Inception (2010)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Summary: While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

Release Date: December 18, 2002

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Peter Jackson

Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien

, Fran Walsh

, Philippa Boyens

Runtime: 2 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: New Line Cinema, WingNut Films, The Saul Zaentz Company

Distributor: New Line Cinema, New Line Home Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Alliance Universal, MGM Worldwide Television, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Studio Distribution Services (SDS)

Countries: New Zealand, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Middle Earth

Movie budget: $ 94,000,000

Domestic: $ 345,518,923

International: $ 592,691,420

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Summary: As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.

Release Date: July 15, 2009

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Director: David Yates

Writers: Steve Kloves

, J.K. Rowling

Runtime: 2 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros., Heyday Films

Distributor: HBO Max, Peacock, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World

Movie budget: $ 250,000,000

Domestic: $ 302,334,374

International: $ 632,185,013

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Summary: A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Release Date: December 25, 2008

Genres: Drama, Romance

Directors: Danny Boyle

, Loveleen Tandan

Writers: Simon Beaufoy

, Vikas Swarup

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Celador Films, Film4, Pathé, Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Disney Media Distribution (DMD)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 141,319,928

International: $ 237,090,614

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Summary: Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

Release Date: December 25, 2002

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Jeff Nathanson

, Frank Abagnale Jr.

, Stan Redding

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Kemp Company, Splendid Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, Amblin Entertainment, Muse Entertainment Enterprises

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Paramount+

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 52,000,000

Domestic: $ 164,615,351

International: $ 187,498,961

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Summary: After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Release Date: January 04, 2002

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Ron Howard

Writers: Akiva Goldsman

, Sylvia Nasar

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Amazon Prime Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 58,000,000

Domestic: $ 170,742,341

International: $ 146,048,916

The Shining (1980)

Summary: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Release Date: June 13, 1980

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stephen King

, Stanley Kubrick

, Diane Johnson

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Warner Bros., Hawk Films, Hawk Films, Peregrine, Peregrine, Producers Circle

Distributor: Warner Bros., Home Box Office (HBO), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video, Fathom Events, HBO Max, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Studio Distribution Services (SDS)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Shining

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 45,634,352

International: $ 1,600,283

The Revenant (2015)

Summary: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Release Date: January 08, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Writers: Mark L. Smith

, Alejandro G. Iñárritu

, Michael Punke

Runtime: 2 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, RatPac Entertainment, Anonymous Content, M Productions, Appian Way, Alpha Pictures, CatchPlay, Taiwanese Revenant

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Netflix

Countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 135,000,000

Domestic: $ 183,637,894

International: $ 349,312,609

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Summary: When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

Release Date: September 02, 1992

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Roger Avary

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Live Entertainment, Dog Eat Dog Productions Inc.

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Fathom Events, HBO Max, Live Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 2,832,029

International: $ 81,615

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Summary: When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

Release Date: July 23, 2004

Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Paul Greengrass

Writers: Robert Ludlum

, Tony Gilroy

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Motion Picture THETA Produktionsgesellschaft, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Ludlum Entertainment, Hypnotic

Distributor: Universal Studios, Universal Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Germany, India, Russia

Language: English

Franchise: Bourne

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 176,241,941

International: $ 114,593,328

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Summary: A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Release Date: May 19, 2006

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Director: Ron Howard

Writers: Akiva Goldsman

, Dan Brown

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Skylark Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Alpha Video Distributors

Countries: United States, Malta, France, United Kingdom

Language: English

Franchise: Robert Langdon

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 217,536,138

International: $ 542,470,807

Armageddon (1998)

Summary: After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

Release Date: July 01, 1998

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Michael Bay

Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh

, J.J. Abrams

, Tony Gilroy

Runtime: 2 h 31 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Valhalla Motion Pictures, Digital Image Associates

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Starz, The Criterion Collection, Touchstone Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Walt Disney Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 201,578,182

International: $ 352,131,606

The Gentlemen (2019)

Summary: An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

Release Date: January 24, 2020

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Guy Ritchie

Writers: Guy Ritchie

, Ivan Atkinson

, Marn Davies

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: STX Films, Miramax, Toff Guy Films

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,471,795

International: $ 78,700,000

Free Guy (2021)

Summary: When Guy, a bank teller, learns that he is a non-player character in a bloodthirsty, open-world video game, he goes on to become the hero of the story and takes the responsibility of saving the world.

Release Date: August 13, 2021

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Shawn Levy

Writers: Matt Lieberman

, Zak Penn

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 20th Century Studios, Berlanti Productions, 21 Laps Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit

Distributor: Disney+, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 120,000,000

Domestic: $ 121,626,598

International: $ 209,900,000

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Summary: To everyone's surprise, including his own, Po, an overweight, clumsy panda, is chosen as protector of the Valley of Peace. His suitability will soon be tested as the valley's arch-enemy is on his way.

Release Date: June 06, 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation

Directors: Mark Osborne

, John Stevenson

Writers: Jonathan Aibel

, Glenn Berger

, Ethan Reiff

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG

Production: DreamWorks Animation, Dragon Warrior Media

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ABC Family, American Movie Classics (AMC), Cartoon Network, HBO Max, Nickelodeon Network, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Kung Fu Panda

Movie budget: $ 130,000,000

Domestic: $ 215,771,591

International: $ 416,320,241

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Summary: Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.

Release Date: August 28, 1998

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Guy Ritchie

Writer: Guy Ritchie

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Summit Entertainment, The Steve Tisch Company, SKA Films, HandMade Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: Gramercy Pictures (I), PolyGram Video, Tubi TV, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Pictures Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 960,000

Domestic: $ 3,753,929

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Summary: Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.

Release Date: May 18, 2018

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: David Leitch

Writers: Rhett Reese

, Paul Wernick

, Ryan Reynolds

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, Kinberg Genre, Maximum Effort, TSG Entertainment, BC Housing, Donners' Company

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Hotstar

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Franchise: X-Men

Movie budget: $ 110,000,000

Domestic: $ 324,591,735

International: $ 461,304,897

Production: Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Huayi Brothers Media, Taihe Film Investment Co. Ltd., Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Beijing Film Studio, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), The Fourth Production Company Film Group, Star Overseas, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Columbia Pictures

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Summary: In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Release Date: April 22, 2005

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Stephen Chow

Writers: Stephen Chow

, Kan-Cheung Tsang

, Xin Huo

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, China, United States

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,108,591

International: $ 87,773,854