Moonraker (1979)
[5] Heavily influenced by the success of Star Wars a few years prior, James Bond (Roger Moore) blasts into outer space to foil a bad guy's scheme to eradicate all human life on Earth. While Moonraker made a lot of money and…
300 (2006)
[8] Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 300 centers on three hundred proud Spartan soldiers who stood valiantly against overwhelming Persian forces in the Battle of Thermopylae. Gerard Butler stars as Spartan King Leonidas, who leads his…
Mad Max (1979)
[8] Mel Gibson achieved global recognition with this Australian action-thriller set in the near dystopian future from writer/director George Miller (The Witches of Eastwick, Babe). Gibson plays Max Rockatansky, a policeman who inadvertently starts war with a violent motorcycle gang after one…
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
[6] James Bond (Roger Moore) is paired with a Russian agent (Barbara Bach) to stop a mad man (Curd Jurgens) from firing stolen nuclear missiles across the world. Along the way, the two agents fall in love. But when Bach's character realizes…
The Crow (1994)
[8] A murdered man comes back from the dead to exact revenge on the gang who killed him and his fiancée in director Alex Proyas's stylistically dark and decadent adaptation of James O'Barr's comic book series. Stories of revenge always risk a boring…
Outland (1981)
[4] Sean Connery stars in this middling conspiracy thriller set on one of Jupiter's moons. Connery plays the new head policeman at a titanium mining facility where some of the workers have begun losing their minds and endangering lives. When his investigation…
F1: The Movie (2025)
[8] Brad Pitt stars as a Formula One racecar driver who comes out of retirement to boost the lackluster performance of an old friend's racing team before its owners sell it off. There's immediate friction between Pitt and the team's younger driver…
Poseidon (2006)
[6] Director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) returns to watery disaster fare with this remake of 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. Kurt Russell and Josh Lucas headline this iteration, both playing passengers aboard a mammoth luxury liner that gets turned upside…
The Rock (1996)
[7] Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery headline this amped-up action thriller from reliable hit-makers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (producers of Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, and Top Gun). Cage plays an elite chemist who is paired with Connery's ex-con escape artist…
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
[6] The stakes are lower than usual and the action in short supply, but Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond makes up for it in character. This time around, Bond has been targeted by a mysterious, reclusive assassin named Scaramanga (Christopher…