On March 31, 1985, the World Wrestling Federation hosted the first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden in New York, continuing pro wrestling’s advance from the fringes of UHF to the center of the mainstream. This Sunday, the renamed WWE presents the 30th (or XXX-ieth) annual edition of WrestleMania at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bah God, in honor of three decades of body slams, superkicks, and sharpshooters, here are five legitimately great movies that feature pro wrestlers in a significant role.

Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962)

Directed by Ralph Nelson

The Peabody- and Emmy-award-winning 1956 live television version of writer Rod Serling and director Ralph Nelson’s Requiem For A Heavyweight ends on a hopeful note, with a washed-up boxer played by Jack Palance deciding to quit a corrupt sport and take a job working with kids. The 1962 movie version—also written by Serling and directed by Nelson—stars Anthony Quinn, and has a much bleaker ending, with the hero humiliating himself by agreeing to give pro wrestling a try. The concluding scene speaks to the disreputability of wrestling in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was associated with cheap TV entertainment. The scene also features an honest-to-goodness wrestler, playing himself: Haystacks Calhoun, a 600-pound man whose massive size and redneck persona made him one of the biggest attractions of the era.

The Princess Bride (1987)

Directed by Rob Reiner

Much like Haystacks Calhoun, André The Giant was a mammoth man who was so popular with pro-wrestling fans that his promoters pitched him as one of the good guys; for 15 years, he never lost a WWF match. André carried that gentle, likable personality with him into the tongue-in-cheek fairy-tale comedy The Princess Bride, where he plays Fezzik, a rhyme-loving bruiser whose imposing size makes him less vulnerable to harm, and thus more able to relax and enjoy life. The Princess Bride is full of colorful characters who are good company, but Fezzik is the one that any princess and any hero would want to have around: a handy brute with a pleasant disposition.

They Live (1988)

Directed by John Carpenter

“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” So says “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as the star of John Carpenter’s great sci-fi satire, They Live. Piper plays Nada, a man who discovers that aliens live among us, controlling the population with subliminal messages hidden in television and commercials. Along with a fellow construction worker (Keith David), he sets out to expose the conspiracy, and open humanity’s eyes to the truth. Piper was never the most physically intimidating wrestler; he became a star thanks to his relentless intensity (he once shattered his eardrum in the middle of a match and kept fighting) and his big mouth—two talents that made him a natural for the hero of Carpenter’s darkly funny look at Reagan-era America. His six-minute fight scene with David will stand for eternity.

The Rundown (2003)

Directed by Peter Berg

There have been bigger stars in the world of pro wrestling, but no wrestler has ever become a bigger star in the world of movies than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. After a cameo in 2001’s The Mummy Returns, and an iffy performance in its spinoff, The Scorpion King, The Rock asserted his acting (and action) bonafides with The Rundown, an extremely entertaining thriller about a bounty hunter (Johnson) hired to retrieve a wealthy man’s son (Seann William Scott) from the jungles of Brazil. Johnson’s gift for fight scenes was no surprise given his years dropping People’s Elbows and Rock Bottoms in the squared circle, but his ability to hold his own opposite scene stealers like Scott and Christopher Walken was the first indication that he was more than just another beefy brawler. Peter Berg and Johnson have teased a possible Rundown sequel for years; at this point, we’d settle for any kind of new collaboration between these two.

Magic Mike (2012)

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

The cast of the Xquisite Strip Club in Magic Mike includes Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, and one Kevin Nash, who’s best known to wrestling fans as an original member of the infamous and influential New World Order stable of the late 1990s. Nash, who’s also appeared in Rock Of Ages, The Longest Yard, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (as Super Shredder!), didn’t have a huge role—he serves mostly as a backup dancer and sidekick, and also swings around like Tarzan in one key scene—but he brought a welcome authenticity to the Xquisite, thanks in part to his first-hand knowledge of its world. (Before he became a star in the WWE as the character Diesel, he worked as the floor manager at an Atlanta strip club.) Nash’s casting was also something of an inside joke for WWE enthusiasts, thanks to his most famous wrestling nickname: “Big Sexy.”