Saw (2004)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

Summary: The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.

Release Date: April 16, 2004

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Uma Thurman

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, A Band Apart, Super Cool ManChu

Distributor: Miramax Films, Starz

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 66,208,183

International: $ 87,908,974

The Rock (1996)

Summary: A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Release Date: June 07, 1996

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director: Michael Bay

Writers: David Weisberg

, Douglas Cook

, Mark Rosner

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hollywood Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Distributor: Hollywood Pictures Home Video, Buena Vista Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Walt Disney Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 134,069,511

International: $ 200,993,110

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Summary: In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Lawrence Kasdan

, George Lucas

, Philip Kaufman

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Indiana Jones

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 248,159,971

International: $ 141,766,000

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Summary: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Release Date: August 26, 1994

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Oliver Stone

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, David Veloz

, Richard Rutowski

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., New Regency Productions, Alcor Films, Ixtlan, J D Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, Pioneer Entertainment, Vidmark Entertainment, Trimark Home Video, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 34,000,000

Domestic: $ 50,282,766

International: $ 797

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Summary: Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.

Release Date: August 06, 1999

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Writer: M. Night Shyamalan

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Barry Mendel Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 293,506,292

International: $ 379,300,140

Crank (2006)

Summary: Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.

Release Date: September 01, 2006

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Directors: Mark Neveldine

, Brian Taylor

Writers: Mark Neveldine

, Brian Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lakeshore Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, RadicalMedia, GreeneStreet Films

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, ION Television, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,838,408

International: $ 15,092,633

Battle Royale (2000)

Summary: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Release Date: December 16, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Writers: Koushun Takami

, Kenta Fukasaku

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: Toho Company, AM Associates, Fukasaku-gumi, MF Pictures, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Toei Company, WOWOW

Distributor: Anchor Bay Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starmax

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Summary: A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses. Under constant surveillance by Detective Brikowski and assassin Goodkat, he must get them before they ge...

Release Date: April 07, 2006

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Paul McGuigan

Writer: Jason Smilovic

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, Ascendant Pictures, FilmEngine, Lucky Number Slevin Productions Inc., Mel's Cite du Cinema, The Complex

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Genius Products

Countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,495,466

International: $ 33,813,415

X-Men (2000)

Summary: In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.

Release Date: July 14, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Bryan Singer

Writers: Tom DeSanto

, Bryan Singer

, David Hayter

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Enterprises, Donners' Company, Genetics Productions

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Network, Hotstar, The Walt Disney Company, Disney+, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: X-Men

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 157,299,718

International: $ 139,039,810

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Summary: A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.

Release Date: November 11, 1994

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Neil Jordan

Writer: Anne Rice

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Geffen Pictures

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 105,264,608

International: $ 118,400,000

Batman & Robin (1997)

Summary: Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

Release Date: June 20, 1997

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: Bob Kane

, Akiva Goldsman

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), TBS Superstation, TNT, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Franchise: Batman

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 107,353,792

International: $ 130,881,927

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Summary: In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Release Date: January 19, 2007

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Writer: Guillermo del Toro

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Tequila Gang, Estudios Picasso, Esperanto Filmoj, Esperanto Filmoj, Telecinco

Distributor: Picturehouse, New Line Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Mexico, Spain

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,646,380

International: $ 46,215,652

Downfall (2004)

Summary: Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Release Date: April 08, 2005

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Writers: Bernd Eichinger

, Joachim Fest

, Traudl Junge

Runtime: 2 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Constantin Film, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), EOS Entertainment, Rai Cinema

Distributor: Newmarket Films, Shout Select, Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Germany, Austria, Italy

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 13,500,000

Domestic: $ 5,509,040

International: $ 86,672,534

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Summary: Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Hector Barbossa, and the crew of the Black Pearl try and rescue Jack from davy jones locker and prepare to fight Lord Cutler Beckett, who controls Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman.

Release Date: May 25, 2007

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Gore Verbinski

Writers: Ted Elliott

, Terry Rossio

, Stuart Beattie

Runtime: 2 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Second Mate Productions

Distributor: Starz, USA Network, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Pirates of the Caribbean

Movie budget: $ 300,000,000

Domestic: $ 309,420,425

International: $ 652,270,784

Production: Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., China Film Co-Production Corporation, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Edko Films, Good Machine, Sony Pictures Classics, Zoom Hunt International Productions, Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Summary: A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

Release Date: January 12, 2001

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Ang Lee

Writers: Hui-Ling Wang

, James Schamus

, Kuo Jung Tsai

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Fox Network, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Taiwan, Hong Kong, United States, China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,530,421

International: $ 85,446,864

The 13th Warrior (1999)

Summary: A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly em...

Release Date: August 27, 1999

Genres: Action, Adventure, History

Directors: John McTiernan

, Michael Crichton

Writers: Michael Crichton

, William Wisher

, Warren Lewis

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 160,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,698,899

International: $ 29,000,000

Apocalypto (2006)

Summary: As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.

Release Date: December 08, 2006

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Mel Gibson

Writers: Mel Gibson

, Farhad Safinia

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: R

Production: Icon Productions, Mayan Ruins, Touchstone Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Icon Distribution, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 50,866,635

International: $ 69,806,592