Director: Francis Lawrence

Main Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, and Willow Shields

Release Date: November 21, 2014 

Main Plot: In this follow-up to The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen must make a choice that could determine a whole country’s future. The Hunger Games have been altered permanently due to the Quarter Quell, and Katniss ends up in District 13. The courageous young heroine, whose bravery inspired a country, follows the advice of her companions and sets out to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). In the meantime, Katniss’ flimsy partnership with President Coin might end badly. When Katniss arrives in District 12 by plane, she is horrified to see that few buildings are still standing and that many dead bodies are still lying on the rubble. She discovers her sister’s cat and some personal items at her former home in Victor’s Village, which she takes with her. Like the one President Snow gave her the year before, a fresh white rose is suddenly found among withering flowers. She promptly turns around and flees after recalling his threat to harm her loved ones.

Director: Michael Bay

Main Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor, Anthony Anderson, and Jon Voight

Release Date: July 3, 2007

Main Plot:  Sam Witwicky obtains his first automobile after convincing his teacher to give him a good grade. Sam’s car decides to drive itself to a deserted junkyard, where it transforms into the Autobot Bumblebee, intending to defend Sam. In the interim, a Decepticon destroys a US military base in Qatar. In response to the attempt to steal certain data, the staff sergeant cuts all computer hardlines. Only a small number of soldiers who survive are taken for a debriefing. Sam learns about the Allspark from the Autobots when they land on Earth and show off their capacity to create and give life to new worlds. Sam finds the glasses his great-great-grandfather wore with the cube’s location written on them. Who will unleash the Allspark’s limitless power as the Autobots and Decepticons fight for it?

Director: Francis Lawrence

Main Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, and Julianne Moore

Release Date: November 20, 2015 

Main Plot: Being the Mockingjay, the physical embodiment of the rebellion now led by Alma Coin has its disadvantages. Katniss decides to go it alone to overthrow President Snow, one and only in retaliation for all previous deaths manufactured for entertainment and for the pernicious mutation of Peeta. She is tasked with infiltrating the Capitol, which has entrenched itself behind death traps with a band of skilled soldiers, including the surprisingly ill Peeta. As she approaches imposing her own agenda through significantly more corpses and damage. President Snow warns her of another threat to Panem’s peace that is equal to himself, compelling her to consider how to stop the carnage.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Main Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, and Jeffrey Kramer

Release Date:  June 20, 1975 

Main Plot: It is a hot summer on Amity Island, a small town where the beaches are the main draw. After discovering the remains of a shark attack victim, the new sheriff Martin Brody wants to ban swimming on the beaches as his first action. Mayor Larry Vaughn and a few other local businessmen are not pleased with this. As a young boy is killed by a predator that weekend, Brody recants out of regret. Amity is quickly overrun by amateur hunters and fishermen hoping to cash in on the bounty the dead boy’s mother placed on the shark. Quint, a local fisherman with extensive shark hunting experience, offers to take down the animal for a sizable fee. The Oceanographic Institute’s Quint, Brody, and Matt Hooper will soon be searching for the Great White shark at sea. They’ll need a bigger boat, as Brody sums it up nicely after their initial encounter with the creature.

Director: Seth MacFarlane

Main Cast:  Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Patrick Warburton, and Matt Walsh

Release Date: June 29, 2012

Main Plot: John Bennett, an eight-year-old lonely child, has no friends in Boston. He wishes for his Ted bear on Christmas day, hoping a miracle will occur and turn Ted into his one and only friend. Twenty-seven years later, pothead John Bennett still works at a vehicle rental company and spends his free time with Ted watching movies and using marijuana. Additionally, he has been dating Lori Collins for four years. A strange Donny who worships Ted approaches John one day and offers to buy them for his son Robert, but John declines the deal. John is forced to make a difficult choice as Lori forces him to stay with her.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Main Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes, and Allen Payne

Release Date: June 30, 2000 

Main Plot: Billy Tyne, a captain of a swordfishing boat out of Gloucester, is fiercely competitive and hurt by a run of unfavorable outings. Even though it’s October and the weather can change, his crew barely returns to port when he informs them that he will be leaving again. The young Bobby has just fallen in love. Murph is a devoted father who recently got divorced. Sully, a man Murph despises. Bugsy, who has finally found a woman he likes, and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican, is the other five who join him. Tyne ignores storm warnings behind him as they sail east because they have little success fishing. The fish finally bite, but the ice machine malfunctions. Should they wait it out and risk losing their catch, or should they return home through the storm of the century? The women wait in fear.

