AFI Top 100
An absolute crime that this movie sits at #2. This Francis Ford Coppola trilogy opener is far better than Citizen Kane. Marlon Brando as Don Corleon makes you an offer you can't refuse.
The Godfather
"The hillllllllssssss are alllivvvvvve...."
Sound of Music
Frozen
Maybe the most divisive rom com of all time? Love it or hate it, you'll always find it somewhere during Christmas time, as this British film that follows multiple characters across the holiday season including the British Prime Minister, a washed up rock star, a kid learning to play the drums, and a guy secretly obsessed with Keira Knightley.
Love Actually
A movie that features dance battles between the Jets and the Sharks becomes a movie that features battles between Buzz Lightyear and Emperor Zurg.
West Side Toy Story
At #99 we meet our first fully CGI film. Come with Woody and Buzz on an adventure to infinity and beyond.
Toy Story
Moana
This Gen Z singer--immortalized by Armani White for her big t-shirts--won an Oscar for a Bond movie theme song. I'm still mad because it beat out Dos Oruguitas from Encanto.
Billie Eilish
This new classic, starring Constance Wu, sees her suddenly discover she has been dating the heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Asia. Problem is, the guy's family doesn't like her.
Crazy Rich Asians
Movie that features "Luke, I am your father" becomes movie that features "Where we're going, we don't need roads."
The Empire Strikes Back to the Future
Topping the list of films is this Orson Welles classic about a prominent news tycoon. The movie opens at his mansion Xanadu just in time to hear his last words, "Rosebud."
Citizen Kane
"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Taylor Swift features on the soundtrack for the opening film of this YA franchise, sing "Safe and Sound" with the Civil Wars (still sad they broke up).
The Hunger Games
A classic Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film, this rom com features a real throwback to dial-up internet and AOL's famous phrase.
You've Got Mail
The first movie in the Marvel cinematic universe becomes a Denzel Washington action movie where he is out to avenge the killing of a little girl's family.
Iron Man on Fire
Casablanca
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."
Goodfellas
This German composer is behind themes from Gladiator, Dune, and Driving Miss Daisy. But you probably know him from his Inception score. He's the reason every movie trailer now has a bwwwwwaaaahhhhh.
Written by Nora Ephron, this is often ranked as the greatest rom com of all time. It stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as two polar opposites who become unlikely friends and then, in a famous ending speech from Crystal, realize that "when you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as possible"
When Harry Met Sally
One of the weirdest movies in the MCU starring Benedict Cumberbatch becomes the highest grossing Netflix series of all time about a girl with special powers.
Doctor Stranger Things
Coming in at #13 is a chilling Alfred Hitchcock stand-by. It contains an infamous stabbing the shower that left people afraid to shower by themselves for years thereafter. Hitchcock used watered down chocolate syrup for blood.
Psycho
"Are you watching closely?"
The Prestige
The greatest movie composer of all time, this legend is behind the themes from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, and (my personal favorite) Jaws.
John Williams
Before he was the joker, Heath Ledger killed as the love interest for Julia Stiles in this 90's rom com that's actually based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
An alliterative Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan rom com becomes the NFL franchise that once boasted a defense named the Legion of Boom.
Sleepless in Seattle Seahawks