Here are 10 great classics that will definitely bring back pockets of nostalgia from the past. If they are not classics now, they will be in the future!
1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Ferris Bueller has an uncanny skill at skipping school and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, “borrows” his best friend’s father’s Ferrari, and ventures on a one-day journey through the streets of Chicago. On Ferris’ trail is high school principal Rooney, determined to catch him in the act.
2. Breakfast Club (1985)
The popular girl, the jock, the nerd, the troublemaker, and the outcast are 5 high schoolers who are stuck together on a Saturday for detention with their mad-driven principal. Each student has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently and when the day ends, they question whether the school will ever be the same.
3. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Socially awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico, shows up to keep an eye on him and his older brother. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro, a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little to no English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president.
4. Superbad (2009)
Two inseparable best friends, Seth and Evan, navigate the last weeks of high school together and are invited to a gigantic house party as well. Together with their nerdy friend, Fogell, they spend a long day trying to purchase enough alcohol to supply the party and inebriate two girls in order to kick-start their “romantic” lives before they go off to college. Their quest is complicated after one of them falls in with two inept cops who are determined to show him a good time.
5. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver, makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby’s talent and devotion are put to the test. Will he be able to maintain his standing, or will his career fall apart?
7. Masterminds (2016)
While being based on true events, David Ghanatt is convinced by his work crush, Kelly Campbell and her accomplices to join in a far-fetched plan to rob a bank vault, David soon throws everything on the line for love, money, and a life of excitement.
8. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
A blockbuster based on true events takes place in 1987, Jordan Belfort takes an entry-level job at a Wall Street brokerage firm. By the early 1990s, while still in his 20s, Belfort founds his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. Together with his trusted lieutenant, Donnie, and a merry band of brokers, Belfort makes a huge fortune by defrauding wealthy investors out of millions. However, while Belfort and his cronies partake in a brew of romance, drugs and thrills, the SEC and the FBI close in on his empire of excess.
9. Zombieland (2009)
After a vicious virus turns most people into zombies, the world’s surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the starving undead. Four survivors, Tallahassee and his cohorts Columbus, Wichita, and Little Rock live by a list of survival rules and zombie-killing strategies as they make their way toward a rumoured safe haven in Los Angeles.
10. I, Tonya (2017)
In 1991, talented figure skater Tonya Harding becomes the first American woman to complete a triple axel during a competition. In 1994, her world comes crashing down when her ex-husband injures her friendly opponent, Nancy Kerrigan, a fellow Olympic hopeful, in a poorly developed attack that forces the young woman to withdraw from the national championship. Harding’s life and legacy instantly become tarnished as she’s forever associated with one of the most infamous scandals in sports history and labelled as a “bad guy” in today’s society.