The Basketball Diaries (1995)

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

[5] Leonardo DiCaprio gives a strong early-career performance in this film based on the life of Jim Carroll, a promising young basketball player and writer whose life was derailed by drug addition in the late '60s and early '70s. The…
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

[6] Director Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) mines male middle-aged malaise in this melodrama that reteams Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity) for their fourth and final film together. MacMurray plays a successful toy manufacturer with a wife…
Bridge of Spies (2015)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

[7] Steven Spielberg dramatizes the true Cold War-era story of James Donovan (Tom Hanks), an American lawyer tasked with defending a Russian spy named Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in court. When Abel is convicted, Donovan pleads to keep the death…
Young Guns (1988)

Young Guns (1988)

[5] Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, and Lou Diamond Phillips lead an ensemble cast in this film based loosely on the life of William H. Bonney, aka 'Billy the Kid'. Billy (Estevez) is an aimless street kid in 1870s New Mexico…
All I Desire (1953)

All I Desire (1953)

[6] Barbara Stanwyck stars as a theater actress returning to the small, gossip-ridden town where she abandoned her family ten years earlier. Richard Carlson (It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon) plays her husband, who is at…
Wuthering Heights (2026)

Wuthering Heights (2026)

[7] Die-hard fans of Emily Bronte's classic gothic romance novel are bound to be befuddled or enraged by this loose, more sexually charged and stylistically modern adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Oscar-winning writer/director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman, Saltburn). The…
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

[10] In this darkly comic noir masterpiece from Billy Wilder, a struggling Hollywood screenwriter (William Holden) moves in with a delusional silent film star named Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) who wants him to write the script for her big comeback.…
The Mission (1986)

The Mission (1986)

[8] Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons star in this historical drama from director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, City of Joy) and screenwriter Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons). Irons plays Father Gabriel, a Spanish Jesuit…
East of Eden (1955)

East of Eden (1955)

[10] James Dean received the first posthumous acting nomination from the Academy Awards for his riveting performance as the troubled Cal in East of Eden, his first major film role. (He died in a car accident just a few months…
The Sting (1973)

The Sting (1973)

[7] Robert Redford and Paul Newman play Chicago con artists who team up to bankrupt a crime boss (Robert Shaw) who authorized the killing of Redford's grifting partner. Several other con artists join in on the elaborate betting scheme, which…