just everything:

• The Fall
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• le voyage du ballon rouge
• the diving bell and the butterfly

most visually stunning:

• king kong
• lord of the rings trilogy
• across the universe
• La Vie en Rose
• slumdog millionaire
• pan's labyrinth

influential/ emotionally staining:

• the hobbit (animated)
• a scanner darkly
• the butterfly effect
• watership down
• spirited away
• leaving Las Vegas
• Donnie Darko
• The Village
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Manchurian Candidate
• revolutionary road
• the brothers bloom
• up
• v for vendetta
• an american tail
• requiem for a dream

inspiring/ interesting/ personality-staining// films that taught me what film is:

• the blair witch project
• paris, je t'aime
• the ring
• the shining
• dick
• adventureland
• ghostworld
• capote
• dead poet's society
• forrest gump
• garden state
• Life is Beautiful
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Napolean Dynamite
• Once
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• amityville horror
• philadelphia
• rent
• Secret Window
• Shultze Gets the Blues
• Snakes on a Plane
• runaway jury
• russian arc
• stand by me
• when harry met sally
• stranger than fiction
• the fountain
• there will be blood
• best worst movie
• Tokyo!
• winter solstice