The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Huston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
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AdventureDune (1984)
Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
AdventureStar Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the Star Trek film that exists primarily to undo the consequences of the previous Star Trek film. Christopher Lloyd plays the Klingon commander Kruge.
AdventureThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Buckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. Peter Weller plays Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, and…
AdventureBarbarella (1968)
Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…
AdventureFantastic Voyage (1966)
Fantastic Voyage is the mid-1960s science fiction film about a submarine and crew miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist. The film made approximately twelve million dollars on a six and a half million…
ActionTron (1982)
Tron is the foundational computer graphics film and one of the earliest mainstream features to use computer-generated imagery as a significant production. Bonnie MacBird co-wrote with Lisberger.
AdventureThe Martian (2015)
The Martian is the rare mainstream science fiction film that treats its science as the point instead of as decoration. Drew Goddard adapted Andy Weir's 2011 novel.
ActionLara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Patrick Massett and John Zinman wrote. The film made approximately two hundred and seventy-five million dollars worldwide on a one hundred and fifteen million dollar budget.
AdventureStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Sowards wrote the original screenplay, with substantial uncredited revisions by Meyer. The film made approximately ninety-seven million dollars worldwide on an eleven million dollar budget.
AdventureJurassic Park (1993)
David Koepp and Michael Crichton adapted Crichton's 1990 novel. The film made approximately one billion dollars worldwide on a sixty-three million dollar budget.
AdventureThe Land Before Time (1988)
The Land Before Time is the children's film about dinosaur grief that traumatized an entire generation. Steven Spielberg and George.