Director: Michael Bay

Main Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and Rachael Taylor

Release Date: 12 June 2007

Main Plot: After convincing his teacher to give him an A, Sam Witwicky gets his first car, an old Camaro. Sam’s car one day drives itself to an old junkyard, where it transforms into an Autobot Bumblebee intending to protect Sam. Meanwhile, a Decepticon launches an attack on a US military base in Qatar. It attempts to steal data but is stopped by the base commander, who disconnects all server hardlines. Only a few soldiers survive and are taken to be debriefed. The Autobots arrive on Earth and tell Sam about the Allspark, an object that can create worlds and fill them with life. Sam discovers his great-grandfather’s glasses, on which the cube’s location is imprinted.

Director: Jon Favreau

Main Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, and Leslie Bibb

Release Date: 14 April 2008

Main Plot: Tony Stark, a Genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. Howard Stark’s son. Tony Stark is given a ride behind enemy lines when he is assigned to give a weapons presentation to an Iraqi unit led by Lt. Col. James Rhodes. That ride ends in disaster when enemy combatants attack Stark’s Humvee. He makes it – just – with a shrapnel-filled chest and a car battery attached to his heart. To survive, he devises a method to miniaturize the battery and discovers that the battery can power something else. Iron Man is thus born. He escapes from the cave in Iraq using a primitive device. When he returns home, he works on perfecting the Iron Man suit. But the man in charge of Stark Industries plans to use Tony’s technology for other purposes.

Director: Todd Phillips

Main Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms, and Heather Graham

Release Date: 30 May 2009

Main Plot: Doug Billings, Stu Price, and Phil Wenneck, three friends, travel to Las Vegas for what promises to be an epic bachelor party. They bring along Alan Garner, Doug’s fiancée’s insane brother, for the ride. What happens in the next 24 hours will never be forgotten – or remembered. Alan, Stu, and Phil all awaken in a luxury villa at Caesar’s Palace to find Doug, the honored guest, gone. A chicken, a tiger, a random baby, a missing tooth, and a parking stub are also discovered. As they piece together the previous night’s events, they realize there is more to this story than they previously thought. Also, did Stu marry a stripper? And where has Doug gone?

Director: Brett Ratner

Main Cast: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Ziyi Zhang, Roselyn Sanchez

Release Date: 26 July 2001

Main Plot: Det. James Carter is on leave in Hong Kong, but Inspector Lee is too preoccupied with police work. Lee attempts to track down Ricky Tan, a Triad gang leader and former partner of Lee’s father. The latter was also a cop after an explosion at the American Embassy. Carter obviously doesn’t like being dragged along like this, but what choice does he have? Lee discovers a power struggle between Tan and Hu Li among the Triads. They later find it has something to do with Lee’s father’s death and a counterfeiting scheme. Lee and Carter return to California and later to Las Vegas, where they discover what has occurred goes far beyond an explosion at the Embassy.

Director: Gareth Edwards

Main Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, and CJ Adams

Release Date: 8 May 2014

Main Plot: The Janjira nuclear power plant was mysteriously destroyed in 1999, killing most workers, including supervisor Joe Brody’s colleague and wife, Sandra. Years later, Joe’s son, Ford, a US Navy ordnance disposal officer, must travel to Japan to assist his estranged father. The latter is obsessed with discovering the truth about the incident. In doing so, father and son learn the disaster’s secret cause on the wreck’s grounds. This allows them to witness the reawakening of a terrible threat to humanity, exacerbated by a second private revival elsewhere. The only hope for the world against this cataclysm may be Godzilla. Still, the problem for the King of the Monsters will be great even as humanity struggles to comprehend the deleterious ally they have.

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Main Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, and Cecelia Ann Birt

Release Date: 5 December 2001

Main Plot: The story is about Daniel Ocean, a convicted thief, is being questioned by a parole board about his impending release and his likelihood of breaking the law again. The board implies that they know Danny has been involved in several other robbery and fraud cases. Even though he was never officially accused or charged, which Danny confirms. They question him why Daniel committed this particular crime or was apprehended at this time. He claims that his ex-wife, Tess, left him, causing him to spiral out of control. When asked what he would do if released, he smiles and does not respond.

Director: Barry Levinson

Main Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock, and Michael D. Roberts

Release Date: 12 December 1988

Main Plot: Charlie is a swindler. He’s been on his own long enough to understand how to manipulate people and situations. He discovers that his father, who evicted him as a teen, has died. He’s left him a now-antique convertible and a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is autistic but can solve complex mathematical problems in his head with incredible speed and accuracy. Their father has bequeathed his fortune to Raymond, who has no idea what money is for. Charlie is furious at what has occurred and his father’s refusal to reveal Raymond’s existence to him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home, only to discover that Raymond only flies Qantas. The two embark on a long road trip leading to their mutual understanding.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Main Cast: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, and Oliver Platt

Release Date: 11 November 2009

Main Plot: Only a few years after American geologist Adrian Helmsley warned of an impending global Armageddon by 2012. The Earth has been devastated from coast to coast by cataclysmic natural disasters. As the President of the United States and other G8 leaders complete their secret project in Tibet. They build colossal arks to sustain humanity. Jackson Curtis, a struggling Los Angeles author, goes through hell and back to reunite with his ex-wife and their two children. Inevitably, the unfathomable disasters are rapidly escalating while Jackson strives to provide a future for his family in Tibet; however, will he make it in time?

