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Best 5 picture stretch ever?

posted 5 years ago by SoCrates (876)
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Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Weird Science (1985)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

Does any other director beat this stretch?

[–] degree7 (821) 5 years ago

David Lean:

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
A Passage to India (1984)

Also Andrei Tarkovsky:

Andrei Rublev (1966)
Solaris (1972)
Mirror (1975)
Stalker (1979)
Nostalghia (1983)

Francois Truffaut:

The 400 Blows (1959)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Jules and Jim (1962)
The Soft Skin (1964)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

[–] Jones70 (6872) 4 years ago

Sam Peckinpah
The Wild Bunch
The Getaway
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
The Ballad of Cable Houge
Junior Bonner

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Christopher Nolan: Batman Begins --> The Prestige --> The Dark Knight --> Inception --> The Dark Knight Rises --> Interstellar

Yeah that's six films but the point still stands.

[–] Forky (1739) 4 years ago

The Rain People
The Godfather
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

A worthy contender , although Godfather and Godfather II are just one film

[–] ducksoup (3933) 4 years ago

Terry Gilliam:
Time Bandits(1981)
Brazil(1985)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1988)
The Fisher King(1991)
12 Monkeys(1995)

[–] ebhaynz (3760) 2 years ago

5 very popular and profitable movies in just 3 years?

Yes, this is the best 5 picture stretch ever. No other director comes close.