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The Egyptian Prince, Moses (Charlton Heston), learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. (Motion Picture Associates)

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Epics: #10 The T... The Egyptian Prince, Moses (Charlton Heston), learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. (Motion Picture Associates)
Epics: #9 Reds A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.(Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance)
Epics: #8 Saving... A World War II captain (Tom Hanks) and his squad (Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore) risk all to locate and send home a soldier whose three brothers died in combat. (Amblin Entertainment)
Epics: #7 All Qu... A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. (Universal Pictures)
Epics: #6 Titani... A society girl (Kate Winslet) abandons her haughty fiance (Billy Zane) for a penniless artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) on the ill-fated ship's maiden voyage. (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation)
Epics: #5 Sparta... A gladiator slave (Kirk Douglas) leads a revolt in decadent Rome and attempts to lead his followers to freedom. (Bryna Productions)
Epics: #4 Gone w... American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Selznick International Pictures)
Epics: #3 Schind... German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) plots with his accountant (Ben Kingsley) to save Jewish prisoners from the Nazis. (Universal Pictures)
Epics: #2 Ben-Hu... An enslaved Judean prince (Charlton Heston) meets his Roman betrayer (Stephen Boyd), a former friend, in a chariot race. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
Epics: #1 Lawren... Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. (Columbia Pictures Corporation)
Courtroom Dramas... In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. (Roxlom Films)
Courtroom Dramas... The story of a mother whose child was killed in an animal attack, only to have herself accused of the infant's murder. (Cannon Films Inc)
Courtroom Dramas... After the brutal murder of a rural family, due to a botched robbery, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity. (Pax Enterprises)
Courtroom Dramas... In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case? (Carlyle Productions, Inc.)
Courtroom Dramas... Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise.(Edward Small Productions
Courtroom Dramas... Navy lawyers (Tom Cruise, Demi Moore) defend two Marines accused of killing a private at the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Castle Rock Entertainment)
Courtroom Dramas... A boozing lawyer (Paul Newman) takes on a law-firm dean (James Mason), the Archdiocese of Boston and the system in general. (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation)
Courtroom Dramas... A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him. (Columbia Pictures Corporation)
Courtroom Dramas... Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision. (Orion-Nova Productions)
Courtroom Dramas... Atticus Finch (Peck), a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. (Brentwood Productions)
Romantic Comedie... A Baltimore newswoman (Meg Ryan) falls for a Seattle widower (Tom Hanks) she hears on talk radio, thanks to his moppet son. (Big Onion Productions)
Romantic Comedie... A 20-year-old heir (Bud Cort) with a death wish meets a 79-year-old free spirit (Ruth Gordon) who knows how to live.(Paramount Pictures Corp.)
Romantic Comedie... An Italian-American widow (Cher), engaged to a reticent suitor, falls in love with his brother (Nicolas Cage). (MGM)
Romantic Comedie... Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.)
Romantic Comedie... Two Manhattan careerists (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan) first hate, then like and eventually love each other over the course of 12 years. (Castle Rock Entertainment)
Romantic Comedie... A snooty socialite (Katharine Hepburn) fights with her ex-husband (Cary Grant) and flirts with a reporter (James Stewart).(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.)
Romantic Comedie... A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. (Paramount Pictures Corp.)
Romantic Comedie... A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her.(Columbia Pictures Corp)
Romantic Comedie... A New York comedian (Woody Allen) recalls his lost love, a kooky singer (Diane Keaton) with a style all her own. (Rollins-Joffe Productions)
Romantic Comedie... A little tramp (Charlie Chaplin) gets money from a drunken millionaire (Harry Myers) for an operation to restore a flower girl's (Virginia Cherrill) sight. Silent. (Charles Chaplin Productions)
Mysteries: #10 T... A detective (Chazz Palminteri) questions a con man about his relationships with assorted criminals (Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne) and their link to a ship explosion. (PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)
Mysteries: #9 Di... A husband's plot to murder his unfaithful wife goes awry in Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of the Frederick Knott play. (Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.)
Mysteries: #8 Bl... After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG))
Mysteries: #7 No... A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.)
Mysteries: #6 Th... Sam Spade, a private detective, gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable statuette.(Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.)
Mysteries: #5 Th... Arriving in Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his friend Harry Lime, who has invited him, recently died in a car accident.(London Film Productions, Ltd.)
Mysteries: #4 La... An arrogant New York columnist (Clifton Webb) taunts a detective (Dana Andrews) obsessed with a slain woman's (Gene Tierney) portrait.(Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.)
