100 Classic Movie Quotes….Nostalgia matters!
Here is a showcase of 100 memorable movie clips….Produced by the American Film Institute, I know you will enjoy this 10-minute treasury of film classics 100 Classic Movie Quotes.
Sharing an old movie with the g-kids is a favorite pastime with us. We, of course, watch all the latest and greatest of new movies with them, and then once in a while, we like to slide in one of our favorite nostalgia movies.
American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition
The 100 greatest American films of all time, determined by a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians.
| # | TITLE | DIRECTORS | RUNTIME | YEAR | GENRES | ||
| 1 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 119 | 1941 | drama, mystery | ||
| 2 | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 175 | 1972 | crime, drama | ||
| 3 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 102 | 1942 | drama, romance, war | ||
| 4 | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 129 | 1980 | biography, drama, sport | ||
| 5 | Singin’ in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 103 | 1952 | comedy, musical, romance | ||
| 6 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 238 | 1939 | drama, history, romance, war | |
| 7 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 216 | 1962 | adventure, biography, drama, history, war | |
| 8 | Schindler’s List | Steven Spielberg | 195 | 1993 | biography, drama, history | |
| 9 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 128 | 1958 | mystery, romance, thriller | |
| 10 | The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 102 | 1939 | adventure, family, fantasy, musical | |
| 11 | City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 87 | 1931 | comedy, drama, romance | |
| 12 | The Searchers | John Ford | 119 | 1956 | adventure, drama, western | |
| 13 | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | George Lucas | 121 | 1977 | action, adventure, fantasy, sci_fi | |
| 14 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 109 | 1960 | horror, mystery, thriller | |
| 15 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 149 | 1968 | adventure, sci_fi | |
| 16 | Sunset Blvd. | Billy Wilder | 110 | 1950 | drama, film_noir | |
| 17 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 106 | 1967 | comedy, drama | |
| 18 | The General | Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | 67 | 1926 | action, adventure, comedy, drama, war, western | |
| 19 | On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 108 | 1954 | crime, drama, thriller | |
| 20 | It’s a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 130 | 1946 | drama, family, fantasy | |
| 21 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 130 | 1974 | drama, mystery, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/ |
| 22 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 120 | 1959 | comedy, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/ |
| 23 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 129 | 1940 | drama, history | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032551/ |
| 24 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 115 | 1982 | family, sci_fi | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/ |
| 25 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | 129 | 1962 | crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/ |
| 26 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | 129 | 1939 | comedy, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/ |
| 27 | High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | 85 | 1952 | drama, thriller, western | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/ |
| 28 | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 138 | 1950 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/ |
| 29 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 107 | 1944 | crime, drama, film_noir, mystery, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/ |
| 30 | Apocalypse Now | Francis Coppola | 153 | 1979 | drama, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ |
| 31 | The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 100 | 1941 | crime, film_noir, mystery | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/ |
| 32 | The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 202 | 1974 | crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/ |
| 33 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Milos Forman | 133 | 1975 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ |
| 34 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | William Cottrell, David Hand | 83 | 1937 | animation, family, fantasy, musical, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/ |
| 35 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 93 | 1977 | comedy, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/ |
| 36 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 161 | 1957 | adventure, drama, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/ |
| 37 | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 172 | 1946 | drama, romance, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/ |
| 38 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 126 | 1948 | adventure, drama, western | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/ |
| 39 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 95 | 1964 | comedy | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ |
| 40 | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 174 | 1965 | biography, drama, family, musical, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/ |
| 41 | King Kong | 100 | 1933 | adventure, horror, sci_fi | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/ | |
| 42 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 111 | 1967 | action, biography, crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061418/ |
| 43 | Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 113 | 1969 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/ |
| 44 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 112 | 1940 | comedy, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/ |
| 45 | Shane | George Stevens | 118 | 1953 | drama, western | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/ |
| 46 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 105 | 1934 | comedy, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/ |
| 47 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 122 | 1951 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/ |
| 48 | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 112 | 1954 | mystery, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/ |
| 49 | Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages | D.W. Griffith | 163 | 1916 | drama, history | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006864/ |
| 50 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson | 178 | 2001 | adventure, drama, fantasy | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/ |
