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(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

1 Corinthians

1984

30 Rock

42nd Street (Movie)

A

Ace Ventura

The Addams Family

Aeneid

An Affair to Remember

Ain’t No Sunshine

Airplane!

Alice

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alien

Aliens

All About Eve

All Quiet on the Western Front (Movie)

All That Jazz

All in the Family

All the President's Men

Amadeus

American Beauty

American Pie

Anchorman

And the Mountains Echoed

Animal Crackers

Animal Farm

National Lampoon's Animal House

Anna Karenina

Annie Hall

The Apartment

Apocalypse Now

Apollo 13

Apology (Plato)

Arrested Development

Ars Poetica

Arsenic and Old Lace

As Good As It Gets

As I Lay Dying

Atlas Shrugged

Auld Lang Syne

Auntie Mame

B

Babe (Movie)

...Baby One More Time

Back to the Future Trilogy

Barbie Girl

Batman Franchise

Beast of Burden

Beautiful (Song)

Because I could not stop for Death

The Bell Jar

Beloved

Beyond the Forest

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Lebowski

Birches

Black or White

Blank Space (Song)

Blowin' in the Wind

Blue Suede Shoes

The Blues Brothers

Bob's Burgers

Bohemian Rhapsody

Book of Job

Born This Way

Born Yesterday (Movie)

The Boys of Summer

The Brady Bunch

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

Brave New World

Braveheart

The Breakfast Club

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breaking Bad

Bride of Frankenstein

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Broadcast News (Movie)

Brokeback Mountain

Brown Eyed Girl

Buddy Holly (Song)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

C

Caddyshack

Caged Bird

California Gurls (Song)

Can't Get You Out of My Head

Can't Help Falling in Love

Candle in the Wind

Candy Man (Song)

Cape Fear

Casablanca

Casey at the Bat

Catch-22

The Catcher in the Rye

Cheers

Chinatown (Movie)

A Christmas Story

The Cider House Rules

Citizen Kane

A Clockwork Orange

Clueless

Columbo

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The Constitution of the United States

Cool Hand Luke

The Court Jester

Cratylus

Crime and Punishment

The Crucible

A Cry in the Dark

D

Dancing Queen

Dark Horse (Song)

David Copperfield

Dazed and Confused (Movie)

Dead Poets Society

Death of a Salesman

The Declaration of Independence

Deuteronomy

The Diary of Anne Frank

Diff'rent Strokes

Digging

Dirty Dancing

Dirty Harry

Discourse on the Method

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Dog Day Afternoon

Don't Be Cruel

Don't Stop Believin'

Dr. Strangelove

Dracula (Movie)

A Dream within a Dream

Drive (Song)

Driving Miss Daisy

Duck Soup

Dulce et Decorum Est

E

E.T.

Earth Angel

East of Eden

Easy Rider

Ebony and Ivory

Ecclesiastes

El Condor Pasa (If I Could)

Elephant Man

Emma

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Ephesians

Everybody Loves Raymond

Existentialism is a Humanism

Exodus

The Exorcist

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

F

Fahrenheit 451

Family Guy

Family Matters

Fantasy Island

A Farewell to Arms

Fatal Attraction

The Fault in Our Stars

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

A Few Good Men

Field of Dreams

Fight Club (Movie)

Fighter (Song)

Finding Nemo

Fire and Ice

Fire and Rain

Firework (Song)

First Fig

The Flinstones

The Fly

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Movie)

Forrest Gump

Frankenstein

Frasier

Free Bird

Friday

Fried Green Tomatoes (Movie)

Friends

Full House

Full Metal Jacket

Funny Girl

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Where Shades

G

Game Show

Game of Thrones

Gandhi (Movie)

Genesis

Genie in a Bottle

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Get Up, Stand Up

Get Ur Freak On

The Gettysburg Address

Ghost

Ghostbusters

A Girl I Knew

Girls

The Giver

Gladiator

The Glass Menagerie

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glenn Quagmire

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

The Godfather Trilogy

Gone With the Wind

Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Times

Good Will Hunting

Goodfellas

Gorgias

The Graduate

The Grapes of Wrath (Movie)

Great Balls of Fire

The Great Gatsby

The Great McGinty

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

H

Hannah and Her Sisters

A Hard Day’s Night (song)

Harlem (Dream Deferred)

Harry Potter Series

Harvey (Movie)

Hawaii Five-0

Hebrews

Hell's Angels (Movie)

Hey Jude (Song)

Hey Ya

Historical Documents

Historical Speeches

The History of the World: Part I

Hit 'Em Up Style

Hit the Road Jack

Hollaback Girl

The Hollow Men

Holy Sonnet 10

Holy Sonnet 14

Home Alone

Home Improvement

The Honeymooners

Horton Hatches the Egg

Hot N Cold (Song)

The Hotel New Hampshire

House M.D.

House of Cards

House of the Rising Sun

How I Met Your Mother

How do I love Thee?

