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Starring Bradley CooperEd HelmsZach Galifianakis
By Todd Phillips, 2009.
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...
- Monsters, Inc.
Starring John GoodmanBilly CrystalJames Coburn
By Peter Docter, 2001.
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.
- Avatar
Starring Sam WorthingtonSigourney WeaverMichelle Rodriguez
By James Cameron, 2009.
In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. .
- Forrest Gump
Starring Tom HanksRobin Wright PennGary Sinise
By Robert Zemeckis, 1994.
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...
- Iron Man
Starring Robert Downey Jr.Terrence HowardJeff Bridges
By Jon Favreau, 2008.
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.
- The Dark Knight
Starring Christian BaleHeath LedgerAaron Eckhart
By Christopher Nolan, 2008.
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a...
- Up
Starring John RatzenbergerChristopher PlummerEdward Asner
By Pete Docter, 2009.
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...
- Back to the Future
Starring Michael J. FoxChristopher LloydCrispin Glover
By Robert Zemeckis, 1985.
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...
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Starring Sean AstinIan HolmBrad Dourif
By Peter Jackson, 2003.
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...
- Ratatouille
Starring Patton OswaltBrad GarrettJaneane Garofalo
By Brad Bird, 2007.
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...
- The Incredibles
Starring Craig T. NelsonHolly HunterSamuel L. Jackson
By Brad Bird, 2004.
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...
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Starring Johnny DeppGeoffrey RushOrlando Bloom
By Gore Verbinski, 2003.
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...
- The Matrix
Starring Keanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne Moss
By Andy Wachowski, 1999.
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).
- Fight Club
Starring Brad PittEdward NortonHelena Bonham Carter
By David Fincher, 1999.
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...
- Toy Story
Starring Tom HanksTim AllenAnnie Potts
By John Lasseter, 1995.
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...
- Titanic
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly Zane
By James Cameron, 1997.
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.
- Inception
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioEllen PageMarion Cotillard
By Christopher Nolan, 2010.
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi action flick that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing...
- X-Men
Starring Hugh JackmanPatrick StewartIan McKellen
By Bryan Singer, 2000.
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...
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Starring Gene WilderJack AlbertsonPeter Ostrum
By Mel Stuart, 1971.
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...
- WALL-E
Starring Ben BurttElissa KnightJeff Garlin
By Andrew Stanton, 2008.
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...
- Pulp Fiction
Starring John TravoltaSamuel L. JacksonUma Thurman
By Quentin Tarantino, 1994.
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...
- Toy Story 3
Starring Tom HanksTim AllenJoan Cusack
By Lee Unkrich, 2010.
In this installment of the hit Pixar animated adventure, toy cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), his astronaut pal, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), and their friends cope with their owner's departure for college -- and their new home in a daycare center. Lee Unkrich directs this family film that...
- The Wizard of Oz
Starring Judy GarlandFrank MorganRay Bolger
By Victor Fleming, 1939.
In this charming film based on the popular L. Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and...
- Men in Black
Starring Tommy Lee JonesWill SmithVincent D'Onofrio
By Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997.
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.
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Starring Harrison FordKaren AllenPaul Freeman
By Steven Spielberg, 1981.
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...
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Starring Daniel RadcliffeRupert GrintEmma Watson
By David Yates, 2009.
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...
- Inglourious Basterds
Starring Brad PittChristoph WaltzM�lanie Laurent
By Quentin Tarantino, 2009.
A Jewish cinema owner (M�lanie 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...
- Superbad
Starring Jonah HillMichael CeraSeth Rogen
By Greg Mottola, 2007.
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.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Starring Arnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonRobert Patrick
By James Cameron, 1991.
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.
- American Beauty
Starring Kevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora Birch
By Sam Mendes, 1999.
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...
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Starring Matthew BroderickAlan RuckMia Sara
By John Hughes, 1986.
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...
- Saving Private Ryan
Starring Tom HanksTom SizemoreMatt Damon
By Steven Spielberg, 1998.
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...
