Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice.

Set in a vast city in the distant future, Fritz Lang’s visually stunning science fiction landmark dramatizes the conflict between a wealthy elite and their downtrodden workers—and a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them all.

In the near future, an unseen alien force has taken possession of an area of Russian wilderness that authorities have dubbed The Zone. The only thing known for sure about the region is that few who enter it ever return.

In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.

Pitting the imagination of common man Sam Lowry against the oppressive storm troopers of the Ministry of Information, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil has come to be regarded as an anti-totalitarianism cautionary tale equal to the works of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.

Issac Davis (Woody Allen) is torn between two girlfriends: the very young and earnest Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), and indecisive pseudo-intellectual Mary Wilkie (Diane Keaton).

The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring. Winner of 11 Academy Awards.

Professional assassin Léon (Jean Reno) reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade.

Sergio Leone’s epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it.

A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father.

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike?

Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

A comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman, who fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to South America. But he discovers all too late a stowaway: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell.

A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one’s mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset.

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard).