The Band Wagon (1953)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Summary: Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the other...

Release Date: August 25, 1939

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Directors: Victor Fleming

, George Cukor

, Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: Noel Langley

, Florence Ryerson

, Edgar Allan Woolf

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, The Voyager Company, Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Cartoon Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,777,000

Domestic: $ 24,668,669

International: $ 969,000

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Summary: Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Release Date: March 02, 1984

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Rob Reiner

Writers: Christopher Guest

, Michael McKean

, Harry Shearer

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Spinal Tap Prod., Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: Embassy Pictures, The Voyager Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Rialto Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,736,202

Chinatown (1974)

Summary: A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Release Date: June 20, 1974

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Roman Polanski

Writers: Robert Towne

, Roman Polanski

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Penthouse Video, Long Road Productions

Distributor: CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 29,200,000

International: $ 26,502

Platoon (1986)

Summary: Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Release Date: February 06, 1987

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Oliver Stone

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hemdale, Cinema '84, Cinema 86

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Vestron Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Carolco Television, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,530,565

International: $ 15,067

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Summary: A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Release Date: November 01, 1967

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writers: Donn Pearce

, Frank Pierson

, Hal Dresner

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Jalem Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,200,000

Ride the High Country (1962)

Summary: An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

Release Date: May 09, 1962

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Writers: N.B. Stone Jr.

, Sam Peckinpah

, William Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 813,000

Swing Time (1936)

Summary: Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning th...

Release Date: October 12, 1936

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: George Stevens

Writers: Howard Lindsay

, Allan Scott

, Erwin Gelsey

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: C&C Television Corporation, RKO Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 886,000

The Right Stuff (1983)

Summary: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers pr...

Release Date: February 17, 1984

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Philip Kaufman

Writers: Philip Kaufman

, Tom Wolfe

Runtime: 3 h 13 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Ladd Company

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,192,102

International: $ 213

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Summary: As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Release Date: September 19, 1997

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Curtis Hanson

Writers: James Ellroy

, Brian Helgeland

, Curtis Hanson

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, The Wolper Organization, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS, VC4

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 64,616,940

International: $ 61,600,000

Bambi (1942)

Summary: The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

Release Date: August 21, 1942

Genres: Drama, Family, Animation

Directors: James Algar

, Samuel Armstrong

, David Hand

Writers: Felix Salten

, Perce Pearce

, Larry Morey

Runtime: 1 h 09 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Video, Disney Channel, Image Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ABC Family, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 102,247,150

International: $ 165,200,000

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Summary: A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

Release Date: June 09, 1939

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: John Ford

Writers: Lamar Trotti

, Rosemary Benét

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Cosmopolitan Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Summary: A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Release Date: August 24, 1930

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writers: Erich Maria Remarque

, Maxwell Anderson

, George Abbott

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Screen Gems, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Summary: Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

Release Date: December 14, 1977

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Steven Spielberg

, Hal Barwood

, Jerry Belson

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips Productions, EMI Films

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 135,189,114

International: $ 171,700,000

Raging Bull (1980)

Summary: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Release Date: December 19, 1980

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Jake LaMotta

, Joseph Carter

, Peter Savage

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, CBS, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Philips, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,383,987

International: $ 20,840

Ben-Hur (1959)

Summary: After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Release Date: November 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Lew Wallace

, Karl Tunberg

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 3 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, United Artists, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,432,704

International: $ 5,016

The Birds (1963)

Summary: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Release Date: March 29, 1963

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier

, Evan Hunter

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Distributor: Fathom Events, DiscoVision, MCA Videocassette, MCA Videodisc Inc., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Peacock, RCA (II), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000