The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Ford's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
1940sFord's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
1960sKubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.
2000sLessac's 2006 juvenile detention football drama. Dwayne Johnson as the coach.
1960sBuñuel's 1962 surrealist drama. The Catholic Church, capitalism, ritual.
2010sJames DeMonaco's 2013 home invasion thriller. The premise has acquired more cultural standing than the actual films have generated.
2000sRidley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
1990sTony Kaye's 1998 Edward Norton vehicle on neo-Nazi violence. The bathroom scene with Avery Brooks remains the most powerful in the film.
2010sUwe Boll's 2013 post-financial-crisis vigilante film. Dominic Purcell as a security guard ruined by Wall Street.
1990sDavid Fincher's 1999 anarchist satire. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter.
1930sHoward Hawks's 1932 pre-Code Chicago gangster classic. Paul Muni as the Capone-adjacent Tony Camonte.
1930sNine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.
2000sDreamWorks 2007 Jerry Seinfeld animated comedy. The meme afterlife has substantially exceeded the original commercial reception.
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