80's
This 1985 time-travel film features a DeLorean and a mad scientist named Doc Brown.
Back to the Future
This 1997 epic romance directed by James Cameron is set aboard a doomed ocean liner.
Titanic
This 2008 superhero film features Heath Ledger as the Joker.
The Dark Knight
This 1995 epic about Scottish warrior William Wallace won Best Picture.
Braveheart
This 2000 cult satire directed by Mary Harron features a Wall Street investment banker who debates Huey Lewis and the News before committing violent acts.
American Psycho
This 1982 Steven Spielberg film follows a boy who befriends an alien stranded on Earth.
E.T.
This 1994 crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino intertwines multiple storylines in Los Angeles.
Pulp Fiction
This 2009 sci-fi epic directed by James Cameron is set on the moon Pandora.
Avatar
This 2006 crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese won Best Picture and starred Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Departed
This 1998 cult neo-noir set in Los Angeles’ bowling scene features a character obsessed with White Russians and a ransom plot involving a millionaire sharing his name.
The Big Lebowski
This 1984 action film introduced audiences to Sarah Connor and a relentless cyborg assassin.
The Terminator
In this 1999 film, Neo discovers the world is a simulated reality.
The Matrix
This 2000 historical epic stars Russell Crowe as Roman general Maximus.
Gladiator
This 2001 Best Picture winner is about a brilliant mathematician struggling with mental illness.
A Beautiful Mind
This 1999 film about underground fight clubs was based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk and features an unreliable narrator whose alter ego is Tyler Durden.
Fight Club
This 1986 film’s climactic dogfight features a MiG-28 — a fictional aircraft created for the movie
Top Gun
This 1995 crime thriller directed by Michael Mann features a famous downtown Los Angeles shootout and marks the first on-screen pairing of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Heat
This 2007 oil industry drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis features the line, “I drink your milkshake,” and is loosely inspired by Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!
There Will be Blood
This 2007 Best Picture winner from the Coen Brothers features Anton Chigurh and his captive bolt pistol.
No Country for Old Men
This 1999 office satire directed by Mike Judge centers on employees at Initech and popularized the destruction of a malfunctioning printer.
Office Space
This 1988 action film was adapted from Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever and was originally offered to Frank Sinatra due to contractual obligations.
Die Hard
This 1998 film structured around 72 time-stamped chapters chronicles a German courier attempting to alter fate, accompanied by a techno score by Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek.
Run Lola Run
This 2004 sci-fi thriller involves memory erasure technology performed by Lacuna, Inc., and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
This 2003 film tied the record for most Academy Awards won, matching Ben-Hur and later Titanic, and concluded a trilogy filmed simultaneously in New Zealand.
The Lord of the Rings
This 1981 surreal horror film directed by Sam Raimi was famously shot on a shoestring budget in a Tennessee cabin and launched the career of actor Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams.
The Evil Dead