Dominic Sena, Kalifornia, Gramercy Pictures, 1993

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 3, 1993.
• Running time: 117 minutes.
• Tagline: Fear never travels alone.

• Kalifornia (1993)

Lewis Allen, The Uninvited, Paramount Pictures, 1944

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: February 10, 1944.
• Running time: 99 minutes.
• Tagline: From the Most Popular Mystery Romance since “Rebecca”!

• The Uninvited (1944)

Woody Allen, Husbands and Wives, TriStar Pictures, 1992

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 18, 1992.
• Running time: 108 minutes.

• Husbands and Wives (1992)

Dan Curtis, Burnt Offerings, MGM Studios, 1976

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 18, 1976.
• Running time: 116 minutes.
• Tagline: The perfect summer rental for the last vacation you’ll ever take.

• Burnt Offerings (1976)

Stuart Rosenberg, The Amityville Horror, American International Pictures, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 27, 1979.
• Running time: 117 minutes.
• Tagline: “For God’s Sake, Get Out!”

• The Amityville Horror (1979)

Otto Preminger, Anatomy of a Murder, Columbia Pictures, 1959

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 1, 1959.
• Running time: 160 minutes.

• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

John Hough, The Legend of Hell House, Twentieth Century Fox, 1973

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 15, 1973.
• Running time: 95 minutes.
• Tagline: For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn’t true!

• The Legend of Hell House (1973)

Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Columbia Pictures, 1969

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 14, 1969.
• Running time: 94 minutes.
• Tagline: A man went looking for America. And couldn’t find it anywhere…

• Easy Rider (1969)

Agatha Christie’s Poirot, The Mystery of the Blue Train, ITV, 2005

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: December 11, 2005 (season 10, episode 1).
• Running time: 100 minutes.

• Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)

Woody Allen, Mighty Aphrodite, Miramax Films, 1995

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 27, 1995.
• Running time: 95 minutes.
• Tagline: The new comedy from Woody Allen.
• Mira Sorvino won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

• Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds, CBS (radio), 1938

Rating: 4/5 Link

• Original air date: October 30, 1938 (Halloween eve).
• Running time: 60 minutes.
• An episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air.
• Triggered one of the first great mass panics of the modern media age.

• The Mercury Theatre on the Air

Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Universal Pictures, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: March 28, 1963.
• Running time: 119 minutes.
• Tagline: …and remember, the next scream you hear could be your own!

• The Birds (1963)

John Badham, Dracula, Universal Pictures, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 13, 1979.
• Running time: 109 minutes.
• Tagline: Throughout history he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire.

• Dracula (1979)

Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Bryanston Distributing Company, 1974

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 1, 1974.
• Running time: 84 minutes.
• Tagline: Who will survive and what will be left of them?

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Richard Linklater, Fast Food Nation, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2006

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 17, 2006.
• Running time: 116 minutes.
• Taglines: The Truth Is Hard To Swallow. Do you want lies with that?

• Fast Food Nation (2006)

François Truffaut, Fahrenheit 451, Universal Pictures, 1966

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 14, 1966.
• Running time: 112 minutes.
• Tagline: What if you had no right to read?
• Based on the novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury.

• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Airplane!, Paramount Pictures, 1980

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 27, 1980.
• Running time: 87 minutes.
• Tagline: What’s slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound? Thank God it’s Only a Motion Picture!

• Airplane! (1980)

Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt, Universal Pictures, 1943

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 12, 1943.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Tagline: A Blast of DRAMATIC Dynamite exploded right before your eyes!

• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Ken Burns, Thomas Jefferson, PBS, 1997

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 1997.
• Running time: 180 minutes.
• Narrated by Ossie Davis.

• Thomas Jefferson (1997)
• PBS: Thomas Jefferson

Blake Edwards, Revenge of the Pink Panther, United Artists, 1978

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 19, 1978.
• Running time: 104 minutes.
• Tagline: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies…
• The last entry of the Pink Panther series featuring Peter Sellers, who died in 1980.

• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

Terence Fisher, The Hound of the Baskervilles, United Artists, 1959

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 4, 1959 (UK).
• Running time: 87 minutes.
• Tagline: Sherlock Holmes’ Most Terrifying Adventure!

• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

John Shiban, Rest Stop, Warner Home Video, 2006

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: October 17, 2006 (direct-to-video).
• Running time: 85 minutes.

• Rest Stop (2006)

Sidney Lanfield, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 20th Century Fox, 1939

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 24, 1939.
• Running time: 80 minutes.
• First of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the detective duo.

• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Andrew Douglas, The Amityville Horror, Dimension Films, 2005

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: April 15, 2005.
• Running time: 90 minutes.
• Tagline: What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.

• The Amityville Horror (2005)

Carol Reed, The Third Man, British Lion Films, 1949

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 2, 1949 (UK).
• Running time: 104 minutes.
• Tagline: HUNTED… By a thousand men! Haunted… By a lovely girl!
• Robert Krasker won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.

• The Third Man (1949)

Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca, United Artists, 1940

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 12, 1940.
• Running time: 130 minutes.
• Tagline: The shadow of this woman darkened their love.
• George Barnes won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
• David O. Selznick won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

• Rebecca (1940)

Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, United Artists, 1976

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 15, 1976.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: Why are the world’s chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is.

• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

Blake Edwards, The Return of the Pink Panther, United Artists, 1975

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 21, 1975.
• Running time: 114 minutes.
• Tagline: You may rest assured that there’s trouble, because Inspector Clouseau is on the case… That’s the trouble.

• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Paramount Pictures, 1956

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 1, 1956.
• Running time: 120 minutes.
• Tagline: A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!
• Jay Livingston and Ray Evans won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. For the song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”.

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Federico Fellini, 8½, Angelo Rizzoli, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: February 14, 1963 (Italy).
• Running time: 138 minutes.
• Language: Italian.
• Tagline: A picture that goes beyond what men think about – because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!
• Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Italian).
• Piero Gherardi won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.

• 8½ (1963)

Woody Allen, Manhattan, United Artists, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 15, 1979.
• Running time: 96 minutes.
• Tagline: Woody Allen’s New Comedy Hit.

• Manhattan (1979)

John Huston, Moby Dick, Warner Bros., 1956

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 27, 1956.
• Running time: 116 minutes.
• Tagline: In all the world – in all the seas – in all adventure, there is no might like the might of Moby Dick.

• Moby Dick (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Gaumont-British, 1934

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 1934 (UK).
• Running time: 75 minutes.
• Tagline: Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world…

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More, United Artists, 1965

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 18, 1965 (Italy).
• Running time: 132 minutes.
• Language: Italian, English.
• Tagline: The man with no name is back! The man in black is waiting… As if one wasn’t enough…  As if death needed a double!
• “Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.”

• For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Jack Clayton, The Innocents, 20th Century Fox, 1961

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 25, 1961.
• Running time: 100 minutes.
• Tagline: Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?

• The Innocents (1961)

Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, United Artists, 1957

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 13, 1957.
• Running time: 96 minutes.
• Tagline: Life Is In Their Hands — Death Is On Their Minds!

• 12 Angry Men (1957)

Mary Harron, American Psycho, Lions Gate Entertainment, 2000

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 14, 2000.
• Running time: 101 minutes.
• Tagline: Killer looks.

• American Psycho (2000)

Sergio Leone, A Fistful of Dollars, United Artists, 1964

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 12, 1964 (Italy).
• Running time: 100 minutes.
• Language: Italian, English, Spanish.
• Tagline: This short cigar belongs to a man with no name. This long gun belongs to a man with no name. This poncho belongs to a man with no name. He’s going to trigger a whole new style in adventure.

• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, Casino Royale, Columbia Pictures, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 28, 1967.
• Running time: 131 minutes.
• Tagline: Casino Royale is too much for one James Bond!

• Casino Royale (1967)

Martin Scorsese, The Departed, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2006

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 6, 2006.
• Running time: 151 minutes.
• Tagline: Cops or Criminals. When you’re facing a loaded gun what’s the difference?
• Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Thelma Schoonmaker won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Graham King won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.
• William Monahan won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.

• The Departed (2006)

Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder, Warner Bros., 1954

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 29, 1954.
• Running time: 105 minutes.
• Tagline: “…is that you, darling?”
• “The scissors don’t gleam. Scissors that don’t gleam are like asparagus without bearnaise sauce.” – Alfred Hitchcock.

• Dial M for Murder (1954)

Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, Paramount Pictures, 1968

Rating: 4.5/5 Buy

• Release date: December 21, 1968 (Italy).
• Running time: 165 minutes.
• Language: Italian, English.
• Tagline: There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her… and one to kill her.

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Andrew Grieve, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, ITV1, 2000

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: January 2, 2000 (season 7, episode 1).
• Running time: 100 minutes.

• Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2000)

Robert Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 15, 1967.
• Running time: 150 minutes.
• Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them! …Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
• John Poyner won the Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects.

• The Dirty Dozen (1967)

John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Warner Bros., 1948

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 6, 1948.
• Running time: 126 minutes.
• Tagline: They sold their souls for…
• Walter Huston won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
• John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Byron Haskin, The War of the Worlds, Paramount Pictures, 1953

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: August 26, 1953.
• Running time: 86 minutes.
• Tagline: The original invasion!
• Won an Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

• The War of the Worlds (1953)

Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, 20th Century Fox, 1974

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 15, 1974.
• Running time: 106 minutes.
• Tagline: The scariest comedy of all time!

• Young Frankenstein (1974)

Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1988

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 15, 1988.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Tagline: A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood.
• Kevin Kline won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

George Pal, The Time Machine, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: August 17, 1960.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: You Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future!
• Gene Warren and Tim Baar won the Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

• The Time Machine (1960)

Adrian Pennick, The Ascent of Money, Channel 4, 2008

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 2008.
• Running time: 6 x 50 minutes.
• Presented by Niall Ferguson. Based on his book of the same name.
• Episode list:
  1. Dreams of Avarice
  2. Human Bondage
  3. Blowing Bubbles
  4. Risky Business
  5. Safe As Houses
  6. Chimerica

• The Ascent of Money (2008)
• PBS: The Ascent of Money
• BBC: The Ascent of Money