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*** Bane and Batman's first fight in the sewer where Bane [[spoiler: breaks the Bat]]
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** Bond finding Tania in his bed in ''Film/{{FromRussiaWithLove}}. This scene is used to screen-test potential actors for James Bond
** The Orient Express fight from ''Film/{{FromRussiaWithLove}}.
** The Orient Express fight from ''Film/{{FromRussiaWithLove}}.
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** ''Film/TheCircus'': The Tramp walking a tight rope while being pestered by monkeys.
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** The plastic bag floating in the wind.
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** Crying when [[spoiler:Karen kills herself]] in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''.
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* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy''
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* ''Film/{{Scream}}: The death of the DecoyProtagonist.
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* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'': Kevin Bacon angst-dancing in an empty warehouse.
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* ''Film/WildThings'': Neve Campbell and Denise Richards kissing in a pool.
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** Harry saying "Go ahead, make my day" in ''Film/SuddenImpact''.
** The infamous RC car chase in ''Film/TheDeadPool''.
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* ''Film/LaFemmeNikita'': The restaurant kitchen shootout.
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** "CHOKE ON 'EM!" from ''Film/DayOfTheDead'
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* ''Film/DumbAndDumber'': Harry having to take a huge dump after Lloyd slipped him purgatives. This scene marred Jeff Daniels' reputation as a serious actor for years.
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* ''Film/OutOfAfrica'': Robert Redford and Meryl Streep on a biplane.
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** The arrival of the old priest with an ominous light shining on him.
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* The Church fight in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', thanks to Galahad's badass fighting skills and the film's excellent usage of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird".
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* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'': The scene where Bennell shouts: [[spoiler: "Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!"]]
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* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': Creator/JohnBelushi shouting "toga, toga!" while dressed as Caesar. The college boys sneaking outside with a ladder to peek into the girls' dorm. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. Bluto smashing some hipster's guitar.
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* ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'': Richard Gere carrying Debra Winger out of the factory.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': Creator/JohnBelushi shouting "toga,toga!" while dressed as Caesar.toga!". The college boys sneaking outside with a ladder to peek into the girls' dorm. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. Bluto smashing some hipster's guitar.
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* ''Film/{{Wings}}'': TheCameo of Creator/GaryCooper''.
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* ''[[Film/EightAndAHalf 8/12]]'':
** La Saraghina, the BigBeautifulWoman, dancing for the children on the beach.
** The final scene where all the people in the protagonist's life dance around him on a circus stage, while he is the ringmaster in the middle.
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': The "don't call me Shirley" quote, the dance scene in the disco bar and the old lady who "speaks jive".
* ''Film/AlPacino''
** ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''
*** The chainsaw scene.
*** [[MemeticMutation "Say hello to my little friend!"]]
** ''Film/AndJusticeForAll'': "YOU'RE out of order! YOU'RE out of order! The whole TRIAL is out of order! THEY'RE out of order!"
** ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'': "ATTICA!"
** ''Film/CarlitosWay'': The seriously intense foot chase scene.
** ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''
*** Pacino and Gabrielle Anwar's tango.
*** "If I was the man I was 10 years ago, I'D TAKE A FLAMETHROWER TO THIS PLACE."
* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
** The ChestBurster scene from ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
** Ripley versus the Alien Queen in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
** The Alien getting really close to Ripley's face, and viewers seeing the thing has ''two'' jaws.
* ''Film/AllAboutEve'': Creator/BetteDavis saying "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" before ascending the stairs.
* Creator/WoodyAllen:
** ''Film/EverythingYouAlwaysWantedToKnowAboutSexButWereAfraidToAsk'': Woody battling a giant female breast and later being a sperm cell getting ready for ejaculation.
** ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'': Woody and his girlfriend silhouetted on a park bench with the Manhattan Bridge in the background.
* ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'': [[spoiler: The famous DeadHandShot of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlDPsRwZE4 Paul reaching for a butterfly]]]] at the end of the 1930 film, Paul trapped in a shell hole with a French Soldier he has just stabbed to death, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciq9ts02ci4 the famous charge on the German trenches by the French troops.]], especially the French soldiers getting chopped down by German machine guns.
* ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'': The reporters meeting Deep Throat in a parking garage.
* ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'':
** The big breasted tobacconist trying to seduce one of the boys.
** The wedding banquet at the beach.
* ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'': the curb stomping scene.
* ''Film/AmericanPie'' has two, which were the center of the marketing of the movie: the scene with the pie, and the "this one time, at band camp" scene.
* ''Film/AnAmericanInParis'': ''Creator/GeneKelly'' picking up a rose.
* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'': the werewolf transformation.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': Creator/JohnBelushi shouting "toga, toga!" while dressed as Caesar. The college boys sneaking outside with a ladder to peek into the girls' dorm. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. Bluto smashing some hipster's guitar.
* ''Film/AnnaChristie'': The scene where the audience heard former silent star Creator/GretaGarbo talk for the first time on screen.
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':
** The scene where army helicopters bomb a Vietnamese village to the music of "Ride Of The Valkyries" by Music/RichardWagner.
** The general's remark: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning;"
** Kurtz's introduction.
* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': The scene that starts with "Listen up, you primitive screwheads"
** Largely because the next line is "''This'' ... is my '''[[LargeHam boomstick!]]'''"
* ''Creator/AudreyHepburn''
** Riding a Vespa with ''Creator/GregoryPeck'' in ''Film/RomanHoliday''.
** Dancing with beatniks in ''Film/FunnyFace''.
** Looking wistfully at a Tiffany's window in ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys''.
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
** TheOner at the opening, culminating in a shot of all six Avengers jumping into battle.
** The "lift the hammer" competition and Ultron's interruption.
** The reveal that Hawkeye [[spoiler:has a wife and kids.]]
** Vision [[spoiler:lifts Thor's hammer]].
** [[spoiler:Quicksilver's]] death.
* [[AcePilot Maverick's]] unauthorized buzzing of the tower in ''Film/TopGun''.
-->'''''[[MemeticMutation MAVERIIICK!]]'''''
** The pilots singing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling".
** "I feel the need! The need for speed!"
** The beach volleyball game.
** The final dogfight.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':
** The Hulk [[spoiler:smashing Loki]].
** TheOner of every Avenger defending the city.
** The triumphant shot of the entire team assembled together to defend New York from the Chitauri invasion.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': The first time the Delorian time travels.
* ''Film/BandeAPart'': The trio's dance number halfway the film.
* ''Film/BasicInstinct'': The interrogation scene where Catherine Tramell ''supposedly'' is seen wearing no underpants for a split second.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': the 1989 version.
** ''Film/{{Batman}}''
*** The Batwing vs. The Joker.
*** "You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?"
*** "Who are you?" "I'm Batman!"
** ''Film/BatmanReturns''
*** Bruce dramatically standing up when he sees the bat signal.
*** Catwoman somersaults in front of Batman and Penguin. She meows then the building behind her explodes.
** ''Film/BatmanForever'': The Batwing flying through the light of the bat signal.
** ''Film/TheDarkKnight''
*** The Joker's "[[EyeScream pencil trick]]".
*** Why so serious?
*** The interrogation.
*** The Joker dropping Rachel out of a window.
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
*** Gotham Stadium's football field imploding.
*** the entire [[WhamEpisode ending]] [[AndTheAdventureContinues sequence]].
* ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'': The people being shot at the stairs, with the BabyCarriage riding down as the climax.
* ''Film/BedtimeForBonzo'': Reagan feeding the chimpansee with a milk bottle.
* ''Film/BenHur'': The horse chariot scene.
* ''Film/BeingThere'': Sellers [[spoiler: walking on water near the end.]]
* While there are many memorable aspects of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'', the scene where the protagonists fend off the killer eagles with wire hangers is probably the best-known.
* ''Film/{{Blade}}''
** The rave scene from the first film.
** Blade vs Jared in ''Film/BladeII''.
* ''Film/BladeRunner'': Roy Batty's soliloquy in the rain.
* ''Film/TheBlueAngel'': Lola sitting on a crate with her legs up.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''
** Most of the musical numbers in this movie are pretty iconic, but especially the ones with Music/RayCharles and Music/ArethaFranklin.
** The Car ChaseScene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o through a mall]], with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnG0JjzF7HY "I Can't Turn You Loose"]] as background music.
** The "Jailhouse Rock" ending.
* [[spoiler:Ricky's drive-by death]] from ''Film/BoyzNTheHood''.
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': The battle of Stirling, complete with RousingSpeech and the often spoofed scene where the Scottish warriors show off their bare behinds to the enemy.
* Creator/MelBrooks:
** ''Film/TheProducers'': The "Springtime for Hitler" musical and the audience's bewildered reactions.
** ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': The baked beans farting scene. The fight scene so epic it destroyed the studio.
** ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'': The whinying horses evertime someone says "Frau Blücher".
* "I wish I knew how to quit you!" from ''Film/BrokebackMountain''. Parodies have ran it into the ground, but the scene itself is very emotional.
** Aenis smelling Jack's jacket.
* ''Film/TheBodyguard'':
** Frank [[BridalCarry carrying]] Rachel away when her "Queen of the Night" performance gets rowdy.
** Frank TakingTheBullet for Rachel.
* The violent deaths of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''.
* ''Film/TheBrownBunny'': Creator/ChloeSevigny giving unsimulated oral sex to Vincent Gallo.
* ''Creator/BruceLee''
** ''Film/FistOfFury'': Bruce smashing a "No Dogs or Chinese" sign, the attack on the rival karate school and the BolivianArmyEnding.
** ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'': Bruce vs. Creator/ChuckNorris''!
** ''Film/EnterTheDragon'': The Hall of mirrors.
** ''Film/GameOfDeath'': Bruce vs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
** The names of Bruce's movies have become the subject of imitation as well.
* The "Raft Massacre" in ''Film/TheBurning'', in which Cropsy ambushes a bunch of teens on a raft and kills them all in bloody fashion.
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'': Redford and Newman jumping down from the cliff into the water and the scene where Redford's character bicycles with his loved one to the tune of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".
** The BolivianArmyEnding.
* ''Film/{{Cabaret}}'': The musical numbers "Life is a cabaret" and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me".
* ''Film/CabinFever''[='s=] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment infamous]] "Pancakes scene."
* ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'': The nude woman who is gorged on a pole.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'':
** The opening scene of Sam and Steve running ("On your left!").
** Cap throwing his shield at Winter Soldier, who catches it.
** "Who the hell is [[spoiler: Bucky?]]"
** The elevator fight.
** The [[spoiler:"Hail HYDRA"]] whisper.
** TheReveal of [[spoiler:Bucky Barnes]] as Winter Soldier.
** The end of the final confrontation between Cap and [[spoiler:Bucky]] ("I'm with you 'till the end of the line.")
* ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'': [[BallRoomBlitz The prom]] and [[spoiler: the creepy TwistEnding where a girl puts flowers on Carrie's grave and is pulled in by a hand.]]
* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'':
** Laszlo getting the entire cafe to sing the French national anthem to humiliate some Germans.
** Rick's goodbye to Ilsa on the airstrip at the end, where he tells here "Here's looking at you, kid" and "We'll always have Paris". After the plane left he tells Louis: "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
* ''Film/{{Casino}}''
** Nicky stabbing a guy with a fountain pen for being an asshole to Sam.
** Nicky crushing a {{mook}}s head in an industrial vise 'til his eye starts popping out.
** Sam and Nicky's secret desert meeting.
* ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'': The marathon where the athletes run in slow-motion to Vangelis' score has become so iconic that [[ParodiesOfFire it inspired many parodies]].
* Creator/CharlieChaplin
** ''Film/TheKid''The young boy being sent off to the orphanage.
** ''Film/TheGoldRush'': The Tramp eating his boot like a gourmet turkey and the scene where he makes the bread rolls dance on two forks.
** ''Film/CityLights'': The final scene where [[spoiler: the once blind girl now recognizes her anonymous helper.]]
** Charlie tightening the bolts on the cogs in ''Film/ModernTimes'', then getting stuck in the machine.
** His dance with the balloon globe and final speech in ''Film/TheGreatDictator''.
** His musical routine with ''Creator/BusterKeaton'' in ''Film/{{Limelight}}''.
* ''Film/UnChienAndalou'': The eye slicing scene.
* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'': "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown".
* ''Film/CitizenKane''
** Kane's muttering of "Rosebud" at the beginning of the film, while he drops the snow ball he was holding in his hand.
** Kane being sent off to live with a millionaire, while his parents make the negotiations inside the log cabin in the snow.
** Kane giving a presidential candidate speech in front of a huge election poster showing himself.
** The [[JumpScare shrieking cockatoo]] near the end.
** [[spoiler: The revelation that "Rosebud" was his sled.]]
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'':
** The opening close-up of Alex's SlasherSmile while the camera slowly pans out to see them sitting in the Korova Milk Bar.
** Alex beating up two of his friends, who then fall in the water.
** Alex fighting a woman with a sculpture of an erect penis.
** Alex undergoing the Ludovico technique.
* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''
** The main character being interrogated and he only keeps asking "Who are you people?!"
** The alien landing.
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'': The decapitation of the Statue of Liberty.
* ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' has "All my life, I had to fight..." from when Sofia confronts Celie.
* ''Film/ConAir'': SerialKiller Garland Greene's introduction. He is transported in an armored truck and has to wear heavy restraints and a mask.
* ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'': Gill Man diving off the ship with Kay, swimming down with her and carrying her to his cave
* ''Film/CrocodileDundee'': "That's not a knife-- ''that's'' a knife!"
* ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill'': The aliens arriving to make their message clear: ''KlaatuBaradaNikto''.
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': The final scene [[spoiler: where all the students stand on their desks to salute their teacher going away, despite them all getting punished for it.]]
* ''Film/DeadPresidents'': the bank heist.
* ''Film/DeepBlueSea'': Creator/SamuelLJackson getting chomped in the middle of his RousingSpeech.
* ''Film/TheDeerHunter'': The Russian Roulette scene.
* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'': The dueling banjos scene and the "Squeeeeeeal like a pig" scene.
* Two particular scenes from ''Film/TheDescent'': first, the one in which a Crawler is seen up-close for the first time [[spoiler:where it is seen [[MatchlightDangerRevelation through the night vision on Holly's camcorder]]]], second, the one in which [[spoiler:Sarah falls into the giant pool of blood, [[TookALevelInBadass shortly after taking out a child crawler, before proceeding to kill its mother, and then taking on the daddy, as well, by beating his head in with a large piece of bone]]]].
