Directed by John Woo • 1997 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen

John Travolta plays Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Cage plays John Travolta, and master of turbocharged action spectacle John Woo detonates the screen in what may be the most utterly berserk blockbuster of the 19...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1931 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell

Edward G. Robinson shot to stardom with his electrifying performance in this landmark gangster drama about a man who ruthlessly murders his way to the top of the mob. Small-time, sm...

Directed by William Wyler • 1959 • United States
Starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith

Winner of a record eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, this gargantuan sword-and-sandals spectacle stands as one of the greatest Hollywood epics ever f...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1933 • United States
Starring Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon

A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theater, and everything else he needs to put on a show—except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked o...

Directed by Quentin Tarantino • 2007 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson

Quentin Tarantino pays homage to the glory days of grindhouse cinema with this retro, gleefully subversive schlock shocker. Kurt Russell plays the psychotic movie stunt double Stuntman Mike, who ...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1932 • United States
Starring Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland

Bud Reeves (Eric Linden) does what any young man from a small town would do when he unexpectedly comes into money: he heads to the big city in search of fame and fortune. Amid the bright lights of...

Directed by William Friedkin • 2003 • United States
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen

Director William Friedkin brings a feverish intensity to this visceral action thriller, which pits Benicio Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones against each other in a gritty game of cat and mo...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 2017 • United States
Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

Amid the the glamour of 1950s London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing ro...

Directed by Nora Ephron • 1993 •.United States
Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman

The charisma of stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and pitch-perfect writing and direction by Nora Ephron come together for one of the all-time great screen romances. Sam Baldwin (Hanks) is a widowed father who, ...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 1997 • United States
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds

It’s 1977—back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business, and business was booming—and idealistic porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. ...

Directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes • 1995 • United States
Starring Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker

The Hughes brothers’ ambitious follow-up to MENACE II SOCIETY is a searing look at the struggles of Black Vietnam War veterans as seen through the eyes of Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1993 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller

Ten years after SCARFACE, director Brian De Palma and star Al Pacino reunited for another bravura crime drama exploding with stylish set pieces and sizzling performances. Pacino brings his tradem...

Directed by Mary Harron • 2000 • United States, Canada
Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto

With an iconically unhinged performance from Christian Bale and an audacious blend of grisly violence and subversive black comedy, director Mary Harron turned Bret Easton Ellis’s notorious be...

Directed by George Cukor • 1954 • United States
Starring Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

Judy Garland had no better showcase for her legendary singing and acting talent than as the title “star” of this classic Hollywood-plays-Hollywood musical spectacular. She dazzles as Esther Blodgett, ...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 2007 • United States
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke

Renowned director Sidney Lumet brought five decades of cinematic mastery to bear in his final film, a riveting thriller that achieves the weight of Greek tragedy. A typically virtuosic Phil...

Directed by Jerry Lewis • 1960 • United States
Starring Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton

The slapstick genius of Jerry Lewis is at its most gleefully inventive in the comedian auteur’s gag-packed, almost free-form first outing as director (as well as writer and producer). He brings his touch...

Directed by John Huston • 1987 • United Kingdom, Ireland
Starring Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll

The final film directed by John Huston—completed by the ailing director just months before his death and released posthumously—is a triumphant farewell from an artist in total command ...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1941 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks in this snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale. She’s a burlesque queen with a colorful vocabulary who needs to lay low for a while as the police close in on ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1974 • United States
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter

Martin Scorsese and Ellen Burstyn draw on the classic women’s melodrama, the 1970s road movie, and the burgeoning feminist movement to create a tender portrait of a New Mexico housewife w...

Directed by Todd Haynes • 1998 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Christian Bale

A CITIZEN KANE for the glittering, hedonistic glam-rock explosion, Todd Haynes’s deliriously flamboyant third feature follows journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) as he launc...

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

Gay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1956 • United States
Starring Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson

Vincente Minnelli’s masterful direction gives stirring expression to the ache of outsiderhood in this taboo-shattering adaptation of Robert Anderson’s play, one of the first major films to deal e...

Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1999 • United States
Starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren

Steven Soderbergh’s stylish, fascinatingly fractured revenge thriller stars Terence Stamp as a British ex-con who, following his release from prison, heads to Los Angeles to investigate hi...