Saturday, October 18, 2008

AFI's 10 Top 10

The 10 greatest films in 10 classics genres from the American Film Institute.

Animation

Book Cover Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
By Walt Disney

Fairy tale story of Snow White and the adventures she has with the seven dwarfs, the prince, and her evil step mother. ...More


Romantic Comedies

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City Lights
By Chaplin, Charles

A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. ...More


Western

Book Cover The Searchers
By Ford, John

A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness. ...More


Sports

Book Cover Raging Bull
By Scorsese, Martin
Niro, Robert de
Moriarty, Cathy

Graphic biography of 1949-51 WBA middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Best actor Oscar for De Niro. ...More


Mystery

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Vertigo
By Hitchcock, Alfred

Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman. ...More


Fantasy

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The Wizard of Oz
By Fleming, Victor

Dorothy, her dog Toto, and three friends set off for the mysterious Emerald City in search of the Wizard. Although pursued by the Wicked Witch of the West, they finally reach the Emerald City and receive an audience with the Wizard ...More


Sci-Fi

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2001: A Space Odyssey
By Kubrick, Stanley

Obscure in its meaning and symbolism, the film is famous for its award-winning special effects and for such sequences as the duel between astronaut Dullea and the computer HAL and the recurring appearances of a mysterious black monolith. ...More


Gangster


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The Godfather
By Coppola, Francis Ford

The Corleone family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged. ...More


Courtroom Drama

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To Kill A Mockingbird
By Mulligan, Robert

The award winning story of a small child who learns that there is evil in world. Set in the backdrop of the South, during the Depression, a white woman accuses a black man of rape. And while he is obviously innocent only one man will step up to defend him. ...More


Epic

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Lawrence of Arabia
By Lean, David

Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity ...More