All Time Greats

Action

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"

 

 Terminator 2: Judgement Day

"A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her young son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal"

 

Lethal Weapon

"A veteran cop, Murtaugh, is partnered with a young suicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common; hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers"

 

Predator

"A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior"

 

First Blood

"A Vietnam Veteran uses his combat skills against the lawman of a small town when they arrest and abuse him"

 

Adventure

Raiders of the Lost Ark

"Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis"

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

"A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world" 

The Goonies

"In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient treasure"

The Count of Monte Cristo

"A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge"

Papillon

"A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape" 

 

Comedy

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

"A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of a missing dolphin mascot of a football team"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles"

Dumb & Dumber

"The cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends"

Meet the Parents

"Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare"

The Hangover

"Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding"

 

Crime

A Bronx Tale

"A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s"

 

Casino

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

 

Goodfellas

"Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy"

 

 

The Departed

"An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston"

 

Scarface

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

 

Drama

Forrest Gump

"Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"Upon admittance to a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive head nurse"

Good Will Hunting

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

La vita è bella

"When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp"

The Green Mile

"The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift"

 

Horror

A nightmare on Elm Street

"Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. When the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep"

Halloween

"On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill" 

It

"In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Loser Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. 30 years later, they are called back to fight the same clown again"

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" 

The Exorcist

"When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter."

 

Romance

Ghost

"After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost"

Titanic

"A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic"

The Notebook

"A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences"

Pretty Woman

"A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love"

Slumdog Millionaire

"A Mumbai teen, who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers"

 

Sci-Fi

Alien

"The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them"

Back to the Future

"A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence"

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

"After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke"

Total Recall

"When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?"

The Matrix

"A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controller"

 

Sport

Rocky

"Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion, Apollo Creed, in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect"

Remember the Titans

"The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit"

Warrior

"The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brothe"

Rush

"The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda"

The Wrestler

"A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle"

 

Thriller

L.A. Confidential

"As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice"

The Silence of the Lambs

"A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims"

Seven

"Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi"

The Usual Suspects

"A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which begin when five criminals meet at a seemingly random police lineup"

The Sixth Sense

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

 

War

Apocalypse Now

"During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe"

Full Metal Jacket

"A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue"

Platoon

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

Saving Private Ryan

"Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action"

The Thin Red Line

"Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War"

 

Western

Dances with Wolves

"Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military"

A Fistfull of Dollars

"A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge"

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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

Unforgiven

"Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man"

The Wild Bunch

"An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them"