* ''Dickson Experimental Sound Film'': The man playing violin while two men dance with one another.
* ''Film/DieHard'': John [=McClane=] gets his feet cut by shot glass. And the scene where he shouts: "Yippie-Ka-Yeah, motherfucker!"
** Hans' DisneyVillainDeath.
* ''Franchise/DirtyHarry'':
** Harry's Magnum speech in ''Film/DirtyHarry''.
* ''Film/LaDolceVita'': The Jesus statue being carried by helicopter, Mastroianni and Ekberg embracing in the Trevi fountain.
* ''Film/DontLookBack'': Music/BobDylan holding the signs with the lyrics up during his "Subterranean Homesick Blues" number.
* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': The "I am the law" speech.
* ''Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor:'' The finale where [[spoiler: all 13 Doctors]] arrive to [[spoiler: save Gallifrey.]]
* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': Hitler's VillainousBreakdown.
* ''Film/DrStrangelove'':
** The US President telling two fighting men: "Gentlemen, you can't fight here. This is the war room!"
** Major Kong riding the bomb, while plummeting to his doom.
** Dr. Strangelove, period.
* ''Film/{{Dracula1931}}'':
** Creator/BelaLugosi's comment: "I never drink... wine."
* ''Film/{{Drive}}'': The Driver stomping in a thug's head in an elevator.
* ''Film/EasyA'': Olive's long dramatic SexyWalk in the school hallway.
* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''
** "Come my little friends, as we all sing a happy little working song!"
** The [[CrowdSong Central]] [[SpontaneousChoreography Park]] scenes.
** The [[DanceOfRomance ball]].
** The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
* ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'': The close-up shot of the main protagonist seen in dark shadows. [[spoiler: The creepy baby]]
* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'':
** E.T. making clear he wants to "phone home" to his friends far away in the galaxy.
** The shot where E.T. and Elliott touch each other's index fingers.
** The shot where E.T. and Elliott fly in the air while seated on the bike and fly past the moon in the background.
** E.T. saying goodbye to Elliott while going aboard on his spaceship.
** E.T. making all the candy float.
* ''Film/TheExorcist'':
** [[ExorcistHead Regan's head twisting 360 degrees]].
** Regan walking from the stairs doing a spider walk.
* ''Film/EyesWideShut'': The masqueraded ball scene and the orgy afterwards.
* ''Film/FaceOff'': Archer and Troy shooting each through a mirror.
* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': The teacher calling off the names at the start of the film, then noticing Bueller is absent: "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" The parade scene, and to a lesser extent the art museum scene.
* ''Film/AFewGoodMen'': The court scene where the lawyer wants "the truth", whereupon Nicholson's character answers: "You can't handle the truth!" inspired [[YouCantHandleTheParody countless parodies]].
* Creator/WCFields:
** The blind and deaf customer entering the store in ''It's A Gift'' and Fields trying to prevent him from breaking everything.
* ''Film/FightClub'': Brad Pitt's character explaining "the first rule of Fight Club".
* ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'': Jack Nicholson getting fed up with the precision crazy waitress and sweeping all the plates and cutlery of the table with one quick arm movement.
* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'':
** The Expectation vs. Reality scene.
** The park scene in day 488.
* ''Film/ForrestGump'':
** Forrest telling people that "life is like a box of chocolates".
** Forrest running from bullies. Jenny: "Run, Forrest! Run!"
** The scene where Forrest shakes hands with UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
* ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'':
** ''Film/{{Frankenstein1931}}'': The scene where the Monster is brought alive and the doctor yells: "It's alive!" Also the scene where Frankenstein [[spoiler: drowns a young girl]], which was deemed to horrifying at the time.
** ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'': Frankenstein meeting his Bride.
* ''Film/{{Freaks}}'': The freaks singing "We accept you, one of us, gooble gabble, one of us!"
* ''Film/FreeWilly'' jumping out of the water.
* ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'': The car chase scene under the railway bridge in New York.
* ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'': An unmasked Jason suddenly crashing through a window to grab the FinalGirl for one last scare.
* ''Film/FromHereToEternity'': the BeachKiss scene.
* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'':
** The scene where [[spoiler: Private "Gomer Pyle" goes insane and is seated with a gun in the toilet room.]]
** The Vietnamese prostitute who says "Me love you long time" has gained more pop cultural notoriety after being spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
** "This is my rifle! This is my gun! This is for fighting! This is for fun!"
* The pottery scene from ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.
* ''Film/GimmeShelter'': A rare example of a ConcertFilm where the most famous moment has nothing to do with music. The scene where a man in the crowd was murdered on camera has become infamous.
* ''Film/TheGirlCantHelpIt'': The scene where Creator/JayneMansfield holds two milkbottles against her breasts.
* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'': Maximus, after having killed the other gladiators, throws his sword to the spectators and shouts angrily: "Are you not entertained?! Is this not why you were here?!"
* ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss'': Alec Baldwin's character threatening to fire the hapless salesmen.
* ''Film/TheGodfather''
** The opening scene where Don Corleone is seen listening to people inside a dark lit room, while outside his daughter's wedding is going on. The first line "I believe in America..." has also become iconic.
** The scene [[spoiler: in "Godfather I" where Woltz finds his horse's head in his bed.]]
** The scene [[spoiler: where Sonny beats up Connie's husband in the streets]]
** The scene [[spoiler: where Sonny is ambushed]]
** The montage at the end of the first film, [[spoiler: showing the murders of Michael's rivals, intercut with him serving as godfather at his nephew's baptism.]]
** In "Godfather II" [[spoiler: Michael's KissOfDeath to Fredo]]
** In "Godfather II" Vito Corleone [[spoiler: murdering Don Fanucci inside his own house while outside festivities are going on.]]
** Related to the above example, Michael watching through a window [[spoiler: as he has his own brother killed]] in Part Two.
** [[spoiler: Mary's]] death considered the only good scene in part 3.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: Godzilla's iconic roar.
** Whenever ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' is referenced (or even parodied) in shows, it will more often than not depict the famous scene of him attacking Tokyo in [[Film/{{Gojira}} the 1954 film]].
** The most famous scene of ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'' is the one where Godzilla uses his atomic breath to fly.
** ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' has the CurbStompBattle between Godzilla and [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} Zilla]].
** Thanks to the popularity of the teaser trailer for ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', the HALO jump and the shot of Godzilla emerging from the ashy remains of several buildings as his silhouette is seen roaring managed to become this for that movie well before it even came out.
* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'': The HALO Jump into the ruins of San Francisco.
** Godzilla [[spoiler: holding the female MUTO's mouth open so that he can burn her from the inside with his atomic breath.]]
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'':
** The burning of Atlanta.
** Scarlett saying: "As God is my witness, I will never be hungry again!".
** Scarlett goes to the train station and the camera tracks out to reveal hundreds and hundreds of bodies lying in the middle of the track.
** Rhett saying goodbye to Scarlett near the end and telling her: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': The MexicanStandoff at the cemetery
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': The long scene where the characters are introduced to one another without any film edits whatsoever. Even more famously the scene where Creator/JoePesci's character is told that he is "funny" [[spoiler: which he doesn't take well]].
** Henry and Karen entering a restaurant through the kitchen on their first date.
* ''Film/TheGraduate'':
** "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
** The ending where Dustin Hoffman interrupts the wedding and runs off with the bride to take the first bus that comes along.
* ''Film/GrandHotel'': Garbo's character saying she "wants to be alone."
* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': The "You Are The One That I Want" sing and dance number.
* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'': The shot where one of the bank robbers shoots at the audience. The first time someone is made to "dance" by shooting at his feet.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''
** Star-Lord dancing on Morag.
** Rocket's drunken rant.
** [[spoiler:"We...are...Groot."]]
** Star-Lord challenging Ronan to a dance-off.
** Baby Groot dancing.
* ''Film/LaHaine'': The scene where someone DJ's two records in front of an open window, one being "The Sound Of The Police" by [=KRS-One=], the other "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Music/EdithPiaf.
* ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' it's the scene where Michael's pale white mask emerges from the darkness.
* ''Film/TheHangover'': A naked Asian man jumping out of a trunk.
* ''Film/HappyGilmore'': The fight between Happy and Bob Barker: [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch "The price is wrong, bitch!"]]
* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'': Music/TheBeatles running away from their adoring fans. The shot where they run around in an open field to "Can't Buy Me Love".
* ''Film/HarryPotter'' (most of the later installments are eclipsed by the first, especially after the first three)
** First Film:
*** The Hogwarts letters flooding into the Dursleys' living room.
*** Hagrid's "you're a wizard, Harry".
*** Possibly the first time we see Hogwarts.
*** TROLL!!!! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!! Thought you ought to know
*** The Sorting Hat scene.
*** Possibly the scene where Hagrid gives Harry a tour of Diagon Alley (which also counts as Harry's very first glimpse into the wizarding world).
** Second Film:
*** Dobby's "Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts!"
*** Possibly the Flying Car scene.
*** Harry's fight with the Basilisk.
** Third Film:
*** "HE WAS THEIR FRIEND!"
*** Maybe the hippogriff flight.
*** [[CanisLatinicus Expecto Patronum!!!]]
** Fourth Film: [[spoiler:Cedric's death]].
*** Possibly the fight with the Hungarian Horntail.
** Fifth film: The "I must not tell lies" detention scene with Umbridge.
*** [[spoiler: Sirius's death]].
** Sixth Film: Dumbledore casting a fire spell around himself and Harry.
** Eighth Film: [[spoiler: Voldemort Avada Kedavra'ing Harry.]]
* ''Film/{{Heat}}''
** First, the iconic coffee shop scene which put two of the greatest actors ever, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/RobertDeNiro, onscreen together for the first time ever.
** Or the bank shootout, regarded as one of the most intense in movie history.
** "He's got a... '''GREAT ASS!!!!!'''
* ''Film/TheHelp'': The lines "You is kind, you is smart, and you is important" and "Eat My Shit!"
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'': Troy's "Bet On It!" number is the page image for {{Narm}}.
* ''Film/HomeAlone'': It's easy to forget that there are parts that don't involve Harry and Marv comically injuring themselves on Kevin's traps.
** Except for the [[ShowWithinAShow mobster films]]. And Kevin using them on people!
** Also the aftershave PalmOnCheekPose scene. Oddly, the aftershave part is often forgotten, leaving Kevin simply screaming with his hands on his cheeks, as though at the burglars. The boxart strengthens this.
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'': The scene where one of the children ends up on a spoon and is almost eaten by their dad.
* ''Film/{{Hugo}}'': The runaway train dream.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames''
** The Cornucopia scene.
** The "''I volunteer''!" scene.
** Rue's death scene.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire''
** The beach scene.
** Johanna Mason stripping in the elevator, mostly due to the expression on Katniss' face.
** Katniss shooting at an incoming lightning.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay''
** Katniss threatening Snow ("If we burn, you burn with us!")
** Katniss singing "The Hanging Tree"
** [[spoiler:A hijacked Peeta strangles Katniss]].
* The "All I need is love" scene from ''Film/IAmSam''.
* The fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David in ''Film/TheyLive''.
** "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum..."
* ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'': The swing set scene.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}''
** The [[GravityScrew zero-G, revolving hallway]] fight.
** The spinning top.
** The dream hotel being flooded due to the sleeping Cobb being dunked in a bathtub.
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': The docking scene above Mann's planet.
** Additionally, the MindScrew climax in which [[spoiler: Cooper is sucked into a black hole and finds himself floating in a vast structure made of bookshelves where he has control over time and gravity.]]
* The alien ships on ''Film/IndependenceDay'' cast shadows over famous landmarks, then [[MonumentalDamage blow them away]].
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''
** [[IndyEscape Indy outrunning the giant boulder]] in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
** Also from "Raiders" Indy [[CombatPragmatist shooting the Swordsman.]]
** The IndyHatRoll in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
** From ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', "KNEEL!"
*** From the same film, the scene with the false grails. "He chose... poorly."
* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'': The scene where Bennell shouts: [[spoiler: "Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!"]]
* ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'' unwrapping his bandages in front of a horrified policeman and villagers in Universal's 1933 film. Also his monologue with Flora, his girlfriend.
* ''Film/IronMan'''s UnflinchingWalk after destroying a tank. Pepper catching Tony having the armor taken off.
** ''Film/IronMan2'' has the iconic suitcase armour sequence.
** ''Film/IronMan3'' has [[spoiler:the arrival of the Iron Legion, all 42 Iron Man suits flying by themselves.]]
*** Also the scene where Iron Man [[spoiler:actually just his armor being controlled by Tony from a boat]] saving all thirteen members of the air force one crew as they plummet down to earth.
* ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'': Hitchhiking Claudette Colbert making a car stop by showing her leg.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': The final scene [[spoiler: where James Stewart's character runs home again and is then surprised by all the people in his neighborhood coming along to bring in the money he so desparately needs.]]
* ''Film/JailhouseRock'': Music/ElvisPresley dancing with the prisoners to the TitleTrack.
* ''Franchise/JamesBond'':
** [[BondGunBarrel Bond shooting the camera through a lens.]]
** Bond saying he wants his martini "shaken not stirred".
** Bond throwing his hat perfectly on a hat rack.
** Honey Ryder, the first [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girl]], emerging from the sea, clad in her famous white bikini, in ''Film/DrNo''.
** Bond almost getting cut in half with a laser in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
** The bungee jump and the tank ride in ''Film/GoldenEye''.
** The motorcycle chase in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
** The car chase through the ice in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
** Le Chiffre whipping Bond in the balls with a rope in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''.
* The elevator scene from the original version of ''The Eye''.
* The opening scene of ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''.
* ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'': The fight against [[DemBones a skeleton army]].
* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'': The [[JawsAttackParody theme music itself]] has become a StockParody. But there are also the following scenes:
** The death of the shark's first victim, Chrissy.
** When Brody is chumming the water and the shark rears its head, prompting Brody to tell Quint [[GonnaNeedMoreX "I think you're going to need a bigger boat!"]]
** From ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'', the roaring shark and its nonsensical explosion.
** Brody seeing a shark attack for the first time used a combined zoom out and forward tracking to create very unique OhCrap scene.
* ''Film/TheJazzSinger'': Music/AlJolson saying: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet", which was the first line ever spoken in a sound movie.
