In writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s update on 1940s film noir, Kathleen Turner exudes such raw sensuality that by the time slow-witted lawyer William Hurt suggests murdering her husband, most men in the audience are thinking, “Sure . . . sounds like a reasonable plan.” Add in a memorable Mickey Rourke cameo, atmosphere that has the audience feeling the South Florida heat and a spectacular final twist, and you have a modern classic.

Acclaimed director Sydney Pollack examines what happens when a Miami-based investigative reporter’s zeal for the front page leads her to put “accuracy” ahead of the truth. Paul Newman turns in an Oscar-nominated performance opposite Sally Field . . . and then Wilford Brimley shows up in the last 20 minutes and steals the movie from them both.

Only Gregory Peck’s fifth movie, this film helped launch him to stardom. A heart-warming, at times tear-jerking movie set in post-Civil War Florida, it tells the story of a boy and the pet deer that can’t possibly stay a pet forever.

This twisted, comic look at love, fidelity and social climbing stars Charles Grodin as a man who leaves his wife for another woman (Cybill Shepherd) while on his honeymoon, much to the dismay of her blue-blood father (Oscar nominee Eddie Albert). It is considered director Elaine May’s answer to her former comedy partner Mike Nichols’ The Graduate.

The movie that cemented the Farrelly Brothers’ reputation as masters of raunch. Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Chris Elliott, Brett Favre (yes, Brett Favre) and a defibrillated dog make for a hilarious film that ensures you’ll never look at hair gel or prom tuxes the same way again.

If you want to know how No. 3 on this list came to be, then watch this uplifting film (nominated for multiple Academy Awards) about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) and her move to rural Florida, where she wrote . . . “The Yearling.”

Critics originally derided but now have come to embrace this South Florida, Cuban-centric remake of the 1932 gangster classic. The film returned Al Pacino to the spotlight, saved budding star Michelle Pfeiffer from the wreckage of Grease 2 and featured a script penned by Oliver Stone. It also may have set a record for the number of times the f-bomb is dropped in a single movie.

Indie master director John Sayles crafted this slice-of-life tale that touched on themes of love, longing and race set in the midst of a northern Florida community torn about the possibility of new land development.

If Elaine May’s Florida movie makes the list, then Mike Nichols’ Florida movie deserves to be here, too. Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman more than do justice to the 1978 French classic, La Cage aux Folles.

The characters don’t make a big deal of the fact that the country club is in Florida, but they also don’t pretend it’s elsewhere either. This Chevy Chase-Bill Murray-Rodney Dangerfield comedy gem was filmed entirely in South Florida and has become almost as beloved as writers Doug Kenney and Harold Ramis’ previous masterpiece: Animal House.