Top 20 Favorite Movies

Lately I've been thinking about my top 20 favorite movies of all time. Here they are with genre, who directed the movie, the stars and who they played, Any important awards they might have won, a short synopsis about the movie, and a favorite line in the movie.. Thanks to Imdb.com for all the info I got!

20. When Harry Met Sally (1989)

-Genre: Comedy, Drama, and Romance

-Director: Rob Reiner

-Stars: Billy Crystal (Harry Burns) and Meg Ryan (Sally Albright)

-Synopsis: About two friends who meet after college who bump into each other throughout the years. The movie is basically about whether two friends of the opposite sex can be friends without all the added benefits.

-Favorite line: [After Sally fakes an orgasm in a restaurant] Older Woman Customer to Waiter: I'll have what she's having.

19. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

-Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi

-Director: Steven Spielberg

-Stars: Dee Wallace (Mary); Henry Thomas (Elliot); Peter Coyote (Keys); Robert MacNaughton (Michael); and Drew Barrymore (Gertie)

-Award(s): Won 4 Academy Awards for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing; Best Effects. Visual Effects; Best Music, Original Score by John Williams; and Best Sound. Won 2 Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture- Drama and Best Original Score- Motion Picture by John Williams. Won a Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special by John Williams. Also won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture.

-Synopsis: An alien spacecraft lands in a forest and when it leaves to go back to space it leaves one alien behind. A boy named Elliot finds him in his tool shed and decides to keep him. Everything is fine until E.T wants to go home and then gets sick. In the end he's able to go back home!

-Favorite Line: E.T.-E.T. phone home!

18. Back to the Future (1985)

-Genre: Adventure, Family, and Sci-Fi

-Director: Robert Zemeckis

-Stars: Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly); Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmett Brown); Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines-McFly); Crispin Glover (George McFly); and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen)

-Award(s): Won an Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing. Won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture

-Synopsis: Dr. Emmett Brown invents time travel in 1985 and Marty McFly accidentally travels to 1955 when his parents meet. This turn of events accidentally makes his mother fall in love with him rather than his father. So Marty has to figure out a way for his parents to meet so that he doesn't fade away and no longer exists in the world.

-Favorite Line: Marty-Calvin? Why...Why do you keep calling me Calvin?

Lorraine-Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.

17. Alice in Wonderland (2010)

-Genre: Adventure, Family, and Fantasy

-Director: Tim Burton

-Stars: Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter); Mis Wasikowska (Alice); Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen); Anne Hathaway (White Queen)

-Award(s): Won two Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Art Direction and Best Achievement in Costume Design.

-Synopsis: Alice returns to Wonderland at the age of 19, where she reunites with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, Cheshire Cat, etc. While there Alice learns she has a destiny to fulfill and that is ending the Red Queen's reign over Wonderland.

-Favorite Line: Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?

Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are!

16. Mary Poppins (1964)

-Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, and Musical

-Director: Robert Stevenson

-Stars: Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins); Dick Van Dyke (Bert/ Mr. Dawes Senior); Karen Dotrice (Jane Banks); Matthew Garber (Michael Banks)

-Award(s): Won 5 Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role-Julie Andrews; Best Effects, Special Visual Effects; Best Film Editing; Best Music, Original Song-Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman for the song "Chim Chim Cher-ee"; Best Music, Score- Substantially Original. Won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress-Musical/Comedy-Julie Andrews.

-Synopsis: Two children want the perfect nanny and so Mary Poppins a magical nanny comes by umbrella and teaches them how to enjoy life through song and imagination.

-Favorite Line: Mary Poppins-In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and - SNAP - The job's a game!

15. The Princess Bride (1987)

-Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy and Romance

-Director: Rob Reiner

-Stars: Cary Elwes (Westley); Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya); Chris Sarandon (Prince Humperdinck); Wallace Shawn (Vizzini); Andre the Giant (Fezzik); Robin Wright(Buttercup/Princess Bride)

-Synopsis: Buttercup is in love with Westley but he dies and so she gives up love forever. She becomes engaged to Prince Humperdinck and on the eve of their wedding she is kidnapped. While kidnapped she is rescued by the thought to be dead Westley.

-Favorite Line: As you wish!

