A bus that explodes under 50 mph; Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock through Los Angeles.
Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow turns a theme-park ride into a franchise.
Greengrass takes over with shaky cam and a Moscow car chase.
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.
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.
Buster Keaton chases a stolen locomotive through the Civil War, doing every stunt himself.
The march on the Capitol, and the ending the books did not soften.
An 80-year-old Harrison Ford, a Nazi rocket scientist and the Antikythera mechanism.
Indy in 1957, with Soviets, a nuked fridge and Marion back.
The dark prequel: Shanghai, a mine-cart chase and a heart pulled from a chest.
Katniss volunteers for her sister and enters the arena.
Cameron turns Scott's horror into a war film: Ripley, the marines and the queen.
The victors are sent back in, and the arena is a clock.
The perfect adventure film, boulder and all.
A scavenger, a defecting stormtrooper and the Falcon back in the air.
Fathers, sons and the Holy Grail, with Sean Connery stealing every scene.
The origin film that made the caped crusader plausible again.
A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.
Spielberg brings the dinosaurs roaring to life (1993).
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