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 eat the…
The Fly (1986)
[9] Jeff Goldblum (Silverado, The Big Chill) plays an inventor who creates teleportation pods that can molecularly deconstruct matter from one location and reconstitute it in another. After he uses himself as a test subject, he's elated by the strength and confidence…
Porky’s (1981)
[9] Before he'd go on to make one of the most beloved holiday films of all time (A Christmas Story), writer/director Bob Clark took the teen sex comedy to new heights with Porky's. An amalgamation of Clark's high school experience and first-hand…
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
[9] When cosmic radiation transforms the dead into flesh-eating ghouls, a ragtag team of survivors make a last stand at a remote Pennsylvania farmhouse where tensions rise between the living as much as from the growing zombie horde. Co-writer/director George Romero became…
The Rocketeer (1991)
[9] Based on a graphic novel by Dave Stevens, The Rocketeer stars Bill Campbell as a young pilot in 1938 Los Angeles who comes into possession of a mysterious jetpack prototype and uses it to become a masked, flying hero. Pursued by…
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. But when…
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 after the…
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
[10] James Dean gives one of the most iconic performances in movie history as Jim Stark, an angst-ridden teenager who quarrels with his parents almost as much as he tangles with high school bullies. I normally hate tough guy movies, and I'd…
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
[9] Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star as Ennis and Jack, young cowboys who take a job herding sheep in the mountains of Wyoming during the summer of 1963. Isolated from the rest of the world for months on end, the two…
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
[10] Director Miloš Forman (Amadeus, The People vs Larry Flynt) adapts Ken Kesey's novel about R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a trouble-making convict who enters psychiatric care to avoid hard labor. While there, he befriends the patients -- a motley bunch with assorted…