Director: Rian Johnson

Main Cast: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, and Toni Collette

Release Date: November 27, 2019 

Main Plot: Successful author and publisher Harlan Thrombey, who was self-made in his wealth, is found dead in his upper-floor study by Fran. One of the housemaids, holding a knife in his hand the morning after his 85th birthday party, was held at his Norfolk County townhouse with the broken home of his mother. His remaining survivor’s children, their spouses, and their children were in attendance. His Brazilian nurse Marta Cabrera, also the daughter of an illegal immigrant, maybe the last to see him breathing. She has revealed this to very few people in this community. He and she played a game of Go as part of her evening ritual, and she gave him his prescription at that time. A week after the funeral, the neighborhood police investigate the estate’s close relatives to discover what might have transpired that night that would have contributed to his death. Since they believe Harlan committed suicide, they are acting in this manner.

Director: Ridley Scott

Main Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, and Francesca Neri

Release Date: February 9, 2001  

Main Plot: The fourth and final book in the quadrilogy is about Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the murderous cannibal. At the moment, he works in Italy as a museum curator. The F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore), who helped him catch a serial killer, was given charge of a mission. However, the Bureau summons her to the stand when one of her men fails. She is the target of a senior official named Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta). However, she is given a break because Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) is one of Hannibal Lecter’s victims. Who wants revenge for what Lecter did to him and plans to use Starling to entice him out of the house. However, a dishonest police officer who wants the reward Verger put on him tells Verger where he is, but they cannot apprehend him. Later, Verger decides to frame Starling, forcing Lecter to return to the United States and start the pursuit of Lecter.

Director: Anne Fletcher

Main Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O’Hare, and Malin Akerman

Release Date: June 19, 2009 

Main Plot: The managing editor of Ruick and Hunt Publishing in New York, Margaret Tate, is a successful self-made woman who is despised by her subordinates. Margaret lost both parents when she was 16 years old. Her executive assistant and aspiring editor, Andrew Paxton, has worked with her for three years and has yet to get any recognition. When Margaret faces deportation owing to immigration issues stemming from an expired visa, she blackmails Andrew into getting hitched in exchange for a promotion to the editor and the publication of his book. Mr. Gilbertson, the immigration department’s doubtful clerk, schedules an appointment with Margaret and Andrew for the following week. Throughout the weekend, she learns more about Andrew’s family. Additionally, the tense situation worsens when Mr. Gilbertson abruptly shows up in Sitka and threatens to accuse Andrew of fraud.

Director:  Dennis Dugan

Main Cast: Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, and Maria Bello

Release Date: June 25, 2010 

Main Plot: In 1978, five 12-year-old basketball players won the CYO championship. They reunite with their parents for their coach’s burial and a weekend at the lakefront home where they used to party thirty years later. Each person is now an adult with issues and difficulties: Marcus is by himself and drinks excessively. Rob, who has three daughters whom he doesn’t often see, is constantly madly in love—until he turns on his subsequent ex-wife. Eric is unemployed and overweight. Since he stays at home, Kurt’s wife and mother-in-law tease him. Lenny’s sons, who have 3 children and a well-known Hollywood manager for a wife, take advantage of their position. Are these adults’ relationships in trouble, or can the outdoors help them mend them?

