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1. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith) 2. Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith) 3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916, Stuart Paton) 4. Micky (1918, F. Richard Jones, James Young) 5. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) 6. Safety Last (1923, Harold Lloyd) 7. Sherlock Junior (1924, Buster Keaton) 8. Brown of Harvard (1926, Jack Conway) 9. Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance) 10. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) 11. Wings (1927, William Wellman) 12. The Passion of Joan D'Arc (1928, Carl Th. Dreyer) 13. The Broadway Melody (1929, Harry Beaumont) 14. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone) 15. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin) 16. Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn LeRoy) 17. M (1931, Fritz Lang) 18. It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) 19. The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke) 20. Fury (1936, Fritz Lang) 21. Gone With The Wind (1939, Victor Fleming) 22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred Werker) 23. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, Frank Capra) 24. The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford) 25. Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges) 26. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) 27. The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges) 28. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles) 29. It's A Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra) 30. Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder) 31. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) 32. The Searchers (1956, John Ford) 33. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) 34. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) 35. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles) 36. The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut) 37. Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder) 38. The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder) 39. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) 40. David and Lisa (1962, Frank Perry) 41. The Pink Panther (1963, Blake Edwards) 42. A Hard Day's Night (1964, Richard Lester) 43. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick) 44. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) 45. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) 46. Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) 47. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) 48. Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich) 49. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill) 50. Patton (1970, Franklin Schaffner) 51. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) 52. Deliverance (1972, John Boorman) 53. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin) 54. Foxy Brown (1974, Jack Hill) 55. The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) 56. American Graffiti (1974, George Lucas) 57. Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks) 58. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski) 59. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) 60. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet) 61. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam) 62. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman) 63. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet) 64. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) 65. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) 66. Star Wars (1977, George Lucas) 67. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Speilberg) 68. A Little Romance (1979, George Roy Hill) 69. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott) 70. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) 71. Breaking Away (1979, Peter Yates) 72. Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen) 73. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) 74. Caddyshack (1980, Harold Ramis) 75. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner) 76. Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter) 77. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg) 78. Reds (1981, Warren Beatty) 79. ET The Extraterrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg) 80. Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack) 81. Fanny and Alexander (1983, Ingmar Bergman) 82. The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman) 83. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam) 84. Jean De Florette (1987, Claude Berri) 85. Manon of the Spring (1988, Claude Berri) 86. Drugstore Cowboy (1989, Gus Van Sant) 87. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) 88. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood) 89. Schindler's List (1994, Steven Spielberg) 90. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) 91. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont) 92. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter) 93. Breaking the Waves (1996, Lars Von Trier) 94. Saving Private Ryan (1997, Steven Spielberg) 95. Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant) 96. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick) 97. Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott) 98. The Bourne Identity (2002, Doug Liman) 99. The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird) 100. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominick)

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Top 10 Elvis Movies

Follow That Dream
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Blue Hawaii
Speedway
It Happened at the World's Fair
Viva Las Vegas
Clambake
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Top Animation Movies

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Fantasia (1940)
Tale of Tales (1979)
Akira (1988)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Lion King (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
Shrek (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Shrek 2 (2004)
The Incredibles (2004)

Top Oscar Winners

11 - Ben Hur (1959)
11 - Titanic (1997)
11 - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
10 - West Side Story (1961)
9 - Gigi (1958)
9 - The Last Emperor (1987)
9 - The English Patient (1996)
8 - Gone With The Wind (1939)
8 - From Here to Eternity (1953)
8 - On The Waterfront (1954)
8 - My Fair Lady (1964)
8 - Caberet (1972)
8 - Gandhi (1982)
8 - Amadeus (1984)

Top Movie Directors

Billy Wilder
David Lean
Fred Zinnemann
Steven Spielberg
Elia Kazan
George Stevens
Clint Eastwood
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Robert Wise
Oliver Stone
Milos Forman
Leo McCarey
Lewis Milestone
Frank Lloyd
Frank Borzage

Top Movies of 1960s

The Apartment (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Westside Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Marry Poppins (1964
Dr Zhivago (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Easy Rider (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

Top Movies of 1970s

M*A*S*H (1970) The Clockwork Orange (1971) The French Connection (1971) The Godfather (1972) Cabaret (1972) American Graffiti (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Jaws (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
Network (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)

Top Movies of 1980s

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Caddyshack (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. - The Extraterrestrial (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
The Color Purple (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Silverado (1985)
Better Off Dead (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Three Men and A Baby (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Predator (1987)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Rain Man (1988)
Dead Poets Society (1988)
Batman (1989)