4.Fight Club (1999)

David Fincher cast Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in this adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel, creating a seminal film for the 1990s.

A gang of guys get together to pummell each other as stress toys. Toss in a seemingly insane woman, Meatloaf (yes, the singer!), some madcap performances, a very harsh editing style, and bars of pink soap, and you have something rather brilliant.

Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.