Director: Paul Feig

Main Cast: Sandra Bullock, Michael McDonald, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir, Marlon Wayans, Michael Rapaport, and Jane Curtin

Release Date:  June 28, 2013 

Main Plot: Although FBI agent Sarah Ashburn is competitive and wants to advance, she does not interact well with her coworkers. She is tasked with finding an elusive drug kingpin named Mr. Larkin by finding his stooge, Rojas, in Boston. If she is successful, she will stand a strong chance of getting promoted. When she gets to Boston, she discovers that Larkin has been destroying his rivals and seizing their businesses. When she discovers that the Boston Police Department is holding Rojas, she sees him find out what he knows about Larkin. However, she is forewarned that the officer who caught Rojas, Shannon Mullins, is quite possessive and unpleasant. Whenever they initially meet, you need to get along better. Mullins resolves to track down Larkin herself after learning Ashburn’s motivation for being in Boston. Ashburn’s supervisor orders her to collaborate with Mullins. Still, it will be complicated because Ashburn follows the rules, and Mullins operates on her own terms.

Director: Sydney Pollack

Main Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris, and Holly Hunter

Release Date: June 30, 1993  

Main Plot: Mitch McDeere, a young and promising Harvard law graduate, is being pursued by prestigious law firms in cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Mitch and his wife Abigail are happy when he decides on a modest but successful company in Memphis, Tennessee. The company is run by Oliver Lambert and Avery Tolar. But shortly after joining the firm, two lawyers are brutally killed when their boat explodes in questionable circumstances. Soon, representatives from the FBI and the US approach Mitch. Department of Justice, who notifies him that his employer is deeply linked to a Chicago mob family’s illicit activities. Additionally, he is informed that other young attorneys who worked for the firm were assassinated. Mitch quickly learns that the company has been implicated in homicide, theft by deception, extortion, bribery, and massive client billing practices.

Director: David O. Russell

Main Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K., and Jack Huston

Release Date: December 20, 2013

Main Plot: American Hustle is a fictional movie about a brilliant con man named Irving Rosenfeld. Who, along with his equally crafty and alluring British partner Sydney Prosser, was made to work for a crazy FBI agent named Richie DiMaso. The story is set in the seductive world of one of the most stunning scandals ever to rock our country. DiMaso forces them into a mafia and powerbrokers world in New Jersey that is both perilous and alluring. Carmine Polito, played by Jeremy Renner, a passionate and erratic political figure from New Jersey who is stuck between the Feds and scam artists. Rosalyn, Irving’s unpredictable wife, might be the one to snap the chain that topples everything.

Director: Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan

Main Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor, Raj Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar, and Irrfan Khan

Release Date: December 25, 2008 

Main Plot: This story is about Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan from the Mumbai slums, and the life-altering experience he will have. He is one question away from taking home a mind-blowing 20 million rupees on India’s Kaun Banega Crorepati while the entire country is watching. However, as the show ends for the evening in 2000, police detain him on accusations of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Jamal tells the story of growing up in the ghetto with his sibling. Their travels together, their violent run-ins with neighborhood gangs, and Latika, the girl he liked and lost to establish his innocence. His story is divided into chapters containing the solution to a puzzle from the game show. Each section of Jamal’s increasingly complex narrative reveals the keys to the show’s seemingly insurmountable tests.

Director: Gus Van Sant

Main Cast: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, John Mighton, Rachel Majorowski, and Colleen McCauley

Release Date: January 9, 1998 

Main Plot: Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a talent for math and science that can propel him far beyond his working-class background. Still, he is unaware of this and cannot even consider abandoning his closest friend, his construction job, or his boyhood neighborhood in Boston’s South End. To further complicate matters, several strangers are introduced: a brilliant math professor who learns about and even envies Will’s talents; a sympathetic therapist who understands his blue-collar upbringing; and a stunning, talented pre-med student who, for the first time in his life, demonstrates the possibility of love. Professor Gerald Lambeau, a Fields Medalist and expert in combinatorics, assigned his students a difficult graduate-level math problem to solve during the first week of class. Assuming that by the end of the semester, someone would do that. This will resolve the problem. As everyone looks to see who solved it, Lambeau presents a new issue that required him and his coworkers two years to establish.