Greatest Film Moments and Film Scenes (illustrated)
(arranged alphabetically by film title)
Hundreds of scenes described with images
Greatest Moments and Film Scenes Mini-Quiz (illustrated)
How many do you recognize?

Film critic Roger Ebert's 1995 list of 100 Great Movie Moments
(unillustrated originally, but illustrated on this site)

• Entertainment Weekly compiled its own list of the 100 Greatest Moments in Movies (1950-2000) in its September 24, 1999 issue. To limit the sprawling subject, the editors decided to save pre-'50s movies for another tribute, and foreign films and documentaries received only brief recognition. Their list started halfway through the history of film.
• Premiere Magazine compiled a list of 100 Greatest Movie Moments of All Time from 100 years of movies, in its March, 2003 issue. Their list of memorable movie moments was compiled from "multiple reader suggestions, multiple staff meetings, multiple debates among movie-loving friends, multiple long nights replaying multiple moments mentally and on DVD." Included in their list was Charlton Heston's sight of the Statue of Liberty on the beach in Planet of the Apes (1968) at # 59, Jack Nicholson's retort to a waitress to "Hold it between your knees" in Five Easy Pieces (1970) at # 29, and Marilyn Monroe's white skirt blown up by wind from a subway grating in The Seven Year Itch (1955) at # 31.
• The Observer . the Sunday version of the British newspaper the Guardian Unlimited. published (in its February 6, 2000 edition) votes taken in late 1999 and early 2000 for "the 100 most memorable moments in film history." In more than 15,000 votes taken during the polling, 2,500 different moments received at least one vote. The # 1 moment was from The Usual Suspects (1995) when detective Kujan realized who Keyser Soze was. The films in the # 2 to # 5 positions included: the shower scene from Psycho (1960) . Harry Lime's appearance from the dark shadows in The Third Man (1949) . the jump cut from the flying bone to the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) . and the dawn helicopter raid in Apocalypse Now (1979) . The full list with scene analysis may be accessed online .
• IGN Entertainment Online compiled their Top 100 Greatest Movie Moments of All-Time in a list (accessible online ) that they promised "encompasses the very best that cinema has to offer." In their 100 web-pages listing, they included "black-and-white classics rubbing shoulders with modern-day blockbusters, with shocking horror moments wedged between action sequences and song-and-dance numbers." Quite a few of their selected moments were related to famous film quotes, for instance: # 1 ("I am your father" from The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ), # 2 ("Make him an offer he can't refuse" from The Godfather (1972) ), # 3 ("Rosebud" from Citizen Kane (1941) ), # 4 ("You talkin' to me?" from Taxi Driver (1976) ), and # 5 ("You're gonna need a bigger boat" from Jaws (1975) ).
• TV Guide compiled their 50 Greatest Movie Moments of All Time in their March 24-30, 2001 issue.
• Chuck Workman created a short film composed of clips in 1994, called 100 Years at the Movies .