* ''Film/JerryMaguire'':
** Tom Cruise shouting: "Show me the money!"
** Renee Zellweger's brief: "You had me at "hello".
* ''Film/{{Jezebel}}'': Julie wearing a red gown at a ball.
* ''Ju-On''/Film/TheGrudge: The ghost woman crawling down the stairs.
* ''Film/JurassicPark''
** The scene where the helicopter flies to the island, while the music builds up the audience's anticipation.
** The "Welcome to Jurassic Park" opening moment with the Brachiosaurus. Even the characters react to it as a signature scene.
** The build-up to the ''T. rex'' attack with the water cups vibrating from the dinosaur's footsteps.
** The Velociraptors in the kitchen as well.
** "Clever girl..."
** Jeff Goldblum's ShirtlessScene.
** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''- the tyrannosaurus rampaging through San Diego.
** ''Film/JurassicParkIII''- the tyrannosaurus/spinosaurus battle.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' has a fair few, but one that has been subject to quite a bit of MemeticMutation is [[http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DinosaurWhisperer.jpg this shot]], where he runs into the raptor paddock and prevents the vicious predators from killing a young handler who falls in.
* ''Film/TheKarateKid'': The Crane Kick.
* Creator/BusterKeaton:
** ''Film/SevenChances'': Keaton running from several huge rocks and boulders rolling down a mountain.
** ''Film/TheGeneral'': The train crossing a bridge, which then collapses.
** ''Film/SteamboatBillJr'': Buster standing in front of a house where he is nearly crushes by the front piece falling over, but survives because he was standing in front of the empty window pane.
* ''Film/KickAss'':
** Kick-Ass' first successful BigDamnHeroes attempt that made him an InUniverse internet phenomenon.
** Hit-Girl's first BigDamnHeroes moment by saving Kick-Ass from Razul and his goons.
** Hit-Girl's second BigDamnHeroes moment by saving Kick-Ass and Big Daddy after the latter two were tortured.
** Hit-Girl's OneManArmy fight scene with Frank D'Amico's {{Mook}}s in tune of "Bad Reputation".
** Kick-Ass' first BigDamnHeroes moment to save Hit-Girl from Frank D'Amico's {{Mook}}s (as well as their [[MookLieutenant leader]]) by going GatlingGood on them in the tune of Music/ElvisPresley.
** Kick-Ass' second BigDamnHeroes moment to save Hit-Girl from [[BigBad Frank D'Amico himself]] by shooting and killing him with a bazooka.
* ''Film/KillBill''
** The Bride vs. Gogo fight scene from ''Kill Bill Vol. 1''.
** O-Ren "collecting" Boss Tanaka's head.
** The Bride's fight with the Crazy 88 and her subsequent fight in the snow with O-Ren.
** Pai Mei jumping onto The Bride's sword and kicking her in the face in Volume 2.
* ''Film/KingKong1933'': King Kong fighting a T-Rex on the island and, of course, climbing on top of the Empire State Building battling air planes. This final scene has become so famous that it is a StockParody: the KingKongClimb.
* ''Film/KingsRow'': The soldier discovering his leg was amputated and saying: "Where's the rest of me?"
* The Church fight in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', thanks to Galahad's badass fighting skills and the film's excellent usage of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird".
* ''Film/TheKiss'': The couple kissing one another, which is also a famous still image.
* ''Film/KissOfDeath'': Gangster Tommy Udo pushing an old lady in a wheel chair from the stairs.
* ''Film/KnuteRockneAllAmerican'': The Gipper's last request.
* ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}'': The fast motion shots of cars zooming by in late night traffic, intercut with a scene of a rocket being launched and a woman holding an infant while a little girl stand next to her in a store with nothing but TV screens.
* TheChosenOne vs. The Cow in ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist''.
* The Escherspace scene in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' (especially Jareth's pants. Not even Escher knows how he got into those pants).
** The "Magic Dance" musical number.
* When Leroy gets the "Glow" in ''Film/TheLastDragon''.
-->'''Sho'nuff:''' Alright, Leroy, who is the one and only master?\\
'''Leroy Green:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome I am]].
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', the scene where seven Earthbenders dance just to throw one small rock. This scene is dubbed [[FanNickname The Pebble Dance.]]
* Creator/LaurelAndHardy
** The big fight in ''Film/BigBusiness'' where Stan and Ollie destroy Finlayson's house while he wrecks their car.
** The duo fixing a house while wearing overalls in ''Busy Bodies''
** The duo trying to get the piano up the stairs in ''Film/TheMusicBox''.
** Stan and Ollie attending the Sons of the Desert meeting in ''Film/SonsOfTheDesert''.
** Laurel using his thumb as a lighter in ''Film/WayOutWest'' and ''Film/{{Blockheads}}''.
** Ollie saying: "There's another nice mess you've got me into", whereupon Laurel starts crying.
** Laurel eyepoking Hardy.
** Hardy's frustrated reaction, BreakingTheFourthWall, after Laurel did something stupid.
* ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'': Lawrence travelling through the vast desert while Maurice Jarré's epic score is playing.
* ''Film/LetItBe'': The RooftopConcert.
* ''Film/LittleCaesar'': The final scene [[spoiler: where Rico dies in the rain and says: "Mother of Mercy, is the end of Rico?]]
* ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'': the AtomicFBomb and the burlesque dance number.
* ''Film/{{Looper}}'': The 30 year sequence that shows how Joe became Old Joe.
* ''Film/LumiereFilms'':
** ''Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat'': the train arriving.
** ''The Sprinkler Sprinkled'': The GardenHoseSquirtSurprise.
* ''Film/{{M}}'': The moment when Hans notices a letter "m" marked on the back of his coat.
* The big mud fight in ''Film/McLintock'', along with the rant that set it off ("Somebody oughta belt you in the mouth, but I won't. I won't. [[TurnTheOtherFist (punches) The hell I won't!]]")
* ''Film/TheMadAdventuresOfRabbiJacob'': De Funés doing the celebrational Jewish dance and miraculously being able to keep up with the performers.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'':
** The sandstorm chase near the beginning. [[MemeticMutation "OH, WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!"]]
** The epic final chase scene at the end.
* ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'': Creator/HumphreyBogart holding the falcon and claiming it's "the stuff that dreams are made of".
* The "[[YourHeadAsplode Disco Boy Scene]]" in ''Film/{{Maniac}}''.
* ''Creator/MarilynMonroe''
** Her skirt getting blown in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch''.
** The "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" musical sequence in ''Film/GentlemenPreferBlondes''. Later imitated by Madonna in "Material Girl".
** Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis checking her out in ''Some Like It Hot''.
* ''Film/{{Martyrs}}''
** The scene where Lucie breaks into that family's house.
** And the climactic scene involving Anna.
* Creator/TheMarxBrothers
** Groucho's comment about "shooting an elephant in his payamas" in ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers''.
** The MirrorRoutine scene from ''Film/DuckSoup''.
** Harpo honking the car horn while following other people. His harp playing scene and Chico's piano scene.
** Groucho and Chico's "why a duck?" scene from ''Film/TheCocoanuts''.
** The "sanity clause" scene and the crowded room scene in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''.
* ''Film/MaryPoppins'':
** Mary Poppins flying by holding on to her umbrella.
** Mary singing "Feed the Birds" while having the children look at the snow cone.
** Dick Van Dyke dancing with the penguins.
* ''Film/TheMask'''s [[EyePop eyes popping out of his head]] when he sees Mrs. Peanman.
* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'': Zorro slashing Elena's clothes off.
* ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine'': Liu Ti Lung vs. Fung Sheng Wu Chi.
* ''Film/TheMatrix''
** Neo [[BulletTime dodging bullets]].
** Trinity jumping in the air and kicking a cop in the face.
** The Architect's [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness notoriously wordy]] speech explaining the Matrix and the origin of The One.
* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Cady first seeing The Plastics.
* ''Film/MeanStreets''
** Harvey Keitel praying.
** De Niro blowing up a mailbox.
* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': The female robot being brought to life with electric bolts.
* ''Film/MidnightCowboy'':
** The main protagonists walking around in the streets, while Music/HarryNilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'" plays in the background.
** Dustin Hoffman nearly ran over by a car, causing him to yell: "Hey, hey, I'm walkin' here!"
* ''Film/MidnightExpress'': The scene where the protagonist is arrested at the airport for smuggling drugs.
* ''Film/MiracleOn34thStreet'': SantaClaus singing along with the Dutch girl.
* ''Film/MissionImpossible'': The [[MissionImpossibleCableDrop cable drop]] scene.
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
** The opening scene where horse hooves are heard [[spoiler: then it is revealed that it's just someone banging coconuts together behind King Arthur]].
** The Black Knight [[spoiler:having all his limbs decapitated]].
** The Knights who say "ni" scene.
** The Killer Bunny of Caer Bannog and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
** "They call me... Tim."
** "She turned me into a newt!" "''A newt?''" "I got better."
* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''
** The stoning scene.
** "Biggus Dickus"
** "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
** The ending [[spoiler:where everybody sings "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" while hanging on the cross.]]
* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'': The scene where Mr. Creosote [[spoiler:explodes from being overweight]] is the most iconic scene.
* Music/{{Cher}} {{dope slap}}ping Creator/NicolasCage in ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''. "Snap out of it!"
* ''Film/MortalKombat''
** The TitleScream and the intro the follows.
** Pretty much every major fight, inlcuding Kano vs. Sonya, Scorpion vs. Johnny Cage and Liu Kang vs. Shang Tsung.
** Raiden's line: "The fate of billions will depend upon you. Heh heh heh heh... sorry."
** Shang Tsung draining the soul of the unlucky monk who fights Liu Kang at tournament's start. "Fatality."
** Johnny's "Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole" line and his subsequent beatdown on Goro.
** Raiden's SarcasticClapping.
** Liu Kang vs. Reptile.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|1932}}'' waking up as the Scroll of Thoth is read in Universal's 1932 movie.
* ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'': The title character's dance routine to Music/Jamiroquai.
* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'': Bastian flying on Falkor's back through the sky.
** "[[SayMyName MOOONCHIIILD]]!!!"
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'':
** ''{{Film/A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984}}'': Freddy's walking around with elongated arms. Later the scene where Glen [[spoiler: is stabbed in the throat while lying in bed.]]
* ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'': Harry Powell's KnuckleTattoos.
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''
** "They're coming to get you, Barbra!"
** And definitely the last scene with Ben...
** "CHOKE ON 'EM!" from ''Film/DayOfTheDead'
* ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'': The protagonist running from a plane following him while he is near a cropduster.
* ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'': Nosferatu rising from his coffin, while his body remains fully erect.
* ''Film/{{Notorious}}'': The long kissing scene, which was daring at the time.
* ''Film/NowVoyager'': Jerry lighting two cigarettes and handing one to Charlotte.
* ''Film/OldYeller'': [[spoiler: Old Yeller getting shot]]
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'': The opening sequence where three cowboys wait for harmonica to arrive at the station and the mood is set just by the background noises. The "Jill's America" theme which has become synonymous with TearJerker. The crane shot when Jill arrives in town.
* ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'': Brando's "I could have been a contender" speech in the backseat of the car.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': [[HumongousMecha Gipsy Danger]] dragging a gigantic oil tanker through the streets of Hong Kong, than beating [[{{Kaiju}} Otachi]] across the head with it.
** Also the "Today we are cancelling the Apocalypse!" line.
** Also Gipsy [[spoiler: revealing a collapsable sword hidden in her forearm, then using it to slice Otachi in half.]]
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': The [[spoiler: Pale Man's [[SchmuckBanquet banquet]]]].
* ''Film/{{Patton}}'': Patton holding a speech in front of a huge American flag.
* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'': Pee-wee doing a dance to "Tequila" and the Large Marge scene.
* ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''
** The Phantom's Unmasking [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 in Universal's 1925 film]].
** The Chandelier Crash in [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1943 the 1943 film]].
* ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'': Hanks' character listening to an opera aria by Maria Callas, while lying on his hospital bed.
* ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'': Dex and Tracy's quarrel at the start.
* Opening of the SlasherMovie ''Film/{{Pieces}}'', where a woman finds her son putting together a jigsaw of a naked woman. She then proceeds to freak out and the son violently kills her with an axe.
* ''Film/PinkFlamingos'': The scene where Divine [[spoiler: eats dog excrement]].
* ''Film/PitchPerfect'':
** Aubrey's very first pukage.
** Beca and Chloe's duet in the shower.
** Beca singing ''Cups'' in the auditions.
** The TrainingMontage in tune of "Starships".
** Lilly making a puke angel in Aubrey's vomit.
** The CrowningMusicOfAwesome finale.
* ''Film/{{Platoon}}'': [[spoiler:Sgt. Elias']] death. (It's even featured in most DVD boxes.)
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'': The UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty on the beach in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes''.
** Caesar's BigNo and his "Caesar is home" speech in ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'':
** Bela Lugosi's replacement walking around with his face covered by his coat.
** Maila Nurmi and Tor Johnson walking around like zombies in the graveyard.
* ''Film/ThePlayersClub'': Ronnie and Diamond's fight scene.
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'': Carol-Anne saying "They're here...!", the monstrous tree scene and the living clown doll scene. Special mention to the moment where the father [[spoiler:watches himself in the mirror and claws off his entire face.]]
* ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'': Lou Gehrig's final speech in the baseball stadion, where he considers himself to be "the luckiest man on Earth".
* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'': Mia's post makeover reveal.
* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'': The shower scene, which became a StockParody: PsychoShowerMurderParody. Another well known scene is the final shot where Creator/AnthonyPerkins looks up to the camera and a skull is subliminally superimposed over his face.
* ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'': Gangster Tom Powers pushing a grapefruit in his girlfriend's face.
* ''Film/PulpFiction'':
** EnemyEatsYourLunch and asks this: "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!"
** The Quarter Pounder with Cheese dialogue.
** Vincent and Mia dancing in the 1950s club.
** The scene [[spoiler: where Mia has a needle jammed in her chest]]
** The "Bring Out The Gimp" scene.
** Christopher Walken's speech about keeping a watch up his ass.
** IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
* ''Film/TheRailwayChildren'': The [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "Daddy! My daddy!"]] scene.
* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'':
** The [[{{Gorn}} extremely bloody and gory]] final battle in ''Film/RamboIV''.
* ''Film/RearWindow'': James Stewart sitting in a wheelchair and looking through his binoculars to the neighbours.
* ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'': Creator/JamesDean shouting: "You're tearing me apart!"
