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Comedy & Buddy || Action, War, & Westerns || Rebels, Cops, & Criminals
Horror, Sci-Fi, Art House, & Mindbenders || Classics, Nudity, & Train Wrecks
WHICH MOVIES IS THE MOST SEEN? FIND OUT HERE!
ACTION
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More Must-See Action Movies |
Batman 1989
Batman Begins 2005
Battle Royale 2000
Bourne trilogy 2002, ’04, ’07
Braveheart 1995
Clash of the Titans 1981
Die Hard 1988
Enter the Dragon 1973
Face/Off 1997
First Blood 1982
48 Hrs. 1982
Gladiator 2000
The Incredibles 2004
Kill Bill: Vol.1 & 2 2003, ’04
The Lord of the Rings trilogy 2001, ’02, ’03
Predator 1987
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Speed 1994
Spider-Man 2002 |
Rocky I–IV
1976–85
Yo, Rocky won a Best Picture Oscar. But we also treasure the series for its jogs on the beach with Apollo, Mr. T’s Mohawk, and for ultimate Cold War propaganda Rocky IV.
Line, please: “No, I don’t hate Balboa. I pity the fool.”
 The Matrix
1999
Keanu Reeves’ movies about machine-manipulated reality aren’t supposed to be this good, but the groundbreaking FX (see: “bullet time”) were a revelation. Those sequels? Never happened.
Rewind: The lobby shootout is possibly the three most action-packed minutes in film history.
The Road Warrior
1981
The action-overdrive sequel to cult hit Mad Max launched Mel Gibson’s career, made assless chaps a fashion must for postapocalyptic barbarians, and coined the phrase “the Ayatollah of Rock’n’Rollah.” Now that’s a movie, dammit!
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Three Must-See Action Clips |
WAR The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Watch POW Alec Guinness, forced to build a bridge, descend from stoic to obsessed and you’ll never look at Obi-Wan the same way again.
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More Must-See War Movies |
Apocalypse Now 1979
Black Hawk Down 2001
The Dirty Dozen 1967
Gallipoli 1981
The Great Escape 1963
*M*A*S*H 1970
Platoon 1986
Saving Private Ryan 1998 | Dr. Strangelove
1964
The funniest movie ever about global thermonuclear war. Stanley Kubrick’s coal-black comedy featured Peter Sellers at his best, playing a nebbishy British functionary, the narrow-minded U.S. president, and a twisted genius ex-Nazi.
 The Deer Hunter
1978
We weren’t even in Nam, and we still have recurring night sweats about the POW Russian roulette scene—images so harrowing they almost overshadow the equally riveting rest of Michael Cimino’s examination of war’s impact on a group of steel-town buddies. The Godfather of Vietnam films. Rewind: Robert De Niro didn’t know that Christopher Walken was going to spit in his face. Hence his look of barely contained fury.
WESTERNS  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
In the third (and best) volume of Sergio Leone’s majestic, witty, genre-flouting spaghetti Western trilogy, Clint Eastwood’s cheroot-puffing Man With No Name elbowed aside all-American John Wayne as our classic Western archetype: wary, more than slightly cruel, and the last man you’d want to meet in gunfight.
Extra: Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack spent a full year on the Billboard charts.
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More Must-See Westerns |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
High Noon 1952
High Plains Drifter 1973
Tombstone 1993
True Grit 1969
Unforgiven 1992
The Wild Bunch 1969 |
The Searchers
1956
Director John Ford’s Monument Valley scenery would make any young man go West, though we’re not sure we’d ride along with John Wayne’s “hero,” a leather-tough cowboy who can’t decide whether to rescue his kidnapped niece from the Comanches—or kill her.
Rewind: The final view of Wayne framed by a doorway against the open desert is one of filmdom’s most iconic shots.
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
Watch for the breathtaking Utah wilderness. Watch for the arc of a mountain man finding companionship through his quest for isolation. Or watch for the shock of über-liberal Robert Redford butchering half the Crow tribe in revenge. Actually, watch for all the above.
Extra: When the historical trapper on whom Johnson is based was reburied in Wyoming, Redford attended the funeral.
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Three Must-See Western Clips |
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