- Jurassic Park
Starring Jeff GoldblumSam NeillLaura Dern
By Steven Spielberg, 1993.
Millionaire eccentric John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has built a new theme park: a remote island where visitors can observe living dinosaurs, cloned using advanced DNA technology. But the dinos are loosed when a greedy employee tampers with the security system, forcing the park's visitors (Sam...
- Seven
Starring Brad PittMorgan FreemanGwyneth Paltrow
By David Fincher, 1995.
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...
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
Starring Daniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert Grint
By David Yates, 2011.
In Part 2 of the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the Wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic...
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Starring Uma ThurmanLucy LiuVivica A. Fox
By Quentin Tarantino, 2003.
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.
- Juno
Starring Ellen PageJason BatemanJennifer Garner
By Jason Reitman, 2007.
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.
- The Sixth Sense
Starring Bruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni Collette
By M. Night Shyamalan, 1999.
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...
- The Shining
Starring Jack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny Lloyd
By Stanley Kubrick, 1980.
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...
- Die Hard
Starring Bruce WillisBonnie BedeliaAlan Rickman
By John McTiernan, 1988.
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...
- Spider-Man
Starring Tobey MaguireWillem DafoeKirsten Dunst
By Sam Raimi, 2002.
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 ...
- The Silence of the Lambs
Starring Anthony HopkinsJodie FosterScott Glenn
By Jonathan Demme, 1991.
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...
- Shaun of the Dead
Starring Simon PeggKate AshfieldNick Frost
By Edgar Wright, 2004.
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...
- Alien
Starring Sigourney WeaverTom Skerritt
By Ridley Scott, 1979.
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...
- The Godfather
Starring Marlon BrandoDiane KeatonAl Pacino
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1972.
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.
- Grease
Starring John TravoltaOlivia Newton-JohnStockard Channing
By Randal Kleiser, 1978.
Director Randal Kleiser's film version of the hit Broadway musical about 1950s teen angst took the country by storm, inspiring a wave of nostalgia and receiving a slew of Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. In between flashily choreographed musical numbers, the film chronicles the romantic...
- Braveheart
Starring Mel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohan
By Mel Gibson, 1995.
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...
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Starring Graham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric Idle
By Terry Gilliam, 1975.
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.
- Little Miss Sunshine
Starring Steve CarellToni ColletteGreg Kinnear
By Jonathan Dayton, 2006.
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...
- A Beautiful Mind
Starring Russell CroweJennifer ConnellyEd Harris
By Ron Howard, 2001.
Biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Nash enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton in 1948 and almost immediately stood out as an odd duck. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely...
- The Social Network
Starring Jesse EisenbergAndrew GarfieldJustin Timberlake
By David Fincher, 2010.
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication...
- The Departed
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioMatt DamonJack Nicholson
By Martin Scorsese, 2006.
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. While an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) curries favor with the mob kingpin (Jack...
- The Princess Bride
Starring Robin Wright PennCary ElwesMandy Patinkin
By Rob Reiner, 1987.
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...
- The Bourne Identity
Starring Matt DamonFranka PotenteClive Owen
By Doug Liman, 2002.
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.
- The Shawshank Redemption
Starring Tim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob Gunton
By Frank Darabont, 1994.
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...
- Star Trek
Starring Chris PineZachary QuintoEric Bana
By J.J. Abrams, 2009.
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...
- Twilight
Starring Kristen StewartRobert PattinsonTaylor Lautner
By Catherine Hardwicke, 2008.
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.
- Pineapple Express
Starring Seth RogenJames FrancoDanny R. McBride
By David Gordon Green, 2008.
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.
- GoodFellas
Starring Robert De NiroRay LiottaJoe Pesci
By Martin Scorsese, 1990.
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.
- Good Will Hunting
Starring Matt DamonRobin WilliamsMinnie Driver
By Gus Van Sant, 1997.
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).
- There's Something About Mary
Starring Cameron DiazBen StillerMatt Dillon
By Bobby Farrelly, 1998.
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...
- Memento
Starring Guy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe Pantoliano
By Christopher Nolan, 2000.
