90's
This 1997 movie from James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as passengers on a doomed ship on its maiden voyage certainly didn’t “sink” at the box office. It has made over $2 billion worldwide.
The Titanic
The director of "Spotlight".
Tom McCarthy
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.
The Hangover
“She doesn’t even go here”
Mean Girls
This hit movie is based on the first book in the YA novel series about a teenage girl who volunteers to take her younger sister's place in her society’s latest televised match to the death.
The Hunger Games
This 1994 hit movie, based on the novel of the same name by Winston Groom, starred Tom Hanks as the title character, whose motto on life was that it was “like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.”
Forrest Gump
Director of Avatar and Titanic
James Cameron
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
Finding Nemo
“You’re changing that boys life….No, he’s changing mine”
The Blind Side
This “magical” movie series is based on the books about a young boy with a great destiny who is rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle and proves his worth while attending a magical school.
Harry Potter
This 1996 film from Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as a “pair of star-crossed lovers” from rival families, is a modern-day portrayal of Shakespeare’s tragic love story that keeps the original dialogue.
Romeo and Juliet
Director of The Dark Knight, Interstellar, and Inception.
Christopher Nolan
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies who are now undead in this 2003 “swashbuckler” that was based on a Disney theme park ride of the same name.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”
The Godfather
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Black Mass
A streetwise NYPD detective joins a secret organization that is the “first, last and only line of defense against the worst scum of the universe” in this 1997 action-comedy starring Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones, based on the comics of the same name.
Men in Black
Director of The Godfather I, II, and III.
Francis Ford Coppola
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives.
The Departed
"I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal...People know me... I'm very important. Uh, I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."
Anchorman
An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground club that evolves into something much, much more.
Fight Club
This 1990 dark comedy by Tim Burton starred Johnny Depp as the title character, who was known for his “Hand”-y work.
Edward Scissorhands
Director of The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and Detroit.
Kathryn Bigelow
Bilbo Baggins journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug in this 2012 prequel to a hit movie trilogy that was based on the best-selling book series of the same names.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
"They're here!"
Poltergeist
Don’t Panic! This 2005 film is based on the first of a 5-book “trilogy” by Douglas Adams, in which a man hops aboard a spaceship with his best friend, who is really an alien writing a guidebook to the universe.
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy