Fight Club / Se7en

FIGHT CLUB, 1999, 20th Century Fox, 139 min. Director David Fincher adapts Chuck Palahniuk's novel. Edward Norton is an insomniac who finds relief in support groups. But encountering lost soul Helena Bonham Carter makes the comfort disappear. Then untamed Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) enters the scene, and the two find a bond in pummeling each other senseless. Soon other guys want to join in. A cult-like atmosphere takes over, and Norton must come to terms with an onrushing, self-inflicted apocalypse.

SE7EN, 1995, Warner Bros., 127 min. Dir. David Fincher. Morgan Freeman is a homicide cop just days from retiring when he's assigned to a gruesome case that's the first in a string of murders committed by a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO. Saddled with a rookie partner (Brad Pitt), Freeman finds himself descending farther down into the urban inferno than he's ever gone.