The Exorcist (1973)

The Exorcist (1973)

[9] Director William Friedkin (The French Connection, Sorcerer) approaches author William Peter Blatty's tale of demonic possession with disturbing seriousness and realism, an approach that struck fear in the hearts of moviegoers like no film has before or since. Ellen Burstyn stars…
The King and I (1956)

The King and I (1956)

[5] Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner star in this opulent period musical from Broadway legends Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein. Kerr plays Anna, a widowed British school teacher who travels with her young son to Siam (modern-day Thailand) where she's agreed to…
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

[10] After deciding directing wasn't his favorite thing to do, George Lucas enticed his former film school teacher Irvin Kershner (Eyes of Laura Mars, Return of a Man Called Horse) to helm the dark second act of his historic Star Wars trilogy.…
Star Wars (1977)

Star Wars (1977)

[10] Writer/director George Lucas (American Graffiti) surprised the world with this unassuming and unheralded matinee-style fantasy adventure that, by all industry standards, would be dead on arrival at the box office. But then word-of-mouth catapulted Star Wars to the highest echelons of…
Ben-Hur (1959)

Ben-Hur (1959)

[10] Charlton Heston stars as Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince whose life is thrown into years of soul-crushing turmoil after being betrayed by a childhood friend. That friend, a Roman soldier named Messala (Stephen Boyd), turns against Judah after he refuses to…
How the West Was Won (1962)

How the West Was Won (1962)

[8] Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard get the lion's share of screen time in the all-star epic western How the West Was Won. The film chronicles the Prescott family as they charge west in the 1830s, encountering river pirates, deadly rapids, Civil…
The Right Stuff (1983)

The Right Stuff (1983)

[7] Writer/director Philip Kaufman chronicles the birth of the U.S. space program in The Right Stuff, beginning with the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Based on Tom Wolfe's novel, the…
Hugo (2011)

Hugo (2011)

[8] In 1931 Paris, an orphaned boy named Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in a train station and gets caught up in a mystery involving a broken automaton and a cranky old toy-maker (Ben Kingsley). With the help of an adventurous new friend…
Dune: Part Two (2024)

Dune: Part Two (2024)

[9] Director Denis Velleneuve (The Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) concludes his adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune with Dune: Part Two. The sequel picks up after the massacre of House Atreides at the hands of the vile Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard). The baron…
Dune: Part One (2021)

Dune: Part One (2021)

[8] Director Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Arrival) takes a stab at delivering Frank Herbert's dense, complicated science-fiction novel to the big screen. Dune centers around a teenaged royal named Paul Atreides (Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet) whose family is…