i haven't given this much thought and will probably be replacing several movies (esp. bottom 5), so i may think about it more and edit it... also this is probably a rather inaccurate list because some of these movies i've only seen once... (i'll also admit i put 12 at 12...just because )

1. Planet Earth (documentary)
2. Stalker
3. The Mirror
4. I Am Twenty
5. Nostalghia
6. Piebald Dog Running Along the Shore
7. Decalogue I
8. Solaris
9. Life Is Beautiful
10. Andrei Rublev
11. Tale of Tales (animation)
12. Shawshank Redemption
13. Beyond the Clouds
14. Amelie
15. 12
16. Big Blue
17. Color of Pomegranates
18. WALL*E (animation)
19. There Once Lived a Dog (animation)
20. Mimino
21. Moscow on the Hudson
22. The Apartment
23. Red Balloon
24. My Friend Ivan Lapshin
25. Dead Poets Society
26. The Island
27. The Ascent
28. Bananas
29. Hiroshima Mon Amour
30. American Beauty
31. Groundhog Day
32. Taste of Cherry
33. Tokyo Sonata
34. That Very Munchhausen
35. I Walk the Streets of Moscow
36. Irony of Fate
37. Legend of Suram Fortress

38. Green Mile
39. Mayrig
40. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
41. Dream of a Ridiculous Man (animation)
42. Icarus and the Wise Men (animation)
43. Before Sunrise
44. Wild Strawberries
45. Dersu Uzala
46. Roman Holiday
47. Seven Samurai
48. Hedgehog in the Fog (animation)
49. Tiger and the Snow
50. Red


+ Killer of Sheep, Ikiru, Bicycle Thieves, Passion of Joan of Arc, Amarcord, City Lights, The Kid, Patch Adams

My top 100. The order isn't exact but it's pretty close.
1.Almost Famous (or Untitled: The Bootleg Cut)
2.Schindler's List
3.The Shawshank Redemption
4.Dr. Strangelove
5.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6.Goodfellas
7.The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
8.Fight Club
9.Apocalypse Now
10.The Godfather Part II
11.The Godfather
12.Memento
13.Road to Perdition
14.Saving Private Ryan
15.Braveheart
16.Pulp Fiction
17.L.A. Confidential
18.2001: A Space Odyssey
19.Gladiator
20.Big Fish
21.American Beauty
22.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
23.Glory
24.The Departed
25.Rushmore
26.Amadeus
27.Lawrence of Arabia
28.12 Angrey Men
29.Vanilla Sky
30.Miller's Crossing
31.City of God
32.A Clockwork Orange
33.The Apartment
34.Casino
35.The Elephant Man
36.Network
37.Amélie
38.The Shining
39.Forrest Gump
40.Kill Bill: Vol. 1
41.Kill Bill: Vol. 2
42.Taxi Driver
43.The Prestige
44.Magnolia
45.Full Metal Jacket
46.Princess Mononoke
47.Jerry Maguire
48.There Will Be Blood
49.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
50.Jackie Brown
51.Cinema Paradiso
52.The Insider
53.Se7en
54.Reservoir Dogs
55.The Usual Suspects
56.Zodiac
57.The Royal Tenenbaums
58.Alien
59.The Last Samurai
60.The Pianist
61.Jaws
62.Raging Bull
63.The Silence Of The Lambs
64.Barry Lyndon
65.WALL·E
66.Sunset Blvd.
67.Say Anything...
68.House of Sand and Fog
69.JFK
70.Hotel Rwanda
71.Judgment at Nuremberg
72.Boogie Nights
73.Blade Runner
74.Snatch.
75.The Bridge on the River Kwai
76.King Kong (2005)
77.Psycho
78.Aliens
79.This Is Spinal Tap
80.In America
81.Casablanca
82.Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
83.In the Name of the Father
84.Cast Away
85.Breakfast at Tiffany's
86.Babel
87.No Country for Old Men
88.Once Upon A Time In America
89.Once Upon A Time In The West
90.Cool Hand Luke
91.The Big Lebowski
92.Life of Brian
93.The Dark Knight
94.Terminator 2: Judgment Day
95.Groundhog Day
96.Closer
97.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
98.As Good as It Gets
99.The Green Mile
100.Heat
The rest are random
Unforgiven
Cinderella Man
Good Will Hunting
Terms of Endearment
The Matrix
Paths of Glory
The Graduate
Stars Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Vertigo
It's A Wonderful Life
The Children's Hour
Dog Day Afternoon
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Mtach Point
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Adaptation
The Princess Bride
Stand By Me
Manhunter
The Blues Brothers
Who's Afarid of Virginia Wolf?
The Man Who Wasn't There
Dances With Wolves
Garden State
Edward Scissorhands
Quiz Show
The Untouchables
The Hustler
21 Grams
About Schmidt
Batman Begins
Gangs of New York
The Big Chill
Black Hawk Down
Back To The Future
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Gone Baby Gone
Into The Wild
Manhattan
Sweet Smell of Success
Double Indemnity
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Rain Man
Badlands
The Thin Red Line
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Crash (2004)
United 93
Reign Over Me
Harold and Maude
Sling Blade
Million Dollar Baby
The Last Temptation of Christ
World Trade Center
Collateral
Munich
Trainspotting
Tombstone
Charlie Wilson's War
Blue Velvet
The Game
High Fidelity
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Scarface
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

