My Movie Categories & Top Tens

My Movie Categories and Lists
(Top Tens are in no particular order - maybe someday I'll do that)

Categories:

Western Period/Historical
War Comedy
Sci Fi/Fantasy Drama
Horror Musical
Suspense Romance

OTHER POSSIBLE CATEGORIES:
“Road”
Gangster
Sports
Detective
Teen
Animated
Ensemble

WESTERN:

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Misfits
Cat Ballou
Pale Rider

WAR:
Apocalypse Now
The Deerhunter
Schindler’s List
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Born on the Fourth of July
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
MASH
Saving Private Ryan
Dawn Patrol


SCI FI/FANTASY
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Star Wars IV
Terminator and
T2
Alien
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version)

The Matrix

The Incredibles


HORROR:

The Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978 version)
The Omen (1976)
Angel Heart
The Fly (Cronenberg version)
The Others
The Blair Witch Project
Frankenstein (with Boris Karloff)


SUSPENSE:

North by Northwest
Psycho
Vertigo
Fargo
Rebecca
Witness
The Usual Suspects
The Maltese Falcon
A Simple Plan
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte


PERIOD/HISTORICAL:


Reds
Gone With the Wind
Days of Heaven
Lawrence of Arabia
JFK
Out of Africa
Howard's End
Titanic
All the President's Men
The Right Stuff


COMEDY:
Some Like It Hot
It Happened One Night
Annie Hall
This is Spinal Tap
Tootsie
A Night at the Opera
Ratatouille
Waiting for Guffman
Foul Play
MUSICAL:

Top Hat
Funny Girl
The Wizard of Oz
The Music Man
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
On the Town
Mary Poppins
West Side Story
A Hard Day's Night

DRAMA:
The Godfather
Godfather 2
To Kill a Mockingbird
Goodfellas
It's A Wonderful Life
Bonnie and Clyde
Midnight Cowboy
Pulp Fiction
Thelma & Louise
Badlands

ROMANCE:

Hannah and Her Sisters
The Graduate
Moonstruck
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Room With a View
Dangerous Liaisons
Brokeback Mountain
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Harold and Maude
The Piano


NOTE: AFI’s Categories were:

Animation – neither The Incredibles nor Ratatouille were included!
Western
Sports
Gangster
Epic – they included Saving Private Ryan and All’s Quiet on the Western Front in here, and rated Schindler’s List and Ben-Hur over GWTW!!!
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Fantasy
Courtroom Drama
Romantic Comedy – City Lights was #1!