Michael Mann, Heat, Warner Bros., 1995

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 15, 1995.
• Running time: 171 minutes.
• Tagline: A Los Angeles Crime Saga.

• Heat (1995)
• Heat poster

James Fargo, The Enforcer, Warner Bros., 1976

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 22, 1976.
• Running time: 96 minutes.
• Tagline: Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry.

• The Enforcer (1976)
• The Enforcer poster

Giuseppe Colizzi, Dio perdona… Io no!, Cronocinematografica PEFSA, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 31, 1967 (Italy).
• Running time: 109 minutes.
• Language: Italian (English title: God Forgives… I Don’t!).
• Tagline: They call him PRETTY FACE! …and his credo is simple and short and sweet!

• God Forgives… I Don’t! (1967)
• God Forgives… I Don’t! poster

Terence Young, Thunderball, United Artists, 1965

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 9, 1965.
• Running time: 130 minutes.
• Tagline: Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!
• John Stears won the 1966 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

• Thunderball (1965)
• Thunderball poster

Michael Curtiz & William Keighley, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Warner Bros., 1938

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 14, 1938.
• Running time: 102 minutes.
• Tagline: The Best Loved Bandit Of All Time!
• Carl Jules Weyl won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Art Direction (color).
• Ralph Dawson won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Original Score.

• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood poster

Jon Favreau, Iron Man, Paramount Pictures, 2008

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 2, 2008.
• Running time: 126 minutes.
• Tagline: Heroes aren’t born. They’re built.

• Iron Man (2008)
• Iron Man poster

Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland, Columbia Pictures, 2009

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 2, 2009.
• Running time: 88 minutes.
• Tagline: Nut up or shut up.

• Zombieland (2009)
• Zombieland poster

Clint Eastwood, The Eiger Sanction, Universal Pictures, 1975

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 16, 1975.
• Running time: 123 minutes.
• Tagline: HIS LIFELINE – held by the assassin he hunted.

• The Eiger Sanction (1975)
• The Eiger Sanction poster

Quentin Tarantino, Death Proof, Dimension Films, 2007

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 6, 2007 (released as part of double-feature titled Grindhouse).
• Running time: 90 minutes.
• Tagline: These 8 Women Are About To Meet 1 Diabolical Man!

• Death Proof (2007)
• Death Proof poster

Ted Post, Magnum Force, Warner Bros., 1973

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 25, 1973.
• Running time: 124 minutes.
• Tagline: Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry in Magnum Force.

• Magnum Force (1973)
• Magnum Force poster

Roger Donaldson, The Recruit, Touchstone Pictures & Spyglass Entertainment, 2003

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 31, 2003.
• Running time: 115 minutes.
• Tagline: Trust. Betrayal. Deception. In the C.I.A. nothing is what it seems.

• The Recruit (2003)
• The Recruit poster

John McTiernan, The Hunt for Red October, Paramount Pictures, 1990

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 2, 1990.
• Running time: 134 minutes.
• Tagline: The hunt is on.
• Cecelia Hall and George Watters II won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

• The Hunt for Red October (1990)
• The Hunt for Red October poster

Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, Warner Bros., 2008

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 14, 2008.
• Running time: 152 minutes.
• Tagline: Welcome to a World Without Rules.
• Richard King won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
• Heath Ledger won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Dark Knight poster

Guy Hamilton, Goldfinger, United Artists, 1964

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 17, 1964.
• Running time: 110 minutes.
• Tagline: James Bond is back in action! Everything he touches turns to excitement!
• Norman Wanstall won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Sound Effects.

• Goldfinger (1964)
• Goldfinger poster

Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton, King Solomon’s Mines, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 24, 1950.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: MGM’s MIGHTY ROMANTIC ADVENTURE! Lovers Trapped in Animal Stampede!
• Robert Surtees won the 1951 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
• Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig won the 1951 Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

• King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
• King Solomon’s Mines poster

James Cameron, Aliens, 20th Century Fox, 1986

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 18, 1986.
• Running time: 137 minutes.
• Tagline: This time it’s war.
• Don Sharpe won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing.
• Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

• Aliens (1986)
• Aliens poster

Michael Winner, Death Wish, Paramount Pictures, 1974

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 24, 1974.
• Running time: 93 minutes.
• Tagline: Vigilante, city style – judge, jury, and executioner.