14. Catch Me if You Can (2002)

-Genre: Biography, Crime and Drama

-Director: Steven Spielberg

-Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio (Frank Abagnale Jr.); Tom Hanks (Carl Hanratty); Christopher Walken (Frank Abagnale); Martin Sheen (Roger Strong); Amy Adams (Brenda Strong)

-Award(s): Won a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role- Christopher Walken.

-Synopsis: A true story in the 1960's about Frank Abagnale Jr. who posed as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and an attorney and passed to the bank $4,000,000 of bad checks. FBI agent Carl Hanratty chased Frank around the world creating a cat and mouse game for years until Frank is caught and sentenced.

-Favorite Line: Frank Abignale Jr.-Stop Chasing me!

Carl Hanratty- I can't stop, it's my job

13. The Blindside(2009)

-Genre: Biography, Drama and Sport

-Director: John Lee Hancock

-Stars: Sandra Bullock (Leigh Anne Tuohy); Tim McGraw (Sean Tuohy); Quinton Aaron (Michael Oher); Ray McKinnon (Coach Burt Cotton); Kathy Bates (Miss Sue)

-Award(s): Won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Teen Choice Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role- Sandra Bullock.

-Synopsis: Based on the true story of Michael Oher who is homeless and is brought into a wealthy family's home. He then becomes the high school football star and ultimately is the 1st round pick of the NFL draft for the Baltimore Ravens.

-Favorite Line: Michael Oher-Sorry Coach. I stopped when I heard the whistle.

Coach Cotten-Where were you taking him?

Michael-The bus. It was time for him to go home.

12. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

-Genre: Drama, Fantasy and Romance

-Director: Tim Burton

-Stars: Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands); Winona Ryder (Kim); Dianne Wiest (Peg); Vincent Price (The Inventor)

-Synopsis: An artificial man, named Edward, is left with scissorhands when his inventor dies before being able to put the hands on Edward. Sometime later Peg finds him and brings Edward to her home to live with her family where he falls in love with the daughter Kim.

-Favortite Line: Kim-You see, before he came down here it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now....I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it.

11. Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua Para Chocolate)(1992)

-Genre: Drama and Romance

-Director: Alfonso Arau

-Stars: Marco Leonardi (Pedro Muzquiz); Lumi Cavazos (Tita)

-Synopsis: A love story set in Mexico between Pedro and Tita. Tita was not allowed to get married bc she is the youngest daughter so she has to take care of her mother. The mother allows Pedro to marry the oldest daughter but Pedro only marries the sister so thathe can be close to Tita. Everytime Tita makes a dish for the family or guests; whatever she was feeling for Pedro whoever ate of the dish would experience the feelings. For example: While Tita made the wedding cake she cried and some of her tears fell into the mixing and while the wedding guests ate the cake they all felt sadness.

Favorite Line: Nacha-You will be so beautiful that the first boy who sees you will want to marry you!

Mama Elena-Nacha! Don't say that. As my youngest daughter, Tita will care for me until the day I die. She won't marry.

10. Dirty Dancing (1987)

-Genre: Drama and Romance

-Director: Emile Ardolino

-Stars: Jennifer Grey (Frances 'Baby' Houseman); Patrick Swayze (Johnny Castle)

-Award(s): Won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Music, Original Song by Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz for the song '(I've Had) The Time of My Life".

-Synopsis: Set in 1963 a girl name 'Baby' goes on vacation to a resort with her family. There she meets a dancing instructor and they fall in love with while he teaches her a dance routine.

-Favorite Line: Johnny Castle-Nobody puts baby in a corner.

9. Titanic (1997)

-Genre: Adventure, History and Romance

-Director: James Cameron

-Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson); Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater); Billy Zane (Caledon 'Cal' Hockley); Kathy Bates (Molly Brown); Gloria Stuart (Old Rose); Bill Paxton (Brock Lovett); Bernard Hill (Captain Edward James Smith)

-Award(s): Won 11 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture. Won 4 Golden Globes including Best Director and Best Motion Picture-Drama. Won a Grammy for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television by James Horner and Will Jennings for the song "My Heart Will Go On". This movie won a whole bunch of awards at different Award ceremonies. Probably the most popular movie of the year.

