films is a nice thing i'd say 

and they're all great, so I've come to the conclusion that all French movies are great. Amelie, Happenstance and My Wife is an Actress were the three. The French language just sounds cool, though, so with subtitles it's just fun to listen to. 

Seven.
Fight Club.
Amelie.
Monster's Ball.
Braveheart.
American Beauty.
Shawshank Redemption.
Donnie Darko.
Apocalypse Now.
Platoon.
Silence of the Lambs.
Meet Joe Black.
Traffic.
The Abyss. (the extended version.)
Insider.
Killing Fields.
Scarface.
American History X.
JFK.
Midnight Express.
Metal Gear Solid 2. 

IMHO this is a very overrated movie that's overly self conscious and happy. Could just be me though, since so many people love it.

BTW, while we are on french movies, anyone seen brotherhood of the wolf? It doesnt completely work because it's trying to combine too many genres but there's some cool stuff in there.

Saw Donnie Darko the other day, good movie though some of the narrative was a bit forced. Just got Apocalypse Now so that should be good, I really liked Coppola's other non-godfather 70's movie, The Conversation.

Anyway, my list :

Alien
Aliens
American Beauty
Apocalypse Now
Being John Malkovich
Braveheart
Blade runner
Chopper
A Clockwork Orange
The Conversation
Donnie Darko
Dr Strangelove
Election
Fight Club
Godfather 1 & 2
Goodfellas
Heat
The Insider
LA Confidential
Lantana
Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
LOTR : FOTR
Memento
Mulholland Drive
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Seven
Silence of the Lambs
Taxi Driver
Terminator 2
Toy Story
Unforgiven
Usual Suspects 

I shan't make a list - I wouldn't know how to prioritise :/
But a couple of non-sf/horror movies that I might bring to your attention:

Blackrobe - the only movie I've ever seen that shows the north american indians with an almost documentary realism. Fuck 'Dances With Wolves', this is the real deal. A heartbreaking account of what happens when opposing cultures collide irrevocably.

Pathfinder - known as 'Ofelas' in it's native scandinavian tongue, this is a simple 'old-world' folktale depicting the confrontation between a peaceful rural tribe and a band of violent warriors. Like a fantasy RPG scenario but without any 'fantasy' elements. It has cool crossbows tho.

Dust Devil - okay, might be considered a horror movie, but really so much more. From the man who made the first two Neph videos, followed by Hardware, Dust Devil is the culmination of Richard Stanley's 'biblical nomad' character. A mixture of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Dry White Season and The Hitcher, with spaghetti western and occult imagery piled on for good measure. A movie about desperation, wandering, faith ( or lack of ) and madness it drifts across the eerie landscape of South Africa's Namib like a dry and desolate wind. The concepts are complex and sub-conciously challenging; the cinematography is to die for. One of the best British flicks of the 1990s.

For what it's worth :/ 

Watching Quake movies 

IRREVERSIBLE is rather nice 

is it really as difficult to watch as some people say? 

if you've seen other brutal movies like, trainspotting, dobermann, etc, you'll be forged/ready to see this one. if you haven't, you could be really shocked or disgusted by one certain scene there. but, this movie shows the truth of life w/o any softening, as it is in real life. other words, it shows what happens in our live behind the corner. things we don't usually notice or we get edited information about them.
and answering directly to your question, yes, it's rather difficult to watch it, but it's useful to watch it i think... but if you're too sensitive, don't watch it... 

I dont think I am but I did find something like baise-moi hard to sit through, simply because the violence etc felt overly gratituous. As for Irreversible, I've only heard about the rape scene and have heard views both ways so I thought I'd ask. 

i see, nitin 

I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf and was disappointed. I guess I forgot it was a french movie. Maybe I just expected something different, but it didn't come off well with me. 

Yeah, I've seen that one too. It wasn't that bad, considering it is a french movie. It was a bit too full of ideas and concepts to be really cool, a bit too hectic imo. 

i thought it was bad ass. But, before watching it, i watched Blanc, Rogue, and Bleu. So maybe the french-ness of Brotherhood didn't bother me as much. 

Sitcom. It French.