X… The Unknown (1956)

X… The Unknown (1956)

[5] The British army discovers a deep crevasse and a surge in radioactivity in a remote Scottish village. Scientists and security officials convene and determine that an organism of unknown origin is consuming radioactivity and growing at an alarming rate. Taking the…
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 film transplants…
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 and three…
Horror Express (1972)

Horror Express (1972)

[7] British horror icons Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing play rival scientists trying to contain a defrosted prehistoric creature aboard the Trans-Siberian Express in this moody midnight horror flick. The monster's kill count starts to feel repetitive and you'll have to suspend…
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 penalty off…
The Fly II (1989)

The Fly II (1989)

[8] Eric Stoltz (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful) stars in the sequel to 1986's The Fly, playing the genetically-altered son of Seth Brundle, the scientist who accidentally turned himself into a giant fly in the first movie. Stoltz's character, Martin, shares some…
The Fly (1986)

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…
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 when he's…
Blazing Saddles (1974)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

[8] Co-writer/director Mel Brooks (High Anxiety, Robin Hood: Men in Tights) picks at the scab of American racism during the post-Civil Rights Movement to tremendously comedic effect with the Western parody Blazing Saddles. When a small frontier town stands in the way…
The World is Not Enough (1999)

The World is Not Enough (1999)

[7] Pierce Brosnan's third Bond film is on par with his previous two. In The World is Not Enough, Bond is protecting an oil baroness (Braveheart's Sophie Marceau) from a terrorist (Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle) who's about to come into possession of nuclear…