Hmmm...

(in no particular order)

Rashomon
My Left Foot
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Satyricon
City of God
Exterminating Angel
Das Boot
The Tenant
The Big Lebowski
Blazing Saddles

These are subject to change at any time... I had a hell of a time restricting myself to 10

Suspiria
Dawn of the Dead

Ahh the Romero / Argento axis.

I don't know how Suspiria didn't get into my top ten.

Yeah... I liked Suspiria quite a lot.

here's a random pick of 10:

Annie Hall
Millers Crossing
The Jerk
Lost in Translation
Withnail and I
Naked Lunch
Sword of Doom
The Big Sleep
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Blazing Saddles

another ten:

the sweet hereafter
amateur
city of god
oldboy
dersu uzala
safe
airplane!
rushmore
visitor q
12 monkeys

Top 10 animated:

Fantasia
Spirited Away
Grave Of The Fireflies
Akira
Fantastic Planet
Watership Down
Ghost In The Shell: Innocence
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Toy Story
A Scanner Darkly

Colonel Panic wrote:Satyricon

i can definitely say that i actually sort of hate satyricon. i was amazed that i actually got through the whole thing. i don't feel comfortable saying that it was stupid or even a bad movie, it just drove me nuts.

Top three are tied for First Place:

Aguirre, Wrath of God
The Blood of the Poet
The Lion In Winter
Oedipus Rex
Goodfellas
Satyricon
Diary of a Country Priest
The Big Lebowski
Martha
Svankmajer's Faust

rocker654 wrote:Yellowbeard

I've never seen this, but have heard it was awful... is it really actually good?

There’s not 10 of them, but these are the movies I watch them most:

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)

Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders)—a movie I loved as an adolescent and thought ten years later would make me cringe. On the contrary, totally fantastic, keenly observed, and so perfectly of its era and place.

Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)—the most even-handed, dignified movie about middle-aged women I’ve ever seen.

Band of Outsiders (Jean Luc Godard)—yeah, it’s been raped and pillaged but nothing could ever taint the unabashed joy of the bar room silliness or Anna Karina singing Jean Ferrat on the metro.

Nashville (Robert Altman)

The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)

Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino)—I absolutely love how Tarantino reinterpreted the avenging hero figure as a single mom who fights not for patrimony or glory but for custody of her daughter. The maternal instinct as the most powerful force on Earth = most awesome premise for a stylish, gory action film.

The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonka)—Might as well have been titled How to Be a Human Being and Fucking Accept Yourself Already. Gorgeous, life changing.