The 101 Greatest Screenplays of All Time
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101. Notorious
(1946; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Written by Ben Hecht
Memorable Line: "I'm a fatheaded guy, full of pain. It tore me up not having you."
—Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin
100. Memento
(2001; dir. Christopher Nolan)
Screenplay by Christopher Nolan. Based on the short story "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan
Memorable Line: "Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?"
—Guy Pearce as Leonard
99. The Wild Bunch
(1969; dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Screenplay by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah. Story by Walon Green and Roy Sickner
Memorable Line: "When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished."
98. The Grapes of Wrath
(1940; dir. John Ford)
Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck
Memorable Line: "We are the people that live."
—Jane Darwell as Ma Joad
97. The Searchers
(1956; dir. John Ford)
Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent. Based on the novel by Alan Le May
Memorable Line: "That'll be the day."
—John Wayne as Ethan Edwards
96. The Hustler
(1961; dir. Robert Rossen)
Screenplay by Sidney Carroll & Robert Rossen. Based on the novel by Walter Tevis
Memorable Line: "Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best."
— Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson
95. Hannah and Her Sisters
(1986; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen
Memorable Line: "I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."
—Woody Allen as Mickey Sachs
94. Patton
(1970; dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Screen Story and Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North. Based on "A Soldier's Story" by Omar H. Bradley and "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph" by Ladislas Farago
Memorable Line: "We're not just going to shoot the bastards. We're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on our tanks."
—George C. Scott as General George S. Patton
93. Do The Right Thing
(1989; dir. Spike Lee)
Written by Spike Lee
Memorable Line: "Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?"
—Giancarlo Esposito as Buggin' Out
92. Psycho
(1960; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Screenplay by Joseph Stefano. Based on the novel by Robert Bloch.
Memorable Line: "Mother… What is the phrase? She isn't herself today."
—Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
91. The Verdict
(1982; dir. Sidney Lumet)
Screenplay by David Mamet. Based on the novel by Barry Reed
Memorable Line: "I changed my life today. What did you do?"
—Paul Newman as Frank Galvin
90. Sideways
(2004; dir. Alexander Payne)
Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor. Based on the novel by Rex Pickett
Memorable Line: "Come on, man…. Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published."
—Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond
89. Forrest Gump
(1994; dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Screenplay by Eric Roth. Based on the novel by Winston Groom
Memorable Line: "Mama always said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.'"
—Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
88. Field of Dreams
(1988; dir. Phil Alden Robinson)
Screenplay by Phil Alden Robinson. Based on the book by W.P. Kinsella
Memorable Line: "Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta): "Is this heaven?" Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner): "No, it's Iowa."
87. 8 1/2
(1963; dir. Federico Fellini)
Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi. Story by Fellini, Flaiano.
Memorable Line: "Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone."
—Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi
86. Harold and Maude
(1971; dir. Hal Ashby)
Written by Colin Higgins
Memorable Line: "I haven't lived… But I've died a few times."
—Bud Cort as Harold Chasen
85. La Grande Illusion
(1937; dir. Jean Renoir)
Written by Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak
Memorable Line: "The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling."
—Jean Gabin as Lieutenant Maréchal
84. The Princess Bride
(1987; dir. Rob Reiner)
Screenplay by William Goldman. Based on his novel.
Memorable Line: "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
—Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya
83. Rear Window
(1954; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Screenplay by John Michael Hayes. Based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich
Memorable Line: "She's too perfect, she's too talented, she's too beautiful, she's too sophisticated, she's too everything but what I want."
—James Stewart as L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies
82. Cool Hand Luke
(1967; dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
Screenplay by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson. Based on the novel by Donn Pearce.
Memorable Line: "I can eat fifty eggs."
—Paul Newman as Luke Jackson
81. Being There
(1979; dir. Hal Ashby)
Screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski. Inspired by the novel by Jerzy Kosinski
Memorable Line: "There will be growth in the spring."
—Peter Sellers as Chance
80. Witness
(1985; dir. Peter Weir)
Screenplay by Earl W. Wallace & William Kelley. Story by William Kelley and Pamela Wallace & Earl W. Wallace
Memorable Line: "Listen, lady, you take my picture and I'm going to rip off your brassiere and strangle you with it."
—Harrison Ford as John Book
79. The Producers
(1968; dir. Mel Brooks)
Written by Mel Brooks
Memorable Line: "How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"
—Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock
78. Rocky
(1976; dir. John G. Avildsen)
Written by Sylvester Stallone
Memorable Line: "Adrian!"
—Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
77. Adaptation
(2002; dir. Spike Jonze)
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman. Based on the book "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean
Memorable Line: "Coffee would help me think…. Coffee and a muffin."
—Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman
76. Raging Bull
(1980; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin. Based on the book by Jake La Motta with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage
Memorable Line: "You win, you win. You lose, you still win."
—Joe Pesci as Joey La Motta
75. High Noon
(19T52; dir. Fred Zinnermann)
Screenplay by Carl Foreman. Based on short story "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham
Memorable Line: "You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again….. And in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
—Lon Chaney as Martin Howe
74. Being John Malkovich
(1999; dir. Spike Jonze)
Written by Charlie Kaufman
Memorable Line: "Do you know what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is?"
—John Cusack as Craig Schwartz
73. Amadeus
(1984; dir. Milos Forman)
Screenplay by Peter Shaffer. Based on his play.
Memorable Line: "Forgive me, majesty. I am a vulgar man. But I assure you my music is not."
—Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
72. Thelma & Louise
(1991; dir. Ridley Scott)
Written by Callie Khouri
Memorable Line: "You get what you settle for."
—Susan Sarandon as Louise Sawyer
71. The Lion in Winter
(1968; dir. Anthony Harvey)
Screenplay by James Goldman. Based on the play by James Goldman
Memorable Line: "I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once."
—Peter O'Toole as Henry II
70. The African Queen
(1951; dir. John Huston)
Screenplay by James Agee and John Huston. Based on the novel by C.S. Forester
Memorable Line: "Well I ain't sorry for you no more, you crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
—Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut
69. Dog Day Afternoon
(1975; dir. Sidney Lumet)
Screenplay by Frank Pierson. Based on a magazine article by P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore
Memorable Line: "Attica! Attica!"
—Al Pacino as Sonny
68. Star Wars
(1977; dir. George Lucas)
Written by George Lucas
Memorable Line: "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
—James Earl Jones (voice) as Darth Vader
67. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(1982; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Written by Melissa Mathison
Memorable Line: "E.T. phone home."
—E.T.
66. Jerry Maguire
(1996; dir. Cameron Crowe)
Written by Cameron Crowe
Memorable Line: "Show me the money!"
—Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire
65. Singin’ in the Rain
(1952; dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
Screen Story and Screenplay by Betty Comden & Adolph Green. Based on the song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown
Memorable Line: "Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore."
—Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood
64. Terms of Endearment
(1983; dir. James L. Brooks)
Screenplay by James L. Brooks. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
Memorable Line: "My daughter is in pain. Can't you understand that? Give my daughter the shot!"
—Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway
63. Jaws
(1975; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley
Memorable Line: "You’re gonna need a bigger boat."
—Roy Scheider as Chief Brody
62. Moonstruck
(1987; dir. Norman Jewison)
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Memorable Lines: "Snap out of it!"
—Cher as Loretta Castorini
61. The Silence of the Lambs
(1991; dir. Jonathan Demme)
Screenplay by Ted Tally. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris
Memorable Line: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
—Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
60. L.A. Confidential
(1997; dir. Curtis Hanson)
Screenplay by Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson. Based on the novel by James Ellroy
Memorable Line: "Something has to be done, but nothing too original. Because, hey, this is Hollywood."
—Danny De Vito as Sid Hudgens
59. It Happened One Night
(1934; dir. Frank Capra)
Screenplay by Robert Riskin. Based on the story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Memorable Line: "I was just wondering what makes dames like you so dizzy."
—Clark Gable as Peter Warne
58. Ordinary People
(1980; dir. Robert Redford)
Screenplay by Alvin Sargent. Based on the novel by Judith Guest
Memorable Line: "A little advice about feelings, kiddo. Don't expect it always to tickle."
—Judd Hirsch as Dr. Tyrone Berger
57. Crimes and Misdemeanors
(1989; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen
Memorable Line: "Where I grew up in Brooklyn, we were too unhappy to commit suicide."
—Woody Allen as Cliff Stern
56. Back to the Future
(1985; dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Written by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale
Memorable Line: "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it. "
—Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly
55. Apocalypse Now
(1979; dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Written by John Milius and Francis Coppola. Narration by Michael Herr
Memorable Line: "The horror, the horror."
—Marlon Brando as Col. Walter Kurtz
54. Manhattan
(1979; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
Memorable Line: "I've never had the wrong kind [of orgasm]…. My worst one was right on the money."
