Throw Momma From The Train is good for a couple of laughs.
The Gold Rush
Citizen Kane
Young Frankenstein
Fargo
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
De vierde man (1983)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Turks fruit (1973)
C’era una volta il West (1968)
Each of these I saw without knowing or expecting much. In each case I was thrilled by what I saw.
Terrence Malick’s Badlands with young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a sociopath and his girl. Best use of a voice over in any movie. Saw this as the support to something I can’t recall at a midnight show.
Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge for the fun and surprises.
Errol Morris’s** The Thin Blue Line** the first truly riveting documentary I can recall.
Cool Hand Luke I had never heard of it and saw it at the Drive In as the support for Easy Rider which I hated. It was 3 years old at the time.
The Coen’s Blood Simple their first movie, made on the cheap.
Brassed Off great Brit film with a bit of everything, romance, music, comedy and social comment.
Oh man, people here gots good tastes… they’ve already mentioned Badlands, Apocolypse Now, Memento, Bull Durham, Brokeback Mountain, Pulp Fiction, Amadeus, The Usual Suspects and Chocolat. Kudos to you all, those are definitely excellent choices.
For me though, I’ll have to keep my usual parade from the decade that I hold as most perfect; 1970s all the way baby. With that in mind, I submit the following.
For Hilarity and Dark Humor de Jour…
Harold and Maude
For Head Spinning (heh!) Chilling…
The Exorcist
For Pure Wilder Fantasy…
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
For The Sap Who Likes Idealistic Musicals (I know, I know)…
Grease
And For Sheer Warp (the already several times mentioned, but I just had to add my voice crying out in the state controlled wilderness) and Pain…
A Clockwork Orange
There are so many more that my heart lurves, like Dog Day Afternoon, 'Night, Mother and say, The Entity or Resurrection that there’s just too many to name. So in other words, YOU BETTER NOT KICK THE BUCKET ANYTIME SOON!! You’ve lots of movies to watch. 
You just can’t miss Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp and Jennifer Jason Leigh and…
If you were actually dying, then definetly skip Solaris, it would only speed up the death process.
I’d reccomend the Three Lord of the Rings films, pure magic
Scarface is also a must
and finaly, Pulp Fiction is pure movie perfection.
- Seven Samurai
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Princess Bride
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Tremors
You could also throw Rashomon in there as well.
Ok… my sad but relevant 5
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*Trainspotting * (SO THRILLED!! that its already been mentioned several times- and so few I know have even heard of it!)
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Notorious- IMHO the best Alfred Hitchcock. Or the best Ingrid Bergman. Or the best Cary Grant- whatever
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Star Wars Episode IV? - *A New Hope * and *V - Empire Strikes Back * the rest are pretty much crap although both Return and the last of the prequels are so-so.
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Pick any Jane Austen based flick from the following: BBC version of *Pride & Prejudice * , *Sense & Sensibiliity * (the one with Emma Thompson of course) and Persuasion (the one with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root)
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Elizabeth or The Godfather - can’t imagine my life with either of these movies not in it- so you should ask for extra pain meds or life support and make sure you watch both.
Pulp Fiction
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
12 Angry Men (the original)
Psycho
Very happy to see mentions of Breaker Morant and Lion in the Winter.
I’d like to add :
Snatch Not a profound movie, but nicely paced and you get to see Brad Pitt’s nekkid torso.
Jane Austen films. Any version .
Spongebob there is brilliance in this cartoon.
Buckaroo Bonzai
Ya know, skip Pandora.
Add The Adventures Of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn.
Randal is the star of 2! I enjoyed it as much as the original. (I never heard of the phrase “porch monkeys” before the movie. I’m an AA chick.
Dearie, that made for a wonderful giggle.
Some of my favorites that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
Bagdad Cafe
Mixed Nuts
Hunt for Red October
The Fortune Cookie
What, do you want him to kill himself before the next movie?
Although you probably won’t anyway as long as you are straight and male.
Glitter, Gigli, Alien Versus Predator, Battlefield: Earth, and The Avengers.
After that, dying won’t seem so bad.
Alternatively, if you haven’t felt motivated to top yourself after watching those, I’d suggest following them up with Moulin Rouge.
Highlander 2
Starflight 1
Titanic
Robin Hood(Costners version)
Navy Seals
After being forced to watch them all the way through Death wouldn’t seem so bad.
Apologies ,somebody expressed the sentiment earlier. :o