A hitman and a 12-year-old Natalie Portman in New York; Gary Oldman's "EVERYONE".
Keanu Reeves undercover with surfing bank robbers in president masks; Bigelow's action classic.
Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.
Schwarzenegger's commandos hunted by an invisible alien in the jungle; "get to the chopper".
Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable machine from 2029; "I'll be back".
Burton's Gotham, Nicholson's Joker and the film that made superheroes dark.
A bus that explodes under 50 mph; Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock through Los Angeles.
Liquid metal, a good Terminator and the biggest budget yet spent; the sequel that beat the original.
Schwarzenegger on Mars, a three-breasted woman and an eyeball-popping ending; Verhoeven and Philip K. Dick.
John McClane barefoot in Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve; the template for every action film after.
Kurt Russell as a trucker in a Chinatown sorcery war; Carpenter's cult comedy.
Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum and 'do you feel lucky' in San Francisco.
A ronin asks to commit seppuku in a lord's courtyard and tells a story first; Kobayashi's samurai masterpiece.
Manhattan as a prison and Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken; Carpenter's dystopia of 1997.
Peckinpah's ageing outlaws in 1913 Mexico and a shootout cut like a ballet.
Buster Keaton chases a stolen locomotive through the Civil War, doing every stunt himself.
An 80-year-old Harrison Ford, a Nazi rocket scientist and the Antikythera mechanism.
Katniss volunteers for her sister and enters the arena.
Indy in 1957, with Soviets, a nuked fridge and Marion back.
The march on the Capitol, and the ending the books did not soften.
The dark prequel: Shanghai, a mine-cart chase and a heart pulled from a chest.
The victors are sent back in, and the arena is a clock.
Cameron turns Scott's horror into a war film: Ripley, the marines and the queen.
A scavenger, a defecting stormtrooper and the Falcon back in the air.
The perfect adventure film, boulder and all.
A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.
Fathers, sons and the Holy Grail, with Sean Connery stealing every scene.
The origin film that made the caped crusader plausible again.
Goku from a boy with a tail to the Saiyan wars; the manga every shonen descends from.
Humanity behind walls against titans; Isayama's manga ended in 2021 and the ending is still argued.
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