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…
Porky’s (1981)

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)

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…
Avatar (2009)

Avatar (2009)

[8] James Cameron's first film since Titanic is a sci-fi/fantasy epic with a healthy sense of adventure and discovery. Sam Worthington stars as Jake Sully, a marine sent to the far off world of Pandora to help the military ravage the environment…
The Sheep Detectives (2026)

The Sheep Detectives (2026)

[8] In this refreshingly sophisticated and highly emotional family film, Hugh Jackman (Logan) plays a sheep herder who reads mystery novels to his flock every evening -- and they understand what they hear. When the sheep find him dead one morning, they…
The Rocketeer (1991)

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)

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…
The Mission (1986)

The Mission (1986)

[8] Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons star in this historical drama from director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, City of Joy) and screenwriter Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons). Irons plays Father Gabriel, a Spanish Jesuit priest who…
East of Eden (1955)

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…
Sunshine (2007)

Sunshine (2007)

[8] Before winning the Oscar for directing Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle teamed with The Beach author Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina) to give us this underseen and under-appreciated sci-fi thriller. As the Earth's sun dies and sends humanity into an eternal winter,…