Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal and Daniel Kaluuya.
It's a 2015 crime drama film, which revolves around an FBI agent who is selected for a government task force to take down the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel.
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin and John Goodman.
It's a 2012 historical drama film, which is an adaptation of a book called "The Master of Disguise" and Joshuah Bearman's 2007 Wired article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran."
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks.
It's a 2011 crime film, which is based on an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver, who was drawn deeper into a dangerous underworld due to his love life.
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi
It's a 2013 biographical survival thriller film, which is inspired by the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, in which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Nicole Parker and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
It's a 1997 drama film, which is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. This film is about a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films.
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Daemon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Donald Glover, Aksel Hennie and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
It's a 2015 science fiction film, based on Andy Weir's 2011 novel- The Martian. In this film, Hollywood actor Matt Damon is playing a role of an astronaut who was left behind on mars by mistake.
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter.
It's a 2015 film for which Leonardo DiCaprio won many awards, including the award for Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards. In this film, he portrayed the role of a frontiersman, who was left behind to die by his hunting members, after being mauled by a bear.
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry.
It's a 2014 psychological thriller film, in which the story revolves around a man called Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), who becomes the primary suspect in the sudden disappearance of his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike).
Director: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin
It's a 2007 neo-western neo-noir thriller film, which is considered as one of the best films of 2000s. This film is based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name and follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau and Jean Dujardin.
It's a 2013 biographical black comedy crime film, in which Leonardo is portraying the role of Belfort, who is a stockbroker in New York City. The storyline of the film revolves around Belfort and his firm, who are engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street that ultimately led to his downfall.
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone
It's a 2016 romantic musical comedy-drama film, which was regarded as one of the best films of 2016. It is a sweet love story of a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.
It's a 1976 vigilante and thriller film, which is set in New York City following the Vietnam War. The film is about a 26-year-old honorably discharged U.S. Marine man turned taxi driver.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood.
It is a 1968 epic science-fiction film, which is considered as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. This film is notable for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight and also gives us ideas about the human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson
It's a 2012 revisionist Western film which is set in the Old West and Antebellum South, and is a tribute to Spaghetti Westerns. The story revolves around the Speck brothers, some black slaves among which Django is one of them and Dr. King Schultz, a German dentist turned bounty hunter from Düsseldorf.
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford and William Alland.
It's a mystery drama film which was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories and also won an Academy Award for Best Writing. The story is about the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane and his career in the publishing world. As far as the critics are concerned, it is one of the best films of all time.
Director: The Hitchcocks
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam.
It's a 1960 psychological horror film and is considered as the earliest example of the slasher film genre. This film set a new level of violence, abnormal behavior, and sexuality in the Hollywood films in the late 60's. Its story revolves around two characters, one is a secretary, Marion Crane, and another one is a disturbed motel owner-manager, Norman Bates.
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, and Richard Harris.
It's a 2000 epic historical drama film which revolves around the life of Maximus Decimus Meridius, who rises from the bottom rank of the gladiatorial arena to take the revenge of his family's murder and his emperor.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Casey Affleck, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, and Michael Caine.
It's a 2014 epic science fiction film, which is set during the future when humans are struggling to survive. So, they send a team of astronauts in the wormhole in search of a new similar planet, favorable for survival.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore.
It's a 1998 epic war drama film, which is set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II and is notable for its graphic portrayal of war and intense opening. This film follows a squad and their captain who is in search of their paratrooper member.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn.
It's a 1991 horror-thriller film which is an adaptation of the 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris. The film is about a young U.S. FBI trainee, who seeks advice from an imprisoned Dr. Lecter to arrest another serial killer.
Director: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski.
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
It's a 1999 science fiction film and one of the best ever. The film depicts an imaginary future, where the reality perceived by humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix".
Directors: George Lucas, J.J. Abrams, Rian Johnson, Colin Trevorrow, Dave Filoni, Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand.
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Alec Guinness.
It's a 1977 epic space opera film in which the story revolves around a Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia and their attempts to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star. It is the third highest grossing film in the world if we exclude the factor of inflation.
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
It's a 1999 film, which is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The story is about a few men, who start a fight club for recreation after getting bored with their white-collar job.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger and Michael Caine.
It's a 2010 science fiction film, which revolves around a man who is a professional thief and steals information by infiltrating the subconscious mind of their targets.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field.
It's a 1994 comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. This story is about the life of a person named Forrest Gump, who is from Alabama and is a little slow to understand things but is kind-hearted.
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm and Sean Bean
It's a 2003 epic fantasy action adventure film, which is the third and final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The film is considered as one of the most critical and successful films of all time.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis.
It's a 1994 black comedy neo-noir crime film, which connects four storylines in a stylized manner. It is considered as the masterpiece by Quentin Tarantino. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman.
It's a 2008 superhero film, which features the DC Comics character Batman, who forms an alliance with James Gordon and Harvey Dent to save his city Gotham from the wrath and chaos created by a criminal mastermind known as the Joker.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
It's an Oscar winning 1972 crime film which is based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name. The film is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential films in the world of cinema, especially in the crime genre. It's the story of two leaders of a fictional New York crime family.
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
It's a 1994 drama film which is adapted from the Stephen King novel, "Rita Hayworth, and Shawshank Redemption" and is widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. The film is about a banker, who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and her lover.
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