** The knife fight and the chickie run.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'':
** The characters walking around in CoolShades to the tune of "Little Green Bag".
** The ear-slicing scene to "Stuck In The Middle With You".
* ''Film/TheRightStuff'': The astronauts PowerWalk.
* The climactic scene in the original Japanese version of ''Film/TheRing'', in which [[spoiler:Sadako emerges from the television]] -- and, by extension, the same scene in the US remake.
* ''Film/RiskyBusiness'': Tom Cruise's [[RiskyBusinessDance dance in CoolShades, underpants and socks]] to "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" by Bob Seger when finally being home alone.
* ''Film/{{Robocop 1987}}''
** Alex Murphy's CruelAndUnusualDeath ([[CameBackStrong He Got Better]])
** [[BondOneLiner "Your move, creep."]]
** The ED-209's [[UnderStatement "glitch"]] in the OCP boardroom.
* ''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool'': The ending [[spoiler: where the school is blown up]]
* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
** A certain Italian boxer's famous run through the streets of Philadelphia, with "Gonna Fly Now" playing in the background and ending with running up ''the'' steps.
** "Adrian! Yo Adrian!"
* ''Film/RockyIII''
** The "Eye of the Tiger" TrainingMontage.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': The "Time Warp".
** The RockyRollCall.
* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''. The titular couple seeing each other through a fish tank.
** Mercutio singing in drag.
* ''Film/TheRoom'''s is undoubtedly "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
** Also, the ''"Oh, hi Mark!"'' scene on the roof.
* ''Film/SafetyLast'': Creator/HaroldLLoyd hanging from a large clock and holding on for dear life.
* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'': The scene where [[spoiler: the prisoners are forced to eat excrement and the final scene where people are tortured outside while "Carmina Burana" plays on the background.]]
* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'': The opening scene where Travolta's characters struts through the streets and later the StayingAliveDancePose in the disco club.
* ''Satyricon'': The orgy scene.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'': The Omaha Beach attack on D-Day.
* ''Film/SayAnything'': [[Creator/JohnCusack Lloyd Dobler]] holding a boombox over his head in front of Dianne Court's window, playing "In Your Eyes" by Music/PeterGabriel.
* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': [[YourHeadASplode Darryl Revok's first scene]]
* ''Film/SchindlersList''
** [[spoiler: The people being transported from the Krakau ghetto. Schindler and Stern making the list.]]
** Amon shooting Jews from his window.
* "Film/Scooby Doo": The notorious burping and farting contest between Scooby and Shaggy with the two using exaggerated poses and movements. Later, Shaggy farts again in a suit of metal armor and ignites a nearby flame very close to Velma.
* "Film/Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed": The song and dance number in the shady nightclub.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}: The death of the DecoyProtagonist.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': River singlehandedly killing a pack of Reavers.
* ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'': The ChessWithDeath scene.
* ''Film/{{Shane}}'': The final scene [[spoiler: where Shane rides off in the distance while the little boy yells at him: "Shane, come back!"]]
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': [[spoiler: The revelation how Andy escaped]]
* ''Film/TheSheik'': Creator/RudolphValentino kidnapping a woman and bringing her to his tent.
* ''Film/TheShining'':
** The opening scene where the car is driving over the road in a mountainous area and the camera uses a bird eye's view.
** The little boy riding the trike then suddenly meeting the murdered twin sisters near the end of the hallway.
** Jack Torrance cutting the door open with an axe, then putting his head through the cut hole and shouting: "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!"
** The little boy writing "Redrum" on the wall.
** The HUGE torrent of blood.
** The man being given oral sex by another guy... in a bear suit.
** Jack's frozen corpse.
* Creator/ShirleyTemple:
** Shirley singing "Animal Crackers In My Soup" with a group of school children in ''Curly Top''.
** Shirley singing "On The Good Shop Lollipop" in the film "Bright Eyes".
** Her dance routine with Bill " Bojangles" Robinson.
* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''
** The lap dance scene.
** To say nothing of the infamous TwoPersonPoolParty scene...
** "Man, everybody got AIDS and shit!"
* ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''
** Buffalo Bill dancing around in a dress. Bill taunting his latest victim who he had left in a pit.
** Hannibal meeting the Governor while he has to wear heavy restraints and mask.
* ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'': The villain seeing someone putting out the trash, then shouting: "Garbage day!" before shooting him down.
* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'': Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the rain.
* ''Film/TheSixthSense'': The boy whispering: ISeeDeadPeople.
* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'': [[spoiler: Joe E. Lewis, after being informed that the woman he brought back with him to marry is in fact a man, saying: "Well, nobody's perfect."]]
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'':
** Maria singing "The Hills Are Alive" while the camera provides a bird eye's view.
** The "Do-Re-Mi" musical scene.
* ''Film/SoylentGreen'': The titular character's realization [[spoiler: that "soylent green is made out of people."]]
* ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'': The ''IAmSpartacus'' scene.
* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''
** ''Film/SpiderMan1'': Spider-Man upside-down kissing Mary Jane with his mask on.
** ''Film/SpiderMan2'': The fight on the train.
** ''Film/SpiderMan3'': Peter dancing or ripping off the black suit.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': "KHAAAAAAAN!"
** ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': The destruction of the ''Enterprise''.
** ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'': "Excuse me. Could you tell me where the nuclear wessels are?"
** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': "Target that explosion and FIRE!" BigDamnHeroes much?
** ''Film/StarTrek'': "Bullshit."
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': "My name...is...[[spoiler:Khan]]."
* [[spoiler:Spock's death]] from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
** Or Kirk screaming Khan's name, preceded by Khan thinking he's gotten revenge by giving Kirk AFateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** The trench-run scene, the PsychicStrangle by Darth Vader, the scenes in the Cantina, Han shooting down Guido in the bar and the brief but profoundly memorable lightsaber duel in ''Film/ANewHope''.
** The Hoth battle with the giant walkers, Luke meeting Yoda in the swamp, Vader cutting off Luke's hand and then telling him [[LukeIAmYourFather "I am your father"]] in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': [[MemeticMutation IT'S A TRAP!]] and the Emperor unveiling Force Lightning for the first time in the franchise.
** Jar Jar Binks in''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. Millions of fans complaining about this has only made it more infamous.
** Darth Vader's BigNo from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* ''Film/TheSting'': Gondorff saying goodbye by touching his nose with his index finger.
* ''Film/StopMakingSense'': David Byrne dancing around in the huge suit.
* ''Film/SuckerPunch'': The fantasy missions.
* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'': Norma Desmond descending from the stairs and telling everybody she is "reading for her close-up."
* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''
** The flight scene with Superman and Lois. "Can you read my mind?"
** The stellar opening with the ZoomingCredits and {{Fanfare}}.
** Superman doing a SkywardScream when Lois dies, and travelling back in time to save her (infamously shown as him spinning the Earth backwards).
* ''Film/SupermanII''
** Superman being ordered to KneelBeforeZod, or Zod's brief scene in the previous film ("First you, and then one day, your heirs!")
* ''Film/SupermanIII''
** The junk yard fight between Clark Kent and Superman.
* ''Film/SupermanReturns''
** One word: [[MemeticMutation "WRONG!"]]
** Krrrrryptonite!
** The bullet in the eye.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel''
** Superman [[spoiler:killing [[BigBad Zod]] to save a group of helpless civilians.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'': The Tarzan yell by Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller.
* ''Film/TaxiDriver'': Travis Bickle practicing in front of the mirror: [[YouTalkinToMe "You talkin' to me?"]]
* ''Franchise/TheTerminator'':
** Arnie saying "I'll be back" in "The Terminator 1".
** The line ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive.
** Arnie saying "Hasta La Vista, Baby" in "The Terminator 2".
** Every scene where the T-1000 showed how indestructible it is.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'': The ending [[spoiler: where Leatherface waves his arms about while holding his chain saw]].
* ''Film/{{Them}}'': The giant ants attacking.
* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'': "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!"
* ''Film/ThreeHundred''
** King Leonidas says "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS! IS!]] '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis SPARTA!!!!]]'''''" as he [[ShootTheMessenger kicks the Persian Messenger into the pit]].
** There's also: "TONIGHT, WE DINE, '''IN HELL!!!'''"
* Creator/TheThreeStooges: The characters eyepoking one another.
* ''Film/TheThirdMan'':
** The RevealShot where [[spoiler: Harry Lime is recognized in the dark]]
** Orson Welles' BreakingSpeech regarding the "little dots" on the ground and his "cuckoo clock" comparison speech between Italy and Switzerland.
** The final scenes in the sewers of Vienna.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'': The scene where a radio is being described as having a volume button, which "goes up to eleven".
* ''Film/TheThreeAmigos'' singing "My Little Buttercup" in a BadGuyBar.
* ''Film/{{Thor}}''
** Odin banishing Thor.
** Loki learning of his true parentage and Odin falling into the Odinsleep.
** "This drink, I like it! ANOTHER!"
** Thor failing to lift Mjolnir at the SHIELD base.
** Thor regaining his power and taking down the Destroyer.
* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''
** Jack yelling: "I'm the king of the world!".
** Jack and Rose kissing while holding one another, standing on the front of the ship.
** Rose being sketched naked.
* ''Film/{{Tommy}}'': Music/EltonJohn standing on ultralong legs.
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'':
** The old-timer doing a happy dance.
** The Mexican gang leader asking: "Badges? I ain't got no badges! I don't have to show you no stinkin' badges!"
* ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'': Hitler's final speech.
* ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'': The scene where the rocket hits the moon's eye.
* From ''Film/TropicThunder'':
** The "full retard" speech from Lazarus to Speedman.
** Les Grossman's telling off the Flaming Dragons in an epic rant.
** Les Grossman dancing to Flo Rida's "Low".
* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger''- the kid getting his head crushed by a speeding car. This scene is often cut from the movie, which has only added to its fame; the DVD actually has a large message on the front cover advertising that the scene is included. Not quite as famous but just as memorable is the dog getting shot.
* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'':
** The apes gathering around the monolith. One of them smashing a bone on the ground while AlsoSprachZarathustra starts playing. Later the ape throwing the bone in the air. When it comes down it dissolves into a spaceship thousands of years in the future.
** The spaceships and everything floating around in space to the music of "The Blue Danube".
** HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod bay doors for Dave.
-->'''HAL:''' [[WhamLine I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]
** [[spoiler: Hal's death scene, where he sings "Daisy" until his circuits die completely down.]]
** The "trip" scene where Dave sees all kinds of hallucinogenic colors while his eye pupil dilates color.
** The scene where Dave is lying in bed, notices the monolith, reaches at it. Then the final shot of the foetus of the Starchild in space.
* ''Film/TurkishDelight'': Erik and Olga embracing in the rain.
* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': The prologue and epilogue.
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''
** The suspects lining up.
** Kujan dropping his coffee mug after discovering who Keyser Soze really is.
* ''Vampyr''
** The brief scene of scythe-carrying villager calling the ferry.
** Main character seeing the vision of himself in a coffin.
* ''Film/VampiresKiss'': The "You don't say?" meme.
* ''Film/VarsityBlues'' has two: first, the scene where a cheerleader asks Mox to sign her ass; second, the scene where Darcy walks out in a whipped cream bikini.
* ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'': James Stewart's stage fright, created by him looking down to the floor.
* ''Film/VForVendetta''
** The [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal incredibly alliterative]] introduction of V.
-->[[labelnote:(click for quote)]]"'''V'''oilà! In '''V'''iew, a humble '''V'''audevillian '''V'''eteran, cast '''V'''icariously as both '''V'''ictim and '''V'''illain by the '''V'''icissitudes of fate. This '''V'''isage, no mere '''V'''eneer of '''V'''anity, is a '''V'''estige of the '''V'''ox populi, now '''V'''acant, '''V'''anished. However, this '''V'''alorous '''V'''isitation of a bygone '''V'''exation stands '''V'''ivified, and has '''V'''owed to '''V'''anquish these '''V'''enal and '''V'''irulent '''V'''ermin '''V'''anguarding '''V'''ice and '''V'''ouchsafing the '''V'''iolently '''V'''icious and '''V'''oracious '''V'''iolation of '''V'''olition! The only '''V'''erdict is '''V'''engeance; a '''V'''endetta held as a '''V'''otive, not in '''V'''ain, for the '''V'''alue and '''V'''eracity of such shall one day '''V'''indicate the '''V'''igilant and the '''V'''irtuous. '''V'''erily, this '''V'''ichyssoise of '''V'''erbiage '''V'''eers most '''V'''erbose, so let me simply add that it's my '''V'''ery good honour to meet you and you may call me '''V'''."[[/labelnote]]
** To a lesser extent, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2W0-z8EnaM Valerie Page sequence.]]
* ''Film/TheVanishing'': The ending [[spoiler: where the man discovers he's buried alive in a coffin]]
* ''Film/WaynesWorld''
** "[[Music/{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]" in the Mirthmobile.
** To a lesser extent: NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!
** {{NOT}}
* Colt vs. Tang Lung in ''Film/WayOfTheDragon''.
* ''Film/WestSideStory'': The Jets' dance routine.
* ''Film/WhiteHeat'': The final scene [[spoiler: where the gangster blows himself up in the factory and shouts: "Made it ma, top of the world", before exploding.]]
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Jessica Rabbit's "I'm not bad...I'm just drawn that way" speech as well as her introductory song sequence, and Judge Doom's [[spoiler:{{toon}} [[TheReveal reveal]]]]
* ''Film/TheWickerMan'':
** The original 1973 version is best remembered for the scene with the wicker man itself, standing in a grass field, while the townsfolk sing "Sumer is Icumen In". Also, the [[EvenThoughIWouldReallyLikeTo Wall Slap Scene]].
** In the laughably bad remake the scene where Nicholas Cage shouts ''"[[MemeticMutation NOT THE BEES!!!]]"'' near the end of the movie.
* The climactic final shootout of ''Film/TheWildBunch''.
* ''Film/TheWildOne'': Johnny being asked "what he is rebelling against" to which he answers: "What do you got?"
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': The "chocolate tunnel" scene has become notorious for being a really creepy BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
** Dorothy opening the door and the transition from black-and-white to color.
** The munchkins singing "Ding dong, the witch is dead!"
** Dorothy and her companions singing "we're off to see the wizard" while walking on the yellow brick road.
** The flying monkeys attacking.
** The witch melting and shouting: "I'm melting! Melting!"
* Film/{{The Wolf Man|1941}} attacking Gwen in Universal's 1941 film. Also the lines:
--> ''Even a man who is pure in heart''
--> ''And says his prayers by night''
--> ''May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms''
--> ''And the autumn moon is bright.''
