I'm not sure what it was that motivated me to make these lists, but last summer I posted an earlier version of this on Facebook. I picked my five favorite films in a lot of different genres, and then I picked my No. 1 film in each category.

Now the last thing I want to do is just cut and paste what I wrote last summer, even if this is for a different audience, so what I thought I would do was expand each category to a top 10. Within the 10, they're in no particular order, except that the one title in boldface in each group is my favorite.

Here goes:

<strong>ACTION/ADVENTURE</strong>: Die Hard, <strong>Raiders of the Lost Ark</strong>, The Rock, The Abyss, Armageddon, The Adventures of Robin Hood (the 1937 one), Air Force One, Patriot Games, Con Air, Fail Safe.

<strong>COMEDY (FUNNY)</strong>: <strong>Animal House</strong>, American Graffiti, Night Shift, My Favorite Year, Used Cars, Duck Soup, After Hours, Sleeper, Tootsie, Some Like it Hot.

<strong>COMEDY (SATIRE)</strong>: <strong>Bedazzled</strong>, Best in Show, Lord Love a Duck, The Loved One, Smile, Putney Swope, Modern Romance, Saved, Serial, State and Main.

<strong>DRAMA</strong>: The Godfather Part II, The Grapes of Wrath, Casablanca, <strong>To Kill a Mockingbird</strong>, True Confessions, Twelve Angry Men, Chinatown, Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago.

<strong>FANTASY</strong>: <strong>The Wizard of Oz</strong>, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, It's A Wonderful Life, Streets of Fire, Peggy Sue Got Married, Superman, Pleasantville, Chances Are, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future.

<strong>FOREIGN (LANGUAGE)</strong>:<strong> After Life</strong>, Shall We Dance, The Wild Child, Il Postino, Changing Times, Cinema Paradisio, Closely Watched Trains, Tous les Matins du Monde, The Sorrow and the Pity, Das Boot.

<strong>GUILTY PLEASURES:</strong> Joe vs. the Volcano, Real Men, <strong>Hanover Street</strong>, A Small Circle of Friends, Stealing Home, Purple Hearts, The Long Kiss Goodnight, American Dreamz, The Hollywood Knights, Shining Through.

<strong>HORROR</strong>:   Dawn of the Dead, Freaks, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, Gotham, The Others, Shaun of the Dead, An American Werewolf in London, Shock Corridor.

<strong>MUSICALS</strong>: West Side Story, The Music Man, Bye Bye Birdie, Woodstock, <strong>Singin' in the Rain</strong>, A Mighty Wind, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Meet Me in St. Louis, Guys and Dolls, Moulin Rouge.

<strong>ROMANCE</strong>: <strong>Love Actually</strong>, Notting Hill, Windy City, Blume in Love, The Electric Horseman, Just Like Heaven, Somewhere in Time, Sleepless in Seattle, Electric Dreams, When Harry Met Sally.

<strong>SCIENCE FICTION</strong>: Blade Runner, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET: The Extraterrestrial, When Worlds Collide, <strong>Time After Time</strong>, Forbidden Planet, Star Trek (2009), Galaxy Quest, Total Recall.

<strong>SPORTS</strong>:<strong> Bull Durham</strong>, Field of Dreams, Bang the Drum Slowly, A League of Their Own, Rocky, For Love of the Game, Pride of the Yankees, Tin Cup, Pastime, Seabiscuit.

<strong>THRILLERS:</strong> North by Northwest, The Birds, Vertigo, The Maltese Falcon, <strong>Dead Again</strong>, Pretty Poison, The Last Seduction, Silence of the Lambs, Mystic River, From Russia With Love.

<strong>WAR</strong>: Testament, On the Beach,<strong> Gallipoli</strong>, The Human Comedy, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Guns of Navarone, From Here to Eternity, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, In the Valley of Elah, Threads.

<strong>WESTERNS</strong>:  Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers,<strong> Little Big Man</strong>, Tombstone, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Fort Apache,  .