Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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…
Anora (2024)

Anora (2024)

[7] Mikey Madison stars as Anora, a New York stripper and escort who accepts a marriage proposal from a super-rich Russian playboy (Mark Eydelshteyn) during a lavish excursion to Las Vegas. The romance burns fast and bright before the boy's oligarch parents…
Wake in Fright (1971)

Wake in Fright (1971)

[7] Gary Bond (Zulu) stars as a restless school teacher in the desolate hellscape of the Australian Outback. On his way to Sydney for Christmas break, he becomes stranded in a frontier mining town after gambling away all his money. Some of…
Always (1989)

Always (1989)

[7] One of director Steven Spielberg's less successful films remains this fantasy-romance starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, and John Goodman as aerial forest-fire fighters and best friends. When Dreyfuss's character perishes in action, he comes back as a guardian angel assigned to…
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

[3] Hammer's third Frankenstein film (following 1958's The Revenge of Frankenstein) is more of a one-off than a sequel, having little to do with the films before or after it. It marked the return of Peter Cushing to gothic horror after a…
Gorky Park (1983)

Gorky Park (1983)

[6] William Hurt (Body Heat, The Accidental Tourist) stars as a Russian police investigator who uncovers an international conspiracy while pursuing a grisly triple murder case. Brian Dennehy (First Blood) plays an American adversary-turned-ally, while Lee Marvin co-stars as the prime suspect,…
Dead End (1937)

Dead End (1937)

[8] Humphrey Bogart's star was on the rise when he appeared in this ensemble drama based on a popular Broadway play by Sidney Kingsley. Bogart plays a murderous gangster who returns to his riverside slum in New York City after undergoing plastic…
The Hard Way (1991)

The Hard Way (1991)

[5] Michael J. Fox and James Woods star in this middling action-comedy from director John Badham (Short Circuit, Wargames). Fox plays a famous actor researching a new cop role by shadowing Woods's character, a cranky but cool New York cop. Woods hates…
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

[6] The third film in the A Quiet Place franchise is a prequel set in New York City the day the vicious alien monsters arrived. If you've seen the previous films, you know the deal: The monsters are blind, but they can…
Objective, Burma! (1945)

Objective, Burma! (1945)

[7] Errol Flynn leads a special ops platoon who parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma during World War II. Their mission is to blow up an important radar station, then make their way to an abandoned runway for pickup. But when the Japanese swarm…