| 51 | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | 152 | 1961 | crime, drama, musical, romance, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/ |
| 52 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 113 | 1976 | crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/ |
| 53 | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | 183 | 1978 | drama, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/ |
| 54 | MASH | Robert Altman | 116 | 1970 | comedy, drama, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066026/ |
| 55 | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 136 | 1959 | action, adventure, mystery, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/ |
| 56 | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 124 | 1975 | adventure, drama, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/ |
| 57 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | 120 | 1976 | drama, sport | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/ |
| 58 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 95 | 1925 | adventure, comedy, drama, family | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015864/ |
| 59 | Nashville | Robert Altman | 160 | 1975 | comedy, drama, music | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/ |
| 60 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 68 | 1933 | comedy, musical, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023969/ |
| 61 | Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | 90 | 1941 | adventure, comedy, drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/ |
| 62 | American Graffiti | George Lucas | 110 | 1973 | comedy, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/ |
| 63 | Cabaret | Bob Fosse | 124 | 1972 | drama, musical | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/ |
| 64 | Network | Sidney Lumet | 121 | 1976 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/ |
| 65 | The African Queen | John Huston | 105 | 1951 | adventure, drama, romance, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/ |
| 66 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | 115 | 1981 | action, adventure | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/ |
| 67 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | 131 | 1966 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061184/ |
| 68 | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | 131 | 1992 | drama, western | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/ |
| 69 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 116 | 1982 | comedy, drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/ |
| 70 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | 136 | 1971 | crime, drama, sci_fi | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ |
| 71 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | 169 | 1998 | drama, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/ |
| 72 | The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | 142 | 1994 | crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/ |
| 73 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | 110 | 1969 | biography, crime, drama, western | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/ |
| 74 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 118 | 1991 | crime, drama, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/ |
| 75 | In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 109 | 1967 | crime, drama, mystery, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061811/ |
| 76 | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 142 | 1994 | comedy, drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/ |
| 77 | All the President’s Men | Alan J. Pakula | 138 | 1976 | biography, drama, history, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/ |
| 78 | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 87 | 1936 | comedy, drama, family, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/ |
| 79 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 135 | 1969 | action, adventure, western | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/ |
| 80 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 125 | 1960 | comedy, drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/ |
| 81 | Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 197 | 1960 | adventure, biography, drama, history, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/ |
| 82 | Sunrise | F.W. Murnau | 94 | 1927 | drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018455/ |
| 83 | Titanic | James Cameron | 194 | 1997 | drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/ |
| 84 | Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 95 | 1969 | adventure, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/ |
| 85 | A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 96 | 1935 | comedy, music, musical | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026778/ |
| 86 | Platoon | Oliver Stone | 120 | 1986 | drama, war | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/ |
| 87 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 96 | 1957 | crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/ |
| 88 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 102 | 1938 | comedy, family, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/ |
| 89 | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | 107 | 1999 | drama, mystery, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/ |
| 90 | Swing Time | George Stevens | 103 | 1936 | comedy, musical, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028333/ |
| 91 | Sophie’s Choice | Alan J. Pakula | 150 | 1982 | drama, romance | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084707/ |
| 92 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | 146 | 1990 | biography, crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/ |
| 93 | The French Connection | William Friedkin | 104 | 1971 | action, crime, drama, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/ |
| 94 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 154 | 1994 | crime, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/ |
| 95 | The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 118 | 1971 | drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/ |
| 96 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 120 | 1989 | comedy, drama | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/ |
| 97 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 117 | 1982 | sci_fi, thriller | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/ |
| 98 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | 126 | 1942 | biography, drama, musical | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035575/ |
| 99 | Toy Story | John Lasseter | 81 | 1995 | animation, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/ |
| 100 | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | 212 | 1959 | adventure, drama, history | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/ |
