101 Greatest Screenplays / FAMILY GUY scene
The Writer's Guild of America just released a list of the 101 greatest screenplays of all time. I could just link you, but who knows what'll happen to links given time and other things...
I've seen 1, 12, 13, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 38, 42, 47, 49, 56, 61, 66, 67, 68, 70, 84, and 89 out of this list.
101 Greatest Screenplays of all time
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
43. Taxi Driver
(1976; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Written by Paul Schrader.
Memorable Line: "You talkin' to me?" - Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
62. Moonstruck
(1987; dir. Norman Jewison)
Written by John Patrick Shanley.
Memorable Lines: "Snap out of it!" - Cher as Loretta Castorini
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
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
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
66. Jerry Maguire
(1996; dir. Cameron Crowe)
Written by Cameron Crowe.
Memorable Line: "Show me the money!" - Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire
67. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(1982; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Written by Melissa Mathison.
Memorable Line: "E.T. phone home." - E.T.
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
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
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
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
72. Thelma & Louise
(1991; dir. Ridley Scott)
Written by Callie Khouri.
Memorable Line: "You get what you settle for." - Susan Sarandon as Louise Sawyer
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
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
75. High Noon
(1952; dir. Fred Zinnemann)
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
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
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
78. Rocky
(1976; dir. John G. Avildsen)
Written by Sylvester Stallone.
Memorable Line: "Adrian!" - Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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." - William Holden as Pike Bishop
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
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
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101 Greatest Screenplays of all time
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
43. Taxi Driver
(1976; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Written by Paul Schrader.
Memorable Line: "You talkin' to me?" - Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
62. Moonstruck
(1987; dir. Norman Jewison)
Written by John Patrick Shanley.
Memorable Lines: "Snap out of it!" - Cher as Loretta Castorini
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
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
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
66. Jerry Maguire
(1996; dir. Cameron Crowe)
Written by Cameron Crowe.
Memorable Line: "Show me the money!" - Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire
67. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(1982; dir. Steven Spielberg)
Written by Melissa Mathison.
Memorable Line: "E.T. phone home." - E.T.
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
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
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
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
72. Thelma & Louise
(1991; dir. Ridley Scott)
Written by Callie Khouri.
Memorable Line: "You get what you settle for." - Susan Sarandon as Louise Sawyer
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
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
75. High Noon
(1952; dir. Fred Zinnemann)
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
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
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
78. Rocky
(1976; dir. John G. Avildsen)
Written by Sylvester Stallone.
Memorable Line: "Adrian!" - Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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." - William Holden as Pike Bishop
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
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
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