The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Summary: A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Release Date: August 15, 1979

Genres: Drama, Mystery, War

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: John Milius

, Francis Ford Coppola

, Michael Herr

Runtime: 2 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: American Zoetrope, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: United Artists, Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM/UA Entertainment Company, MGM/UA Television Distribution, Philips, Miramax

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 31,500,000

Domestic: $ 96,042,913

International: $ 8,837,955

House of Flying Daggers (2004)

Summary: A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Release Date: January 14, 2005

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Feng Li

, Bin Wang

, Yimou Zhang

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Beijing New Picture Film, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Edko Films, Xin Huamian Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,050,094

International: $ 81,813,851

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Summary: A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Release Date: December 21, 1960

Genres: Adventure, Family

Director: Ken Annakin

Writers: Lowell S. Hawley

, Johann David Wyss

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Disney Channel, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,356,000

International: $ 1,287

Gladiator (2000)

Summary: A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

Release Date: May 05, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: David Franzoni

, John Logan

, William Nicholson

Runtime: 2 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Universal Pictures, Scott Free Productions, C & L, Dawliz

Distributor: DreamWorks Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Malta, Morocco

Language: English

Franchise: Gladiator

Movie budget: $ 103,000,000

Domestic: $ 187,705,427

International: $ 315,456,886

Inception (2010)

Summary: A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.

Release Date: July 16, 2010

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writer: Christopher Nolan

Runtime: 2 h 28 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment, Syncopy

Distributor: Warner Bros., Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), Turner Broadcasting System (TBS)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 160,000,000

Domestic: $ 292,587,330

International: $ 546,443,300

Total Recall (1990)

Summary: When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

Release Date: June 01, 1990

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Writers: Philip K. Dick

, Ronald Shusett

, Dan O'Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco Pictures, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Artisan Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Carolco Home Video, Image Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Entertainment, Live Home Video

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 119,412,921

International: $ 141,905,000

Starship Troopers (1997)

Summary: Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs.

Release Date: November 07, 1997

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Writers: Edward Neumeier

, Robert A. Heinlein

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: TriStar Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Big Bug Pictures

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia TriStar Television, Pay Per View, Columbia TriStar Domestic Television, Fox Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 105,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,814,377

International: $ 66,400,000

The Iron Giant (1999)

Summary: A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

Release Date: August 06, 1999

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation

Director: Brad Bird

Writers: Tim McCanlies

, Brad Bird

, Ted Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation

Distributor: Cartoon Network, HBO Max, Nickelodeon Network, PBS Kids Sprout, The WB Television Network, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Denmark

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,315,035

International: $ 20,782

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Summary: Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Release Date: July 09, 2003

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Gore Verbinski

Writers: Ted Elliott

, Terry Rossio

, Stuart Beattie

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Pirates of the Caribbean

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 305,413,918

International: $ 348,850,097

Warrior Nun (2020)

Summary: After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

Release Date: July 02, 2020

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Fresco Film Services, Reality Distortion Field

Country: United States

Language: English

Iron Man (2008)

Summary: After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

Release Date: May 02, 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Jon Favreau

Writers: Mark Fergus

, Hawk Ostby

, Art Marcum

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Marvel Enterprises, Marvel Studios, Fairview Entertainment, Dark Blades Films, Legion Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Disney+

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Franchise: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 319,034,126

International: $ 266,762,121

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Summary: A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Release Date: June 06, 2014

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Doug Liman

Writers: Christopher McQuarrie

, Jez Butterworth

, John-Henry Butterworth

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit, Dune Entertainment, Prime Focus

Distributor: HBO Max, KVH Media Group, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 178,000,000

Domestic: $ 100,206,256

International: $ 270,335,000

Ben-Hur (1959)

Summary: After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Release Date: November 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Lew Wallace

, Karl Tunberg

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 3 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, United Artists, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,432,704

International: $ 5,016

The Island (2005)

Summary: A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.

Release Date: July 22, 2005

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Michael Bay

Writers: Caspian Tredwell-Owen

, Alex Kurtzman

, Roberto Orci

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 126,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,818,913

International: $ 127,130,251