening), and a sullen teenaged daughter, Jane...

By Doug Liman, 2002.

Starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen

A man washes up on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, suffering from gunshot wounds and amnesia. He soon realizes he's being hunted down by assassins and that he's very good at killing them before they get him, but the question of his identity perplexes him as he fights to stay alive.

By James Cameron, 1991.

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick

In this sequel, director James Cameron delivers scene after scene of action-packed thrills. A bigger, better Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is gunning for a shape-shifting T-1000 who's out to kill John Connor (Edward Furlong), the son of Sarah (Linda Hamilton), the original Terminator's nemesis.

By Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997.

Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Vincent D'Onofrio

On a top-secret mission, J (Will Smith), a charismatic New York City cop, teams up with K (Tommy Lee Jones), a seasoned government agent who monitors aliens on Earth, to stop intergalactic alien terrorist Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) from inciting an interstellar, humanity-destroying war.

By Luc Besson, 1997.

Starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm

New York City in the 23rd century is a madhouse of flying taxis, street gangs and media overload in director Luc Besson's science-fiction-inspired vision of a tomorrow that seems to have all the right elements. Cabbie Bruce Willis is a regular guy and the universe's last hope for survival as he...

By Peter Jackson, 2001.

Starring Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Brad Dourif

From the idyllic shire of the Hobbits to the smoking chasms of Mordor, director Peter Jackson has created a world that surpasses the expectations of J.R.R. Tolkien purists as Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) embarks on his epic quest for the one true ring.

By Ridley Scott, 2000.

Starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Djimon Hounsou

Oscar winner Russell Crowe is Maximus, whom Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) had picked to succeed him. But Marcus's son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) snatches the throne, ordering Maximus dead. Instead, he's enslaved and learns to be a skilled fighter.

By Francis Ford Coppola, 1972.

Starring Marlon Brando, Diane Keaton, Al Pacino

Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael's sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life.

By J.J. Abrams, 2009.

Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana

Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his trusted team on the starship USS Enterprise boldly go where no man has gone before in this installment of Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi franchise that follows the early days of the intergalactic adventurers. The crew includes Spock (Zachary Quinto), Chekov (Anton...

By Greg Mottola, 2007.

Starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen

Striking a balance between raunch and sweetness is a tall order for any film, but the Judd Apatow-produced Superbad manages to serve up both in equal and satisfying portions without undercutting a consistent stream of laugh-out-loud performances and gags.

By James Cameron, 1997.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

Winner of 11 Oscars, director James Cameron's effects-filled blockbuster weds the historical tale of the doomed ocean liner with a fictional romance between two of the ship's ill-fated passengers -- putting a human face on a tragedy of epic proportions.

By John McTiernan, 1988.

Starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov

NYPD cop John McClane's (Bruce Willis) plan to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of pitiless terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking...

By Mel Stuart, 1971.

Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum

Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) prompts a frenzy when he announces that five golden tickets hidden inside his candy bars will get their holders into his top-secret factory. Amidst a world of Oompa Loompas and chocolate rivers, young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) and Grandpa Joe (Jack...

By Martin Scorsese, 2006.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise in Martin Scorsese's multiple Oscar-winning crime thriller, including Best Director and Best Picture.

By Richard Marquand, 1983.

Starring Carrie Fisher, Kenny Baker, Harrison Ford

George Lucas delivers the finale to his original epic space trilogy with the rebel forces' last stand against the Empire and Luke Skywalker's (Mark Hamill) confrontation with his nemesis. Skywalker rescues Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) from the clutches of Jabba the...

By Terry Gilliam, 1975.

Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

Beware the knights who say "Ni." The Python comedy clan skewers King Arthur and his knights as they quest far and wide for the Holy Grail in this inspired piece of lunacy. John Cleese stands out as the Black Knight, who suffers gory, slow dismemberment at the hands of the mighty king himself.

By Christopher Nolan, 2000.

Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of the photos to aid in his search and...

By John Hughes, 1986.

Starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara

Take the day off and watch John Hughes's uproarious ode to skipping school! Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) knows every trick to faking an illness (and offers a point-by point primer). With everyone convinced he's at death's door, Ferris grabs his girlfriend (Mia Sara) and best friend (Alan...

By Martin Campbell, 2006.

Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green

Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) directs this film adaptation (the 21st of the Bond franchise) of Ian Fleming's first novel. Daniel Craig debuts as the new Bond who takes on a corrupt financier (Mads Mikkelsen) in a showdown of Texas Hold 'Em. You'll learn Bond's back story as the action-packed film...

By Frank Miller, 2005.

Starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba

Ex-con Marv (Mickey Rourke) avenges a hooker's (Jaime King) death, Detective Dwight (Clive Owen) gets involved with hazardous vixens and a rogue cop (Bruce Willis) becomes hell-bent on saving a stripper (Jessica Alba) from a rapist (Nick Stahl) in interlaced stories adapted from Frank Miller's...

By Ridley Scott, 1979.

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt

Sigourney Weaver shines as the most stalwart crewmember of a space freighter that inadvertently takes on an unwanted visitor. As the bloodthirsty beast stalks the crew (including Tom Skerritt, John Hurt and Yaphet Kotto), they begin to realize they're pitted against a malevolent monster that's...

By Jonathan Demme, 1991.

Starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn

In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a...

By Steven Spielberg, 1993.

Starring Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern

Multimillionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has a plan for a new theme park: a secluded island where visitors can observe dinosaurs, cloned using advanced DNA technology. But when an employee tampers with the security system, the dinosaurs escape, forcing the visitors to fight for their...

By Victor Fleming, 1939.

Starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming from a script mostly by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, with uncredited contributions by others. It was based on the 1900 children's novel of the same name by L. Frank Baum, who died twenty...

By Edgar Wright, 2004.

Starring Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost

Thirty-something slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) has no clue what to do with his life or with his relationship with girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield). But when the unthinkable happens and zombies begin to roam the streets of London terrorizing residents, including his beloved and his mother, Shaun realizes...

By M. Night Shyamalan, 1999.

Starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

Some kids have imaginary friends. Cole (Haley Joel Osment) does them one better: He lives in a world beyond imagination, filled with ghosts and madness. Bruce Willis is the empathic child psychiatrist who tries to heal the child, only to find that the poltergeists are not of this world and the...

By Jason Reitman, 2007.

Starring Ellen Page, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner

Facing an unplanned pregnancy while she's still in high school, quirky teen Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) devises a plan to locate her unborn baby's perfect adoptive parents. But the seemingly ideal couple (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) Juno chooses still has some growing up to do.

By Andrew Stanton, 2003.

Starring Willem Dafoe, Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks

Pixar has created another amazing animated adventure, this time heading underwater as two plucky fish, Marlin and Dory (voiced by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres), search high and low for Marlin's missing son, Nemo (Alexander Gould). In addition to the other much-loved ocean-dwelling characters...

By Steven Spielberg, 1989.

Starring Sean Connery, Michael Byrne, Harrison Ford

Fedora and whip at the ready, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) sets off on his third cinematic outing accompanied by none other than his father, Henry (Sean Connery). The father and son duo head to the cradle of civilization on a perilous hunt for the Holy Grail, which is also being sought after by ...

By Rob Reiner, 1987.

Starring Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) and the dashing Wesley (Cary Elwes) must overcome staggering odds to find happiness. Giants, swordsmen, six-fingered counts, murderous princes, Sicilians, pirates, rodents of unusual size and even death...

By Quentin Tarantino, 1992.

Starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen

Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is raw, violent, often mimicked -- and unforgettable. A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), newcomer Mr.

By Ron Howard, 2001.

Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris

John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) was a brilliant economist -- when his mind was clear. But life changed forever with the revelation that he was a schizophrenic. Nash's brilliance persisted amidst the anguish his mental illness caused for him and his wife (Jennifer Connolly), and 40 years after...

By Gore Verbinski, 2006.

Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

Director Gore Verbinski takes to the high seas to helm the continuing adventures of swashbuckling Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), young Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and headstrong beauty Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), inspired by the famed Disney theme park attraction.

By John Lasseter, 1999.

Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack

Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Woody (Tom Hanks) and the rest of the toys in Andy's playroom are back! When Andy goes off to cowboy camp, an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, and it's up to Buzz and the gang to save their pal. With a story that's great for kids and adults, amazing technical work...

By Roland Emmerich, 1996.

Starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum

When aliens in enormous spacecraft suddenly arrive in Earth's atmosphere and start blowing things up, it falls to a cocky pilot (Will Smith) and a goofy scientist (Jeff Goldblum) to save the planet from total destruction. With plenty of action, special effects sequences and pithy one-liners...

By Stanley Kubrick, 1980.

Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

On the wagon and out of lucrative work thanks to his alcoholism and family troubles, aspiring novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) accepts a position as the off-season custodian at an elegant but eerie hotel so he can write undisturbed. But shortly after Jack, his wife (Shelley Duvall) and his...

By Christopher Nolan, 2005.

Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

After training with a ninja (Ken Watanabe) in Asia following his parents' brutal murder, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) returns to Gotham City and finds it overrun with crime and corruption. Discovering a cave under Wayne Manor, Bruce assumes a new identity and wages a one-man war against the...

By Jonathan Dayton, 2006.

Starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear

Convinced little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is beauty queen material, parents Richard (Greg Kinnear) and Sheryl (Toni Collette) and the rest of the family embark on a life-altering road trip to a pageant in this madcap comedy. Struggling motivational speaker Richard pushes Olive to win, while her...

By Danny Boyle, 2002.

Starring Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Naomie Harris

A killer virus (it turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs) is accidentally released from a British research facility. Carried by animals and humans, the virus is impossible to contain and spreads across Britain. Twenty-eight days later, a small group of London survivors are caught in a...

By Bryan Singer, 1995.

Starring Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne

When five unacquainted scalawags are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together. The plan gets complicated, however, when they intermix with an underworld kingpin named Keyser Söze. Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Stephen...

By Chris Columbus, 2001.

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Based on J.K. Rowling's first novel, this film weaves a magical tale. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and...

By David Gordon Green, 2008.

Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny R. McBride

After witnessing a murder involving a corrupt cop (Rosie Perez) and a drug kingpin (Gary Cole), straight laced pothead Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) must go on the run with his dealer (James Franco, in a Golden Globe-nominated role) to escape the wrath of vengeance-minded criminals.

By Michel Gondry, 2004.

Starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst

After learning that his mercurial ex-girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet), has undergone an experimental medical process to purge all memories of him, mild-mannered Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) opts for the same procedure. But during the operation, he decides he doesn't want to lose what's...

By Neill Blomkamp, 2009.

Starring Jason Cope, Robert Hobbs, Sharlto Copley

When aliens land on Earth, global business conglomerate Multi-National United forces them into rigid containment zones where they are compelled to labor, even as MNU commandeers their otherworldly technology for profit. As tensions build between human and non-human races, a rogue agent leads a...

By Henry Selick, 1993.

Starring Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Sarandon

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend...

By Steven Spielberg, 1984.

Starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri

The second film in George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones trilogy takes Indy (Harrison Ford), his young sidekick Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) and spoiled songbird Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) to a mysterious fortress in India. The trio risks everything to find a village's missing magic...

By Steven Soderbergh, 2001.

Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of...

By Steven Spielberg, 2002.

Starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

Thrills, spills and kills -- well, not the last, if Tom Cruise can help it. Cruise plays John Anderton, a top Pre-Crime cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator (Colin Farrell) targets him...

By Martin Scorsese, 1990.

Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi 's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill.

By John Lasseter, 1998.

Starring Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik (voiced by Dave Foley) hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil Hopper (Kevin Spacey). Little does Flik know that his tough "warriors" are really circus...

By Quentin Tarantino, 2004.

Starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah

The second half of Quentin Tarantino's outrageously inventive Kill Bill series is just as murderously brilliant as the first. The Bride (Uma Thurman) wakes up from a coma five years after she was shot in the head. Revenge is on her mind, and she sets out to pick off her ex-mentor's band of...

By Bryan Singer, 2003.

Starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen

In X2, the sequel to the Marvel Comics-based hit X-Men, the group of humans who have mutated into superheroes band together to find out who's behind the rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment. Storm (Halle Berry), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen)...

By Andrew Adamson, 2001.

Starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz

Shrek's(Mike Myers) daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow).

By Tim Burton, 2003.

Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup

William Bloom (Billy Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney), by piecing together the facts out of the various fantastic tales and legends of epic proportions he's been told over the years. Edward was a traveling salesman, and his journeys throughout the South are...

By Mary Harron, 2000.

Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto

With a chiseled chin and an iron physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie -- and the ideal serial killer. That's the joke behind American Psycho, which follows a killer at large during the 1980s junk-bond boom. Bateman (Christian Bale) takes pathological pride in everything from...

