- Director: John Wayne
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (17K reviews)
- Runtime: 162 minutes
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, and History
- Cast: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, and Laurence Harvey

- Director: Oliver Stone
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (124K reviews)
- Runtime: 162 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Sport
- Cast: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, and Cameron Diaz

- Director: Ron Howard
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (308K reviews)
- Runtime: 140 minutes
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, and History
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon

- Director: Michael Bay
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (442K reviews)
- Runtime: 151 minutes
- Genres: Action, Adventure, and Sci-Fi
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ben Affleck

- Director: Joel Coen
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (102K reviews)
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Genres: Crime, Drama, and Thriller
- Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, and Dan Hedaya

- Director: Arthur Penn
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (118K reviews)
- Runtime: 111 minutes
- Genres: Action, Biography, and Crime
- Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Michael J. Pollard

- Director: Oliver Stone
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (113K reviews)
- Runtime: 145 minutes
- Genres: Biography, Drama, and War
- Cast: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, and Raymond J. Barry

- Director: Richard Linklater
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (363K reviews)
- Runtime: 165 minutes
- Genres: Drama
- Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, and Ethan Hawke

- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (621K reviews)
- Runtime: 143 minutes
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, and Romance
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Paul Sanchez

- Director: Annabel Jankel
- IMDb user rating: 6.1 (11K reviews)
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Genres: Mystery and Thriller
- Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Charlotte Rampling

- Director: Richard Linklater
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (194K reviews)
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Genres: Comedy
- Cast: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, and Matthew McConaughey

- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (306K reviews)
- Runtime: 127 minutes
- Genres: Action and Thriller
- Cast: Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, and Rosario Dawson

- Director: Robert Rodriguez
- IMDb user rating: 6.6 (131K reviews)
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Genres: Horror, Mystery, and Sci-Fi
- Cast: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, and Laura Harris

- Director: Sam Peckinpah
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (35K reviews)
- Runtime: 123 minutes
- Genres: Action, Crime, and Thriller
- Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, and Ben Johnson

- Director: George Stevens
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (41K reviews)
- Runtime: 201 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Western
- Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean

- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (3.7K reviews)
- Runtime: 150 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Romance
- Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, and George Peppard

- Director: Martin Ritt
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (23K reviews)
- Runtime: 112 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Western
- Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal

- Director: Richard Brooks
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (28K reviews)
- Runtime: 134 minutes
- Genres: Biography, Crime, and Drama
- Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, and John Forsythe

- Director: Oliver Stone
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (165K reviews)
- Runtime: 189 minutes
- Genres: Drama, History, and Thriller
- Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Jack Lemmon

- Director: John G. Avildsen
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (238K reviews)
- Runtime: 126 minutes
- Genres: Action, Drama, and Family
- Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, and Elisabeth Shue

- Director: Peter Bogdanovich
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (51K reviews)
- Runtime: 118 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Romance
- Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, and Cybill Shepherd

- Director: Bill Forsyth
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (26K reviews)
- Runtime: 111 minutes
- Genres: Comedy and Drama
- Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, and Fulton Mackay

- Director: Adrian Lyne
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (64K reviews)
- Runtime: 137 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Romance
- Cast: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, and Melanie Griffith

- Director: Walter Hill
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (12K reviews)
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Genres: Biography, Crime, and Drama
- Cast: David Carradine, Stacy Keach, and Dennis Quaid

- Director: John Schlesinger
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (117K reviews)
- Runtime: 113 minutes
- Genres: Drama
- Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, and Sylvia Miles

- Director: Ethan Coen
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (1M reviews)
- Runtime: 122 minutes
- Genres: Crime, Drama, and Thriller
- Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin

- Director: Wim Wenders
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (113K reviews)
- Runtime: 145 minutes
- Genres: Drama
- Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, and Dean Stockwell

- Director: Clint Eastwood
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (85K reviews)
- Runtime: 138 minutes
- Genres: Crime, Drama, and Thriller
- Cast: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, and Laura Dern