* ''Film/{{Woodstock}}'': Music/JimiHendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner".
* ''Film/XMen'':
** ''Film/XMen1''.
*** Magneto and Wolverine's train showdown.
*** Wolverine vs. Sabertooth on the Statue of Liberty.
*** Professor X and Magneto's chess match.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited''
*** Magneto escaping from his plastic prison.
*** The battle at Iceman's home.
*** Wolverine vs. Lady Deathstrike
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
*** Professor X's apparent death.
*** Juggernaut's "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" remark to Kitty Pride.
*** Wolverine killing Phoenix.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'':
*** Wade Wilson defeating a room full of mooks with just his swords.
*** Wolverine vs. Deadpool
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Erik killing Nazis in the Argentina bar.
*** The Cuba showdown.
** TheStinger of ''Film/TheWolverine''.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** The conversation of the younger and older Professor X.
*** Peter's BulletTime run through the Pentagon kitchen.
*** Magneto lifting a baseball stadium out of the ground.
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** La Saraghina, the BigBeautifulWoman, dancing for the children on the beach.
** The final scene where all the people in the protagonist's life dance around him on a circus stage, while he is the ringmaster in the middle.
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': The "don't call me Shirley" quote, the dance scene in the disco bar and the old lady who "speaks jive".
* ''Film/AlPacino''
** ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''
*** The chainsaw scene.
*** [[MemeticMutation "Say hello to my little friend!"]]
** ''Film/AndJusticeForAll'': "YOU'RE out of order! YOU'RE out of order! The whole TRIAL is out of order! THEY'RE out of order!"
** ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'': "ATTICA!"
** ''Film/CarlitosWay'': The seriously intense foot chase scene.
** ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''
*** Pacino and Gabrielle Anwar's tango.
*** "If I was the man I was 10 years ago, I'D TAKE A FLAMETHROWER TO THIS PLACE."
* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
** The ChestBurster scene from ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
** Ripley versus the Alien Queen in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
** The Alien getting really close to Ripley's face, and viewers seeing the thing has ''two'' jaws.
* ''Film/AllAboutEve'': Creator/BetteDavis saying "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" before ascending the stairs.
* Creator/WoodyAllen:
** ''Film/EverythingYouAlwaysWantedToKnowAboutSexButWereAfraidToAsk'': Woody battling a giant female breast and later being a sperm cell getting ready for ejaculation.
** ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'': Woody and his girlfriend silhouetted on a park bench with the Manhattan Bridge in the background.
* ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'': [[spoiler: The famous DeadHandShot of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlDPsRwZE4 Paul reaching for a butterfly]]]] at the end of the 1930 film, Paul trapped in a shell hole with a French Soldier he has just stabbed to death, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciq9ts02ci4 the famous charge on the German trenches by the French troops.]], especially the French soldiers getting chopped down by German machine guns.
* ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'': The reporters meeting Deep Throat in a parking garage.
* ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'':
** The big breasted tobacconist trying to seduce one of the boys.
** The wedding banquet at the beach.
* ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'': the curb stomping scene.
* ''Film/AmericanPie'' has two, which were the center of the marketing of the movie: the scene with the pie, and the "this one time, at band camp" scene.
* ''Film/AnAmericanInParis'': ''Creator/GeneKelly'' picking up a rose.
* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'': the werewolf transformation.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': Creator/JohnBelushi shouting "toga, toga!" while dressed as Caesar. The college boys sneaking outside with a ladder to peek into the girls' dorm. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. Bluto smashing some hipster's guitar.
* ''Film/AnnaChristie'': The scene where the audience heard former silent star Creator/GretaGarbo talk for the first time on screen.
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':
** The scene where army helicopters bomb a Vietnamese village to the music of "Ride Of The Valkyries" by Music/RichardWagner.
** The general's remark: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning;"
** Kurtz's introduction.
* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': The scene that starts with "Listen up, you primitive screwheads"
** Largely because the next line is "''This'' ... is my '''[[LargeHam boomstick!]]'''"
* ''Creator/AudreyHepburn''
** Riding a Vespa with ''Creator/GregoryPeck'' in ''Film/RomanHoliday''.
** Dancing with beatniks in ''Film/FunnyFace''.
** Looking wistfully at a Tiffany's window in ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys''.
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
** TheOner at the opening, culminating in a shot of all six Avengers jumping into battle.
** The "lift the hammer" competition and Ultron's interruption.
** The reveal that Hawkeye [[spoiler:has a wife and kids.]]
** Vision [[spoiler:lifts Thor's hammer]].
** [[spoiler:Quicksilver's]] death.
* [[AcePilot Maverick's]] unauthorized buzzing of the tower in ''Film/TopGun''.
-->'''''[[MemeticMutation MAVERIIICK!]]'''''
** The pilots singing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling".
** "I feel the need! The need for speed!"
** The beach volleyball game.
** The final dogfight.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':
** The Hulk [[spoiler:smashing Loki]].
** TheOner of every Avenger defending the city.
** The triumphant shot of the entire team assembled together to defend New York from the Chitauri invasion.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': The first time the Delorian time travels.
* ''Film/BandeAPart'': The trio's dance number halfway the film.
* ''Film/BasicInstinct'': The interrogation scene where Catherine Tramell ''supposedly'' is seen wearing no underpants for a split second.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': the 1989 version.
** ''Film/{{Batman}}''
*** The Batwing vs. The Joker.
*** "You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?"
*** "Who are you?" "I'm Batman!"
** ''Film/BatmanReturns''
*** Bruce dramatically standing up when he sees the bat signal.
*** Catwoman somersaults in front of Batman and Penguin. She meows then the building behind her explodes.
** ''Film/BatmanForever'': The Batwing flying through the light of the bat signal.
** ''Film/TheDarkKnight''
*** The Joker's "[[EyeScream pencil trick]]".
*** Why so serious?
*** The interrogation.
*** The Joker dropping Rachel out of a window.
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
*** Gotham Stadium's football field imploding.
*** the entire [[WhamEpisode ending]] [[AndTheAdventureContinues sequence]].
* ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'': The people being shot at the stairs, with the BabyCarriage riding down as the climax.
* ''Film/BedtimeForBonzo'': Reagan feeding the chimpansee with a milk bottle.
* ''Film/BenHur'': The horse chariot scene.
* ''Film/BeingThere'': Sellers [[spoiler: walking on water near the end.]]
* While there are many memorable aspects of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'', the scene where the protagonists fend off the killer eagles with wire hangers is probably the best-known.
* ''Film/{{Blade}}''
** The rave scene from the first film.
** Blade vs Jared in ''Film/BladeII''.
* ''Film/BladeRunner'': Roy Batty's soliloquy in the rain.
* ''Film/TheBlueAngel'': Lola sitting on a crate with her legs up.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''
** Most of the musical numbers in this movie are pretty iconic, but especially the ones with Music/RayCharles and Music/ArethaFranklin.
** The Car ChaseScene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o through a mall]], with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnG0JjzF7HY "I Can't Turn You Loose"]] as background music.
** The "Jailhouse Rock" ending.
* [[spoiler:Ricky's drive-by death]] from ''Film/BoyzNTheHood''.
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': The battle of Stirling, complete with RousingSpeech and the often spoofed scene where the Scottish warriors show off their bare behinds to the enemy.
* Creator/MelBrooks:
** ''Film/TheProducers'': The "Springtime for Hitler" musical and the audience's bewildered reactions.
** ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': The baked beans farting scene. The fight scene so epic it destroyed the studio.
** ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'': The whinying horses evertime someone says "Frau Blücher".
* "I wish I knew how to quit you!" from ''Film/BrokebackMountain''. Parodies have ran it into the ground, but the scene itself is very emotional.
** Aenis smelling Jack's jacket.
* ''Film/TheBodyguard'':
** Frank [[BridalCarry carrying]] Rachel away when her "Queen of the Night" performance gets rowdy.
** Frank TakingTheBullet for Rachel.
* The violent deaths of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''.
* ''Film/TheBrownBunny'': Creator/ChloeSevigny giving unsimulated oral sex to Vincent Gallo.
* ''Creator/BruceLee''
** ''Film/FistOfFury'': Bruce smashing a "No Dogs or Chinese" sign, the attack on the rival karate school and the BolivianArmyEnding.
** ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'': Bruce vs. Creator/ChuckNorris''!
** ''Film/EnterTheDragon'': The Hall of mirrors.
** ''Film/GameOfDeath'': Bruce vs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
** The names of Bruce's movies have become the subject of imitation as well.
* The "Raft Massacre" in ''Film/TheBurning'', in which Cropsy ambushes a bunch of teens on a raft and kills them all in bloody fashion.
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'': Redford and Newman jumping down from the cliff into the water and the scene where Redford's character bicycles with his loved one to the tune of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".
** The BolivianArmyEnding.
* ''Film/{{Cabaret}}'': The musical numbers "Life is a cabaret" and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me".
* ''Film/CabinFever''[='s=] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment infamous]] "Pancakes scene."
* ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'': The nude woman who is gorged on a pole.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'':
** The opening scene of Sam and Steve running ("On your left!").
** Cap throwing his shield at Winter Soldier, who catches it.
** "Who the hell is [[spoiler: Bucky?]]"
** The elevator fight.
** The [[spoiler:"Hail HYDRA"]] whisper.
** TheReveal of [[spoiler:Bucky Barnes]] as Winter Soldier.
** The end of the final confrontation between Cap and [[spoiler:Bucky]] ("I'm with you 'till the end of the line.")
* ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'': [[BallRoomBlitz The prom]] and [[spoiler: the creepy TwistEnding where a girl puts flowers on Carrie's grave and is pulled in by a hand.]]
* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'':
** Laszlo getting the entire cafe to sing the French national anthem to humiliate some Germans.
** Rick's goodbye to Ilsa on the airstrip at the end, where he tells here "Here's looking at you, kid" and "We'll always have Paris". After the plane left he tells Louis: "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
* ''Film/{{Casino}}''
** Nicky stabbing a guy with a fountain pen for being an asshole to Sam.
** Nicky crushing a {{mook}}s head in an industrial vise 'til his eye starts popping out.
** Sam and Nicky's secret desert meeting.
* ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'': The marathon where the athletes run in slow-motion to Vangelis' score has become so iconic that [[ParodiesOfFire it inspired many parodies]].
* Creator/CharlieChaplin
** ''Film/TheKid''The young boy being sent off to the orphanage.
** ''Film/TheGoldRush'': The Tramp eating his boot like a gourmet turkey and the scene where he makes the bread rolls dance on two forks.
** ''Film/CityLights'': The final scene where [[spoiler: the once blind girl now recognizes her anonymous helper.]]
** Charlie tightening the bolts on the cogs in ''Film/ModernTimes'', then getting stuck in the machine.
** His dance with the balloon globe and final speech in ''Film/TheGreatDictator''.
** His musical routine with ''Creator/BusterKeaton'' in ''Film/{{Limelight}}''.
* ''Film/UnChienAndalou'': The eye slicing scene.
* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'': "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown".
* ''Film/CitizenKane''
** Kane's muttering of "Rosebud" at the beginning of the film, while he drops the snow ball he was holding in his hand.
** Kane being sent off to live with a millionaire, while his parents make the negotiations inside the log cabin in the snow.
** Kane giving a presidential candidate speech in front of a huge election poster showing himself.
** The [[JumpScare shrieking cockatoo]] near the end.
** [[spoiler: The revelation that "Rosebud" was his sled.]]
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'':
** The opening close-up of Alex's SlasherSmile while the camera slowly pans out to see them sitting in the Korova Milk Bar.
** Alex beating up two of his friends, who then fall in the water.
** Alex fighting a woman with a sculpture of an erect penis.
** Alex undergoing the Ludovico technique.
* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''
** The main character being interrogated and he only keeps asking "Who are you people?!"
** The alien landing.
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'': The decapitation of the Statue of Liberty.
* ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' has "All my life, I had to fight..." from when Sofia confronts Celie.
* ''Film/ConAir'': SerialKiller Garland Greene's introduction. He is transported in an armored truck and has to wear heavy restraints and a mask.
* ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'': Gill Man diving off the ship with Kay, swimming down with her and carrying her to his cave
* ''Film/CrocodileDundee'': "That's not a knife-- ''that's'' a knife!"
* ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill'': The aliens arriving to make their message clear: ''KlaatuBaradaNikto''.
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': The final scene [[spoiler: where all the students stand on their desks to salute their teacher going away, despite them all getting punished for it.]]
* ''Film/DeadPresidents'': the bank heist.
* ''Film/DeepBlueSea'': Creator/SamuelLJackson getting chomped in the middle of his RousingSpeech.
* ''Film/TheDeerHunter'': The Russian Roulette scene.
* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'': The dueling banjos scene and the "Squeeeeeeal like a pig" scene.
* Two particular scenes from ''Film/TheDescent'': first, the one in which a Crawler is seen up-close for the first time [[spoiler:where it is seen [[MatchlightDangerRevelation through the night vision on Holly's camcorder]]]], second, the one in which [[spoiler:Sarah falls into the giant pool of blood, [[TookALevelInBadass shortly after taking out a child crawler, before proceeding to kill its mother, and then taking on the daddy, as well, by beating his head in with a large piece of bone]]]].
* ''Dickson Experimental Sound Film'': The man playing violin while two men dance with one another.
* ''Film/DieHard'': John [=McClane=] gets his feet cut by shot glass. And the scene where he shouts: "Yippie-Ka-Yeah, motherfucker!"
** Hans' DisneyVillainDeath.
* ''Franchise/DirtyHarry'':
** Harry's Magnum speech in ''Film/DirtyHarry''.
* ''Film/LaDolceVita'': The Jesus statue being carried by helicopter, Mastroianni and Ekberg embracing in the Trevi fountain.
* ''Film/DontLookBack'': Music/BobDylan holding the signs with the lyrics up during his "Subterranean Homesick Blues" number.
* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': The "I am the law" speech.
* ''Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor:'' The finale where [[spoiler: all 13 Doctors]] arrive to [[spoiler: save Gallifrey.]]
* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': Hitler's VillainousBreakdown.
