These movies were recommended in the comments to my movie post.

Note: These recommendations are not mine. They are taken straight from the comments.

12 Monkeys - Yet ANOTHER whacked out Terry Gilliam flick. This time it's about time travel.

The 13th Floor - A rather straightforward movie that doesn't appear to be anything special right out of the gate... it gives you something to think about though.

1984 - The version that came out in the 80s, I mean. It's very grim and depressing, but it captures the book damn well. AMAZING soundtrack done by the Eurythmics, too.

The 3 Man

All That Jazz

Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe is a genius

American Beauty

An American Tale - Animated by Don Bluth, the same dude who did NIMH. I'd say this one's just as good.

Baghdad Cafe - very funny. Not about Baghdad, needless to say. Jack Palance is fabulous.

Band of outsiders - Godard's gangaster movie

Bending It Like Beckham

Better Off Dead

Big Trouble In Little China - Action, adventure and comedy.

The Birdcage -- screamed with laughter

Blade Runner - one of my all-time favorite sci-fi films, also asking some interesting questions about humanity.

The Bourne Identity (the new version)

Bringing out the Dead - A character movie. This is like “The Catcher in the Rye” (a novel) but with paramedics. There really isn't a plot to speak of, but the characters are a lot of fun (even if the movie is rather dark).

Bringing Up Baby

Broadcast News

The Burmese Harp

Cabaret - Bob Fosse was not only a great choreographer, he was a great director.

Canadian Bacon - "There's a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think."

Casablanca!

Cast Away

The Castle - An Australian comedy. Many of the one-liners have become part of our family folklore. It's a funny 'feel good' movie.

The Castle in the Sky - Miyazaki film

Chun King Express - I have to watch this movie every couple of months. It's sweet, silly, human, and beautifully shot.

City of Angels

City of Hope - by John Sayles - Sad, very moving.

City of Lost Children - Okay, this one's a must. It's made by the same people who did Amelie, so it's in French as well. It's like a classic fairytale, only in a really bizarre, grim industrial setting in this city on the sea. There's never any sunlight, and everything is made of rusted steel and heavy machinery.

The Commitments - by Roddy Doyle, great scenes of Irish life.

Cool Hand Luke - I try to watch it every year on my birthday, to remind me to strive for coolness. Best scene is when is mom comes to visit, and the other prisoners are picking out that song on the banjo in the background . . .beautiful, beautiful. Also all images of Paul Newman smoking, but if you're not a chick, maybe not the same thrill.

Cradle Will Rock

Dangerous Liasons

Dark Crystal

Deep Blue Sea - A slighly above average action flick featuring giant mutant sharks, a supporting appearance by Samuel L. Jackson and comic relief by L.L. Cool J. (who is a surprisingly good actor believe it or not). If you have the urge to watch this kind of film (you know what kind I mean, the "creature" flick) then this is probably one of the more interesting/overlooked ones.

Donnie Darko - I think the oddity will appeal to you, and the mobius-like plot structure is very satisfying.

Dr Strangelove – EXCELLENT

Eating Raoul - an indy gem from, like, 1982.

Enchanted April

Enemy of the State

Equilibrium - Imagine George Orwell's 1984 with fights that make the Matrix look boring.

Exotica

Fearless

Fight Club - Talk about understanding the true concept of losing your life to find your life.

Finding Forester -  A bit formulaic, but nonetheless inspiring about friendship, writing, overcoming bias, prejudice, obstacles.

Startup.com - About true, real-life friendship which overcomes greed and backstabbing.

Finding Graceland - where this guy's driving cross country to escape his past and picks up a Marilyn Monroe look-alike and Elvis. The real Elvis.

A Fish Named Wanda

Flirting with Disaster - "San Diego has a big carjacking problem. They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you."

The Four Feathers

Frailty

Galaxy Quest - for anyone who ever watched Star Trek.

The Game - In which the main character learns a difficult lesson about the most valuable things in life.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - MM is funny!

Gigi

The Godfather

Grosse Point Blank - If you don't mind some violence in a dark comedy. I always think "...but by the grace of God there go I" when I watch that movie.

Haiku Tunnel -- Laughed like hell

His Girl Friday

Impromptu - about Chopin and Georges Sand

In the Mood for Love

Intolerance

Happy, Texas - is my favorite cheer-up and laugh movie. Light-hearted and sweet and very, very funny.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - directed by, written by, and starring John Cameron Mitchell, based on his off-off-Broadway show. It's a musical. I adored Chicago, but this is something different and special. It has some, ahem, interesting themes.