Mysteries: #3 Re... Sitting in a wheelchair, his leg in a cast, a photographer (James Stewart) spies on courtyard neighbors and sees a murder.(Paramount Pictures Corp.)
Mysteries: #2 Ch... A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.(Long Road Productions)
Mysteries: #1 Ve... A former San Francisco detective (James Stewart) who dreads heights falls for a woman (Kim Novak) he is hired to protect. (Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions)
Sports: #10 Jerr... When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him. (Gracie Films)
Sports: #9 Natio... A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.)
Sports: #8 Break... A small-town teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl. (20th Century Fox)
Sports: #7 Caddy... An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher. (Jon Peters Organization)
Sports: #6 The H... A gambler (George C. Scott) stakes pool shark ``Fast Eddie'' Felson (Paul Newman) in a smoke-filled marathon against Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). (Rossen Films)
Sports: #5 Bull ... A literary baseball groupie (Susan Sarandon) romances a pitcher (Tim Robbins) and a catcher (Kevin Costner) on a minor-league North Carolina team. (The Mount Company)
Sports: #4 Hoosi... A college basketball coach (Gene Hackman) leaves the Navy in 1951 and becomes coach of an underdog Indiana high-school team. (De Haven Productions)
Sports: #3 Pride... The story of the life and career of the famed baseball player, Lou Gehrig. (Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.)
Sports: #2 Rocky A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. (Chartoff-Winkler Productions)
Sports: #1 Ragin... An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it. (Chartoff-Winkler Productions)
Westerns: #10 Ca... A young woman returning to her Wyoming town finds her father murdered because he refused to sell his ranch. (Harold Hecht Corp.)
Westerns: #9 Sta... An outlaw (John Wayne), a prostitute (Claire Trevor), a drunken doctor and assorted others go through Indian country. (Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.)
Westerns: #8 McC... An itinerant gambler and a madame become business partners in this off-beat western set in a small mining town in the Pacific Northwest. (David Foster Productions)
Westerns: #7 But... When a persistent posse threatens two outlaws' (Paul Newman, Robert Redford) romp through Wyoming, they decide to take their act to Bolivia. (Campanile Productions)
Westerns: #6 The... An outlaw (William Holden) and his gang, on the run from the Mexican Army and bounty hunters, plot to rob a United States Army train. (Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.)
Westerns: #5 Red... A cattle baron (John Wayne) fights with his foster son (Montgomery Clift) on the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail. (Charles K. Feldman Group)
Westerns: #4 Unf... Two retired sharp-shooters and a would-be gunslinger team up to claim a $1,000 reward for killing two cowboys who brutally disfigured a prostitute. (Malpaso Productions)
Westerns: #3 Sha... A lone horseman arrives in a western town and helps bring an end to a violent feud between the homesteaders and cattle barons of the area. (Paramount Pictures Corp.)
Westerns: #2 Hig... On the verge of retirement, a marshal (Gary Cooper) stands alone to face a vengeful gunman and his gang. (Stanley Kramer Productions, Inc.)
Westerns: #1 The... A Confederate veteran (John Wayne) and his part-Cherokee partner (Jeffrey Hunter) search five years for a kidnapped girl (Natalie Wood).(C. V. Whitney Pictures, Inc.)
Gangster: #10 Sc... A Cuban immigrant from Castro's jails cuts a violent path of destruction on his way to the top of Miami's drug trade.(Universal Pictures)
Gangster: #9 Lit... After robbing a gas station, Enrico Cesare Bandello, known as Rico, leaves his small town for the city with his friend Joe Massaro. (First National Pictures, Inc.)
Gangster: #8 The... A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. (Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc)
Gangster: # 7 Pu... The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. (A Band Apart)
Gangster: #6 Sca... Italian mob leader Big Louie Costillo is killed by Tony Camonte, setting off gang wars over the control of Chicago's bootlegging business.(The Caddo Co.)
Gangster: #5 Bon... Acclaimed account of the gun-toting bank robbers and the trail of terror they blazed through the Southwest in the '30s. (Tatira-Hiller Productions)
Gangster: #4 Whi... A brave federal agent poses as a thug to infiltrate psychopathic hoodlum Cody Jarrett's gang of thieves. (Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.)
