1. Pulp Fiction
Release Date: 14 October 1994
Plot: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
2. Goodfellas
Plot: Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
3. Schindler’s List
Release Date: 15 December 1993
Plot: Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
4. The Dark Knight
Plot: Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits.
5. Fight Club
Release Date: 15 October 1999
Plot: An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
6. The Matrix
Release Date: 31 March 1999
Plot: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it.
7. American Beauty
Release Date: 1 October 1999
Plot: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter’s attractive friend.
8. Dumb and Dumber
Release Date: 16 December 199
Plot: The cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends.
9. Saving Private Ryan
Release Date: 24 July 1998
Plot: Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
10. Shawshank Redemption
Release Date: 23 September 1994
Plot: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.