This week John Travolta returns to the big screen for the first time since 2007 and Hairspray, no we are not counting Bolt it was just his voice, in The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3.
Over the years John Travolta has had an up and down career but has worked in many genres from comedy to war films from drama to thriller.
So to celebrate his return to the silver screen FemaleFirst took a look at some of the essential Travolta movies that should be in everyone's film collection.
Saturday Night Fever - 1977
Saturday Night Fever was a change of pace for Travolta in 1977 having just completed horror movie Carrie but it proved to be the film that launched his career.
Today, over thirty years after it's release, Tony Manero remains one of cinema's most classic characters and the white suit and club dance routines will live forever.
The movie, along with it's soundtrack, was a massive commercial success and Travolta's career was up and running.
Grease - 1978
Another iconic role followed in the form of Danny Zuko from musical Grease just a year after A Saturday Night Fever.
Although Travolta was already famous his role in Grease raised him to a superstar as he and Olivia Newton John sizzled on the big screen.
Today this movie is a must see for every teenage girl and the soundtrack remains as popular now as it was then.
Along with the success of the film Travolta and Newton John also moved into music as their single You're The One That I Want was a chart topper.
Pulp Fiction -1994
But into the early nineties and Travolta's career had gone off the boil. And it was a little movie called Pulp Fiction by new guy on the block filmmaker Quentin Tarantino that turned things around.
Travolta took on the role of Vincent Vega in the independent movie and it proved to be a great move for the actor. Pulp Fiction took cinema by storm as it became the first indie picture to break the $100 million barrier.
For Travolta the movie landed him a Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar nomination for Best Actor and Pulp Fiction was nominated for Best Picture.
Get Shorty -1995
Back on top and Travolta was enjoying his revitalised career and get Shorty only helped it along in 1995 when he took on the role of Chilli Palmer.
The film follows Palmer, a mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
This time he did get his hands on the Golden Globe as he picked up the gong for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Hairspray - 2007
Dressing up as a woman may not be every actors idea as a good day at work, and it took a heavily latexed John Travolta fourteen months to decide whether or not to accept this role.
And having turned down roles in previous big screen musicals such as Phantom of the Opera and Chicago it seemed he would never again lend his talent to this movie genre.
But he had nothing to worry about as he delivered a show stealing performance and the movie went on to become one of the biggest musicals of all time.
Other Travolta movies that are well worth a look include The Thin Red Line, The General's Daughter, Primary Colours and Michael. Perhaps you should avoid Battlefield Earth.
The Taking of Pelham, 1,2,3 is released 31st July.
Helen Earnshaw
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