Category
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The Terminator
1984 film by James Cameron

Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 film directed by Bryan Singer

The Lives of Others
2006 film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles.

Terminator Genisys
2015 science-fiction film directed by Alan Taylor

The Breakfast Club
1985 film directed by John Hughes

Wonder Woman 1984
2020 film directed by Patty Jenkins

Hulk
2003 film directed by Ang Lee

The Iron Lady
2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

Billy Elliot
2000 film directed by Stephen Daldry

The Hunt for Red October
1990 film directed by John McTiernan

The Karate Kid
1984 film directed by John G. Avildsen

Witness
1985 film directed by Peter Weir

Steve Jobs
2015 film directed by Danny Boyle

Now You See Me 2
Now You See Me 2 is a 2016 American heist film directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay by Ed Solomon and a story by Solomon and Peter Chiarelli. It serves as a sequel to Now You See Me (2013) and the second installment in the Now You See Me series. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Ben Lamb, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot has the Four Horsemen and their leader Dylan Rhodes recruited by Walter Mabry, a criminal mastermind, to steal a data chip.

Boogie Nights
1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

Friday the 13th Part 2
1981 film directed by Steve Miner

Friday the 13th Part III
1982 film directed by Steve Miner

Jobs
2013 film directed by Joshua Michael Stern

A Time to Kill
1996 film by Joel Schumacher

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 film by Joseph Zito

Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 film by Michael Radford

The Specialist
1994 film by Luis Llosa

Splash
1984 film by Ron Howard

The Karate Kid Part II
1986 American film directed by John G. Avildsen

American Made
2017 film directed by Doug Liman

Boyz n the Hood
1991 film by John Singleton

Not Without My Daughter
1991 film by Brian Gilbert

Air
2023 film directed by Ben Affleck

That's My Boy
2012 film directed by Sean Anders

Pride
2014 film directed by Matthew Warchus

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018 interactive film directed by David Slade

Velvet Goldmine
1998 film directed by Todd Haynes

Apt Pupil
1998 film directed by Bryan Singer

1984
1956 film by Michael Anderson

The Return of the Living Dead
1985 American black comedy/zombie film directed by Dan O'Bannon

White Noise
2022 film directed by Noah Baumbach

Code of Silence
1985 film by Andrew Davis
Threads
1984 television film directed by Mick Jackson

The Philadelphia Experiment
1984 film directed by Stewart Raffill

And the Band Played On
1993 film directed by Roger Spottiswoode

Cargo 200
2007 film directed by Aleksei Balabanov

White Boy Rick
2018 film directed by Yann Demange

The Order
2024 film directed by Justin Kurzel

The Front Runner
2018 film directed by Jason Reitman

Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 film by Charles Sellier

Argentina, 1985
2022 film directed by Santiago Mitre

Best Defense
1985 film by Willard Huyck

Summer of '84
2018 film directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell

Class of 1984
1982 film directed by Mark L. Lester
Citizen X
1995 television film directed by Chris Gerolmo

Laal Singh Chaddha
2022 film directed by Advait Chandan

Reagan
2024 film directed by Sean McNamara

Boy
2010 film directed by Taika Waititi

Texasville
Texasville is a 1990 American drama film written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Based on the 1987 novel Texasville by Larry McMurtry, it is a sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), and features Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Timothy Bottoms, Randy Quaid, and Eileen Brennan reprising their roles from the original film.

Edge of Seventeen
1998 film directed by David Moreton

The Deep
2012 film

The Witnesses
2007 film by André Téchiné

The Dirt
2019 film directed by Jeff Tremaine

The Passengers of the Night
2022 film directed by Mikhaël Hers