They Live (1988)

John Nada is a homeless construction worker who travels to Los Angeles for a job. While living in a shanty town, as he waits on his first paycheck, he discovers that aliens have taken over the entire planet.

Jurassic Park (1993)

Bringing dinosaurs back from extinction using recovered DNA strands and then putting them in a combination amusement park / zoo? What could go wrong?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Teenager, Buffy, learns that she is “The Chosen One” destined to slay vampires.

The Terminator (1984)

Sarah Connor is visited by a pair of time travelers from the dystopian future of 2029. One of them is a sentient machine, called a Terminator, who wants to kill her and prevent the birth of her future son, John Connor, humanity’s savior. The other time traveler wants to make sure she lives.

Tremors (1990)

The people in a remote small town in Nevada come under attack from underground monsters.

Back to the Future (1985)

Teenage Marty McFly accidentally travels back in time to 1955. After arriving, he then accidentally prevents his parents from meeting. Marty has to get his parents together and seek help from a thirty years younger Dr. Emmett Brown, the inventory of time travel, to get home.

Clueless (1995)

Cher, a teenage socialite from Beverly Hills, gives a fellow student a makeover. The series of events that follow lead Cher to personal growth.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

The U.S. government hires an archaeologist named Indiana Jones to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant from Egypt before the Nazis seize it for themselves.