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Showdown: Grand Illusion

Prompt:

The sixteenth-annual TCM Classic Film Festival just kicked off in Hollywood, and this year’s theme is “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film”. For this week’s Showdown, create a list of your ten favorite sci-fi and/or fantasy films released a long time ago in a galaxy not-so far away—i.e. during or before 1980, the debut year of TCM Fest’s opening-night film, Here’s a web example that finds films tagged with both genres, and here are some lists by Jeannie and Peter.)

  • The Seventh Seal

    1

  • Sleeping Beauty

    2

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    3

  • Donkey Skin

    4

  • Bride of Frankenstein

    5

  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed

    6

  • Mary Poppins

    7

  • Beauty and the Beast

    8

  • Stalker

    9

  • The Wizard of Oz

    10

  • Star Wars

    11

  • Alien

    12

  • The Little Mermaid

    13

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    14

  • I Married a Witch

    15

  • A Trip to the Moon

    16

  • Frankenstein

    17

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    18

  • Alice in Wonderland

    19

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    20

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    21

  • Metropolis

    22

  • Nosferatu

    23

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    24

  • Bell, Book and Candle

    25

  • Alphaville

    26

  • Fantasia

    27

  • The Stepford Wives

    28

  • Carnival of Souls

    29

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    30

  • Cinderella

    31

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    32

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    33

  • The Thief of Bagdad

    34

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    35

  • Planet of the Apes

    36