• Death Wish (1974)
• Death Wish poster

Terence Young, From Russia With Love, EON Productions, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 10, 1963.
• Running time: 111 minutes.
• Tagline: Meet James Bond, secret agent 007. His new incredible women… His new incredible enemies… His new incredible adventures…

• From Russia with Love (1963)
• From Russia with Love poster

Ted Post, Magnum Force, Warner Bros., 1973

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 25, 1973.
• Running time: 124 minutes.
• Tagline: Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry in Magnum Force.

• Magnum Force (1973)
• Magnum Force poster

Terence Young, Dr. No, United Artists, 1962

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 5, 1962 (UK).
• Running time: 110 minutes.
• Tagline: The First James Bond Film!

• Dr. No (1962)
• Dr. No poster

Don Siegel, Dirty Harry, Warner Bros., 1971

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 22, 1971.
• Running time: 102 minutes.
• Tagline: Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn’t break murder cases. He smashes them.

• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Dirty Harry poster

Oliver Stone, Platoon, Orion Pictures, 1986

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 19, 1986.
• Running time: 120 minutes.
• Tagline: The first casualty of war is innocence.
• Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Claire Simpson won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Arnold Kopelson won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• John Wilkinson, Richard D. Rogers, Charles Grenzbach  and Simon Kaye won the Academy Award for Best Sound.

• Platoon (1986)

Antony Hoffman, Red Planet, Warner Bros., 2000

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 6, 2000.
• Running time: 106 minutes.
• Tagline: Not A Sound. Not A Warning. Not A Chance. Not Alone.

• Red Planet (2000)

F. Gary Gray, The Italian Job, Paramount Pictures, 2003

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 30, 2003.
• Running time: 110 minutes.
• Tagline: Get in. Get out. Get even.

• The Italian Job (2003)

John Milius, Conan the Barbarian, Universal Pictures, 1982

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 14, 1982.
• Running time: 131 minutes.
• Tagline: Thief Warrior Gladiator King.

• Conan the Barbarian (1982)

William Friedkin, The French Connection, 20th Century Fox, 1971

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 9, 1971.
• Running time: 104 minutes.
• Tagline: The time is just right for an out and out thriller like this.
• Gene Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• William Friedkin won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Phillip D’Antoni won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• Ernest Tidyman won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
• Gerald B. Greenberg won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

• The French Connection (1971)

Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery, United Artists, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: February 2, 1979.
• Running time: 110 minutes.
• Tagline: Never have so few taken so much from so many.

• The Great Train Robbery (1979)

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)

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)

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)

Fred Zinnemann, High Noon, United Artists, 1952

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 24, 1952.
• Running time: 85 minutes.
• Tagline: Simple. Powerful. Unforgettable.
• Gary Cooper won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad won Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics)  won Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin)”.
• Dimitri Tiomkin won Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

• High Noon (1952)

Lo Wei, Fist of Fury, Golden Harvest, 1972

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 22, 1972.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Country: Hong Kong.
• Language: Cantonese.
• Tagline: Bruce Lee claims his revenge through death and beyond.
• AKA The Chinese Connection in the U.S.
• Jackie Chan was a stuntman.

• Fist of Fury (1972)

Bruce Lee, Way of the Dragon, Golden Harvest, 1972

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 30, 1972.
• Running time: 88 minutes.
• Country: Hong Kong.
• Language: Cantonese.
• Tagline: The Colosseum… the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.
• AKA Return of the Dragon in the U.S.

• Way of the Dragon (1972)

Delmer Daves, 3:10 to Yuma, Columbia Pictures, 1957

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 7, 1957.
• Running time: 92 minutes.
• Tagline: The Lonesome Whistle of a Train… bringing the gallows closer to a desperado–the showdown nearer to his captor!

• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Robert Rodriguez, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dimension Films, 1996

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 19, 1996.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Tagline: A terrifying evil has been unleashed. And five strangers are our only hope to stop it.

• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Robert Clouse, Enter the Dragon, Warner Brothers, 1973

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 26, 1973.
• Running time: 98 minutes.
• Tagline: The first American produced martial arts spectacular!
• The last Bruce Lee film (completed). Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973.

• Enter the Dragon (1973)

John Sturges, The Great Escape, United Artists, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 4, 1963.
• Running time: 172 minutes.
• Tagline: put a fence in front of these men… and they’ll climb it…

• The Great Escape (1963)

Don Siegel, Coogan’s Bluff, Universal Pictures, 1968

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: October 2, 1968.
• Running time: 93 minutes.
• Before “Dirty Harry”… there was Coogan.

• Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

Chandra Barot, Don, Nariman Films, 1978

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 20, 1978.
• Running time: 175 minutes.
• Language: Hindi.

• Don (1978)