A man raised in a village discovers he is the heir of a kingdom; Indian cinema at its most enormous.
Bruce Lee at a martial-arts tournament on an island fortress; the mirror room.
Two revolutionaries in 1920s India, a tiger, a motorbike and "Naatu Naatu"; Tollywood at full scale.
Tom Cruise back in the cockpit thirty-six years later, with real jets; the film that reopened cinemas.
Jeremy Renner as another programme agent while Bourne is elsewhere; Manila motorbike chase.
Damon and Greengrass return; Athens riots and a Las Vegas car chase.
Thanos collects the stones and snaps; half the audience gone.
The time heist and the portals; the highest-grossing film for a while.
Wakanda, Killmonger and the first superhero film nominated for Best Picture.
Brad Pitt as a veteran driver back in Formula One, shot at real Grands Prix.
Tom Cruise's HALO jump, a helicopter chase in Kashmir and a broken ankle on camera.
James Gunn reboots Superman with Krypto the dog; the start of the new DC.
Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
A South London gang fights aliens on Bonfire Night; John Boyega's debut.
Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk together for the first time; the Battle of New York.
Tom Cruise dies and repeats a D-Day against aliens; Groundhog Day as a war film.
Ryan Reynolds' foul-mouthed mercenary breaks the fourth wall; the R-rated superhero hit.
Gordon-Levitt hunts his older self, Bruce Willis; Rian Johnson's time-travel noir.
Taika Waititi turns Thor into a comedy with a gladiator Hulk and Led Zeppelin.
Aliens in a Johannesburg township; Blomkamp's apartheid allegory as documentary sci-fi.
A getaway driver who times every chase to his playlist; Edgar Wright's musical heist.
Robert Downey Jr. builds a suit in a cave and the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins.
Gosling's stunt driver in a scorpion jacket, synth-pop and a lift; Refn's neon LA.
A 1970s paranoid thriller inside a superhero film; the elevator fight.
A London supercop in a Gloucestershire village where accidents happen; Wright's action parody.
Gal Gadot crosses No Man's Land in 1918; the first superhero blockbuster directed by a woman.
An amnesiac assassin pulled from the sea; the spy film that made Bond change.
A dead Detroit cop rebuilt as a machine; Verhoeven's satire wrapped in an action film.
Greengrass takes over with shaky cam and a Moscow car chase.
Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow turns a theme-park ride into a franchise.
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