Good Will Hunting

Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Stars: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck

Hotel Rwanda

The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Director: Terry George
Writers: Keir Pearson, Terry George
Stars: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo

High Noon

A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writers: Carl Foreman (screenplay), John W. Cunningham (magazine story "The Tin Star")
Stars: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges

The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Director: Victor Fleming
Writers: Noel Langley (screenplay), Florence Ryerson (screenplay)
Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: William Goldman
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

The Avengers

Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.

Director: Joss Whedon
Writers: Joss Whedon (screenplay), Zak Penn (story)
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson

Trainspotting

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Director: Danny Boyle
Writers: Irvine Welsh (novel), John Hodge (screenplay)
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller

The Thing

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

Director: John Carpenter
Writers: Bill Lancaster (screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (story)
Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David

Platoon

A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Stars: Keith David, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe

Casino

Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Nicholas Pileggi (book), Nicholas Pileggi (screenplay)
Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

The Sixth Sense

A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

Jaws

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Peter Benchley (screenplay), Carl Gottlieb (screenplay)
Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Strangers on a Train

A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder...a theory that he plans to implement.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Raymond Chandler (screen play), Czenzi Ormonde (screen play),    
Stars: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

Sin City

A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.

Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Frank Miller (graphic novels)
Stars: Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke

It Happened One Night

A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story.

Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Robert Riskin (screenplay), Samuel Hopkins Adams (short story)
Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

No Country for Old Men

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writers: Joel Coen (screenplay), Ethan Coen (screenplay)
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran

The Gold Rush

The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray

Cool Hand Luke

A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writers: Donn Pearce (screenplay), Frank Pierson (screenplay)
Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon

The Deer Hunter

An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

Director: Michael Cimino
Writers: Michael Cimino (story), Deric Washburn (story),    
Stars: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage

Touch of Evil

Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.

Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Orson Welles (screenplay), Whit Masterson (based on the novel "Badge Of Evil" by),    
Stars: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles

The Big Lebowski

"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Director: Joel Coen
Writers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore

Ran

An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa (screenplay), Hideo Oguni (screenplay),    
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

Fargo

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Director: Joel Coen
Writers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare

Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed.

Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Oliver Stone (screenplay)
Stars: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer

Smultronstället

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

Gran Torino

Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Nick Schenk (screenplay), Dave Johannson (story)
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang

The Kid

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan

Rebecca

When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Daphne Du Maurier (celebrated novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screen play),    
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

Blade Runner

Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to Earth seeking their maker.

Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Webb Peoples (screenplay)
Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

The Maltese Falcon

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Director: John Huston
Writers: John Huston (screenplay), Dashiell Hammett (based upon the novel by)
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George

Heat

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Michael Mann
Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

The General

When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Writers: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

Det sjunde inseglet

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writers: Ingmar Bergman (play), Ingmar Bergman (screenplay)
Stars: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe

The Elephant Man

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Director: David Lynch
Writers: Christopher De Vore (screenplay), Eric Bergren (screenplay),    
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft

On the Waterfront

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Budd Schulberg (screenplay), Budd Schulberg (based upon an original story by)
Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

Toy Story

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.



Director: John Lasseter
Writers: John Lasseter (original story), Pete Docter (original story)
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

Up

By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years younger, inadvertently becomes a stowaway.

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Writers: Pete Docter (story), Bob Peterson (story),    
Stars: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Sidney Buchman (screenplay), Lewis R. Foster (story)
Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains

El laberinto del fauno

In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú

The Great Escape

Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Director: John Sturges
Writers: Paul Brickhill (book), James Clavell (screenplay)
Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough

Der Untergang

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writers: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Joachim Fest (book),    
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes

Per qualche dollaro in pi?

Two bounty hunters with the same intentions, team up to track down a Western outlaw.

Director: Sergio Leone
Writers: Sergio Leone (scenario), Fulvio Morsella (scenario)
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté

Snatch

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt

Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth

Yôjinbô

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa (story), Akira Kurosawa (screenplay)
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa

Jodaeiye Nader az Simin

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat

Batman Begins

After training with his mentor, Batman begins his war on crime to free the crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption that the Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Bob Kane (characters), David S. Goyer (story),    
Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

Die Hard

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Director: John McTiernan
Writers: Roderick Thorp (novel), Jeb Stuart (screenplay)
Stars: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson

Hotaru no haka

A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

Director: Isao Takahata
Writers: Akiyuki Nosaka (novel), Isao Takahata
Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara