Jay Lake just put up a list of some of his favorite films. Being entirely unoriginal and a slave to fashion, I decided I needed to do my own:
Non-Anglophone Films:
La Femme Nikita
Cyrano de Bergerac
REC
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Beaulieu 13
Science Fiction:
Alien
Aliens
The Matrix
Life Force
Outland
Crime:
The Usual Suspects
Lock Stock, Two Smoking Barrels
The Green Machine
Snatch
The French Connection
The Departed
Blood in, Blood Out
Heat
Taken
Bullet
Colors
Animated:
Heavy Metal
Watership Down
War:
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Beast Of War
Fantasy:
Conan the Barbarian
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Excalibur
Western:
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit (Both Versions)
3:10 to Yuma
Comedy:
The Pink Panther
The Hangover
American Pie
A Brief History of The World
Monty Python’s The Quest For the Holy Grail
Ice Pirates
The Blues Brothers
Other:
The Seven Samurai
Stand By Me