15. Dead Poets Society (1989)
> IMDb rating: 8.1
> Rotten tomatoes audience score: 92
> Worldwide ticket sales, adjusted for inflation: $549.8 million
> Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
This is a coming-of-age film about an English teacher inspiring his students at an elite conservative boarding school in Vermont. Robin Williams plays unorthodox teacher John Keating, who uses poetry to teach his students to think outside of the box of the rigid boarding school education system. The story follows the students as they learn and grow and fall into eventual conflict with the world around them.
14. The Sixth Sense (1999)
> IMDb rating: 8.1
> Rotten tomatoes audience score: 90
> Worldwide ticket sales, adjusted for inflation: $1.2 billion
> Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
“The Sixth Sense” is an iconic horror-thriller that cemented M. Night Shyamalan’s reputation as the king of twists and turns. A psychologist with a difficult past finds himself treating a child with mysterious problems. The boy can see dead souls who refuse to move on because they do not realize that they’re dead. The movie creates an extraordinary world and perhaps asks more questions than it answers.
13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
> IMDb rating: 7.7
> Rotten tomatoes audience score: 84
> Worldwide ticket sales, adjusted for inflation: $783.4 million
> Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Mixing animation with live action, “Who Killed Roger Rabbit” creates a zany world where toons and humans live in semi-harmony. Toon Roger Rabbit has been accused of murdering a wealthy businessman and detective Eddie Valiant is on the case to prove his innocence. The wacky plot touches on real-life historical conspiracies amongst other things. The author who wrote “Who Censored Roger Rabbit?,” upon which the film was loosely based, later entered a lengthy legal battle with Disney for unpaid royalties.
12. Ed Wood (1994)
> IMDb rating: 7.8
> Rotten tomatoes audience score: 88
> Worldwide ticket sales, adjusted for inflation: $13.1 million
> Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette
This biographical film by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, focuses on the life of cult filmmaker Ed Wood. Wood created many low-budget movies that ranged from sci-fi, crime, and horror to sexploitation and even porn. The movie follows Wood as he fights to build a career in Hollywood while using unconventional means and low-budget techniques to develop the unique style he became known for.
11. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
> IMDb rating: 7.9
> Rotten tomatoes audience score: 86
> Worldwide ticket sales, adjusted for inflation: $2.2 billion
> Starring: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson
“The Force Awakens” is the first film in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, and the first entry in the franchise that Disney created, after its acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. The movie introduces a new generation of characters while bringing back some of those from the original movies. Episode 7 takes place some years after episode 6, and suggests that all the previous progress made towards a freer and more just universe has gone to waste.
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