Movies Worth Seeing

So my girlfriend is relatively inexperienced when it comes to great movies, particularly of genres of great interest to those of the geek culture. PLEASE feel free to post suggestions!

Some rules:

Only movies worth seeing--sequels aren't necessary (unless they too are worth seeing)
Go here for animated films

I'm gonna start with the essentials.

Star Wars saga
Indiana Jones saga
Lord of the Rings saga
Pirates of the Caribbean saga
Star Trek saga
Harry Potter series
Predator 1 & 2
Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection
Aliens vs. Predator 1 & 2
Superman films
Batman 1, 2, and Begins
Pulp Fiction
Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2
The Fifth Element
The Matrix
Schindler's List
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Spaceballs
High Anxiety
History of the World: Part 1
Planet of the Apes
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Dune
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Ghostbusters
Robocop 1 & 2
Napoleon Dynamite
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Back to the Future series
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Ace Ventura 1 & 2
Stranger than Fiction
National Lampoon's Animal House, Van Wilder, Christmas Vacation, European Vacation
300
Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks 2
Get Shorty
Be Cool
Fight Club
Blade Runner
Terminator 1 & 2
Snakes on a Plane
Transformers
Forrest Gump
Rocky 1 & 2
The Godfather films
Oliver!
The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
Psycho
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Halloween 1 & 2
Little Miss Sunshine
Children of Men
The Bourne series
Edward Scissorhands
Sweeney Todd
Reservoir Dogs
Deathproof/Grindhouse
The Ring
Serenity
Sin City
The X-Men series
The Spider-Man series
Dark City
The Thing
Shaun of the Dead
I, Robot
The Three Musketeers
Face/Off
Gone in 60 Seconds
City of Angels
A Time to Kill
Logan's Run
The Last Man on Earth/Omega Man/I am Legend (listed in order of preference)
The Shawshank Redemption
12 Angry Men
Rear Window
It's a Wonderful Life
Lawrence of Arabia
Se7en
Apocalypse Now
To Kill a Mockingbird
Saving Private Ryan
Metropolis
Full Metal Jacket
The Wizard of Oz
Kill Bill 1 & 2
The Green Mile
Die Hard series
The Sixth Sense
V for Vendetta
The Princess Bride
The Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
Scarface
Hot Fuzz
Men in Black
The Net
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Stargate
Sphere
The Neverending Story
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Kung Fu Hustle
Rush Hour
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
Death to Smoochy
Half Baked
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
Videodrome
Scanners
Cinema Paradiso
The Darjeeling Limited
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Lost in Translation
Caddyshack
Fletch
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
Elizabeth
Blues Brothers
Wayne's World 1 & 2
Coneheads
The Producers
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The King and I
The Exorcist
The Amityville Horror
A Clockwork Orange
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
E.T.
Amadeus
The Color Purple
The Fugitive
The Frisco Kid
The Last Samurai
JFK
Silence of the Lambs
Braveheart
Amistad
Fiddler on the Roof
The Pink Panther
Tommy
Airplane!
Police Squad!
Hot Shots! & Part Deux
Babe
The Mask of Zorro
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
King Kong (1933 and 2005)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Music Man
Enchanted
Galaxy Quest
Waiting for Guffman
Castaway
Highlander
Mary Poppins
The Patriot
The Day the Earth Stood Still
War of the Worlds (original)
Night of the Living Dead
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Diamonds are Forever
Goldeneye
The Mummy (1932 and 1999)
Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula (1958)
Nosferatu (1922)
Big
The Longest Day
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Car Wash
The Grapes of Wrath
Clue
Entrapment

Okay, so the list is getting good! Don't stop adding suggestions.

Help me make a list of animated films worth seeing!

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Posted Jul 13, 2008
Rocky Horror picture show. A strange but good movie to say the least. I was glad to see Monty python on the list. I have the Special Edition 2 disk Holy Grail and since my name is Brian, I live the other movie....

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Posted Jun 15, 2008
I think Pay it Forward was worth seeing, but I didnt see it on the list.

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Posted Jun 14, 2008
Beverly Hills Cop but no Beverly Hills Cop 2? IMHO, that was the better of the two (BHC 3 = Highlander 2; it doesn't exist)

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Posted Apr 28, 2008
Actually that comment was from my girlfriend she's just dumbfounded by the sheer size of the list.

Also, the list is pretty much done. Anything else is either not good enough or just barely unknown enough for me to not place it.

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Posted Apr 26, 2008
Pi
The Science of Sleep
Across the Universe
The Science of Sleep
The Fountain
The Science of Sleep
Help!
Pan's Labyrinth
Chinatown
A Hard Day's Night
Brazil
The Illusionist

...did I mention The Science of Sleep?

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Posted Apr 25, 2008
I may have seemede like a jerk there, sorry about that,

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Posted Apr 25, 2008
... How can you not like star wars? Their epic. And same with Alien and predator and Batman?! C'mon. but everyone is entitled to their opinions.

Movies I suggest(That I don't see, but already may be suggested)

-Aeon Flux
-Matrix(all of them)
-Van Hellsing
-War fo the worlds
-Underworld 1 & 2
-I am Legend(From what I hear it is kickass)
-Spaceballs
-Family Guy: Blue Harvest
-Black Hawk down was fairly good
-Catch me if you Can
-The longest yard
-Ocean's 11
-Dragonslayer (A Scifi channel original)
-The Bourne Series
-Warbirds(Scifi channel)
-So many others that I forget

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Posted Apr 25, 2008
Um.. Alien movies, no. Predator, nope. Halloween, don't think so. Star Wars nuh uh. Hate Batman and cannot stand King Kong. Wow babe, you're a loser. But.... I love you

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Posted Apr 23, 2008
I know, right? I'm running out of movies to add..

Ooh, that's right, *adds one more*

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Posted Apr 22, 2008
OMG!! You added Videodrome!! Its weird and disturbing yet I just had to watch it til the end. I was like 12 when I saw it.

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Posted Apr 21, 2008
-Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
-The Neverending Story
-The Story of Qiu Ju
-Buffy The Vampire Slayer
-Do The Right Thing
-Stargate
-The Net
-Sphere

I agree with mikeyG about Dark City. That movie messed me up bad the first time I saw it. I couldn't sleep for a week.

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Posted Apr 21, 2008
No, it means I don't find Adam Sandler at all funny. Especially when he's playing the same psychotic prick in every other movie he makes (sprinkled in between are of course romantic comedies and dramadies to show his 'depth'). SNL has produced a great number of talented people, Sandler's not one of 'em.

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Posted Apr 20, 2008
They are funny. If you dont find them funny that means you dont have a soul.....o Wait.:p

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Posted Apr 20, 2008
But shouldn't comedies actually be, you know, funny?

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Posted Apr 19, 2008
I like Comedies.....so Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison?

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Posted Apr 19, 2008
lol^^

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Posted Apr 19, 2008
Bilbroxain: Read this

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Posted Apr 19, 2008
- King Arthur
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Gladiator
- The Four Feathers
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Frailty
- Boondock Saints
- iRobot
- Minority Report
- War of the Worlds
- The Death and Life of Bobby Z
- The Boys and Girls Guide On How To Get Down (awesome)
- 10,000 B.C.
- The Order
- Hoosiers
- Jumper
- The Replacements
- Remember the Titans
- Crank
- Blow

there are so many...

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Posted Apr 19, 2008
Uh, Demolition Man, guys. That's all that really matters.

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Posted Apr 19, 2008
Cloverfeild. 'Nuff said. Cloverfeild was the most awesome movie ever.

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