i know its already been listed but i thought id bump it because its so crucial: 2001: A space Odyssey.

Natural Born Killers is entertaining as well.

Science of sleep is neat.

of course... Pink Floyd the wall when the mood strikes..

Into the wild,
Is amazing.

I saw it listed but I'm going to recommend Akira again.

Ooohh David Cronenberg's Videodrome and Naked Lunch(I haven't seen it yet because I lack the VHS to watch it but I hear its out there)


I love how every film I've seen listed is amazing. I will have to look some of these one I don't know up.

many of my favourites are mentioned already except:

solaris/solyaris (based on the book by stanislav lem)

the Tarkovsky film is very good, but I personally prefer the remake/reinterpretation by Soderbergh. It makes you question everything from life, death, relationships, science, religion etc.

It's a beautiful film to see, and the soundtrack is absolutely superb. I would recommend not watching a trailer. Here is one of the tracks from the OST CLiff Martinez

hope you'll enjoy! please note this is a very slow film that demands your full attention

Many good films mentioned here of course (and some definitely not my taste)..

Regarding tarkovsky, I didnt like solaris too much, I prefer Stalker.

Other good films that I dont think have been mentioned yet:

Snatch
Memento
The story of the weeping camel
Spring, summer, fall, winter and spring
Wild Strawberies
The Seventh Seal
Motorcycle diaries
Seven Samurai
City of God
The usual suspects
The sting
Chunking express
Edukators
Amores Perros

plenty more for sure, but thats it for the moment.

The Road
LOTR trilogy
The Matrix trilogy
Baraka
We live in public
Reefer Madness
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Layer Cake
The Inside Man
Rock'nRolla

Ghost Dog
Ronin
Old Boy

If you're interested in martial arts, check out - The Bladed Hand (Filipino Martial Arts)

mindgame is a very good animated film that always reminded me of spice

Gattica (good sci-fi movie, based in the future, altering genetics)
waterworld
the road (good end of the world type movie, some may want to avoid watching this, some graphic scenes)
the postman
Ink (good independent film, hard to explain plot)
The man from Earth (oddly good movie, whole movie is just people talking in same room, a man lives forever)
fightclub
Jumper
The emerald forest (good old movie, DMT use in it by a jungle tribe)
London (one of my favorite movies I've seen lately, bit of a character study)

I have to second Contact, Jacob's Ladder, and The Wicker Man because they've both had such huge impact and represent certain aspects of hyperspace information that I haven't seen rendered so explicitly elsewhere. Also highly recommend The Colours of Infinity (a trippy documentary on the Mandelbrot Set - http://video.google.com/...66&hl=en&fs=true), DMT: The Spirit Molecule (duh), and Cappadonna's Iron Fist Pillage (70s-style kung fu movie dubbed over by WuTang). Also Sans Soleil!

Yes!
Here is the cover for additional persuasion.

A very good martial arts movie:

Ip Man

it think its been mentioned but i just watched arthur clarkes - colours of infinity. really cool!

IP man was great!

just watched "get him to the greek" was very impressed! not really a fan of Russle Brand but this was flawless! really funny.

Ok, here is my list (some of them already mentioned), especially recommended titles are in bold:

Animation:
Coraline
Adventures of Mark Twain
Les Maîtres du temps (if you can find it)
Ice Age 1
Toy Story 3
Monsters, Inc.
Shrek 1-2
Aladdin
The Simpsons
Jamie and the Magic Torch

Japanese anime:
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Death Note (!!!)
Serial Experiments: Lain (!!!)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Last Exile
The Twelve Kingdoms
Haibane Renamei
Mushishi

Fairy tales/adventures:
Stardust (!!!)
Grimm
Bridge to Terabithia
The Goonies

Superheroes:
X-Men
The Incredible Family
Spider Man (episode 3 is best)
Torrente (!!!)