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...
- Ghost
Starring Patrick SwayzeDemi MooreWhoopi Goldberg
By Jerry Zucker, 1990.
Gothamites Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) see their romance shattered when a street thug kills Sam during a mugging. But love endures beyond the grave when a spectral Sam learns that Molly is in danger and he must find a way to warn her before she suffers his fate.
- Old School
Starring Luke WilsonWill FerrellVince Vaughn
By Todd Phillips, 2003.
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...
- Groundhog Day
Starring Bill MurrayAndie MacDowellChris Elliott
By Harold Ramis, 1993.
Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp.
- American Psycho
Starring Christian BaleWillem DafoeJared Leto
By Mary Harron, 2000.
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...
- Sin City
Starring Michael MadsenRutger HauerBenicio Del Toro
By Robert Rodriguez, 2005.
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...
- Gladiator
Starring Russell CroweJoaquin PhoenixDjimon Hounsou
By Ridley Scott, 2000.
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. My favorite movie of all time. A...
- Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Starring Carrie FisherKenny BakerHarrison Ford
By Richard Marquand, 1983.
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...
- Moulin Rouge
Starring Nicole KidmanEwan McGregorJohn Leguizamo
By Baz Luhrmann, 2001.
Na�ve young poet Ewan McGregor falls in love with cabaret star Nicole Kidman, and their ill-fated romance serves as a convenient peg on which to hang a dazzling array of numbers that span musical idioms (from snatches of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" to Madonna's "Like a Virgin").
- 28 Days Later
Starring Cillian MurphyNoah HuntleyNaomie Harris
By Danny Boyle, 2002.
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...
- The Muppets
Starring Jason SegelAmy AdamsChris Cooper
By James Bobin, 2011.
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets'...
- The Sound of Music
Starring Julie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor Parker
By Robert Wise, 1965.
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischevious children, Maria is given the job.
- Beetlejuice
Starring Alec BaldwinGeena DavisMichael Keaton
By Tim Burton, 1988.
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...
- Pan's Labyrinth
Starring Ivana BaqueroDoug JonesSergi L�pez
By Guillermo del Toro, 2006.
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by the mysterious Pan, an ancient satyr who claims to know her destiny. As she is pulled into this world, as an escape from her unfortunate...
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Starring Jim CarreyKate WinsletKirsten Dunst
By Michel Gondry, 2004.
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...
- Million Dollar Baby
Starring Clint EastwoodHilary SwankMorgan Freeman
By Clint Eastwood, 2004.
This multiple Oscar winner follows a determined young athlete who, through her sheer determination, awakens a long-lost fire within two aging boxers. Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary...
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
Starring Danny ElfmanCatherine O'HaraChris Sarandon
By Henry Selick, 1993.
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...
- Minority Report
Starring Tom CruiseColin FarrellSamantha Morton
By Steven Spielberg, 2002.
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...
- The Ring
Starring Naomi WattsMartin HendersonBrian Cox
By Gore Verbinski, 2002.
It sounded like just another urban legend: a videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly 7 days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) was naturally skeptical of the story -- until four teens died mysteriously one week after...
- Spirited Away
Starring Daveigh ChaseMichael ChiklisLauren Holly
By Hayao Miyazaki, 2002.
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...
- Crash
Starring Sandra BullockDon CheadleMatt Dillon
By Paul Haggis, 2005.
Tensions erupt when the tangled lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge over a 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-9/11 Los Angeles. Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle...
- The Usual Suspects
Starring Kevin SpaceyStephen BaldwinGabriel Byrne
By Bryan Singer, 1995.
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 S�ze. Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Stephen...
- Full Metal Jacket
Starring Matthew ModineVincent D'OnofrioR. Lee Ermey
By Stanley Kubrick, 1987.
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.
- Psycho
Starring Anthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1960.
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer.
- Knocked Up
Starring Seth RogenKatherine HeiglLeslie Mann
By Judd Apatow, 2007.
