2001 A Space Odyssey
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
The Shining
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and the future.
The Godfather Part II
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed while his son Michael expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Goodfellas
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the 1955-1980 era.
Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much more.
Forrest Gump
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson the Vietnam War the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.
The Silence of the Lambs
A young FBI cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer a madman who skins his victims.
Schindler’s List
In German-occupied Poland during World War II Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Die Hard
New York cop John McClane flies to LA for Christmas to reconcile with his estranged wife at her company's Christmas party. When sophisticated European thieves take over the building John becomes the only person standing between the hostages and disaster — armed with nothing but a pistol his bare feet and his New York sarcasm. John McTiernan's film redefined the action genre and invented the template for dozens of successors. Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is perhaps cinema's most perfectly calibrated charming villain.
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
A new Terminator — the liquid-metal T-1000 — is sent back to kill teenage John Connor before he can lead humanity's resistance. Simultaneously a reprogrammed T-800 is sent to protect him. The revolutionary liquid-metal CGI effects still astonish decades later but the film's greatest achievement is transforming the T-800 — the implacable villain of the first film — into a surrogate father figure whose eventual fate is one of the most genuinely affecting moments in action cinema. A sequel that exceeds its predecessor in every way.