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Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic historical romance film written and directed by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictional aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage. The ensemble cast includes Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton.
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1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis
The Matrix
1999 American science fiction action thriller film
Schindler's List
1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Gone with the Wind
1939 film directed by Victor Fleming
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
1977 film directed by George Lucas
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 film by Peter Jackson
Slumdog Millionaire
2008 film directed by Danny Boyle
Saving Private Ryan
1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg
The Departed
2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer (film)
Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Gravity
2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Ben-Hur
1959 American epic historical drama film by William Wyler
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 film directed by David Lean
The Social Network
2010 film by David Fincher
Rocky
Rocky is a 1976 American independent sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector from Philadelphia, gets an unlikely once in a lifetime shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).
The English Patient
1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella
Jaws
1975 film by Steven Spielberg
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 film directed by David Lean
The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.
Dances with Wolves
1990 film directed by Kevin Costner
The Hurt Locker
2008 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Dune (2021 film)
Dune is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.
Gandhi
1982 film directed by Richard Attenborough
Platoon
1986 film directed by Oliver Stone
Mary Poppins
1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson
The Aviator
2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Argo
2012 film directed by Ben Affleck
Chicago
2002 film by Rob Marshall
Dunkirk
2017 film by Christopher Nolan
Unforgiven
Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by David Webb Peoples. It stars Eastwood as William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.
The Last Emperor
1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 film directed by Bryan Singer
Apollo 13
1995 film by Ron Howard
Crash
2004 film by Paul Haggis
The Deer Hunter
1978 film directed by Michael Cimino
On the Waterfront
1954 film by Elia Kazan
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 film directed by Paul Greengrass
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 film directed by George Miller
Whiplash
2014 film directed by Damien Chazelle
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis
Hacksaw Ridge
2016 film directed by Mel Gibson
From Here to Eternity
1953 film by Fred Zinnemann
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Raging Bull
1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese
The Apartment
1960 film directed by Billy Wilder
The French Connection
1971 film by William Friedkin
West Side Story
1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
The Sting
1973 film by George Roy Hill
Patton
1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
In the Heat of the Night
1967 film by Norman Jewison
High Noon
1952 film directed by Fred Zinnemann
Black Hawk Down
2001 film by Ridley Scott
Anora
Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a lap dancer from New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The supporting cast includes Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov.
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 film by David Fincher
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 film directed by Michael Anderson
JFK
1991 film directed by Oliver Stone
One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy-thriller film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film's ensemble cast is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. It follows a washed-up former revolutionary who is brought back into conflict when his enemy resurfaces after sixteen years.