Gangster: #3 The... Michael Corleone rules his father's criminal empire, while flashbacks recall young Vito's climb to power. (Paramount Pictures)
Gangster: #2 Goo... Drama of a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn boy initiated into a neighborhood mob in his youth, and the struggles he encounters with the gang through the next 25 years.
Gangster: #1 The... The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. (Paramount Pictures )
Animated: #10 Fi... A fish (Albert Brooks) embarks on a journey to find his son (Alexander Gould) after losing him in the Great Barrier Reef. (Walt Disney Pictures)
Animated: #9 Cin... When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.(Walt Disney Productions)
Animated: #8 Shr... In order to save his home, a monster (Mike Myers) with a donkey (Eddie Murphy) makes a deal with a mean lord to rescue a beautiful princess (Cameron Diaz).(PDI/DreamWorks Pictures)
Animated: #7 Bea... Disney's version of the fairy tale about a villager whose love holds the only hope for an accursed prince. (Silver Screen Partners IV)
Animated: #6 Toy... A flashy new action hero's arrival creates upset in a community of toys that comes to life when people are absent.(Pixar Animation Studios)
Animated: #5 Fan... A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. (Walt Disney Productions)
Animated: #4 The... After the death of his royal father, a young lion returns to battle his scheming uncle for the jungle throne. (Walt Disney Pictures)
Animated: #3 Bam... Follow the male deer Bambi from birth, through his early childhood experiences with woodland pals Thumper the rabbit and Flower the skunk. (Walt Disney Productions)
Animated: #2 Pin... When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. (Walt Disney)
Animated: #1 Sno... A wicked queen casts a spell upon a beautiful young girl in this Disney adaptation of the classic fairy tale. (Walt Disney Productions, Ltd)
Fantasies: #10 B... When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight. (American Entertainment Partners II)
Fantasies: #9 Th... Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of Baghdad, his movements are dance-like -- nothing like the athletics he performed in most of his other films. (Douglas Fairbanks Pictures)
Fantasies: #8 Gr... February 2nd keeps repeating for a cynical TV weatherman (Bill Murray) sent to watch the groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa. (Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group)
Fantasies: #7 Ha... James Stewart in one of his finest performances as the good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. (Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.)
Fantasies: #6 Fi... An inspired Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner) builds a baseball field, then sees Shoeless Joe Jackson's ghost and other marvels. (Gordon Company Productions)
Fantasies: #5 Mi... When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.)
Fantasies: #4 Ki... An oil explorer (Charles Grodin), a zoologist (Jeff Bridges) and a shipwrecked blonde (Jessica Lange) capture a huge ape leading to a battle atop the World Trade Center. (RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.)
Fantasies: #3 It... Ruined by a miser (Lionel Barrymore) on Christmas Eve, a suicidal family man (James Stewart) sees life anew thanks to his guardian angel. (Liberty Films, Inc.)
Fantasies: #2 Th... A chosen hobbit (Elijah Wood) and his loyal friends join a wizard (Ian McKellen), humans, a dwarf and an elf on a quest to destroy a powerful ring and defeat an evil lord.(New Line Cinema)
Fantasies: #1 Th... After a tornado whisks Kansas farm girl Dorothy (Judy Garland) to a magic land, she must travel to the Emerald City for help in getting back home. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
Sci-Fi: #10 Back... A teen (Michael J. Fox) takes a crackpot's (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean time machine to 1955 and sees his parents in high school. (Amblin Entertainment)
Sci-Fi: #9 Invas... A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. (Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc.)
Sci-Fi: #8 Termi... The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenager son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced cyborg. (Pacific Western Productions)
Sci-Fi: #7 Alien After answering an SOS, a crew (Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt) encounters a merciless, horrifying creature aboard a space tanker. (Brandywine Productions)
Sci-Fi: #6 Blade... An ex cop comes out of retirement in order to hunt down androids who are being reproduced for purpose of slavery. (Blade Runner Partnership)
Sci-Fi: #5 The D... An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.)
Sci-Fi: #4 A Clo... In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Sci-Fi: #3 E.T.:... A boy's close encounter with an alien stranded on Earth leads to a unique friendship in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film. (Universal Pictures)
Sci-Fi: #2 Star ... Robots and other allies help a youth (Mark Hamill) and a space jockey (Harrison Ford) rescue a rebel princess (Carrie Fisher) and battle dark forces bent on intergalactic rule.(Lucasfilm, Ltd.)
Sci-Fi: #1 2001:... Supercomputer HAL 9000 guides astronauts (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester) on a trip to find the origins of humans. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.)

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