Director: Paul Greengrass

Main Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, and Julia Stiles

Release Date: 3 July 2016

Main Plot: A decade after exposing Operation Blackbriar and disappearing, Jason Bourne has finally recovered from his amnesia. Isolating himself from the world and making a living by participating in savage, bare-knuckle fighting matches. Nicky Parsons, a hacktivist group led by Christian Dassault, hacks into the CIA’s mainframe computer server in Reykjavik to expose its black ops programs. Heather Lee, the head of the agency’s cyber security operations division, and CIA Director Robert Dewey are both alerted. During the investigation, Parsons discovers documents about Bourne’s recruitment into Treadstone and his father’s involvement in the program. She travels to Athens to locate and inform him.

Director: Judd Apatow

Main Cast: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, and Jason Segel

Release Date: 12 March 2007

Main Plot: When Alison Scott receives a promotion in E! TV. She goes to a nightclub with her older married sister Debbie to celebrate. Alison meets the pothead reckless Ben Stone. While conversing, Debbie’s husband, Pete, calls her to inform her that their daughter has chicken pox. Debbie leaves, but Allison remains with Ben, drinking and dancing all night; completely drunk, they have a one-night stand. Ben does not use a condom, and Allison discovers she is pregnant eight weeks later. She calls Ben, and they decide to try to have the baby together. On the other hand, Ben must mature before starting his own family.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Main Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, and Richard S. Castellano

Release Date: 14 March 1972

Main Plot: Vito Corleone is the aging don (chief executive officer) of the Corleone Mafia Family. Michael, his youngest son, has returned from WWII just in time to attend Connie Corleone’s (Michael’s sister) wedding to Carlo Rizzi. Michael’s entire family is in the Mafia, but he just wants to live a normal life. Virgil Sollozzo, a drug dealer, is looking for Mafia families to provide him with protection in exchange for a cut of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but Don, much against the advice of Don’s lawyer Tom Hagen, is morally opposed to drug use and declines the offer. This irritates Sollozzo, who has Don assassinated by some of his hit men. The Don barely survives, prompting his son Michael to launch a bloody mob war against Sollozzo, tearing the Corleone family apart.

Director: Richard Donner

Main Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, and Chris Rock

Release Date: 7 July 1998

Main Plot: Lorna Cole is pregnant with Martin Riggs’ baby in this installment of the Lethal Weapon series. The two are not married, but both are thinking about it and have reservations and fears. Rianne, Murtaugh’s daughter, is also pregnant and has secretly married Lee Butters, a young cop from the same precinct as Murtaugh and Riggs. However, she can’t tell her father because he doesn’t want her to date cops. Butters has been doing various things for Murtaugh around the police station, which Murtaugh incorrectly believes is due to some kind of homosexual attraction to him. In reality, Butters is simply trying to keep his father-in-law happy.

Director: Sylvester Stallone

Main Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Brigitte Nielsen

Release Date: 21 November 1985

Main Plot: Rocky Balboa is accompanied by his friend Apollo Creed, who will compete against Ivan Drago. This Russian boxer has been scientifically trained and uses high-tech equipment. Rocky blames himself when his friend Apollo is killed by Drago during the match. He vows revenge on Drago in the ring in the name of Apollo and the United States. Rocky travels to the Soviet Union, against the wishes of his wife Adrian, to face Drago, and decides to hire Apollo’s former manager Duke to assist him in preparing for the fight. While Drago improves his incredible punching power with high-tech equipment, Rocky strengthens up in a compound in the frozen Soviet countryside. It is under Duke’s supervision, with his sights set on destroying Drago. 

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Main Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Ed Kross

Release Date: 8 December 2004

Main Plot: After committing the Bellagio heist in Las Vegas, all eleven of the Ocean’s Eleven crew live separate lives from the fortune they made that night. However, things quickly turn for the worse when Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the man they stole from, can locate all of them. And demands that the team return his money with interest. Benedict gives the team two weeks to raise funds, which total $198 million (original $160 million plus $38 million interest). After a few calculations, the team realizes they are $97 million short, which they must obtain within 14 days, or they will be “dead men.”

Director: Sylvester Stallone

Main Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith

Release Date: 24 May 1982

Main Plot: In this wildly successful sequel, Sylvester Stallone reprises the role that made him famous. Rocky III begins with the Italian Stallion, whose likeness can be found everywhere, including pinball machines. Balboa quickly loses his title to young thug Clubber Lang (Mr. T). This inadvertently kills Rocky’s beloved trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), before their first championship bout. After falling into a deep depression, Balboa must reclaim his family’s love and support and the elusive “eye of the tiger.” The hungry need to defeat the opponent that former foe Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) teaches him throughout this film’s training sequence. Finally, Balboa confronts Lang for the second time.