Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, if you overlook the special effects when they travel back in time.
Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home, if you overlook that it was made in the early 90’s.
A couple of good comedies:
Tootsie
Ghostbusters
Some you might have missed:
And I heartily endorse the earlier suggestions The Man Who Would Be King, Chinatown, Matewan and American Graffiti
Argh, guess I should re-watch it, too. 
That didn’t sound right for some reason.
And yes - I doubt/hope there are any studio ending/TV edit versions around any longer, but one never knows.
I have a 3-DVD boxed set of Brazil which includes the so-called “Love Conquers All” version. I’ve never watched it.
The eighties gave us some awesome science fiction and fantasy:
**The Terminator
The Thing
Star Trek II, III, IV
Bladerunner
Creator
Poltergeist
Firefox
Conan the Barbarian
Deathwatch
Android
The Last Starfighter
Predator
Robocop
Total Recall
The Hidden
Dune
Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
Labyrinth
The Fly
Enemy Mine
**
Also the documentary The Atomic Cafe.
I hated E.T.
We just watched Foul Play this weekend. I love that movie so much – Goldie Hawn, early Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore’s American debut, Burgess Meredith, a laughing snake, a scary albino, “Beware of the Dwarf”, “Kojak Bang Bang!”. Awesome movie from the 70s.
Airplane!
Johnny Dangerously
Two spoof movies that will have you laughing from beginning to end. Some of Airplane!'s jokes are a little more dated than others (and more dated than anything in Johnny Dangerously) but it’s still a riot to re-watch.
So many great movies in this thread, including my favorite, Brazil (thanks Ferret Herder!) but it’s fun to see some of my beloved comedies mentioned, such as Local Hero, Real Genius, Top Secret, Ruthless People and, to a lesser extent because it’s not on the same level, this one. I’m glad somebody else likes it too. I’m glad I saw it in the theater because the opening credits are breath-taking, following Hawn’s car as she drives up Hwy. 1 in California, with mountains on one side and the crashing sea on the other. I should watch it again and see if it’s as funny to me now. I sure did think it was funny then.
Other comedies from that general era that I haven’t seen mentioned that I can think of right off hand: The Frisco Kid (with Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder) and High Anxiety (the only other Mel Brooks movie I really like besides Young Frankenstein).
Not a comedy, but with many humorous moments, Never Cry Wolf, a gorgeous, quiet, beautiful movie by Carroll Ballard, based on a true story about a government researcher, wonderfully played by Charlie Martin Smith, sent to live with wolves to document their killing of caribou, and who finds a world he didn’t expect. If nothing else, but there’s a lot else, it’s astonishingly beautiful. The opening credits look awe-inspiring on a tiny screen. Imagine what it was like on a big screen. This YouTube clip consists of several different scenes from the film, some are slight spoilers, but it does convey the humor, beauty and soulfulness of the film. This movie and Local Hero make the most wonderful double-feature.
Repo Man
Frankenhooker (hey, 1990 was technically as well as culturally still the 80’s)
Liquid Sky
Death Race 2000
Eating Raoul
Morons from Outer Space
The sort of thing you’ll like, if you like that sort of thing.
Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, and Dune. And Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
Oh! And True Stories!
I can still enjoy Better Off Dead, even though it’s 25 years old.
“Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.”
Words to live by, I tell you.
One of my all-time favorite movies is from 1987: Angel Heart, starring Mickey Rourke at his absolute best, with Robert DeNiro and Charlotte Rampling. Also starring Lisa Bonet in a very non-Cosby Kid role. Very dark and spooky, if you like that kind of thing.
It’s one of the very few movies I will say is better than the book on which it was based.
rats, no clip online of Life Is Cheap… But Toilet Paper Is Expensive, but there is for Dark Star
This weekend, I watched The Conversation, a Francis Ford Coppola film from 1974 starring Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who gets paid to capture a conversation between two people in Union Square in San Francisco. As he analyzes and refines the recording for his client, he gets more and more paranoid about what the conversation means and what will happen to the people he recorded. It’s a 70s-era paranoia film, similar to All the President’s Men or Three Days of the Condor. Coppola actually wrote it in the mid-60s, but only got the funding for it after making The Godfather, and it was produced and filmed almost in parallel with the revelations of the Watergate scandal. It’s a rather haunting piece of cinema.
Some of my favorites:
The Warriors (as mentioned)
Hopscotch (Walter Matthau is a CIA agent about to be put out to pasture, so he blows the lid off all the dirty tricks by writing a book. He sends the chapters to his publishers one at a time, always staying a step ahead of the CIA who’s chasing him – it’s pretty dated, but Matthau gives a good performance in my opinion, and there are some damned good lines: “Now I know what FBI stands for: Fucking Ball-busting Imbeciles!” “Who’s that photographing us?” “Oh, that’s Follett, he’s an idiot. Probably no film in the camera.”)
The Hospital (George C. Scott)
Network
The Seven Ups (a sort of unofficial sequel to the French Connection – sans Gene Hackman, but stars Roy Scheider. It has, in my opinion, just about the best car chase ever filmed.)
Deliverance – it’s more than just the rape scene.
My favorite movie EVAR. (I’m a native West Virginian.) This is one of the few movies about WV that really gets it right.
We checked this out of the library the other night to watch with our 14-year-old son (who is into classical music), and he absolutely loved it.
I’m a total sentimental sap. I loved Starman. And On Golden Pond.
Not like I’m a Gene Wilder fan or anything, but:
Silver Streak (1976)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Stir Crazy (1980)
Midnight Cowboy, but not for the reasons you’d think.
I find myself utterly fascinated by the gritty Times Square and 42nd Street compared to today. Old pics of 42nd Street.
Are you kidding me? Gil Grisson and the dude form Mad About You (No, not him, the other one) vs. Willem Dafoe? What’s not to like?