By John Woo, 2000.

Starring Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Dougray Scott

This romantic action-thriller plunges Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) into an international crisis of terrifying magnitude. With computer genius Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) at his side and a beautiful thief (Thandie Newton) on his mind, Hunt races across Australia and...

By Gus Van Sant, 1997.

Starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for their script about friendship and risk for this film directed by Gus Van Sant. With an abuse-filled past and a janitorial job, Will Hunting (Damon) spends his days hanging out with best friend Chuckie Sullivan (Affleck).

By Bobby Farrelly, 1998.

Starring Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon

The Farrelly brothers nail the laughs in this hugely popular comedy about a hugely popular girl. Mary (Cameron Diaz) is the ideal girlfriend of every guy she meets, especially frustrated high school suitor Ted (Ben Stiller). But he's got plenty of competition from Matt Dillon and other unexpected...

By Tim Burton, 1988.

Starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton

After Barbara and Adam Maitland were killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peace is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetzs, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare...

By James Cameron, 1984.

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back to 1984 to snuff Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony.

By Sam Raimi, 2004.

Starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina

The heroic arachnid is back in this live-action sequel directed by Sam Raimi and written by Michael Chabon. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the...

By Paul Greengrass, 2007.

Starring Matt Damon, Paddy Considine, Joan Allen

Matt Damon returns as the amnesia-stricken trained assassin Jason Bourne in this third film based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novels. As Bourne travels from Moscow to Paris, Madrid, London, New York and Tangier, Morocco, in a quest to reconstruct his past (and thus clear the way for a future)...

By David Yates, 2007.

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Returning for his fifth year of study at the venerable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ever-maturing Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) have been ignored.

By James McTeigue, 2005.

Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea

From the pages of David Lloyd and Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel springs the enigmatic "V" (Hugo Weaving of The Matrix), a masked freedom fighter who's taken up arms against the totalitarian government in a futuristic Britain. Finding an unlikely ally in a young woman named Evey Hammond...

By Todd Phillips, 2003.

Starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn

Three guys in their early thirties -- Mitch (Luke Wilson), Frank (Will Ferrell) and Beanie (Vince Vaughn) -- try to relive their old college glory days by moving into a large house near their old campus. There, they form an "unofficial fraternity" where current students can party hardy -- without...

By Catherine Hardwicke, 2008.

Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Michael Welch

When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.

By Ruben Fleischer, 2009.

Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin

In this outrageously over-the-top comedy, chronically frightened Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) hooks up with wisecracking, skull-busting Tallahasee (Woody Harrelson) to fight for survival in a world swarming with flesh-hungry zombies. As the pair slays scores of the undead, they join two other...

By Robert Zemeckis, 1989.

Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

Marty (Michael J. Fox) and Doc (Christopher Lloyd) are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) and a pesky sports almanac.

By Tim Burton, 2005.

Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson

Set in 19th-century Europe, Tim Burton's animated tale centers on Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who, just as he's about to wed Victoria (Emily Watson), is sucked into the underworld by the Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham-Carter), who desires Victor for herself.

By Stanley Kubrick, 1987.

Starring Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey

Marine recruits (including Matthew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio) endure the grueling ordeal of basic training and later face the unrelenting Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive in this grim Stanley Kubrick drama, based on a novel by Gustav Hasford.

By Hayao Miyazaki, 2002.

Starring Daveigh Chase, Michael Chiklis, Lauren Holly

Adapted from the Japanese original, director Hayao Miyazaki's adventure tale won the Best Animated Feature Oscar for its story of 10-year-old Chihiro. During her family's move to the suburbs, Chihiro wanders into a magical world where a witch rules -- and those who disobey her are turned into...

By Zack Snyder, 2007.

Starring Lena Headey, Gerard Butler, Vincent Regan

Zack Snyder directs this faithful adaptation of Frank Miller's (Sin City) graphic novel about the storied Battle of Thermopylae, a conflict that pitted the ancient Greeks against the Persians in 480 B.C. The film, which blends live-action shots with virtual backgrounds to capture Miller's original...

By Guy Ritchie, 2000.

Starring Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Vinnie Jones

An Irish gypsy gets involved in a match-fixing boxing racket, a vast diamond heist is about to go down and London's gangster underworld is blown open in this blink-and-you'll-miss-it, twisty crime caper featuring a motley cluster of characters. Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)...