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Apocalypse Now
1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a 2019 period action comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his adrenaline junkie stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry with the threat of the Tate murders looming.
Apollo 13
1995 film by Ron Howard
Jumanji
1995 film directed by Joe Johnston
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 film directed by Michael Bay
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 film by Peter R. Hunt
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023 film directed by James Mangold
Zodiac
2007 film by David Fincher
JFK
1991 film directed by Oliver Stone
Men in Black 3
2012 film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a 2025 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the second reboot of the Fantastic Four film series. The film was directed by Matt Shakman from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, and the team of Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. It features an ensemble cast including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the titular team, alongside Julia Garner, Sarah Niles, Mark Gatiss, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ralph Ineson. The film is set in the 1960s of a retro-futuristic world which the Fantastic Four must protect from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus (Ineson).
The Mirror
1975 film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Born on the Fourth of July
1989 film directed by Oliver Stone
First Man
2018 film directed by Damien Chazelle
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999 film by Jay Roach
Drag Me to Hell
2009 film directed by Sam Raimi
Twister
1996 film directed by Jan de Bont
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film written by Steven Zaillian, directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. It is based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 nonfiction memoir Awakenings. The film tells the story of the fictional neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Williams), whose character is based on Sacks.
Universal Soldier
1992 film directed by Roland Emmerich
Inherent Vice
2014 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Belfast
2021 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
The Butler
2013 film directed by Lee Daniels
Vice
2018 film directed by Adam McKay
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2006 film by Jonathan Liebesman
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020 film directed by Aaron Sorkin
Frequency
2000 film by Gregory Hoblit
Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 film directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky
Blow
2001 film directed by Ted Demme
Air America
1990 film directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Sneakers
1992 film directed by Phil Alden Robinson
The First Wives Club
1996 film by Hugh Wilson
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 film directed by Shaka King
Judy
2019 film directed by Rupert Goold
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 film directed by Joe Berlinger
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 film by Drew Goddard
Taking Woodstock
2009 film directed by Ang Lee
Scrooged
Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane,
Detroit
2017 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Kingpin
1996 film directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly
Woodstock
1970 documentary film
The Paperboy
2012 film by Lee Daniels
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010 film directed by Ben Stassen
Hamburger Hill
1987 American war film directed by John Irvin
The Rose
1979 film by Mark Rydell
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
2005 film by Mary Lambert
Get on Up
2014 film by Tate Taylor
Radio Flyer
1992 American film
Withnail and I
1987 film directed by Bruce Robinson
Wolf Totem
2015 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud
The Beatles: Get Back
2021 documentary directed by Peter Jackson
The Bye Bye Man
2017 film directed by Stacy Title
Mo' Better Blues
1990 film by Spike Lee
Zeroville
2019 film directed by James Franco
Secretariat
2010 film directed by Randall Wallace
Stonewall
2015 film directed by Roland Emmerich
The Kremlin Letter
1970 film by John Huston
Apollo 10½
2022 film directed by Richard Linklater
Reagan
2024 film directed by Sean McNamara
Chappaquiddick
2018 film by John Curran
StarDog and TurboCat
2019 3D animated feature film directed by Ben Smith