01 A lisping tech billionaire villain with a memorably strange sense of style.
Samuel L. Jackson – 10 Best Movies
By Vlad Zakh · January 16, 2026
United States Drama thought provoking
Pulp Fiction gets quoted line for line, but Jackie Brown is quieter and more controlled with the same intensity. The Avengers introduced him to a whole new generation as Nick Fury.
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02 A modern update to the blaxploitation icon, played with total confidence.
03 A father on trial for revenge, one of his most dramatic early leads.
04 A gloriously self-aware action-horror role that became a cult phenomenon.
05 A fragile, obsessive comic-book collector in Shyamalan's quiet superhero deconstruction.
06 A reluctant partner dragged into Bruce Willis's chaos across New York.
07 A gun-runner playing every angle in Tarantino's underrated crime drama.
08 Nick Fury, the eyepatch-wearing glue holding the whole franchise together.
09 A chilling, complicated head house slave role unlike anything else in his career.
10 Jules Winnfield's Bible-quoting hitman is one of the most quoted roles in film history.