- Director: Brian De Palma
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (21K reviews)
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, and Fantasy
- Cast: Paul Williams, William Finley, and Jessica Harper

- Director: Dennis Dugan
- IMDb user rating: 5.4 (32K reviews)
- Runtime: 81 minutes
- Genres: Comedy and Family
- Cast: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, and Jack Warden

- Director: Ben Stiller
- IMDb user rating: 6.6 (52K reviews)
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, and Romance
- Cast: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Janeane Garofalo

- Director: Paul Verhoeven
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (272K reviews)
- Runtime: 102 minutes
- Genres: Action, Crime, and Sci-Fi
- Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, and Dan O'Herlihy

- Director: Irvin Kershner
- IMDb user rating: 5.8 (90K reviews)
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Genres: Action, Crime, and Sci-Fi
- Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, and Belinda Bauer

- Director: Wes Anderson
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (194K reviews)
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, and Romance
- Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, and Olivia Williams

- Director: Richard Linklater
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (23K reviews)
- Runtime: 97 minutes
- Genres: Comedy and Drama
- Cast: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, and Jean Caffeine

- Director: Walter Hill
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (21K reviews)
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Genres: Action and Thriller
- Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, and Fred Ward

- Director: Robert Rodriguez
- IMDb user rating: 5.6 (124K reviews)
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Genres: Action, Adventure, and Comedy
- Cast: Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, and Antonio Banderas

- Director: Robert Rodriguez
- IMDb user rating: 5.3 (72K reviews)
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Genres: Action, Adventure, and Comedy
- Cast: Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, and Antonio Banderas

- Director: James L. Brooks
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (64K reviews)
- Runtime: 132 minutes
- Genres: Comedy and Drama
- Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson

- Director: Tobe Hooper
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (175K reviews)
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Genres: Horror
- Cast: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, and Allen Danziger

- Director: Marcus Nispel
- IMDb user rating: 6.2 (149K reviews)
- Runtime: 98 minutes
- Genres: Horror
- Cast: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, and Andrew Bryniarski

- Director: Peter Bogdanovich
- IMDb user rating: 5.9 (2.9K reviews)
- Runtime: 123 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Romance
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, and Timothy Bottoms

- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (216K reviews)
- Runtime: 147 minutes
- Genres: Crime, Drama, and Thriller
- Cast: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, and Catherine Zeta-Jones

- Director: Michael Bay
- IMDb user rating: 5.6 (327K reviews)
- Runtime: 165 minutes
- Genres: Action, Adventure, and Sci-Fi
- Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz Beckham, and Jack Reynor

- Director: Terrence Malick
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (182K reviews)
- Runtime: 139 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Fantasy
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain

- Director: Peter Masterson
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (5.1K reviews)
- Runtime: 108 minutes
- Genres: Drama
- Cast: Geraldine Page, John Heard, and Carlin Glynn

- Director: Ethan Coen
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (351K reviews)
- Runtime: 110 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Western
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Hailee Steinfeld

- Director: Ivan Reitman
- IMDb user rating: 6.1 (133K reviews)
- Runtime: 107 minutes
- Genres: Comedy and Crime
- Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Kelly Preston

- Director: Jan de Bont
- IMDb user rating: 6.5 (207K reviews)
- Runtime: 113 minutes
- Genres: Action, Adventure, and Thriller
- Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and Cary Elwes

- Director: John Ford
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (6.7K reviews)
- Runtime: 109 minutes
- Genres: Drama and Western
- Cast: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, and Shirley Jones

- Director: James Bridges
- IMDb user rating: 6.4 (16K reviews)
- Runtime: 132 minutes
- Genres: Drama, Romance, and Western
- Cast: John Travolta, Debra Winger, and Scott Glenn

- Director: David Lynch
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (98K reviews)
- Runtime: 125 minutes
- Genres: Crime, Drama, and Thriller
- Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe

This story features data reporting by Karim Noorani, writing by Olivia Monahan, and is part of a series utilizing data automation across 48 states.