AFI's 10 Top 10

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

Animation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Tis the Season for FRIGHTENING FILMS

October can be a spooky kind of month. Why not put a tingle down your spine with these frightful flicks:

Bram Stoker's Dracula By Coppola, Francis Ford Oldman, Gary Ryder, Winona 2008/03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1404912509 Check Our Catalog The vampire count of Transylvania seeks his lost love and the conquest of Britain by plague. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. ...More

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein By Branagh, Kenneth Niro, Robert de Carter, Helena Bonham 2008/04 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 5555274823 Check Our Catalog Dr. Frankenstein creates a soulless monster from cadavers and tries to hide it from his beloved. ...More

Nosferatu By Herzog, Werner 2001/01 - Image Ent. BL12896DVD Check Our Catalog It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife, Lucy, begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale, wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula. The events that transpire slowly convinve Harker that he is in the midst of a vampyre. What he doesn't know, however, is the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of Nosferatu ...More

Night of the Living Dead By Romero, George Jones, Duane O'Dea, Judith 2008/05 - Genius Products 5557438408 Check Our Catalog People hide in a house from carnivorous walking corpses revived by radiation fallout. Directed by George Romero. ...More

The Creature from the Black Lagoon By Arnold, Jack Adams, Julia Denning, Richard 2008/07 - Universal Home Video 1417011114 Check Our Catalog Fossil hunters find, drug, lose and hunt a slimy gill-man in the Amazon. Originally 3-D. ...More

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

High School Musical 3 is coming to theaters October 24th, but before going to the theaters check out past High School Musical films and other movies staring the cast.

Check out past High School Musical Films

High School Musical By Ortega, Kenny 2006/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney BL07061ADVD Check Our Catalog The captain of the East High basketball team and the key member of the academic club shock the student body by teaming to audition for the upcoming school musical in a Disney Channel Original Movie that's all about being yourself and following your dreams. Troy (Zac Efron) is best known as the player who keeps the East High basketball team on the scoreboard. Of course, life isn't always about athletics, though, and as Troy slam-dunks on the boards, beautiful and brainy Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) is raising the reputation of East High as the key member of the school's successful academic team. Despite their outgoing natures, no one would ever peg Troy and Gabriella as theater types. When word gets out that this popular pair has secretly chosen to reach for the stars and try their luck on the stage, the students of East High are about ...More

High School Musical 2 By Ortega, Kenny Efron, Zac Hudgens, Vanessa Anne 2008/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0788884085 Check Our Catalog School is out, and Troy and Gabriella are looking forward to a summer to remember, but Troy also needs to make bank so he can go to college. As it turns out, Sharpay, the self-proclaimed primo girl of East High, has her eye set on primo-boy Troy, and gets him a job at the country club her parents own. It looks great for Troy when Gabriella and the rest of the Wildcats are hired also, but when he gets preferential treatment from the club manager and others, it puts all of his relationships in hot water. ...More

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New Quick Flicks for the week of 8/12/08

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull By Spielberg, Steven 2008/08 - Paramount BL09083DVD Check Our Catalog Hollywood icon Harrison Ford returns to the role of the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones nearly 20 years after he last donned the famous fedora and bullwhip to save the world from imminent peril. ...More

War, Inc. By Seftel, Joshua 2008/10 - First Look Home Entertain 5557432256 Check Our Catalog Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in War, Inc ., a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter in check. ...More

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days By Mungiu, Cristian 2008/10 - IFC Films BL10089DVD Check Our Catalog In the last days of communism in Romania, Gabita, a young college student, wants to end her unplanned pregnancy. With the help of her best friend, fellow student Otilia, she seeks an abortion, illegal under the oppressive Ceaucescu regime. ...More