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8. Up in the Air (2009) George Clooney’s film about a traveling businessman ended up being a tour through cities and hotels across the continental US, with him living a transient lifestyle of fleeting connections with people. That is, until he meets Alex Goran, the female counterpart to Clooney’s Ryan Bingham. She’s a woman who’s also always traveling because she values high status within her on-the-go lifestyle. Despite the film featuring multiple locations, the wanton abandon of the traveling lifestyle represents Ryan’s fear of settling down in a single place and why he needs to escape his self-imposed confines....

8. Alpha Dog (2006) Alpha Dogis based on the true story of a series of unfortunate events that result in the murder of a 16-year-old boy. The movie is a revealing portrayal of Los Angeles' small-time suburban drug trade and the people who are destroyed in its wake. This movie really does not get the credit it’s due. The casting and acting are top-notch, and the storytelling is accessible enough to have mainstream appeal while remaining unique enough to distinguish itself and stand out from the crowd....

8. Madonna (A League of Their Own) A League of Their Ownis a movie that was way ahead of its time in many ways. Starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, the film tells the tale of a women’s baseball league during World War II. As women from across the US get recruited to play in the league, they all find that they must resort to feminine tricks and flair to garner the attention of fans....

8. Dunkirk (Harry Styles) With the recent release of Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimermovie trailer, fans immediately took to researching the star-studded cast list. Like the rest of Nolan’s film canon,Oppenheimerboasts a range of Hollywood and British actors, plus a few you might not see coming. But prior to this, Nolan gave us the incredible film that isDunkirk, and that film also featured a few surprising faces. While names like Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, and Tom Hardy are never far from Nolan, there was one that did catch us off-guard: Harry Styles....

8.Cool World(1992) You know that meta moment inMonty Python and the Holy Grailwhere the animator “suffers a fatal heart attack” and can’t complete the cartoon? Well,Cool Worldis kind of like that in feature-length form. The black comedy stars Gabriel Byrne as an animator who finds himself in a world of his own creation… or so he thinks. When he falls for a femme fatale, he’s warned about sexual intercourse between “noids” and “doodles”—but, of course, he ignores those warnings....