Every ELA class needs movies that give students something to actually write about, not just recall. Some of these work because of structure, three timelines woven into one story in Holes, or a plot told partly through daydreams in Walter Mitty, and force students to track something more complicated than a straight line. Others earn their place through character: Matilda pushing back against parents who ignore her, Ponyboy watching the same actions get judged differently depending on which side of town you're from, Katniss volunteering to take her sister's place before the story even properly starts.
Four of these, Holes, Matilda, The Giver, and The Hunger Games, are close book adaptations, so a class that's read the novel gets a direct comparison built in. The rest give ELA teachers something just as useful in a different way: Ratatouille and Sing both use ensemble casts to teach character analysis from more than one angle, and Moana and Pocahontas each open into real cultural or historical territory well past the plot itself. Pick based on what skill you're building, sequencing, perspective, character, adaptation, and let the story carry the rest.