* ''Film/DrStrangelove'':
** The US President telling two fighting men: "Gentlemen, you can't fight here. This is the war room!"
** Major Kong riding the bomb, while plummeting to his doom.
** Dr. Strangelove, period.
* ''Film/{{Dracula1931}}'':
** Creator/BelaLugosi's comment: "I never drink... wine."
* ''Film/{{Drive}}'': The Driver stomping in a thug's head in an elevator.
* ''Film/EasyA'': Olive's long dramatic SexyWalk in the school hallway.
* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''
** "Come my little friends, as we all sing a happy little working song!"
** The [[CrowdSong Central]] [[SpontaneousChoreography Park]] scenes.
** The [[DanceOfRomance ball]].
** The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
* ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'': The close-up shot of the main protagonist seen in dark shadows. [[spoiler: The creepy baby]]
* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'':
** E.T. making clear he wants to "phone home" to his friends far away in the galaxy.
** The shot where E.T. and Elliott touch each other's index fingers.
** The shot where E.T. and Elliott fly in the air while seated on the bike and fly past the moon in the background.
** E.T. saying goodbye to Elliott while going aboard on his spaceship.
** E.T. making all the candy float.
* ''Film/TheExorcist'':
** [[ExorcistHead Regan's head twisting 360 degrees]].
** Regan walking from the stairs doing a spider walk.
* ''Film/EyesWideShut'': The masqueraded ball scene and the orgy afterwards.
* ''Film/FaceOff'': Archer and Troy shooting each through a mirror.
* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': The teacher calling off the names at the start of the film, then noticing Bueller is absent: "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" The parade scene, and to a lesser extent the art museum scene.
* ''Film/AFewGoodMen'': The court scene where the lawyer wants "the truth", whereupon Nicholson's character answers: "You can't handle the truth!" inspired [[YouCantHandleTheParody countless parodies]].
* Creator/WCFields:
** The blind and deaf customer entering the store in ''It's A Gift'' and Fields trying to prevent him from breaking everything.
* ''Film/FightClub'': Brad Pitt's character explaining "the first rule of Fight Club".
* ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'': Jack Nicholson getting fed up with the precision crazy waitress and sweeping all the plates and cutlery of the table with one quick arm movement.
* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'':
** The Expectation vs. Reality scene.
** The park scene in day 488.
* ''Film/ForrestGump'':
** Forrest telling people that "life is like a box of chocolates".
** Forrest running from bullies. Jenny: "Run, Forrest! Run!"
** The scene where Forrest shakes hands with UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
* ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'':
** ''Film/{{Frankenstein1931}}'': The scene where the Monster is brought alive and the doctor yells: "It's alive!" Also the scene where Frankenstein [[spoiler: drowns a young girl]], which was deemed to horrifying at the time.
** ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'': Frankenstein meeting his Bride.
* ''Film/{{Freaks}}'': The freaks singing "We accept you, one of us, gooble gabble, one of us!"
* ''Film/FreeWilly'' jumping out of the water.
* ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'': The car chase scene under the railway bridge in New York.
* ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'': An unmasked Jason suddenly crashing through a window to grab the FinalGirl for one last scare.
* ''Film/FromHereToEternity'': the BeachKiss scene.
* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'':
** The scene where [[spoiler: Private "Gomer Pyle" goes insane and is seated with a gun in the toilet room.]]
** The Vietnamese prostitute who says "Me love you long time" has gained more pop cultural notoriety after being spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
** "This is my rifle! This is my gun! This is for fighting! This is for fun!"
* The pottery scene from ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.
* ''Film/GimmeShelter'': A rare example of a ConcertFilm where the most famous moment has nothing to do with music. The scene where a man in the crowd was murdered on camera has become infamous.
* ''Film/TheGirlCantHelpIt'': The scene where Creator/JayneMansfield holds two milkbottles against her breasts.
* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'': Maximus, after having killed the other gladiators, throws his sword to the spectators and shouts angrily: "Are you not entertained?! Is this not why you were here?!"
* ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss'': Alec Baldwin's character threatening to fire the hapless salesmen.
* ''Film/TheGodfather''
** The opening scene where Don Corleone is seen listening to people inside a dark lit room, while outside his daughter's wedding is going on. The first line "I believe in America..." has also become iconic.
** The scene [[spoiler: in "Godfather I" where Woltz finds his horse's head in his bed.]]
** The scene [[spoiler: where Sonny beats up Connie's husband in the streets]]
** The scene [[spoiler: where Sonny is ambushed]]
** The montage at the end of the first film, [[spoiler: showing the murders of Michael's rivals, intercut with him serving as godfather at his nephew's baptism.]]
** In "Godfather II" [[spoiler: Michael's KissOfDeath to Fredo]]
** In "Godfather II" Vito Corleone [[spoiler: murdering Don Fanucci inside his own house while outside festivities are going on.]]
** Related to the above example, Michael watching through a window [[spoiler: as he has his own brother killed]] in Part Two.
** [[spoiler: Mary's]] death considered the only good scene in part 3.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: Godzilla's iconic roar.
** Whenever ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' is referenced (or even parodied) in shows, it will more often than not depict the famous scene of him attacking Tokyo in [[Film/{{Gojira}} the 1954 film]].
** The most famous scene of ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'' is the one where Godzilla uses his atomic breath to fly.
** ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' has the CurbStompBattle between Godzilla and [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} Zilla]].
** Thanks to the popularity of the teaser trailer for ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', the HALO jump and the shot of Godzilla emerging from the ashy remains of several buildings as his silhouette is seen roaring managed to become this for that movie well before it even came out.
* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'': The HALO Jump into the ruins of San Francisco.
** Godzilla [[spoiler: holding the female MUTO's mouth open so that he can burn her from the inside with his atomic breath.]]
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'':
** The burning of Atlanta.
** Scarlett saying: "As God is my witness, I will never be hungry again!".
** Scarlett goes to the train station and the camera tracks out to reveal hundreds and hundreds of bodies lying in the middle of the track.
** Rhett saying goodbye to Scarlett near the end and telling her: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': The MexicanStandoff at the cemetery
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': The long scene where the characters are introduced to one another without any film edits whatsoever. Even more famously the scene where Creator/JoePesci's character is told that he is "funny" [[spoiler: which he doesn't take well]].
** Henry and Karen entering a restaurant through the kitchen on their first date.
* ''Film/TheGraduate'':
** "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
** The ending where Dustin Hoffman interrupts the wedding and runs off with the bride to take the first bus that comes along.
* ''Film/GrandHotel'': Garbo's character saying she "wants to be alone."
* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': The "You Are The One That I Want" sing and dance number.
* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'': The shot where one of the bank robbers shoots at the audience. The first time someone is made to "dance" by shooting at his feet.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''
** Star-Lord dancing on Morag.
** Rocket's drunken rant.
** [[spoiler:"We...are...Groot."]]
** Star-Lord challenging Ronan to a dance-off.
** Baby Groot dancing.
* ''Film/LaHaine'': The scene where someone DJ's two records in front of an open window, one being "The Sound Of The Police" by [=KRS-One=], the other "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Music/EdithPiaf.
* ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' it's the scene where Michael's pale white mask emerges from the darkness.
* ''Film/TheHangover'': A naked Asian man jumping out of a trunk.
* ''Film/HappyGilmore'': The fight between Happy and Bob Barker: [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch "The price is wrong, bitch!"]]
* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'': Music/TheBeatles running away from their adoring fans. The shot where they run around in an open field to "Can't Buy Me Love".
* ''Film/HarryPotter'' (most of the later installments are eclipsed by the first, especially after the first three)
** First Film:
*** The Hogwarts letters flooding into the Dursleys' living room.
*** Hagrid's "you're a wizard, Harry".
*** Possibly the first time we see Hogwarts.
*** TROLL!!!! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!! Thought you ought to know
*** The Sorting Hat scene.
*** Possibly the scene where Hagrid gives Harry a tour of Diagon Alley (which also counts as Harry's very first glimpse into the wizarding world).
** Second Film:
*** Dobby's "Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts!"
*** Possibly the Flying Car scene.
*** Harry's fight with the Basilisk.
** Third Film:
*** "HE WAS THEIR FRIEND!"
*** Maybe the hippogriff flight.
*** [[CanisLatinicus Expecto Patronum!!!]]
** Fourth Film: [[spoiler:Cedric's death]].
*** Possibly the fight with the Hungarian Horntail.
** Fifth film: The "I must not tell lies" detention scene with Umbridge.
*** [[spoiler: Sirius's death]].
** Sixth Film: Dumbledore casting a fire spell around himself and Harry.
** Eighth Film: [[spoiler: Voldemort Avada Kedavra'ing Harry.]]
* ''Film/{{Heat}}''
** First, the iconic coffee shop scene which put two of the greatest actors ever, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/RobertDeNiro, onscreen together for the first time ever.
** Or the bank shootout, regarded as one of the most intense in movie history.
** "He's got a... '''GREAT ASS!!!!!'''
* ''Film/TheHelp'': The lines "You is kind, you is smart, and you is important" and "Eat My Shit!"
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'': Troy's "Bet On It!" number is the page image for {{Narm}}.
* ''Film/HomeAlone'': It's easy to forget that there are parts that don't involve Harry and Marv comically injuring themselves on Kevin's traps.
** Except for the [[ShowWithinAShow mobster films]]. And Kevin using them on people!
** Also the aftershave PalmOnCheekPose scene. Oddly, the aftershave part is often forgotten, leaving Kevin simply screaming with his hands on his cheeks, as though at the burglars. The boxart strengthens this.
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'': The scene where one of the children ends up on a spoon and is almost eaten by their dad.
* ''Film/{{Hugo}}'': The runaway train dream.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames''
** The Cornucopia scene.
** The "''I volunteer''!" scene.
** Rue's death scene.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire''
** The beach scene.
** Johanna Mason stripping in the elevator, mostly due to the expression on Katniss' face.
** Katniss shooting at an incoming lightning.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay''
** Katniss threatening Snow ("If we burn, you burn with us!")
** Katniss singing "The Hanging Tree"
** [[spoiler:A hijacked Peeta strangles Katniss]].
* The "All I need is love" scene from ''Film/IAmSam''.
* The fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David in ''Film/TheyLive''.
** "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum..."
* ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'': The swing set scene.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}''
** The [[GravityScrew zero-G, revolving hallway]] fight.
** The spinning top.
** The dream hotel being flooded due to the sleeping Cobb being dunked in a bathtub.
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': The docking scene above Mann's planet.
** Additionally, the MindScrew climax in which [[spoiler: Cooper is sucked into a black hole and finds himself floating in a vast structure made of bookshelves where he has control over time and gravity.]]
* The alien ships on ''Film/IndependenceDay'' cast shadows over famous landmarks, then [[MonumentalDamage blow them away]].
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''
** [[IndyEscape Indy outrunning the giant boulder]] in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
** Also from "Raiders" Indy [[CombatPragmatist shooting the Swordsman.]]
** The IndyHatRoll in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
** From ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', "KNEEL!"
*** From the same film, the scene with the false grails. "He chose... poorly."
* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'': The scene where Bennell shouts: [[spoiler: "Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!"]]
* ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'' unwrapping his bandages in front of a horrified policeman and villagers in Universal's 1933 film. Also his monologue with Flora, his girlfriend.
* ''Film/IronMan'''s UnflinchingWalk after destroying a tank. Pepper catching Tony having the armor taken off.
** ''Film/IronMan2'' has the iconic suitcase armour sequence.
** ''Film/IronMan3'' has [[spoiler:the arrival of the Iron Legion, all 42 Iron Man suits flying by themselves.]]
*** Also the scene where Iron Man [[spoiler:actually just his armor being controlled by Tony from a boat]] saving all thirteen members of the air force one crew as they plummet down to earth.
* ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'': Hitchhiking Claudette Colbert making a car stop by showing her leg.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': The final scene [[spoiler: where James Stewart's character runs home again and is then surprised by all the people in his neighborhood coming along to bring in the money he so desparately needs.]]
* ''Film/JailhouseRock'': Music/ElvisPresley dancing with the prisoners to the TitleTrack.
* ''Franchise/JamesBond'':
** [[BondGunBarrel Bond shooting the camera through a lens.]]
** Bond saying he wants his martini "shaken not stirred".
** Bond throwing his hat perfectly on a hat rack.
** Honey Ryder, the first [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girl]], emerging from the sea, clad in her famous white bikini, in ''Film/DrNo''.
** Bond almost getting cut in half with a laser in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
** The bungee jump and the tank ride in ''Film/GoldenEye''.
** The motorcycle chase in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
** The car chase through the ice in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
** Le Chiffre whipping Bond in the balls with a rope in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''.
* The elevator scene from the original version of ''The Eye''.
* The opening scene of ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''.
* ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'': The fight against [[DemBones a skeleton army]].
* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'': The [[JawsAttackParody theme music itself]] has become a StockParody. But there are also the following scenes:
** The death of the shark's first victim, Chrissy.
** When Brody is chumming the water and the shark rears its head, prompting Brody to tell Quint [[GonnaNeedMoreX "I think you're going to need a bigger boat!"]]
** From ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'', the roaring shark and its nonsensical explosion.
** Brody seeing a shark attack for the first time used a combined zoom out and forward tracking to create very unique OhCrap scene.
* ''Film/TheJazzSinger'': Music/AlJolson saying: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet", which was the first line ever spoken in a sound movie.
* ''Film/JerryMaguire'':
** Tom Cruise shouting: "Show me the money!"
** Renee Zellweger's brief: "You had me at "hello".
* ''Film/{{Jezebel}}'': Julie wearing a red gown at a ball.
* ''Ju-On''/Film/TheGrudge: The ghost woman crawling down the stairs.
* ''Film/JurassicPark''
** The scene where the helicopter flies to the island, while the music builds up the audience's anticipation.
** The "Welcome to Jurassic Park" opening moment with the Brachiosaurus. Even the characters react to it as a signature scene.
** The build-up to the ''T. rex'' attack with the water cups vibrating from the dinosaur's footsteps.
** The Velociraptors in the kitchen as well.
** "Clever girl..."
** Jeff Goldblum's ShirtlessScene.
** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''- the tyrannosaurus rampaging through San Diego.
** ''Film/JurassicParkIII''- the tyrannosaurus/spinosaurus battle.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' has a fair few, but one that has been subject to quite a bit of MemeticMutation is [[http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DinosaurWhisperer.jpg this shot]], where he runs into the raptor paddock and prevents the vicious predators from killing a young handler who falls in.
* ''Film/TheKarateKid'': The Crane Kick.