—Woody Allen as Issac Davis
53. All the President’s Men
(1976; dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Screenplay by William Goldman. Based on the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
Memorable Line: "We're under a lot of pressure, you know. And you put us there. Nothing's riding on this except the… first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters. But if you guys fuck up again, I'm going to get mad. Goodnight."
—Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee
52. The Lady Eve
(1941; dir. Preston Sturges)
Screenplay by Preston Sturges. Story by Monckton Hoffe
Memorable Line: "I need him like the ax needs the turkey."
—Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington
51. Broadcast News
(1987; dir. James L. Brooks)
Written by James L. Brooks
Memorable Line: "It was like great sex."
—William Hurt as Tom Grunick
50. The Sixth Sense
(1999; dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Written by M. Night Shyamalan
Memorable Line: "I see dead people."
—Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear
49. Schindler’s List
(1993; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally
Memorable Line: "I pardon you."
—Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
48. The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957; dir. David Lean)
Screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson. Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle
Memorable Line: "What have I done?"
—Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson
47. The Maltese Falcon
(1941; dir. John Huston)
Screenplay by John Huston. Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett
Memorable Line: "When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it."
—Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade
46. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948; dir. John Huston)
Screenplay by John Huston. Based on the novel by B. Trave"
Memorable Line: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges."
—Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(1975; dir. Milos Forman)
Screenplay by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey
Memorable Line: "Get out of my way son, you're using my oxygen. You know what I mean?"
—Jack Nicholson as Randall Patrick Murphy
44. The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946; dir. William Wyler)
Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood. Based on novel "Glory For Me" by MacKinley Kantor
Memorable Line: "They couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl, or to stroke her hair." —Fredric March as Al Stephenson
43. Taxi Driver
(1976; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Written by Paul Schrader
Memorable Line: "You talkin’ to me?"
—Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle
42. Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan. Story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman
Memorable Line: "I hate snakes."
—Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones
41. Goodfellas
(1990; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese. Based on book Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi.
Memorable Line: "Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."
—Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway
40. When Harry Met Sally…
(1989; dir. Rob Reiner)
Written by Nora Ephron
Memorable Line: "I’ll have what she’s having."
—Estelle Reiner as the woman in the deli
39. The Sting
(1973; dir. George Roy Hill)
Written by David S. Ward
Memorable Line: "No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen."
—Paul Newman as Henry Gondorff
38. American Beauty
(1999; dir. Sam Mendes)
Written by Alan Ball
Memorable Line: "I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose."
—Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham
37. The Philadelphia Story
(1940; dir. George Cukor)
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry
Memorable Line: "I'm going crazy. I'm standing here, solidly on my own two hands and going crazy."
—Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord
36. Midnight Cowboy
(1969; dir. John Schlesinger)
Screenplay by Waldo Salt. Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy
Memorable Line: "I’m walkin’ here!"
—Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo
35. The Usual Suspects
(1995; dir. Bryan Singer)
Written by Christopher McQuarrie
Memorable Line: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
—Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint
34. The Sweet Smell of Success
(1957; dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman. From a novelette by Ernest Lehman
Memorable Line: "Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off!"
—Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco
33. The Third Man
(1949; dir. Carol Reed)
Screenplay by Graham Greene. Story by Graham Greene. Based on the short story by Graham Greene.
Memorable Line: "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"
—Orson Wells as Harry Lime
32. Fargo
(1996; dir. Joel Coen)
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Memorable Line: "I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.''
—Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson
31. His Girl Friday
(1940: dir. Howard Hawks)
Screenplay by Charles Lederer. Based on the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
Memorable Line: "Who’s going to read the second paragraph?"
—Cary Grant as Walter Burns
30. Unforgiven
(1992: dir. Clint Eastwood)
Written by David Webb Peoples
Memorable Line: "It's a hell of a thing killin’ a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
—Clint Eastwood as Bill Munny
29. Sullivan’s Travels
(1941; dir. Preston Sturges)
Written by Preston Sturges
Memorable Line: "There's always a girl in the picture. What's the matter? Don't you go to the movies?"
—Joel McCreas as John L. Sullivan
28. Shakespeare In Love
(1998; dir. John Madden)
Written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Memorable Line: "Romeo and Juliet. Just a suggestion."
—Ben Affleck as Ned Alleyn
27. Groundhog Day
(1993; dir. Harold Ramis)
Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis. Story by Danny Rubin.
Memorable Line: "What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today."
—Bill Murray as Phil Connors
26. Double Indemnity
(1944; dir. Billy Wilder)
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Based on the novel by James M. Cain
Memorable Line: "Do I laugh now or wait until it gets funny?"
—Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff
25. The Wizard of Oz
(1939; dir. Victor Fleming)
Screenplay by Noel Langley and Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Adaptation by Noel Langley. Based on the novel by L. Frank Baum
Memorable Line: "Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore."
—Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale
24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004; dir. Michel Gondry)
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Memorable Line: Joel Barish (Jim Carrey): “Is there any risk of brain damage?” Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson): "Well, technically, the procedure itself is brain damage, but on par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss."
23. Gone With the Wind
(1939; dir. Victor Fleming)
Screenplay by Sidney Howard. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell
Memorable Line: "You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."
—Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
22. The Shawshank Redemption
(1994; dir. Frank Darabont)
Screenplay by Frank Darabont. Based on the short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Memorable Line: “Get busy living, or get busy dying."
—Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne
21. North by Northwest
(1959; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Written by Ernest Lehman
Memorable Line: "I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself ‘slightly’ killed."
—Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill
20. It’s a Wonderful Life
(1946; dir. Frank Capra)
Screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett & Frank Capra. Based on the short story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern. Contributions to the screenplay by Michael Wilson and Jo Swerling
Memorable Line: "Big—see! I don’t want one for one night. I want something for a thousand and one nights, with plenty of room for labels from Italy and Baghdad, Samarkand . . . a great big one!"
—Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey
19. To Kill A Mockingbird
(1962; dir. Robert Mulligan)
Screenplay by Horton Foote. Based on the novel by Harper Lee
Memorable Line: "There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible."
—Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
18. On the Waterfront
(1954; dir. Elia Kazan)
Screen story and screenplay by Budd Schulberg. Based on “Crime on the Waterfront” articles by Malcolm Johnson
Memorable Line: "You want to know what’s wrong with our waterfront? It’s love of a lousy buck. It’s making love of a buck—the cushy job—more important than the love of man. It’s forgetting that every fellow down here is your brother in Christ."
—Karl Malden as Father Barry
17. Tootsie
(1982; dir. Sydney Pollack)
Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal. Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart
Memorable Line: "Look, you don’t know me from Adam, but I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?"
—Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey
16. Pulp Fiction
(1994; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Written by Quentin Tarantino. Stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Memorable Line: "I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’m gonna git medieval on your ass."
—Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
15. The Apartment
(1960; dir. Billy Wilder)
Written by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
Memorable Line: "I guess that’s the way it crumbles—cookie-wise."
—Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter
14. Lawrence of Arabia
(1962; dir. David Lean)
Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. Based on the life and writings of Col. T.E. Lawrence
Memorable Line: Jackson Bentley (Arthur Kennedy): "What attracts you personally to the desert?" T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole): “It’s clean."
13. The Graduate
(1967; dir. Mike Nichols)
Screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. Based on the novel by Charles Webb
Memorable Line: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word . . . Plastics."
—Walter Brooke as Mr. McGuire
12. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Peter George and Terry Southern.
Memorable Line: "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!"
—Peter Sellers as Pres. Merkin Muffley
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969; dir. George Roy Hill)
Written by William Goldman
Memorable Line: Sundance Kid (Robert Redford): "I can’t swim." Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): "Why, you crazy—the fall’ll probably kill you."
10. The Godfather Part II
(1974; dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather
Memorable Line: "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart."
—Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
9. Some Like It Hot
(1959; dir. Billy Wilder)
Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond. Based on Fanfare of Love, a German film written by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan
Memorable Line: "Nobody’s perfect."
—Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding
8. Network
(1976; dir. Sidney Lumet)
Written by Paddy Chayefsky
Memorable Line: "I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!"
—Peter Finch as Howard Beale
7. Sunset Boulevard
(1950; dir. Billy Wilder)
Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr.
Memorable Line: Joe Gillis (William Holden): "You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big." Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson): "I am big. It’s the pictures that got small."
6. Annie Hall
(1977; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Memorable Line: "A relationship, I think, is—is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."
—Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
5. All About Eve
(1950; dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on The Wisdom of Eve, a short story and radio play by Mary Orr
Memorable Line: "Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night."
—Bette Davis as Margo Channing
4. Citizen Kane
(1941; dir. Orson Welles)
Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Memorable Line: "Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn’t get or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn’t have explained anything. I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life."
—William Alland as Jerry Thompson
3. Chinatown
(1974; dir. Roman Polanski)
Written by Robert Towne
Memorable Line: "Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, public buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
—John Huston as Noah Cross
2. The Godfather
(1972; dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo
Memorable Line: "Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract."
—Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
1. Casablanca
(1942; dir. Michael Curtiz)
Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
Memorable Line: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine."
—Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
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101. Notorious
(1946; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Written by Ben Hecht
Memorable Line: "I'm a fatheaded guy, full of pain. It tore me up not having you."
—Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin
100. Memento
(2001; dir. Christopher Nolan)
Screenplay by Christopher Nolan. Based on the short story "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan
Memorable Line: "Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?"
—Guy Pearce as Leonard
99. The Wild Bunch
(1969; dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Screenplay by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah. Story by Walon Green and Roy Sickner
Memorable Line: "When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished."
98. The Grapes of Wrath
(1940; dir. John Ford)
Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck
Memorable Line: "We are the people that live."
—Jane Darwell as Ma Joad
97. The Searchers
(1956; dir. John Ford)
Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent. Based on the novel by Alan Le May
Memorable Line: "That'll be the day."
—John Wayne as Ethan Edwards
96. The Hustler
(1961; dir. Robert Rossen)
Screenplay by Sidney Carroll & Robert Rossen. Based on the novel by Walter Tevis
Memorable Line: "Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best."
— Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson
95. Hannah and Her Sisters
(1986; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen
Memorable Line: "I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."
—Woody Allen as Mickey Sachs
94. Patton
(1970; dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Screen Story and Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North. Based on "A Soldier's Story" by Omar H. Bradley and "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph" by Ladislas Farago
Memorable Line: "We're not just going to shoot the bastards. We're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on our tanks."
—George C. Scott as General George S. Patton
93. Do The Right Thing
(1989; dir. Spike Lee)
Written by Spike Lee
Memorable Line: "Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?"
—Giancarlo Esposito as Buggin' Out
92. Psycho
(1960; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Screenplay by Joseph Stefano. Based on the novel by Robert Bloch.
Memorable Line: "Mother… What is the phrase? She isn't herself today."
—Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
91. The Verdict
(1982; dir. Sidney Lumet)
Screenplay by David Mamet. Based on the novel by Barry Reed
Memorable Line: "I changed my life today. What did you do?"
—Paul Newman as Frank Galvin
90. Sideways
(2004; dir. Alexander Payne)
Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor. Based on the novel by Rex Pickett
Memorable Line: "Come on, man…. Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published."
—Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond
89. Forrest Gump
(1994; dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Screenplay by Eric Roth. Based on the novel by Winston Groom
Memorable Line: "Mama always said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.'"
—Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
88. Field of Dreams
(1988; dir. Phil Alden Robinson)
Screenplay by Phil Alden Robinson. Based on the book by W.P. Kinsella
Memorable Line: "Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta): "Is this heaven?" Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner): "No, it's Iowa."
87. 8 1/2
(1963; dir. Federico Fellini)
Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi. Story by Fellini, Flaiano.
Memorable Line: "Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone."
—Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi
86. Harold and Maude
(1971; dir. Hal Ashby)
Written by Colin Higgins
Memorable Line: "I haven't lived… But I've died a few times."
—Bud Cort as Harold Chasen
85. La Grande Illusion
(1937; dir. Jean Renoir)
Written by Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak
Memorable Line: "The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling."
—Jean Gabin as Lieutenant Maréchal
84. The Princess Bride
(1987; dir. Rob Reiner)
Screenplay by William Goldman. Based on his novel.
Memorable Line: "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
—Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya
83. Rear Window
(1954; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Screenplay by John Michael Hayes. Based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich
Memorable Line: "She's too perfect, she's too talented, she's too beautiful, she's too sophisticated, she's too everything but what I want."
—James Stewart as L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies
82. Cool Hand Luke
(1967; dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
Screenplay by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson. Based on the novel by Donn Pearce.
Memorable Line: "I can eat fifty eggs."
—Paul Newman as Luke Jackson
81. Being There
(1979; dir. Hal Ashby)
Screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski. Inspired by the novel by Jerzy Kosinski
Memorable Line: "There will be growth in the spring."
—Peter Sellers as Chance
80. Witness
(1985; dir. Peter Weir)
Screenplay by Earl W. Wallace & William Kelley. Story by William Kelley and Pamela Wallace & Earl W. Wallace
Memorable Line: "Listen, lady, you take my picture and I'm going to rip off your brassiere and strangle you with it."
—Harrison Ford as John Book
79. The Producers
(1968; dir. Mel Brooks)
Written by Mel Brooks
Memorable Line: "How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"
—Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock
78. Rocky
(1976; dir. John G. Avildsen)
Written by Sylvester Stallone
Memorable Line: "Adrian!"
—Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
77. Adaptation
(2002; dir. Spike Jonze)
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman. Based on the book "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean
Memorable Line: "Coffee would help me think…. Coffee and a muffin."
—Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman
76. Raging Bull
(1980; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin. Based on the book by Jake La Motta with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage
Memorable Line: "You win, you win. You lose, you still win."
—Joe Pesci as Joey La Motta
75. High Noon
(19T52; dir. Fred Zinnermann)
Screenplay by Carl Foreman. Based on short story "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham
Memorable Line: "You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again….. And in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
—Lon Chaney as Martin Howe
74. Being John Malkovich
(1999; dir. Spike Jonze)
Written by Charlie Kaufman
Memorable Line: "Do you know what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is?"
—John Cusack as Craig Schwartz
73. Amadeus
(1984; dir. Milos Forman)
Screenplay by Peter Shaffer. Based on his play.
Memorable Line: "Forgive me, majesty. I am a vulgar man. But I assure you my music is not."
—Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
72. Thelma & Louise
(1991; dir. Ridley Scott)
Written by Callie Khouri
Memorable Line: "You get what you settle for."
—Susan Sarandon as Louise Sawyer
71. The Lion in Winter
(1968; dir. Anthony Harvey)
Screenplay by James Goldman. Based on the play by James Goldman
Memorable Line: "I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once."
—Peter O'Toole as Henry II
70. The African Queen
(1951; dir. John Huston)
Screenplay by James Agee and John Huston. Based on the novel by C.S. Forester
Memorable Line: "Well I ain't sorry for you no more, you crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
—Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut
69. Dog Day Afternoon
(1975; dir. Sidney Lumet)
Screenplay by Frank Pierson. Based on a magazine article by P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore
Memorable Line: "Attica! Attica!"
—Al Pacino as Sonny
68. Star Wars
(1977; dir. George Lucas)
Written by George Lucas
Memorable Line: "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
—James Earl Jones (voice) as Darth Vader
67. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(1982; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Written by Melissa Mathison
Memorable Line: "E.T. phone home."
—E.T.
66. Jerry Maguire
(1996; dir. Cameron Crowe)
Written by Cameron Crowe
Memorable Line: "Show me the money!"
—Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire
65. Singin’ in the Rain
(1952; dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
Screen Story and Screenplay by Betty Comden & Adolph Green. Based on the song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown
Memorable Line: "Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore."
—Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood
64. Terms of Endearment
(1983; dir. James L. Brooks)
Screenplay by James L. Brooks. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
Memorable Line: "My daughter is in pain. Can't you understand that? Give my daughter the shot!"
—Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway
63. Jaws
(1975; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley
Memorable Line: "You’re gonna need a bigger boat."
—Roy Scheider as Chief Brody
62. Moonstruck
(1987; dir. Norman Jewison)
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Memorable Lines: "Snap out of it!"
—Cher as Loretta Castorini
61. The Silence of the Lambs
(1991; dir. Jonathan Demme)
Screenplay by Ted Tally. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris
Memorable Line: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
—Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
60. L.A. Confidential
(1997; dir. Curtis Hanson)
Screenplay by Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson. Based on the novel by James Ellroy
Memorable Line: "Something has to be done, but nothing too original. Because, hey, this is Hollywood."
—Danny De Vito as Sid Hudgens
59. It Happened One Night
(1934; dir. Frank Capra)
Screenplay by Robert Riskin. Based on the story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Memorable Line: "I was just wondering what makes dames like you so dizzy."
—Clark Gable as Peter Warne
58. Ordinary People
(1980; dir. Robert Redford)
Screenplay by Alvin Sargent. Based on the novel by Judith Guest
Memorable Line: "A little advice about feelings, kiddo. Don't expect it always to tickle."
—Judd Hirsch as Dr. Tyrone Berger
57. Crimes and Misdemeanors
(1989; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen
Memorable Line: "Where I grew up in Brooklyn, we were too unhappy to commit suicide."
—Woody Allen as Cliff Stern
56. Back to the Future
(1985; dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Written by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale
Memorable Line: "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it. "
—Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly
55. Apocalypse Now
(1979; dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Written by John Milius and Francis Coppola. Narration by Michael Herr
Memorable Line: "The horror, the horror."
—Marlon Brando as Col. Walter Kurtz
54. Manhattan
(1979; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
Memorable Line: "I've never had the wrong kind [of orgasm]…. My worst one was right on the money."
—Woody Allen as Issac Davis
53. All the President’s Men
(1976; dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Screenplay by William Goldman. Based on the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
Memorable Line: "We're under a lot of pressure, you know. And you put us there. Nothing's riding on this except the… first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters. But if you guys fuck up again, I'm going to get mad. Goodnight."
—Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee
52. The Lady Eve
(1941; dir. Preston Sturges)
Screenplay by Preston Sturges. Story by Monckton Hoffe
Memorable Line: "I need him like the ax needs the turkey."
—Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington
51. Broadcast News
(1987; dir. James L. Brooks)
Written by James L. Brooks
Memorable Line: "It was like great sex."
—William Hurt as Tom Grunick
50. The Sixth Sense
(1999; dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Written by M. Night Shyamalan
Memorable Line: "I see dead people."
—Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear
49. Schindler’s List
(1993; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally
Memorable Line: "I pardon you."
—Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
48. The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957; dir. David Lean)
Screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson. Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle
Memorable Line: "What have I done?"
—Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson
47. The Maltese Falcon
(1941; dir. John Huston)
Screenplay by John Huston. Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett
Memorable Line: "When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it."
—Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade
46. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948; dir. John Huston)
Screenplay by John Huston. Based on the novel by B. Trave"
Memorable Line: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges."
—Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(1975; dir. Milos Forman)
Screenplay by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey
Memorable Line: "Get out of my way son, you're using my oxygen. You know what I mean?"
—Jack Nicholson as Randall Patrick Murphy
44. The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946; dir. William Wyler)
Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood. Based on novel "Glory For Me" by MacKinley Kantor
Memorable Line: "They couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl, or to stroke her hair." —Fredric March as Al Stephenson
43. Taxi Driver
(1976; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Written by Paul Schrader
Memorable Line: "You talkin’ to me?"
—Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle
42. Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan. Story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman
Memorable Line: "I hate snakes."
—Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones
41. Goodfellas
(1990; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese. Based on book Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi.
Memorable Line: "Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."
—Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway
40. When Harry Met Sally…
(1989; dir. Rob Reiner)
Written by Nora Ephron
Memorable Line: "I’ll have what she’s having."
—Estelle Reiner as the woman in the deli
39. The Sting
(1973; dir. George Roy Hill)
Written by David S. Ward
Memorable Line: "No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen."
—Paul Newman as Henry Gondorff
38. American Beauty
(1999; dir. Sam Mendes)
Written by Alan Ball
Memorable Line: "I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose."
—Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham
37. The Philadelphia Story
(1940; dir. George Cukor)
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry
Memorable Line: "I'm going crazy. I'm standing here, solidly on my own two hands and going crazy."
—Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord
36. Midnight Cowboy
(1969; dir. John Schlesinger)
Screenplay by Waldo Salt. Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy
Memorable Line: "I’m walkin’ here!"
—Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo
35. The Usual Suspects
(1995; dir. Bryan Singer)
Written by Christopher McQuarrie
Memorable Line: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
—Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint
34. The Sweet Smell of Success
(1957; dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman. From a novelette by Ernest Lehman
Memorable Line: "Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off!"
—Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco
33. The Third Man
(1949; dir. Carol Reed)
Screenplay by Graham Greene. Story by Graham Greene. Based on the short story by Graham Greene.
Memorable Line: "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"
—Orson Wells as Harry Lime
32. Fargo
(1996; dir. Joel Coen)
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Memorable Line: "I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.''
—Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson
31. His Girl Friday
(1940: dir. Howard Hawks)
Screenplay by Charles Lederer. Based on the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
Memorable Line: "Who’s going to read the second paragraph?"
—Cary Grant as Walter Burns
30. Unforgiven
(1992: dir. Clint Eastwood)
Written by David Webb Peoples
Memorable Line: "It's a hell of a thing killin’ a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
—Clint Eastwood as Bill Munny
29. Sullivan’s Travels
(1941; dir. Preston Sturges)
Written by Preston Sturges
Memorable Line: "There's always a girl in the picture. What's the matter? Don't you go to the movies?"
—Joel McCreas as John L. Sullivan
28. Shakespeare In Love
(1998; dir. John Madden)
Written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Memorable Line: "Romeo and Juliet. Just a suggestion."
—Ben Affleck as Ned Alleyn
27. Groundhog Day
(1993; dir. Harold Ramis)
Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis. Story by Danny Rubin.
Memorable Line: "What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today."
—Bill Murray as Phil Connors
26. Double Indemnity
(1944; dir. Billy Wilder)
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Based on the novel by James M. Cain
Memorable Line: "Do I laugh now or wait until it gets funny?"
—Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff
25. The Wizard of Oz
(1939; dir. Victor Fleming)
Screenplay by Noel Langley and Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Adaptation by Noel Langley. Based on the novel by L. Frank Baum
Memorable Line: "Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore."
—Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale
24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004; dir. Michel Gondry)
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Memorable Line: Joel Barish (Jim Carrey): “Is there any risk of brain damage?” Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson): "Well, technically, the procedure itself is brain damage, but on par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss."
23. Gone With the Wind
(1939; dir. Victor Fleming)
Screenplay by Sidney Howard. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell
Memorable Line: "You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."
—Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
22. The Shawshank Redemption
(1994; dir. Frank Darabont)
Screenplay by Frank Darabont. Based on the short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Memorable Line: “Get busy living, or get busy dying."
—Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne
21. North by Northwest
(1959; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Written by Ernest Lehman
Memorable Line: "I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself ‘slightly’ killed."
—Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill
20. It’s a Wonderful Life
(1946; dir. Frank Capra)
Screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett & Frank Capra. Based on the short story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern. Contributions to the screenplay by Michael Wilson and Jo Swerling
Memorable Line: "Big—see! I don’t want one for one night. I want something for a thousand and one nights, with plenty of room for labels from Italy and Baghdad, Samarkand . . . a great big one!"
—Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey
19. To Kill A Mockingbird
(1962; dir. Robert Mulligan)
Screenplay by Horton Foote. Based on the novel by Harper Lee
Memorable Line: "There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible."
—Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
18. On the Waterfront
(1954; dir. Elia Kazan)
Screen story and screenplay by Budd Schulberg. Based on “Crime on the Waterfront” articles by Malcolm Johnson
Memorable Line: "You want to know what’s wrong with our waterfront? It’s love of a lousy buck. It’s making love of a buck—the cushy job—more important than the love of man. It’s forgetting that every fellow down here is your brother in Christ."
—Karl Malden as Father Barry
17. Tootsie
(1982; dir. Sydney Pollack)
Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal. Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart
Memorable Line: "Look, you don’t know me from Adam, but I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?"
—Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey
16. Pulp Fiction
(1994; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Written by Quentin Tarantino. Stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Memorable Line: "I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’m gonna git medieval on your ass."
—Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
15. The Apartment
(1960; dir. Billy Wilder)
Written by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
Memorable Line: "I guess that’s the way it crumbles—cookie-wise."
—Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter
14. Lawrence of Arabia
(1962; dir. David Lean)
Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. Based on the life and writings of Col. T.E. Lawrence
Memorable Line: Jackson Bentley (Arthur Kennedy): "What attracts you personally to the desert?" T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole): “It’s clean."
13. The Graduate
(1967; dir. Mike Nichols)
Screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. Based on the novel by Charles Webb
Memorable Line: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word . . . Plastics."
—Walter Brooke as Mr. McGuire
12. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Peter George and Terry Southern.
Memorable Line: "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!"
—Peter Sellers as Pres. Merkin Muffley
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969; dir. George Roy Hill)
Written by William Goldman
Memorable Line: Sundance Kid (Robert Redford): "I can’t swim." Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): "Why, you crazy—the fall’ll probably kill you."
10. The Godfather Part II
(1974; dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather
Memorable Line: "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart."
—Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
9. Some Like It Hot
(1959; dir. Billy Wilder)
Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond. Based on Fanfare of Love, a German film written by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan
Memorable Line: "Nobody’s perfect."
—Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding
8. Network
(1976; dir. Sidney Lumet)
Written by Paddy Chayefsky
Memorable Line: "I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!"
—Peter Finch as Howard Beale
7. Sunset Boulevard
(1950; dir. Billy Wilder)
Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr.
Memorable Line: Joe Gillis (William Holden): "You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big." Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson): "I am big. It’s the pictures that got small."
6. Annie Hall
(1977; dir. Woody Allen)
Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Memorable Line: "A relationship, I think, is—is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."
—Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
5. All About Eve
(1950; dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on The Wisdom of Eve, a short story and radio play by Mary Orr
Memorable Line: "Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night."
—Bette Davis as Margo Channing
4. Citizen Kane
(1941; dir. Orson Welles)
Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Memorable Line: "Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn’t get or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn’t have explained anything. I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life."
—William Alland as Jerry Thompson
3. Chinatown
(1974; dir. Roman Polanski)
Written by Robert Towne
Memorable Line: "Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, public buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
—John Huston as Noah Cross
2. The Godfather
(1972; dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo
Memorable Line: "Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract."
—Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
1. Casablanca
(1942; dir. Michael Curtiz)
Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
Memorable Line: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine."
—Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
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