Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

[6] Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend) hires a man to murder Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder. The film, based on a stage play by Frederick Knott, opens with Milland hiring an old college acquaintance (Anthony Dawson)…
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

[9] Here we have a horror film so well executed, it swept the Academy Awards. Anthony Hopkins (The Lion in Winter) and Jodie Foster (The Accused) each deliver career-defining performances as cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter and neophyte FBI agent…
Apollo 13 (1995)

Apollo 13 (1995)

[9] Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton star as the astronauts of 1970's ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the moon, one in which their vessel suffered an exploding oxygen tank that threatened to leave them stranded in space forever.…
Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

[6] After his career began to wane in the late '70s, director Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, Nashville) directed a handful of stage play adaptations throughout the '80s before having a successful 'comeback' with 1992's The Player. Ed Graczyk's Come Back to…
Gummo (1997)

Gummo (1997)

[6] Director Harmony Korine (Julien Donkey-Boy, Spring Breakers) hit the indie film scene with Gummo, a film that combines scripted material with documentary footage to deliver a portrait of a tornado-stricken Ohio town whose children all seem to be circling…
Promising Young Woman (2020)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

[8] Carey Mulligan (Shame, Never Let Me Go) is equal parts sympathetic and terrifying in writer/director Emerald Fennell's psychological thriller Promising Young Woman. Mulligan stars as Cassandra, a medical school dropout whose life was derailed after the sexual assault of…
Tombstone (1993)

Tombstone (1993)

[7] Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer lead an all-star ensemble in this true story of 1881's infamous showdown between reluctant lawmen and a gang of criminal cowboys previously depicted in 1957's Gunfight at the OK Corral and told again in…
Eddington (2025)

Eddington (2025)

[7] A stand-off between a small New Mexico town's ideologically opposed sheriff and mayor spirals violently out of control during the explosive summer of 2020 in this sardonic drama from writer/director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar). Joaquin Phoenix stars as the…
King of the Mountain (1981)

King of the Mountain (1981)

[5] Harry Hamlin (Clash of the Titans), Joseph Bottoms (The Black Hole), and Richard Cox (Cruising) star as three friends who engage in illegal car racing along a twenty-three mile, hilltop stretch of Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles... while also…
Remember the Night (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)

[7] Before their classic pairing in 1944's noir classic Double Indemnity, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray co-starred in this warm, Christmastime romance from director Mitchell Leisen (Death Takes a Holiday) and writer Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels). Stanwyck plays a shoplifter…