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Cillian Murphy wakes from a coma to an emptied Britain: the Rage virus, grainy DV cameras, and infected that sprint. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's $8 million nightmare reinvented the zombie movie's speed limit — even though, as every pedant will happily tell you, they're infected, not zombies. For a generation this was the scariest thing a friend's older brother ever put on.
Leonardo DiCaprio's post-Titanic swing: Danny Boyle's adaptation of Alex Garland's backpacker novel, shot at a real Thai bay that Fox literally bulldozed to make prettier. It opens dazzling and gradually loses the plot — which is exactly how the critics called it in 2000, and exactly how everyone who saw it at fifteen still remembers it. The soundtrack ("Pure Shores," "Porcelain") outlived the movie; Maya Bay paid the price for the fame.