* Creator/BusterKeaton:
** ''Film/SevenChances'': Keaton running from several huge rocks and boulders rolling down a mountain.
** ''Film/TheGeneral'': The train crossing a bridge, which then collapses.
** ''Film/SteamboatBillJr'': Buster standing in front of a house where he is nearly crushes by the front piece falling over, but survives because he was standing in front of the empty window pane.
* ''Film/KickAss'':
** Kick-Ass' first successful BigDamnHeroes attempt that made him an InUniverse internet phenomenon.
** Hit-Girl's first BigDamnHeroes moment by saving Kick-Ass from Razul and his goons.
** Hit-Girl's second BigDamnHeroes moment by saving Kick-Ass and Big Daddy after the latter two were tortured.
** Hit-Girl's OneManArmy fight scene with Frank D'Amico's {{Mook}}s in tune of "Bad Reputation".
** Kick-Ass' first BigDamnHeroes moment to save Hit-Girl from Frank D'Amico's {{Mook}}s (as well as their [[MookLieutenant leader]]) by going GatlingGood on them in the tune of Music/ElvisPresley.
** Kick-Ass' second BigDamnHeroes moment to save Hit-Girl from [[BigBad Frank D'Amico himself]] by shooting and killing him with a bazooka.
* ''Film/KillBill''
** The Bride vs. Gogo fight scene from ''Kill Bill Vol. 1''.
** O-Ren "collecting" Boss Tanaka's head.
** The Bride's fight with the Crazy 88 and her subsequent fight in the snow with O-Ren.
** Pai Mei jumping onto The Bride's sword and kicking her in the face in Volume 2.
* ''Film/KingKong1933'': King Kong fighting a T-Rex on the island and, of course, climbing on top of the Empire State Building battling air planes. This final scene has become so famous that it is a StockParody: the KingKongClimb.
* ''Film/KingsRow'': The soldier discovering his leg was amputated and saying: "Where's the rest of me?"
* The Church fight in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', thanks to Galahad's badass fighting skills and the film's excellent usage of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird".
* ''Film/TheKiss'': The couple kissing one another, which is also a famous still image.
* ''Film/KissOfDeath'': Gangster Tommy Udo pushing an old lady in a wheel chair from the stairs.
* ''Film/KnuteRockneAllAmerican'': The Gipper's last request.
* ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}'': The fast motion shots of cars zooming by in late night traffic, intercut with a scene of a rocket being launched and a woman holding an infant while a little girl stand next to her in a store with nothing but TV screens.
* TheChosenOne vs. The Cow in ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist''.
* The Escherspace scene in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' (especially Jareth's pants. Not even Escher knows how he got into those pants).
** The "Magic Dance" musical number.
* When Leroy gets the "Glow" in ''Film/TheLastDragon''.
-->'''Sho'nuff:''' Alright, Leroy, who is the one and only master?\\
'''Leroy Green:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome I am]].
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', the scene where seven Earthbenders dance just to throw one small rock. This scene is dubbed [[FanNickname The Pebble Dance.]]
* Creator/LaurelAndHardy
** The big fight in ''Film/BigBusiness'' where Stan and Ollie destroy Finlayson's house while he wrecks their car.
** The duo fixing a house while wearing overalls in ''Busy Bodies''
** The duo trying to get the piano up the stairs in ''Film/TheMusicBox''.
** Stan and Ollie attending the Sons of the Desert meeting in ''Film/SonsOfTheDesert''.
** Laurel using his thumb as a lighter in ''Film/WayOutWest'' and ''Film/{{Blockheads}}''.
** Ollie saying: "There's another nice mess you've got me into", whereupon Laurel starts crying.
** Laurel eyepoking Hardy.
** Hardy's frustrated reaction, BreakingTheFourthWall, after Laurel did something stupid.
* ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'': Lawrence travelling through the vast desert while Maurice Jarré's epic score is playing.
* ''Film/LetItBe'': The RooftopConcert.
* ''Film/LittleCaesar'': The final scene [[spoiler: where Rico dies in the rain and says: "Mother of Mercy, is the end of Rico?]]
* ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'': the AtomicFBomb and the burlesque dance number.
* ''Film/{{Looper}}'': The 30 year sequence that shows how Joe became Old Joe.
* ''Film/LumiereFilms'':
** ''Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat'': the train arriving.
** ''The Sprinkler Sprinkled'': The GardenHoseSquirtSurprise.
* ''Film/{{M}}'': The moment when Hans notices a letter "m" marked on the back of his coat.
* The big mud fight in ''Film/McLintock'', along with the rant that set it off ("Somebody oughta belt you in the mouth, but I won't. I won't. [[TurnTheOtherFist (punches) The hell I won't!]]")
* ''Film/TheMadAdventuresOfRabbiJacob'': De Funés doing the celebrational Jewish dance and miraculously being able to keep up with the performers.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'':
** The sandstorm chase near the beginning. [[MemeticMutation "OH, WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!"]]
** The epic final chase scene at the end.
* ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'': Creator/HumphreyBogart holding the falcon and claiming it's "the stuff that dreams are made of".
* The "[[YourHeadAsplode Disco Boy Scene]]" in ''Film/{{Maniac}}''.
* ''Creator/MarilynMonroe''
** Her skirt getting blown in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch''.
** The "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" musical sequence in ''Film/GentlemenPreferBlondes''. Later imitated by Madonna in "Material Girl".
** Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis checking her out in ''Some Like It Hot''.
* ''Film/{{Martyrs}}''
** The scene where Lucie breaks into that family's house.
** And the climactic scene involving Anna.
* Creator/TheMarxBrothers
** Groucho's comment about "shooting an elephant in his payamas" in ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers''.
** The MirrorRoutine scene from ''Film/DuckSoup''.
** Harpo honking the car horn while following other people. His harp playing scene and Chico's piano scene.
** Groucho and Chico's "why a duck?" scene from ''Film/TheCocoanuts''.
** The "sanity clause" scene and the crowded room scene in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''.
* ''Film/MaryPoppins'':
** Mary Poppins flying by holding on to her umbrella.
** Mary singing "Feed the Birds" while having the children look at the snow cone.
** Dick Van Dyke dancing with the penguins.
* ''Film/TheMask'''s [[EyePop eyes popping out of his head]] when he sees Mrs. Peanman.
* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'': Zorro slashing Elena's clothes off.
* ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine'': Liu Ti Lung vs. Fung Sheng Wu Chi.
* ''Film/TheMatrix''
** Neo [[BulletTime dodging bullets]].
** Trinity jumping in the air and kicking a cop in the face.
** The Architect's [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness notoriously wordy]] speech explaining the Matrix and the origin of The One.
* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Cady first seeing The Plastics.
* ''Film/MeanStreets''
** Harvey Keitel praying.
** De Niro blowing up a mailbox.
* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': The female robot being brought to life with electric bolts.
* ''Film/MidnightCowboy'':
** The main protagonists walking around in the streets, while Music/HarryNilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'" plays in the background.
** Dustin Hoffman nearly ran over by a car, causing him to yell: "Hey, hey, I'm walkin' here!"
* ''Film/MidnightExpress'': The scene where the protagonist is arrested at the airport for smuggling drugs.
* ''Film/MiracleOn34thStreet'': SantaClaus singing along with the Dutch girl.
* ''Film/MissionImpossible'': The [[MissionImpossibleCableDrop cable drop]] scene.
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
** The opening scene where horse hooves are heard [[spoiler: then it is revealed that it's just someone banging coconuts together behind King Arthur]].
** The Black Knight [[spoiler:having all his limbs decapitated]].
** The Knights who say "ni" scene.
** The Killer Bunny of Caer Bannog and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
** "They call me... Tim."
** "She turned me into a newt!" "''A newt?''" "I got better."
* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''
** The stoning scene.
** "Biggus Dickus"
** "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
** The ending [[spoiler:where everybody sings "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" while hanging on the cross.]]
* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'': The scene where Mr. Creosote [[spoiler:explodes from being overweight]] is the most iconic scene.
* Music/{{Cher}} {{dope slap}}ping Creator/NicolasCage in ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''. "Snap out of it!"
* ''Film/MortalKombat''
** The TitleScream and the intro the follows.
** Pretty much every major fight, inlcuding Kano vs. Sonya, Scorpion vs. Johnny Cage and Liu Kang vs. Shang Tsung.
** Raiden's line: "The fate of billions will depend upon you. Heh heh heh heh... sorry."
** Shang Tsung draining the soul of the unlucky monk who fights Liu Kang at tournament's start. "Fatality."
** Johnny's "Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole" line and his subsequent beatdown on Goro.
** Raiden's SarcasticClapping.
** Liu Kang vs. Reptile.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|1932}}'' waking up as the Scroll of Thoth is read in Universal's 1932 movie.
* ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'': The title character's dance routine to Music/Jamiroquai.
* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'': Bastian flying on Falkor's back through the sky.
** "[[SayMyName MOOONCHIIILD]]!!!"
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'':
** ''{{Film/A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984}}'': Freddy's walking around with elongated arms. Later the scene where Glen [[spoiler: is stabbed in the throat while lying in bed.]]
* ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'': Harry Powell's KnuckleTattoos.
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''
** "They're coming to get you, Barbra!"
** And definitely the last scene with Ben...
** "CHOKE ON 'EM!" from ''Film/DayOfTheDead'
* ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'': The protagonist running from a plane following him while he is near a cropduster.
* ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'': Nosferatu rising from his coffin, while his body remains fully erect.
* ''Film/{{Notorious}}'': The long kissing scene, which was daring at the time.
* ''Film/NowVoyager'': Jerry lighting two cigarettes and handing one to Charlotte.
* ''Film/OldYeller'': [[spoiler: Old Yeller getting shot]]
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'': The opening sequence where three cowboys wait for harmonica to arrive at the station and the mood is set just by the background noises. The "Jill's America" theme which has become synonymous with TearJerker. The crane shot when Jill arrives in town.
* ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'': Brando's "I could have been a contender" speech in the backseat of the car.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': [[HumongousMecha Gipsy Danger]] dragging a gigantic oil tanker through the streets of Hong Kong, than beating [[{{Kaiju}} Otachi]] across the head with it.
** Also the "Today we are cancelling the Apocalypse!" line.
** Also Gipsy [[spoiler: revealing a collapsable sword hidden in her forearm, then using it to slice Otachi in half.]]
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': The [[spoiler: Pale Man's [[SchmuckBanquet banquet]]]].
* ''Film/{{Patton}}'': Patton holding a speech in front of a huge American flag.
* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'': Pee-wee doing a dance to "Tequila" and the Large Marge scene.
* ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''
** The Phantom's Unmasking [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 in Universal's 1925 film]].
** The Chandelier Crash in [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1943 the 1943 film]].
* ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'': Hanks' character listening to an opera aria by Maria Callas, while lying on his hospital bed.
* ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'': Dex and Tracy's quarrel at the start.
* Opening of the SlasherMovie ''Film/{{Pieces}}'', where a woman finds her son putting together a jigsaw of a naked woman. She then proceeds to freak out and the son violently kills her with an axe.
* ''Film/PinkFlamingos'': The scene where Divine [[spoiler: eats dog excrement]].
* ''Film/PitchPerfect'':
** Aubrey's very first pukage.
** Beca and Chloe's duet in the shower.
** Beca singing ''Cups'' in the auditions.
** The TrainingMontage in tune of "Starships".
** Lilly making a puke angel in Aubrey's vomit.
** The CrowningMusicOfAwesome finale.
* ''Film/{{Platoon}}'': [[spoiler:Sgt. Elias']] death. (It's even featured in most DVD boxes.)
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'': The UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty on the beach in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes''.
** Caesar's BigNo and his "Caesar is home" speech in ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'':
** Bela Lugosi's replacement walking around with his face covered by his coat.
** Maila Nurmi and Tor Johnson walking around like zombies in the graveyard.
* ''Film/ThePlayersClub'': Ronnie and Diamond's fight scene.
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'': Carol-Anne saying "They're here...!", the monstrous tree scene and the living clown doll scene. Special mention to the moment where the father [[spoiler:watches himself in the mirror and claws off his entire face.]]
* ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'': Lou Gehrig's final speech in the baseball stadion, where he considers himself to be "the luckiest man on Earth".
* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'': Mia's post makeover reveal.
* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'': The shower scene, which became a StockParody: PsychoShowerMurderParody. Another well known scene is the final shot where Creator/AnthonyPerkins looks up to the camera and a skull is subliminally superimposed over his face.
* ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'': Gangster Tom Powers pushing a grapefruit in his girlfriend's face.
* ''Film/PulpFiction'':
** EnemyEatsYourLunch and asks this: "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!"
** The Quarter Pounder with Cheese dialogue.
** Vincent and Mia dancing in the 1950s club.
** The scene [[spoiler: where Mia has a needle jammed in her chest]]
** The "Bring Out The Gimp" scene.
** Christopher Walken's speech about keeping a watch up his ass.
** IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
* ''Film/TheRailwayChildren'': The [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "Daddy! My daddy!"]] scene.
* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'':
** The [[{{Gorn}} extremely bloody and gory]] final battle in ''Film/RamboIV''.
* ''Film/RearWindow'': James Stewart sitting in a wheelchair and looking through his binoculars to the neighbours.
* ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'': Creator/JamesDean shouting: "You're tearing me apart!"
** The knife fight and the chickie run.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'':
** The characters walking around in CoolShades to the tune of "Little Green Bag".
** The ear-slicing scene to "Stuck In The Middle With You".
* ''Film/TheRightStuff'': The astronauts PowerWalk.
* The climactic scene in the original Japanese version of ''Film/TheRing'', in which [[spoiler:Sadako emerges from the television]] -- and, by extension, the same scene in the US remake.
* ''Film/RiskyBusiness'': Tom Cruise's [[RiskyBusinessDance dance in CoolShades, underpants and socks]] to "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" by Bob Seger when finally being home alone.
* ''Film/{{Robocop 1987}}''
** Alex Murphy's CruelAndUnusualDeath ([[CameBackStrong He Got Better]])
** [[BondOneLiner "Your move, creep."]]
** The ED-209's [[UnderStatement "glitch"]] in the OCP boardroom.
* ''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool'': The ending [[spoiler: where the school is blown up]]
* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
** A certain Italian boxer's famous run through the streets of Philadelphia, with "Gonna Fly Now" playing in the background and ending with running up ''the'' steps.
