Volcano girls, we really can't be beat

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

2025

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high

Blownapart

NAPOLEON

2023

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by David Scarpa

Spoilers: inapplicable

Disinherit the earth

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese (based on the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann)

Spoilers: N/A

If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all

HAMLET

1996

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh (based on the play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare)

Spoilers: hey, remember that time Norway conquered Denmark?

The most dangerous thing about Pandora is that you might grow to love her too much

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

2022

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Josh Friedman, Shane Salerno, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety

CLEOPATRA

1963

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Written by Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, plus Plutarch and that whole gang)

Spoilers: N/A

Hunk of burning love

ELVIS

2022

Directed by Baz Luhrmann

Written by Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner, and Baz Luhrmann

Spoilers: N/A

At the Gates of Hel, I will meet you

THE NORTHMAN

2022

Directed by Robert Eggers

Written by Sjón and Robert Eggers

Spoilers: moderate

The fifth famous dan (er, not Zhang Junqiu)

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

1993

Directed by Chen Kaige

Written by Lu Wei and Lilian Lee (based on the novel by Lilian Lee)

Spoilers: moderate, maybe high

G-d Week: Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

QUO VADIS

1951

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Written by S.N. Behrman, Sonya Levien, and John Lee Mahin (based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz)

Spoiler alert: moderate

G-d Week: My son, do not regard the Lord's discipline lightly, nor be weary when reproved by Him, for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and chastises every son whom He receives.

BARABBAS

1961 Italy/1962 USA

Directed by Richard Fleischer

Written by Christopher Fry (based on the novel by Par Lagerkvist)

Spoiler alert: somewhere between moderate and high

G-d Week: For he who was a slave when he was called is the Lord's freedman, while he who was free when he was called is Christ's slave.

DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS

1954

Directed by Delmer Daves

Written by Philip Dunne

Spoiler alert: moderate

G-d Week: Those who were not my people I will call my people, and she who was not beloved, I will call beloved.

THE ROBE

1953

Directed by Henry Koster

Written by Gina Kaus, Albert Maltz, and Philip Dunne (based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas)

Spoiler alert: high

G-d Week: Truly this man was the son of God.

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD

1965

Directed by George Stevens

Written by James Lee Barrett and George Stevens

Spoiler alert: very very N/A

The first wonder of the world

LAND OF THE PHARAOHS

1955

Directed by Howard Hawks

Written by William Faulkner, Harold Jack Bloom, and Harry Kurnitz

Spoiler alert: well, the pyramid gets finished, but moderate otherwise

G-d Week: Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, stripe for stripe.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1956

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Written by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, and Frederic M. Frank (based on the books by Philo, Josephus, various rabbis, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon, and God)

Spoiler alert: he lets the people go; it all worked out great

G-d Week: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

THE BIBLE: IN THE BEGINNING

1966

Directed by John Huston

Written by Christopher Fry (based on the book by P, D, and J)

Spoiler alert: oh, inapplicable

Look for the union label

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Avengers forever

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

The best of the MCU's crossovers without even thinking about it too hard, Avengers: Endgame is even better than that fairly-faint praise implies, and it earns its place in cinema history (and our hearts) for at last giving some its various childlike empresses their names, and bringing some of their neverending stories to a highly satisfying close.

2019

Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo

Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely

Spoiler alert: severe

As previously established, that was when I was carrying you

SILENCE

Shall we call it "magisterial"?  That's as good a word as any for a movie that's this rich and rigorous and (not to put to fine a point on it) honestly great—and yet is also long, and slow, and coolly intellectual, occasionally to a fault.

2016

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Written by Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese (based on the novel by Shusaku Endo)

With Andrew Garfield (Sebastiao Rodrigues), Adam Driver (Francisco Garupe), Yosuke Kubozuka (Kichijiro), Tadanobu Asano (The Interpreter), Issey Ogata (Inoue Masashige), and Liam Neeson (Cristovao Ferraira)

Spoiler alert: moderate