I've become a huge film buff, and I've gotten closer and closer to reaching my goal of watching all 100 of the American Film Institute's Top 100 films.

So, what I want to know is this: Your 10 favorite films in 10 different genres in no real order... (I bolded my favorite of each.)


  • Action and Adventure
  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Drama and Romance
  • Epics and Historical
  • Fantasy
  • Horror and Thriller
  • Musical
  • Science Fiction


Go.

Action/Adventure
  • 3:10 to Yuma
  • The Avengers
  • Casino Royale
  • The Crow
  • The Dark Knight
  • Die Hard
  • Django Unchained
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • True Grit


Animation
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Iron Giant
  • Persepolis
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Secret of NIMH
  • Spirited Away
  • Toy Story
  • Up
  • Wall-E
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit?


Comedy
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Airplane!
  • Anchorman
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Groundhog Day
  • Life of Brian
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • The Princess Bride
  • This is Spinal Tap
  • Young Frankenstein


Crime

  • The Departed
  • Drive
  • Fargo
  • The Godfather
  • Heat
  • Memento
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • The Untouchables
  • The Usual Suspects


Drama/Romance
  • 12 Angry Men
  • American Beauty
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Crying Game
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
  • Lost in Translation
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Taxi Driver


Epics/Historical
  • Apocalypto
  • Braveheart
  • Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Gladiator
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Rashomon
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Schindler's List


Fantasy
  • Big
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • The Green Mile
  • Harry Potter ans the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Jason and the Argonauts
  • Life of Pi
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


Horror/Thriller
  • Black Swan
  • Let The Right One In
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • No Country For Old Men
  • Psycho
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Se7en
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Vertigo


Musical
  • Cabaret
  • Chicago
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Oliver!
  • The Producers
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • The Sound of Music
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Baker Street
  • Tommy
  • The Wizard of Oz


Science Fiction
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Alien
  • Blade Runner
  • District 9
  • Donnie Darko
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Inception
  • Looper
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan