Sergio Leone’s sweeping gangster epic starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci missed out entirely—largely because its U.S.

Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is more than a superhero epic—it explores the moral ambiguity, where justice dons a cape but occasionally plays fast and loose with the law.

Raised on a steady diet of Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, exploitation cinema, and gratuitous B-movies, Tarantino absorbed those influences and inspirations and used them to hone a signature style that ...