-Synopsis: A story as told by Rose 84 yrs after the sinking of the Titanic. She tells of the events of her life during the voyage.

-Favorite Line: Jack Dawson: Well, yes, ma'am, I do...I mean, I gt everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's going to happen or who I'm going to meet, where I'm going to wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now I'm on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you...tom make each day count.

8. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

-Genre: Action, Adventure and Fantasy

-Director: Gore Verbinski

-Stars: Johnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow); Geoffrey Rush (Barbossa); Orlando Bloom (Will Turner); Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann)

-Award(s): Won a Critics Choice Award for Best Family Film-Live Action. People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture. Won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role-Johnny Depp.

-Synopsis: A team of pirates capture Elizabeth Swann because she owns a piece of Aztec Gold that she actually stole from Will Turner. This Aztec Gold is the last remaining piece that will make these pirates mortal again.

-Favorite Line: Jack Sparrow-But Why is the Rum gone?

7. Phantom of the Opera (2004)

-Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, and Thriller

-Director: Joel Schumacher

-Stars: Gerard Butler (The Phantom); Emmy Rossum (Christine); Patrick Wilson (Raoul); Miranda Richardson (Madame Giry); Minnie Driver (Carlotta)

-Award(s): Won a Critic's Choice Award for Best Young Actress-Emmy Rossum.

-Synopsis: About a disfigured musical genius who lives hidden inside the Paris Opera House. He is in love with a young chorus girl named Christine and so sets his sights on tutoring her to become the lead singer of the Opera House.

-Favorite Line: The Phantom- Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you'll want me with you here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go too.

6. Star Wars Episodes I-VI (I: 1999 II: 2002 III: 2005 IV: 1977 V: 1980 VI: 1983)

-Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi

-Director: George Lucas

-Stars: Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn); Ewan McGregor (Young Obi-Wan Kenobi); Natalie Portman (Queen Amidala/Padme); Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin Skywalker); Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker); Frank Oz (Yoda); Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine); Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker); Harrison Ford (Han Solo); Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia); Alec Guinness (Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi); James Earl Jones (Darth Vader)

-Award(s): Episode III won 2 People's Choice Awards for Favorite Movie and Favorite Movie Drama. Episode IV won 6 Academy Awards including Best Music, Original Score by John Williams. Won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture by John Williams. Episode V won an Academy Award for Best Sound.

-Synopsis: (Thank you to Brian for doing the synopsis for me :) ) -The story of Star Wars starts with a young boy named Anakin Skywalker, who is discovered by Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi when their ship is forced to land on the remote planet of Tatooine. They discover Anakin has the ability to become a Jedi Knight, and after the battle of Naboo and Qui Gon’s death, Obi Wan trains him through the clone wars. During the clone wars, Anakin falls in love with the former queen of Naboo, Padme Amidala, and they have twins. After the Clone Wars, Anakin is lured to the dark side by Chancellor Palpatine who turns out to be a Sith Lord in disguise. Anakin, however, in his attempt to kill his former master and becomes badly disfigured and dawns the black suit and becomes Darth Vader. A while later, Anakin’s son Luke is trained by an older Obi-Wan Kenobi and takes on the Empire, which includes his father. They successfully blow up the Death Star, and Luke discovers the truth on Bespin, that Darth Vader is his father. After being trained by Yoda, a Jedi Master, Luke takes on his father again and, just before his father’s death, manages to get him to come back to the light side. In the end, the Empire and Emperor Palpatine are destroyed by a gang of Rebels led by Luke, his sister Leia, and Han Solo.

-Favorite Line: Yoda-Fear is the path to the dark side! Fear leads to anger! Anger leads to hate! Hate leads to suffering! I sense much fear in you!

5. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Fellowship of the Ring: 2001 The Two Towers: 2002 Return of the King: 2003)

-Genre: Action, Adventure and Fantasy

-Director: Peter Jackson

-Stars: Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins); Sean Astin (Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee); Sean Bean (Boromir); Cate Blanchett (Galadriel); Orlando Bloom ( Legolas Greenleaf); Billy Boyd (Peregrin "Pippen" Took); Christopher Lee (Saruman); Andy Serkis (Gollum); Ian McKellen (Gandalf); Dominic Monaghan (Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck); Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn); John Rhys-Davies (Gimli); Liv Tyler (Arwen); Hugo Weaving (Elrond)

-Award(s): Fellowship of the Ring won 4 Academy Awards including Best Music, Original score by Howard Shore. Won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role by Ian McKellen. The Two Towers won 2 Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture. Won 4 Golden Globe Awards including Best Director.

-Synopsis: It's about a Hobbit named Frodo who inherits his uncles Ring. Turns out it needs to be destroyed in Morder. So Frodo, 3 other Hobbits, an Elf, 2 humans, a Wizard, and a Dwarf set off on a mission to Morder. On the way they all get seperated and each of them have adventures that each have someway in destroying the Ring.

-Favorite Line: (Due to the fact that it's really long I decided to just paste it)

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for.

4. Gone With the Wind (1939)

-Genre: Drama, Romance, and War

-Director: Victor Fleming

-Stars: Vivien Leigh (Scarlett); Clark Gable (Rhett Butler)

-Award(s): Won 8 Academy Awards including Best Actress-Vivien Leigh, Best Director, and Best Picture.

-Synopsis: About the love between Scarlett and Rhett during the American Civil War. Scarlett is a selfish woman who doesn't want to admit she loves Rhett because of the fact that she's wealthy and he's not.

-Favorite Line: Scarlett-Rhett, Rhett...Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?

Rhett-Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

3. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

-Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, and Musical

-Director: Victor Fleming

-Stars: Judy Garland (Dorothy); Ray Bolger (Hunk/The Scarecrow); Bert Lahr (Zeke/Cowardly Lion); Jack Haley (Hickory/Tinman); Billie Burke (Glinda); Margaret Hamilton (Mrs. Gilch/The Wicked Witch of the West)

-Award(s): Won 2 Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score by Herbert Stothart and Best Music, Original Song "Over the Rainbow".

-Synopsis: About a young girl in Kansas named Dorothy who gets swept away in her house by a tornado into the land of Oz. She goes on an adventure with The Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion to find The Emerald City to ask the Wizard to send her back home.

-Favorite Line: Dorothy-There is no place like home.

2. Sound of Music (1965)

-Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, and Musical

-Director: Robert Wise

-Stars: Julie Andrews (Maria); Christopher Plummer (Captain von Trap)

-Award(s): Won 5 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture. Won 2 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture-Musical/Comedy and Best Motion Picture Actress-Musical/Comedy-Julie Andrews.

-Synopsis: A true story about a woman named Maria who lives in an Austrian convent in the 1940's and is sent to be a governess for 7 children of the widower Captain von Trapp. She teaches these children to sing and the children learn to love her and in no time at all the Captain comes to love her too

-Favorite Line: Mother Abbess- Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.

Tied for 1st.

Apollo 13 (1995)

-Genre: Adventure, Drama and History

-Director: Ron Howard

-Stars: Tom Hanks (Jim Lovell); Bill Paxton (Fred Haise); Kevin Bacon (Jack Swigert); Gary Sinise (Ken Mattingly); Ed Harris (Gene Kranz)

-Award(s): Won 2 Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

-Synopsis: The true story about the Apollo 13 mission that had trouble on the way to the moon and the three men who had to stay alive and get back to earth alive.

-Favorite Line: Jim Lovell-Gentlemen what are your intentions? *Pause as Fred and Jack turn around and stare at him* I'd like to go home.

Forrest Gump (1994)

-Genre: Drama and Romance

-Director: Robert Zemeckis

-Stars: Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump); Robin Wright (Jenny Curran); Gary Sinise (Lt. Dan Taylor); Sally Field (Mrs. Gump)

-Award(s): Won 6 Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role-Tom Hanks, Best Director and Best Picture. Won 3 Golden Globes for Best Director, Best Motion Picture-Drama, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama-Tom Hanks.

-Synopsis: About a not so intelligent man who pursues his childhood love throughout the years and by doing so accidentally makes his way into many historical events. Set between the time of the 1950's to the 1980's.

-Favorite Line: {Repeated line}Forrest Gump-My momma always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.