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…
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

[2] Ghostbusters has never had a good sequel or spin-off, so why should we start now? Frozen Empire combines the casts of 2021's mediocre Afterlife with the '80s' legacy gang to battle a big, horned demon that wants to freeze New York.…
Mars Attacks! (1996)

Mars Attacks! (1996)

[5] Director Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands) turns an infamous 1960s line of trading cards into a mad-cap feature film with Mars Attacks! Patterned after star-laden disaster flicks from the '70s, the film follows a large ensemble of characters in Washington DC,…
The Maniac (1963)

The Maniac (1963)

[7] Kerwin Mathews (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) stars an American painter who enters into a provocative love triangle with mother and step-daughter barkeeps in rural France. He agrees to help them break their patriarch from an asylum where he's been sentenced…
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

[4] Treat Williams (Smooth Talk, Deep Rising) and Robert Duvall star in this fictionalized imagining of what happened to the infamous 'D.B. Cooper' after he parachuted from a Boeing 727 with $200,000 of the airline's money in 1971. The film sees Cooper…
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

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…
Black Fury (1935)

Black Fury (1935)

[4] Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Life of Emile Zola) stars as an immigrant coal worker who unwittingly finds himself a union representative in a volatile dispute with the mine owners. When the owners hire 'scabs'…