Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.
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1960sCool Hand Luke (1967)
Rosenberg's 1967 prison drama. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
1980sBrubaker (1980)
Rosenberg's 1980 prison-reform drama. Robert Redford as the warden who arrives undercover as an inmate.
2000sGridiron Gang (2006)
Lessac's 2006 juvenile detention football drama. Dwayne Johnson as the coach.
1930sStagecoach (1939)
Nine 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.
2000sFlatland: The Movie (2007)
Johnson and Travis's 2007 animated adaptation of Edwin Abbott's 1884 novella. Source long thought unfilmable.
1990sOffice Space (1999)
Mike Judge's 1999 cubicle satire. Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root as Milton.
1990sFight Club (1999)
David Fincher's 1999 anarchist satire. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter.
2010s
1990sAmerican History X (1998)
Tony Kaye's 1998 Edward Norton vehicle on neo-Nazi violence. The bathroom scene with Avery Brooks remains the most powerful in the film.
2010sThe Purge (2013)
James DeMonaco's 2013 home invasion thriller. The premise has acquired more cultural standing than the actual films have generated.
2010sAssault on Wall Street (2013)
Uwe Boll's 2013 post-financial-crisis vigilante film. Dominic Purcell as a security guard ruined by Wall Street.