afi top 100 – Page 8 – Movie Valhalla

SWING TIME (1936)

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers bringing dancing to maybe its greatest heights. The rest of the movie, who cares?

The decaying remains of 1920s Hollywood entrap a hack writer and lure him to his doom.

Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia epic is now fixed in American culture.

This horror hit was known for its final twist, but somehow still holds up 21 years later.

Perhaps Hitchcock’s weirdest, most dream-like film, it makes no sense, but it also might be perfect.

It’s well over three hours, is super racist, and features a very unlikable heroine. It’s also maybe the single biggest hit of all time.

Scorsese’s most cutting exploration of the gangster lifestyle. I like the movie. The lifestyle’s not for me.

Before “Star Wars,” George Lucas made this ancestor of a million teenager movies.

I had, um, some issues with this comedy about cross-dressing and/or dudes that want to sleep with Marilyn Monroe.

Few fictional movies are now considered definitive documents of historical events, but this is one of them. This is what happened now.