** "Adrian! Yo Adrian!"
* ''Film/RockyIII''
** The "Eye of the Tiger" TrainingMontage.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': The "Time Warp".
** The RockyRollCall.
* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''. The titular couple seeing each other through a fish tank.
** Mercutio singing in drag.
* ''Film/TheRoom'''s is undoubtedly "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
** Also, the ''"Oh, hi Mark!"'' scene on the roof.
* ''Film/SafetyLast'': Creator/HaroldLLoyd hanging from a large clock and holding on for dear life.
* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'': The scene where [[spoiler: the prisoners are forced to eat excrement and the final scene where people are tortured outside while "Carmina Burana" plays on the background.]]
* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'': The opening scene where Travolta's characters struts through the streets and later the StayingAliveDancePose in the disco club.
* ''Satyricon'': The orgy scene.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'': The Omaha Beach attack on D-Day.
* ''Film/SayAnything'': [[Creator/JohnCusack Lloyd Dobler]] holding a boombox over his head in front of Dianne Court's window, playing "In Your Eyes" by Music/PeterGabriel.
* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': [[YourHeadASplode Darryl Revok's first scene]]
* ''Film/SchindlersList''
** [[spoiler: The people being transported from the Krakau ghetto. Schindler and Stern making the list.]]
** Amon shooting Jews from his window.
* "Film/Scooby Doo": The notorious burping and farting contest between Scooby and Shaggy with the two using exaggerated poses and movements. Later, Shaggy farts again in a suit of metal armor and ignites a nearby flame very close to Velma.
* "Film/Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed": The song and dance number in the shady nightclub.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}: The death of the DecoyProtagonist.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': River singlehandedly killing a pack of Reavers.
* ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'': The ChessWithDeath scene.
* ''Film/{{Shane}}'': The final scene [[spoiler: where Shane rides off in the distance while the little boy yells at him: "Shane, come back!"]]
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': [[spoiler: The revelation how Andy escaped]]
* ''Film/TheSheik'': Creator/RudolphValentino kidnapping a woman and bringing her to his tent.
* ''Film/TheShining'':
** The opening scene where the car is driving over the road in a mountainous area and the camera uses a bird eye's view.
** The little boy riding the trike then suddenly meeting the murdered twin sisters near the end of the hallway.
** Jack Torrance cutting the door open with an axe, then putting his head through the cut hole and shouting: "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!"
** The little boy writing "Redrum" on the wall.
** The HUGE torrent of blood.
** The man being given oral sex by another guy... in a bear suit.
** Jack's frozen corpse.
* Creator/ShirleyTemple:
** Shirley singing "Animal Crackers In My Soup" with a group of school children in ''Curly Top''.
** Shirley singing "On The Good Shop Lollipop" in the film "Bright Eyes".
** Her dance routine with Bill " Bojangles" Robinson.
* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''
** The lap dance scene.
** To say nothing of the infamous TwoPersonPoolParty scene...
** "Man, everybody got AIDS and shit!"
* ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''
** Buffalo Bill dancing around in a dress. Bill taunting his latest victim who he had left in a pit.
** Hannibal meeting the Governor while he has to wear heavy restraints and mask.
* ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'': The villain seeing someone putting out the trash, then shouting: "Garbage day!" before shooting him down.
* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'': Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the rain.
* ''Film/TheSixthSense'': The boy whispering: ISeeDeadPeople.
* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'': [[spoiler: Joe E. Lewis, after being informed that the woman he brought back with him to marry is in fact a man, saying: "Well, nobody's perfect."]]
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'':
** Maria singing "The Hills Are Alive" while the camera provides a bird eye's view.
** The "Do-Re-Mi" musical scene.
* ''Film/SoylentGreen'': The titular character's realization [[spoiler: that "soylent green is made out of people."]]
* ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'': The ''IAmSpartacus'' scene.
* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''
** ''Film/SpiderMan1'': Spider-Man upside-down kissing Mary Jane with his mask on.
** ''Film/SpiderMan2'': The fight on the train.
** ''Film/SpiderMan3'': Peter dancing or ripping off the black suit.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': "KHAAAAAAAN!"
** ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': The destruction of the ''Enterprise''.
** ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'': "Excuse me. Could you tell me where the nuclear wessels are?"
** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': "Target that explosion and FIRE!" BigDamnHeroes much?
** ''Film/StarTrek'': "Bullshit."
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': "My name...is...[[spoiler:Khan]]."
* [[spoiler:Spock's death]] from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
** Or Kirk screaming Khan's name, preceded by Khan thinking he's gotten revenge by giving Kirk AFateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** The trench-run scene, the PsychicStrangle by Darth Vader, the scenes in the Cantina, Han shooting down Guido in the bar and the brief but profoundly memorable lightsaber duel in ''Film/ANewHope''.
** The Hoth battle with the giant walkers, Luke meeting Yoda in the swamp, Vader cutting off Luke's hand and then telling him [[LukeIAmYourFather "I am your father"]] in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': [[MemeticMutation IT'S A TRAP!]] and the Emperor unveiling Force Lightning for the first time in the franchise.
** Jar Jar Binks in''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. Millions of fans complaining about this has only made it more infamous.
** Darth Vader's BigNo from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* ''Film/TheSting'': Gondorff saying goodbye by touching his nose with his index finger.
* ''Film/StopMakingSense'': David Byrne dancing around in the huge suit.
* ''Film/SuckerPunch'': The fantasy missions.
* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'': Norma Desmond descending from the stairs and telling everybody she is "reading for her close-up."
* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''
** The flight scene with Superman and Lois. "Can you read my mind?"
** The stellar opening with the ZoomingCredits and {{Fanfare}}.
** Superman doing a SkywardScream when Lois dies, and travelling back in time to save her (infamously shown as him spinning the Earth backwards).
* ''Film/SupermanII''
** Superman being ordered to KneelBeforeZod, or Zod's brief scene in the previous film ("First you, and then one day, your heirs!")
* ''Film/SupermanIII''
** The junk yard fight between Clark Kent and Superman.
* ''Film/SupermanReturns''
** One word: [[MemeticMutation "WRONG!"]]
** Krrrrryptonite!
** The bullet in the eye.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel''
** Superman [[spoiler:killing [[BigBad Zod]] to save a group of helpless civilians.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'': The Tarzan yell by Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller.
* ''Film/TaxiDriver'': Travis Bickle practicing in front of the mirror: [[YouTalkinToMe "You talkin' to me?"]]
* ''Franchise/TheTerminator'':
** Arnie saying "I'll be back" in "The Terminator 1".
** The line ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive.
** Arnie saying "Hasta La Vista, Baby" in "The Terminator 2".
** Every scene where the T-1000 showed how indestructible it is.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'': The ending [[spoiler: where Leatherface waves his arms about while holding his chain saw]].
* ''Film/{{Them}}'': The giant ants attacking.
* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'': "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!"
* ''Film/ThreeHundred''
** King Leonidas says "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS! IS!]] '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis SPARTA!!!!]]'''''" as he [[ShootTheMessenger kicks the Persian Messenger into the pit]].
** There's also: "TONIGHT, WE DINE, '''IN HELL!!!'''"
* Creator/TheThreeStooges: The characters eyepoking one another.
* ''Film/TheThirdMan'':
** The RevealShot where [[spoiler: Harry Lime is recognized in the dark]]
** Orson Welles' BreakingSpeech regarding the "little dots" on the ground and his "cuckoo clock" comparison speech between Italy and Switzerland.
** The final scenes in the sewers of Vienna.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'': The scene where a radio is being described as having a volume button, which "goes up to eleven".
* ''Film/TheThreeAmigos'' singing "My Little Buttercup" in a BadGuyBar.
* ''Film/{{Thor}}''
** Odin banishing Thor.
** Loki learning of his true parentage and Odin falling into the Odinsleep.
** "This drink, I like it! ANOTHER!"
** Thor failing to lift Mjolnir at the SHIELD base.
** Thor regaining his power and taking down the Destroyer.
* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''
** Jack yelling: "I'm the king of the world!".
** Jack and Rose kissing while holding one another, standing on the front of the ship.
** Rose being sketched naked.
* ''Film/{{Tommy}}'': Music/EltonJohn standing on ultralong legs.
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'':
** The old-timer doing a happy dance.
** The Mexican gang leader asking: "Badges? I ain't got no badges! I don't have to show you no stinkin' badges!"
* ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'': Hitler's final speech.
* ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'': The scene where the rocket hits the moon's eye.
* From ''Film/TropicThunder'':
** The "full retard" speech from Lazarus to Speedman.
** Les Grossman's telling off the Flaming Dragons in an epic rant.
** Les Grossman dancing to Flo Rida's "Low".
* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger''- the kid getting his head crushed by a speeding car. This scene is often cut from the movie, which has only added to its fame; the DVD actually has a large message on the front cover advertising that the scene is included. Not quite as famous but just as memorable is the dog getting shot.
* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'':
** The apes gathering around the monolith. One of them smashing a bone on the ground while AlsoSprachZarathustra starts playing. Later the ape throwing the bone in the air. When it comes down it dissolves into a spaceship thousands of years in the future.
** The spaceships and everything floating around in space to the music of "The Blue Danube".
** HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod bay doors for Dave.
-->'''HAL:''' [[WhamLine I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]
** [[spoiler: Hal's death scene, where he sings "Daisy" until his circuits die completely down.]]
** The "trip" scene where Dave sees all kinds of hallucinogenic colors while his eye pupil dilates color.
** The scene where Dave is lying in bed, notices the monolith, reaches at it. Then the final shot of the foetus of the Starchild in space.
* ''Film/TurkishDelight'': Erik and Olga embracing in the rain.
* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': The prologue and epilogue.
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''
** The suspects lining up.
** Kujan dropping his coffee mug after discovering who Keyser Soze really is.
* ''Vampyr''
** The brief scene of scythe-carrying villager calling the ferry.
** Main character seeing the vision of himself in a coffin.
* ''Film/VampiresKiss'': The "You don't say?" meme.
* ''Film/VarsityBlues'' has two: first, the scene where a cheerleader asks Mox to sign her ass; second, the scene where Darcy walks out in a whipped cream bikini.
* ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'': James Stewart's stage fright, created by him looking down to the floor.
* ''Film/VForVendetta''
** The [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal incredibly alliterative]] introduction of V.
-->[[labelnote:(click for quote)]]"'''V'''oilà! In '''V'''iew, a humble '''V'''audevillian '''V'''eteran, cast '''V'''icariously as both '''V'''ictim and '''V'''illain by the '''V'''icissitudes of fate. This '''V'''isage, no mere '''V'''eneer of '''V'''anity, is a '''V'''estige of the '''V'''ox populi, now '''V'''acant, '''V'''anished. However, this '''V'''alorous '''V'''isitation of a bygone '''V'''exation stands '''V'''ivified, and has '''V'''owed to '''V'''anquish these '''V'''enal and '''V'''irulent '''V'''ermin '''V'''anguarding '''V'''ice and '''V'''ouchsafing the '''V'''iolently '''V'''icious and '''V'''oracious '''V'''iolation of '''V'''olition! The only '''V'''erdict is '''V'''engeance; a '''V'''endetta held as a '''V'''otive, not in '''V'''ain, for the '''V'''alue and '''V'''eracity of such shall one day '''V'''indicate the '''V'''igilant and the '''V'''irtuous. '''V'''erily, this '''V'''ichyssoise of '''V'''erbiage '''V'''eers most '''V'''erbose, so let me simply add that it's my '''V'''ery good honour to meet you and you may call me '''V'''."[[/labelnote]]
** To a lesser extent, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2W0-z8EnaM Valerie Page sequence.]]
* ''Film/TheVanishing'': The ending [[spoiler: where the man discovers he's buried alive in a coffin]]
* ''Film/WaynesWorld''
** "[[Music/{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]" in the Mirthmobile.
** To a lesser extent: NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!
** {{NOT}}
* Colt vs. Tang Lung in ''Film/WayOfTheDragon''.
* ''Film/WestSideStory'': The Jets' dance routine.
* ''Film/WhiteHeat'': The final scene [[spoiler: where the gangster blows himself up in the factory and shouts: "Made it ma, top of the world", before exploding.]]
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Jessica Rabbit's "I'm not bad...I'm just drawn that way" speech as well as her introductory song sequence, and Judge Doom's [[spoiler:{{toon}} [[TheReveal reveal]]]]
* ''Film/TheWickerMan'':
** The original 1973 version is best remembered for the scene with the wicker man itself, standing in a grass field, while the townsfolk sing "Sumer is Icumen In". Also, the [[EvenThoughIWouldReallyLikeTo Wall Slap Scene]].
** In the laughably bad remake the scene where Nicholas Cage shouts ''"[[MemeticMutation NOT THE BEES!!!]]"'' near the end of the movie.
* The climactic final shootout of ''Film/TheWildBunch''.
* ''Film/TheWildOne'': Johnny being asked "what he is rebelling against" to which he answers: "What do you got?"
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': The "chocolate tunnel" scene has become notorious for being a really creepy BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
** Dorothy opening the door and the transition from black-and-white to color.
** The munchkins singing "Ding dong, the witch is dead!"
** Dorothy and her companions singing "we're off to see the wizard" while walking on the yellow brick road.
** The flying monkeys attacking.
** The witch melting and shouting: "I'm melting! Melting!"
* Film/{{The Wolf Man|1941}} attacking Gwen in Universal's 1941 film. Also the lines:
--> ''Even a man who is pure in heart''
--> ''And says his prayers by night''
--> ''May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms''
--> ''And the autumn moon is bright.''
* ''Film/{{Woodstock}}'': Music/JimiHendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner".
* ''Film/XMen'':
** ''Film/XMen1''.
*** Magneto and Wolverine's train showdown.
*** Wolverine vs. Sabertooth on the Statue of Liberty.
*** Professor X and Magneto's chess match.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited''
*** Magneto escaping from his plastic prison.
*** The battle at Iceman's home.
*** Wolverine vs. Lady Deathstrike
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
*** Professor X's apparent death.
*** Juggernaut's "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" remark to Kitty Pride.
*** Wolverine killing Phoenix.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'':
*** Wade Wilson defeating a room full of mooks with just his swords.
*** Wolverine vs. Deadpool
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Erik killing Nazis in the Argentina bar.
*** The Cuba showdown.
** TheStinger of ''Film/TheWolverine''.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** The conversation of the younger and older Professor X.
*** Peter's BulletTime run through the Pentagon kitchen.
*** Magneto lifting a baseball stadium out of the ground.
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