Two for the money: 25 great film double features

The movie that started the heist genre and the movie made the genre famous. These are the two seminal heist flicks, each seeing a group of criminals form a team and execute a ruse. Rififi is the more realistic version, with a 30-minute near-wordless action scene, while Oceans 11 is a chance to hang out with some of our most charismatic stars. 

Okay, so I know what you're thinking: isn't Matilda a kids movie and Carrie a horror movie with nudity? You're not wrong. Both movies see a girl take down the bullies at their school, however, which makes them the perfect soulmates. 

What happens when you pair two of the best movies of all time? You get what may be the greatest movie of all time. Francis Ford Coppola's tale of mobsters in New York is one that will never get old. 

The action. The adventures. The desert locales. Everything about these movies is meant to be paired, especially since The Mummy's inspiration is Steven Spielberg's classic. Now's a good time to dust off both and see how they hold up. 

Take a road to nowhere, 70's America and hippieland with these two counterculture classics. Both are great examples of New Hollywood when directors broke boundaries with content and form. Easy Rider is the more well-known example, but Blacktop is a road trip worth taking too.

All roads lead to Fellini, and all Fellini roads lead to the past. And the beach! And the magical realm between reality and fantasy! No director has been able to mix the two better than Fellini, as seen in his two movies about childhood.

It's like I always say: never leave a trained assassin at the altar. She'll come for you with a sword and a grudge. In Quentin Tarantino's double feature, a bride gets revenge on the man who left her at the altar to die. 

Two movies about time loops with all-time comedians--what's not to love? We could spend an eternity with Bill Murray in Wisconsin and Andy Samberg in Palm Springs, which is a good thing since these two are trapped in a time loop forever. 

Whether you watch Paddington fumble around London or Chaplin fumble around Paris, these two movies will brighten your day. Besides, everyone's favorite bear was modeled after everyone's favorite tramp. 

They are the same movie! I've been saying it forever: they have the same score, the same vibe and the same plot of two lovers on the run. It's a realization that comes about halfway through your double feature. 

Get ready to enter the cyberverse! With an anime classic leading the way--about a world where humans have taken on robotic features--and The Matrix coming a few years later, this is a double feature about the power of technology that will blow your mind. 

Westerns usually take place in a barren desert, where the heat keeps people in saloons and the sweat keeps gunmen on edge. But what happens when you move those characters to the snow? You get The Great Silence, a masterpiece from Sergio Corbuchi that makes the most of its chilly, snow-covered hills. Quentin Tarantino made his own version of this movie four decades later. 

Word of advice: never visit a British isle run by cult members. It's not going to end well for you. While we could have paired The Wickerman with Midsommar, another daytime horror flick about a cult, we decided to go with this year's highly-underrated Enys Men. 

This is one of those pairings that was made as a pairing from the start. The mystery from Michelangelo Antonioni inspired lots of directors to dip their toes into mystery, but Brian De Palma did it best with his straightforward homage. He took the premise of a photographer capturing a murder in the background and changed it to a sound technician, a genius concept that makes for a genuine double feature. 

These movies put the "high" in high school. As two students experiment with drugs on their last night of school, you'll find yourself at a party you don't want to end. 

Both of these movies deal with dreams within a dream, so does that make a double feature a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream? I guess so... It certainly makes for a mind-blowing afternoon on the couch.

Located at the corner of Mulholland Drive and Sunset Boulevard, these two movies take you into the fragmented mind of an actress. In both films, we see an actress thrust into a mystery that's either in their head or in the real world. Both are dark, and perverted and make you never want to try acting. 

Are you not entertained...by this double feature? How could you not be entertained by these medieval epics, both see men at the bottom of the food chain climb their way to the top. 

Two mysteries by Christopher Nolan about detectives with fractured minds, these two movies alone are responsible for many of the detective shows on Netflix. They can't hold a gun--let alone a candle--to what Nolan does here, as very few directors can play with time and structure like this man. 

A bunch of high schoolers get wasted and cruise around town? What could possibly go wrong? Besides some spilled beers, detentions, and demerits, not a lot. These are just two comedies about friends hanging out. 

Aside from the differences in tone, characters and story, these two have a lot in common. They are both about the process of making movies--granted, Fellini's masterpiece is much more artistic, nuanced, poetic and profound. 

Guillermo del Toro has cited Spirit of the Beehive as his main inspiration for Pan's Labyrinth, and it's easy to see why. Both are about children processing grief through supernatural monsters, only del Toro made those monsters real. It's a treat to watch them both navigate their world in different ways.

A more nuanced double feature would pair La La Land and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, as Damien Chazelle's musical is practically a remake of Jaques Demy's classic. But we decided to pair another Demy movie with another musical, both of which have nothing in common storywise but everything in common vibe-wise. 

Steven Spielberg. Monsters. Movie magic. Get ready for an afternoon of popcorn entertainment. 

Dive into the world of Miyazaki with two colorful, imaginative adventures. One sees a fish become a human; one sees two humans befriend a monster. It's the perfect way to lose yourself in the magic of cinema.