A one-night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy for entertainment reporter Alison (Katherine Heigl) in Judd Apatow's romantic comedy. Determined to be a good mom and keep her career on track, Alison decides to try to make things work with the baby's father, slacker Ben (Seth Rogen).
- When Harry Met Sally
Starring Billy CrystalMeg RyanCarrie Fisher
By Rob Reiner, 1989.
Can men and women remain friends without sex getting in the way? Nora Ephron's episodic screenplay introduces womanizing, neurotic Harry (Billy Crystal) and ambitious, equally neurotic Sally (Meg Ryan) as chums who resist sexual attraction to maintain their friendship -- a relationship always...
- Corpse Bride
Starring Johnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterEmily Watson
By Tim Burton, 2005.
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.
- Snatch
Starring Benicio Del ToroDennis FarinaVinnie Jones
By Guy Ritchie, 2000.
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)...
- No Country for Old Men
Starring Tommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh Brolin
By Ethan Coen, 2007.
A hunter (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon a dead body, $2 million and a stash of heroin in a Texas desert absconds with the cash. But brutal thief Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) comes looking for it, with a local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) hot on his trail.
- The Blind Side
Starring Sandra BullockKathy BatesTim McGraw
By John Lee Hancock, 2009.
Oversized African American Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), the teen son of a murdered father and a crack-addicted mother, is homeless at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean (Tim McGraw), Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
- Up in the Air
Starring George ClooneyVera FarmigaAnna Kendrick
By Jason Reitman, 2009.
It's all coming together for corporate hatchet man Ryan Bingham (George Clooney): He's about to reach his goal of earning 10 million frequent flyer miles just as he meets the frequent-flying businesswoman (Vera Farmiga) of his dreams. But Ryan's plans hit some turbulence when his prized travel...
- Airplane!
Starring Robert HaysJulie HagertyLloyd Bridges
By Jim Abrahams, 1980.
In this joke-a-second parody of disaster movies, traumatized former combat pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is forced to land a passenger plane when food poisoning strikes the crew. In some clever casting, leading dramatic actors Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen never betray that...
- Chicago
Starring Catherine Zeta-JonesRen�e ZellwegerRichard Gere
By Rob Marshall, 2002.
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from...
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Starring Yun-Fat ChowMichelle YeohZiyi Zhang
By Ang Lee, 2000.
Ang Lee's articulate direction, coupled with Yuen Woo-Ping's (The Matrix) balletic martial arts choreography, makes for a devastating one-two punch. Potent performances from Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh and newcomer Ziyi Zhang also give heft to this story about a young woman in ancient China who...
- Mission: Impossible II
Starring Tom CruiseThandie NewtonDougray Scott
By John Woo, 2000.
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...
- Being John Malkovich
Starring John CusackCameron DiazCatherine Keener
By Spike Jonze, 1999.
Welcome to the fun house: in this exhilaratingly quirky first feature by Spike Jonze, a stellar video director, the reigning fears and obsessions of a technology-crazed, voyeuristic culture are given an even wilder workout than they got from
- The Breakfast Club
Starring Judd NelsonMolly RingwaldAnthony Michael Hall
By John Hughes, 1985.
In John Hughes' seminal 1980s Brat Pack film, the jock (Emilio Estevez), the brain (Anthony Michael Hall), the delinquent (Judd Nelson), the princess (Molly Ringwald) and the kook (Ally Sheedy) break through the strict social barriers of high school during an afternoon of detention.
- Mystic River
Starring Sean PennTim RobbinsKevin Bacon
By Clint Eastwood, 2003.
Three childhood friends, Sean (Kevin Bacon), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Jimmy (Sean Penn) are reunited in Boston 25 years later when they are linked together in the murder investigation of Jimmy's daughter. This taut thriller from director Clint Eastwood won two acting Oscars (for Robbins and Penn) and...
- Rocky
Starring Sylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt Young
By John G. Avildsen, 1976.
Gritty, grim and epic, Rocky is the real deal, a crowd pleaser with a less-than-storybook ending. When Muhammad Ali-esque boxing champ Carl Weathers wants to give a nobody a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers pick palooka Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone).
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