Five Film Trilogies You Can Finish in Two Days

A weekend at home can turn into a full film marathon with five trilogies that promise to keep the pace moving. The selection ranges from superhero action to romance, science fiction and dystopian drama.

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy brings Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Michael Caine together in a story that moves beyond the usual superhero formula. Its Gotham is shaped by questions of justice, chaos and moral conflict.

Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future trilogy follows a young man who travels between the past and the future in a DeLorean time machine while trying to change his family’s fate. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd lead the adventure.

The Before series, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, takes a quieter path. It follows two strangers who meet by chance on a train in Vienna, then explores their conversations, love and the passage of life over many years.

The Matrix trilogy, directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, centers on hacker Neo, who discovers that the world he knows is an artificial simulation controlled by machines. The Hunger Games series follows Katniss Everdeen as she fights for survival under a totalitarian regime and begins a wider struggle for justice and rebellion.