I tried really, really hard to make this list as short as I comfortably could.

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live action films:

• 12 angry men
• a.i.: artificial intelligence
• amadeus
• clue
• donnie darko
• elephant
• eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
• the fifth element
• if...
• inception
• jumanji
• labyrinth
• léon: the professional
• martha marcy may marlene
• the matrix
• mirrormask
• mysterious skin
• the neverending story
• now you see me
• pacific rim
• picnic at hanging rock
• the poseidon adventure
• repo men
• se7en
• we need to talk about kevin
• willy wonka and the chocolate factory

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animated films (collectively; some favourites are listed):

• disney animated classics & pixar
  • atlantis: the lost empire
  • fantasia & fantasia 2000
  • treasure planet
  • up
  • wall-e
• dreamworks animated films
  • how to train your dragon series
  • rise of the guardians
• don bluth films
  • rock-a-doodle
  • a troll in central park
• mixed live-action & animation
  • bedknobs and broomsticks
  • the pagemaster
  • the phantom tollbooth
• others
  • the animatrix
  • cats don't dance
  • the iron giant
  • little nemo: adventures in slumberland
  • the nightmare before christmas
  • we're back! a dinosaur's story
• spiderman: into the spider-verse
• studio ghibli films
  • nausicaä of the valley of the wind
  • spirited away

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film series:

• the chronicles of riddick
• divergent
• hannibal
• harry potter
• the hobbit
• lord of the rings
• star wars

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non-english language films:

• アキラ (japanese; akira / knowledge)
• le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain (french; the fabulous destiny of amélie poulain)
• jeux d'enfants (french; child's game)
• 君の名は。(japanese; kimi no na wa / your name)
• låt den rätte komma in (swedish; let the right one in)
• sala samobójców (polish; suicide room)