Potentially disturbing but deeply moving films:
Der Untergang (aka Downfall, Hitler's Last Days)
La Haine (Hate)
The Wrestler
Dogville
Dancer in the Dark
Eyes Wide Shut (this one goes deeeeep)

Mindfuck (sort of)::
Fight Club
Memento
Revolver
ExistenZ
Pi

Beautiful and touching tales on human existence:
American Beauty
K-Pax
most movies of Hal Hartley (like Amateur, Trust or Simple Men)
The Double Life of Veronique and the "Three Colors" trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Wings of Desire (and its sequel, Far Away So Close) by Wim Wenders
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Cinema Paradiso (one of my all-time favorites)
Gran Torino
Love Actually (I think very highly of this film)
About Schmidt

Movies with a mystical/paranormal bent:
The Prestige (!!!)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Devil's Advocate
Sixth Sense
Flatliners
The Others
Ink

Time travel:
Frequency
Back to the Future

Immortality:
Highlander (only the first one)

No words, just gorgeous pictures and music:
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Baraka

Drug culture:
Traffic
Blow
Human Traffic

Comedy:
Groundhog Day
Crna mačka, beli mačor
Se til venstre, der er en svensker (this one is hilarious if you are in the mood)
Dr. Strangelove
Men in Black 1

Sitcom:
IT Crowd (first season + first episode of season 2)
Spaced (esp. because of Brian and his artistic endeavors)
Big Bang Theory
Weeds (only the first two seasons)

Science fiction (sort of):
Terminator 2
12 monkeys
Alien
Avatar
Total Recall
Starship Troopers
13th Floor
District 9
E.T.
Equilibrium
Contact
Matrix ( esp. the third episode )
Star Wars IV-VI (as you see, this is an all-inclusive list)
Blade Runner (!!!)

Martial arts:
House of Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Space:
2001: Space Odyssey
Solaris (the Soderbergh version)

Goa/trance related:
Welcome to Wonderland
Liquid Crystal Vision
The Wonderland Experience

Apocalyptic documentaries about a possible bleak future:
Age of Stupid
Collapse

...and a documentary on a beautiful planet that we can lose if we don't get our thing together:
Home

Concert films:
Dead Can Dance: Toward The Within (!!!!!!!!!)
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompei

...and the rest:
Ghetto Millionaire
Kontroll
Moulin Rouge
The Beach
Point Break
True Lies
A History of Violence
Eastern Promises
Twin Peaks (the whole series, this is a masterpiece)
99 francs (by Jan Kounen)
Other worlds (documentary on ayahuasca shamanism, also by Jan Kounen - director of Blueberry/Renegade)
The Big Blue
Leon
Nikita
Titanic
Truman Show
Waking Life
The Fountain

Again, some of these have already been mentioned:

Spirited Away
Triplets of Belleville
Donnie Darko
Howls Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Oldboy
Memento
The Machinist
Baraka

-The Last Mimzy (this one really blew me away! Highly suggest this one!)
-Jacob's Ladder (I've met the writer, who also wrote Ghost, The Last Mimzy, and Brainstorm - he really gets it!)
-Altered States (really wish they would do a part two of this one - P.S. the book is better/more in depth than the film)
-Finding Nemo
-Memento (from Inception director)
-Inception
-The Matrix (first is still the best)
-2001 (try reading the book before you watch or find the script/screenplay online and read the first 10 or so pages and the last 5 pages to get a deeper meaning of what the writer and director and showing you visually - really f-ing cool meanings of the monoliths and the entities behind them)

I'm sure I'm missing tons of others...

Baraka - Absolute Masterpiece. Must see
Bad Taste - Peter Jacksons masterpiece - must see
The Lazt Mimzy - (quite cool)
Sleeper - (Woody Allen 1973)
Labyrinth - (Jim Henson movie with David Bowie)
The Holy Grail - Monthy Python
Avatar
The Holy Mountain - The first half is...... Well you just have to see for your selves. Trippy, very trippy
Joe Dirt
Burn after Reading
Crank 2 High Voltage - Just skip nr. 1 and go straight to nr. 2. They're the same, nr 2 just a bit more extreme. And that's what these movies are about. Extreme Very cool.

I'm a bit blank at the moment.
Will probably add to that list later.

Here are the condensed Cliff notes for 2001 (the movie)
- we reveal ourselves as monkeys
- then we reveal ourselves as explorers
- then we reveal ourselves as children of light.
.., the end.

The movie Revolver is a super-cool.
Another favorite is Dead Man. That is where my Avatar name comes from.

What a great list of great films.
hmm..I'll put up a few that i think are worth mentioning ....some may be repeated..
The 25th Hour . with Edward Norton. [ i still gotta read the novel]...
Stone . New film with Edward Norton.
True Grit
A Beautiful Mind
American Beauty
Moon
Confucius
Goodfellas
Revolutionary Road
3:10 to Yuma
American Psycho
American history X
Shutter Island
UNBREAKABLE love it.
Seven Pounds
Saving Private Ryan
Gran Torino
Inglorious Basterds


....and ... Bring it on.. ....... just kidding guys