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$5000
16th president
An Inconvenient Truth
El Salvador
El Topo
electric eel
electrical discharge
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy IX
Five Guys
Red XIII
Sixteen Candles
Some Like It Hot
The Little Mermaid
The Matrix
The Netherlands
(un)invited

Of course, whether or not you should alphabetize by the word The really depends on the list of things and whether this is a digitally stored list, or like, a physical bookshelf or whatever, and also the content of the list (The is a more common beginning to a film or book title than a video game for instance), but as a general rule I usually mentally include the word The in alphabetization. And that way I don't have to make a decision on what to do with the El's! (Because it's a much less common thing to see in a list in the English language, I would still put them where they are regardless.) I also don't have to answer for An Inconvenient Truth here, but An is not a particularly common beginning word for titles so leaving it in A seems fine.

Roman numerals should be treated as though they are numbers, if possible.

The only thing I don't have a great answer for is why I'm putting $ (a special character) at the top of the list, but (un)invited at the bottom. I definitely want (un)invited at the bottom, putting it at the top feels awful; but putting $5000 below 16th president felt weird. Shrug!