I think I'll keep the lists to 50, but thanks anyway for the effort.

Thank you.

When's everyone think that the lists should be due by? I was thinking either Christmas or New Years, so that it gives quite a while for people to watch whatever they want to. That might be too far in the distance, though, in which case the end of this month would suffice. Thoughts?

Mm, too bad, I for one will probably be getting a lot of new films for Christmas.
Probably wouldn't make a list anyway.

aw 100 would be fun.

ahawk do you use rym? how many movies have you seen?

Alright, which would y'all prefer?

criteria: how much it affects me, and how much i want to rewatch

no order inside of tiers


spirited away
chungking express
inglourious basterds
there will be blood
magnolia
blade runner
zoolander
in bruges
lord of the rings: the return of the king
o brother, where art thou

lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
lord of the rings: the two towers
sunshine
american psycho
ferris bueller's day off
bourne ultimatum
the departed
wall-e
apocalypse now
28 days later

stalker
children of men
heat
bourne supremacy
taxi driver
2001: a space odyssey
the dark knight
tokyo sonata
the lives of others
minority report

no country for old men
miami vice
bourne identity
brazil
eastern promises
fargo
batman begins
reservoir dogs
finding nemo
remember the titans

fight club
l.a. confidential
casino royale
ocean's 11
princess mononoke
fallen angels
my neighbor totoro
the thin red line
dodgeball
drive

the contenders:

paths of glory
hot fuzz
the guard
memento
the white ribbon
cool hand luke
the graduate
12 angry men
american beauty
the dirty dozen
funny games
punch drunk love

OP has been edited.

excellent, that's plenty of time to get caught up. also what if posters could choose 50, 75, or 100 films to list, whichever they feel is the most genuinely inclusive of their favorites.

Well, they can post them if they'd really like to, but I'll only be taking their top 50 because it contributes to the overall list.

For the sake of the list does it have to be ordered because that'd be very difficult? I've compiled an unordered version:

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Matter of Life and Death
Alphaville
Andrei Rublev
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Battleship Potemkin
Belle de Jour
The Big Lebowski
Blow-Up
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
The Celebration
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
City of God
Clueless
Deliverance
Dogville
Don't Look Now
Dracula (Horror of Dracula)
In the Loop
The Killing Fields
The Innocents
The Jerk
L'Atalante
L'Avventura
The Ladykillers (1955)
Let the Right One In
Lost in Translation
Magnolia
Mulholland Drive
My Left Foot
My Night at Maud's
No Country For Old Men
North by Northwest
Once Upon a Time in the West
Ordet
Raising Ariziona
Rome, Open City
Rushmore
Secrets and Lies
Spirit of the Beehive
There Will be Blood
Through a Glass Darkley
Together
Vertigo
What Time is it There?
The White Ribbon
Wild Strawberries

Yes, it has to be ordered. You've got almost 2 months to do so.