Howl (Poem)

Huckleberry Finn

Hud (Movie)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hustler

I

I Can't Make You Love Me

I Got You Babe

I Have a Dream

I Kissed a Girl

I Love Lucy

I Shot the Sheriff

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Will Always Love You

I Will Survive

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)

I dwell in Possibility

I'm No Angel

I, Too, Sing America

If (Poem)

Imagine (Song)

In Da Club

In Living Color

In Memoriam

In My Life

In the Heat of the Night

The Incredible Hulk

Indiana Jones Series

Invisible Man

Isaiah

Islands in the Stream

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

It Happened One Night

It's a Wonderful Life

J

JFK (Movie)

James Bond Franchise

Jaws

The Jerk

Jerry Maguire

Gospel of John

Jurassic Park (Movie)

K

The Karate Kid

Killing Me Softly With His Song

Kindergarten Cop

King Kong (Movie)

The King and I

Knute Rockne All American

Kojak

L

The Ladies Man

Lady Marmalade

The Lamb

Laugh-In

The Law of the Lever

Lawrence of Arabia

The Layers

A League of Their Own

Lean on Me

Let's Get It On

Life Is Beautiful

Like a Prayer

Like a Rolling Stone

Like a Virgin

The Lion King

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Lion in Winter

The Little Mermaid

The Little Prince

The Locomotion

Lolita

The Lone Ranger

Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Lost in Space

Love Me Tender

Love Shack

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Love Story

Love is a Battlefield

Gospel of Luke

M

M*A*S*H (Movie)

Mad Men

Maggie May

Malcolm X (Movie)

The Maltese Falcon

Mambo No. 5

Manhattan (Movie)

Marathon Man

The Mask

Material Girl

Gospel of Matthew

Mean Girls

Meet the Parents

Men in Black

Mending Wall

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Train to Georgia

Misery (Movie)

Misquoted Source

Moby-Dick

Mommie Dearest

Monty Python

Mork & Mindy

Mother Night

Moves Like Jagger

Mrs Dalloway

Much Madness is divinest Sense—

Mustang Sally

My Girl (Song)

N

The Naughty Nineties (Movie)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Network

Night (Book)

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Ninotchka (Movie)

No Scrubs

No Woman No Cry

Northanger Abbey

Notes from the Underground

Now, Voyager

O

O Captain! My Captain!

Of Mice and Men

The Office

Oh! The Places You'll Go

Oh, God! (Movie)

The Old Man and the Sea

On Golden Pond

On the Road

On the Waterfront

One Art

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Oops! ...I Did It Again

Orange Is the New Black

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Out of Africa

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Movie)

P

The Palm Beach Story

Paper Towns

Paradise Lost

Parks and Recreation

Peace, Love, and Understanding

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Persuasion

Philosophical Texts

Physical (Song)

Piano Man

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pillow Talk (Movie)

Pink Panther Franchise

Pinocchio (Movie)

A Place in the Sun

Poltergeist

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Pour Some Sugar on Me

Pretty Woman (Movie)

Pretty Woman (Song)

Pride and Prejudice

The Prince

The Princess Bride

Proud Mary

Proverbs

Psalms

Psycho

R

Rain Man

Rapper's Delight

The Raven

Rebel Without a Cause

The Red Badge of Courage

A Red, Red Rose

The Red Wheelbarrow

Refutations

Rehab (Song)

The Republic

Respect (Song)

Revelation

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ring of Fire

The Road Not Taken

Roar (Song)

Rock Lobster

Rocket Man

Rocky

Romans

Roxanne

S

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Saturday Night Live

Say Anything

Scarface

The Scarlet Letter

School's Out

Scooby Doo, Where Are You!

The Second Coming

Seinfeld

The Shawshank Redemption

She Done Him Wrong

The Shining

Shop Around

Showgirls

Shrek

The Silence of the Lambs

Silent Movie

The Simpsons

Singin' in the Rain

Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

Sister, Sister

The Sixth Sense

Slaughterhouse-Five

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Social Contract

Some Like It Hot

Son of a Preacher Man

Song of Solomon

The Sound of Silence

South Park

Soylent Green

Spaceballs

Spider-Man Franchise

Star Trek Franchise

Star Wars Franchise

Stayin' Alive

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The Stranger

A Streetcar Named Desire

Sudden Impact

The Sun Also Rises

Sunset Boulevard

Supermodel (Song)

Survivor

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Home Alabama

T

TV Commercial

A Tale of Two Cities

Talk Show

Taxi Driver

Teenage Dream (Song)

Terminator Series

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Movie)

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Their Eyes Were Watching God

There Will Be Blood

There is no Frigate like a Book

This Is Spinal Tap

This Land is Your Land

TiK ToK

The Times They Are a-Changin'

The Timewarp

Titanic

To Have and Have Not

To Kill a Mockingbird

Tommy Boy

Top Gun

Toxic (Song)

Toy Story

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

True Blood

True Detective

Truth (Protagoras)

The Twilight Zone

U

Ulysses (Poem)

Umbrella

Unchained Melody

Under the Boardwalk

Unknown

The Usual Suspects

W

Walk the Line

Wall Street

The Waltons

War (Song)

The Waste Land

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

We Are the World

What a Wonderful World

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

When Harry Met Sally

When We Two Parted

Where the Wild Things Are

Whip It

White Wedding (Part 1)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Wide World of Sports

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

With a Little Help from My Friends

With or Without You

The Wizard of Oz

A Woman of No Importance

Womanizer (Song)

Work It (Song)

A Wrinkle in Time

Wuthering Heights

X

The X-Files

Y

You Keep Me Hangin’ On

YouTube

Young Frankenstein

Your Song