Clichés - do you recognize one of these clichés?  Please let me know the movie you saw it in.  Have you seen a cliché that's not listed. Please describe it and, if possible, any movies it crops up in. Now added - anti-clichés, lists films wherein, despite the temptation, the cliché was noticeably avoided. Anti-cliché entries in brackets. Some of these clichés  are perhaps better described as conventions - such as using 555 telephone numbers.