Stand and Deliver (1988)
[7] In this film based on a true story, Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner) stars as Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at a Hispanic high school in L.A. As the school is in danger of losing its funding…
The Reptile (1966)
[4] People are dying from large snake bites to the neck in this sub-par monster movie from Britain's Hammer Films. Noel Willman stars as a doctor who's very protective of his daughter, a young woman who tends to go missing…
Being There (1979)
[3] Pre-dating Forrest Gump by fifteen years is Being There, another movie about a simple-minded idiot who lucks his way into the good graces of society. Peter Sellers stars as Chauncey Gardiner, a gardener and avid TV watcher who is…
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1948)
[5] Cary Grant is playboy artist who attracts the unwanted attention of a lusty seventeen-year-old (Shirley Temple) after giving a lecture at her school. The girl's sister, played by Myrna Loy, uses her position as a judge of the courts…
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
[9] Ten years after Night of the Living Dead, which pretty much invented zombies as we now know them, George Romero went back to the well and made a sequel that I like even better. As the dead rise to…
Sea of Love (1989)
[7] Al Pacino stars as a New York detective working with John Goodman to solve a series of murders -- all men shot in the back of the head, face down on their beds, presumably by a woman out for…
Goodfellas (1990)
[8] Director Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, Raging Bull) returns to the gangster subgenre that made him a household name. Goodfellas is based on the true story of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn youth who quit his primary education to start working…