Gladiator

Gummo - Urban surrealism. Downright bizarre.

Harvey

Hearts & Minds - the Vietnam war documentary, awakened my awareness of evil & the corruption of power.

Heat

The Hill Country -I watched it like a home movie when I lived in California for its pictures of a small Texas town. Texans should watch this, since it's about a weird Texan. It's the story of Robert E. Howard, creator of the Conan books. He lived around Austin in the 30s and was one highly knackered-up dude.

Hope Floats - Isn't a terribly compelling love story, but it's not supposed to be - it's about hope and renewal.

Il Monstro - an Italian flick with everything to teach Hollywood about physical comedy. Bergnini is a guy suspected of being a serial rapist, so this cute detective moves in to try to get him to put the moves on her so she can arrest him- sounds sick but I laughed so hard I nearly peed my pants.

In the Mood for Love - It's a movie about desire and self-restraint, all filmed in a supersaturated, colorful film noir of 1960s Hong Kong. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung both are amazing actors. If you have ever desired that which you cannot have, this movie will resonate with you.

Indiana Jones

Into the Mouth of Madness - This is a psychological/horror film that I don't remember all that well except that I liked it and that it's a bit strange.

Iron Monkey – For a subtitled, goofy Kung Fu movie.

Jabberwocky - Terry Gilliam's adaptation of the poem, only made out to be a bit more epic and fantasy-like, and very, very funny.

Jesus Christ Superstar - Was the first thing I experienced that helped me open my heart to God.

Julia

King of Hearts -  (especially if the short Bambi Meets Godzilla comes with it)

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist - In which some guy took an old kung fu movie and with the help of modern technology, put himself in and then dubbed new dialouge for everyone.

The Lady Eve - a 40s classic by Preston Sturges, starring a young Henry Fonda and a ravishing Barbara Stanwyck. It's hilarious, surprisingly sexy for the time and well worth repeated viewings. I liked it so much I bought the DVD and have turned several people on to Sturges, who made four or five brilliant movies and then flamed out.

Laputa - Miyazaki film

Last of the Dogmen - A really neat fantasy to entertain - and truly awesome scenery!

Last Night - a Canadian film about the last hours of the earth and how a group ordinary people approach the end of all things, often with surprising and gentle grace.

Living in Oblivion – “Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!"

Man with a Plan - is a fantastic independent film, made by a film maker that lives near my family's farm in Vermont, named John O'Brien. It's a mock documentary of a 70-something Vermont farmer who can't pay the bills any more, so he decides to run for the Senate. Fantastic, quirky film.

Matewan - by John Sayles  - Moving, a little didactic for some -- his performance as the preacher was the first thing that came to mind when I heard the name of your site.

Mean Guns - is an Ice-T train wreck of a movie with Christopher Lambert of Highlander fame.

Meetings with Remarkable Men (Dir: Peter Brooke, life story of Gurdjieff)

Michael - This is a truly funny and moving story about love and loss...and how the power of simple things can transform us.

Mindwalk - It's a single, movie-long conversation between a politician, a physicist, and a poet. It's been a while since I've seen it, so I can't recall the particulars of the conversation, but remember it being entertaining in the way that only a good conversation can be--a hard thing to capture in a movie.

Minority Report – Thinly veiled theology.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Moulin Rouge

Muriel’s Wedding

My Neighbor Totoro - I see that several people have recommended Spirited Away, and I agree that it's a great movie. But this is the Miyazaki film that the Preacher needs to see. Preacher man, this is a film you will ADORE -- or I am no judge of character and taste.

Mystery, Alaska - If you like hockey at all.

Nazarene (Dir: Luiz Brunel)

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind - Miyazaki film

The Never Ending Story - I still get a little tight in the chest when I watch this one. Sigh.

Next Stop Wonderland - "I'm a temp. But that's not, like, a permanent thing."

A Night & the Opera – Marx Broth

Nights of Cabiria - Fellini's take on loneliness.

Ocean's Eleven (recent remake)

Paint Your Wagon

Panic Room

The Philadelphia Story.

Photographing Fairies - It is a fantastic portrayal of what happens to a Victorian photographer who gets proof.

The Pianist - I am mildly surprised that it won 2 Oscars recently, given that it only showed in the local "art house" theatre, but it is a haunting look at Wladisaw Szpilman's life (a famous Polish/Jewish pianist) during WWII and internment in the ghetto. The music still sends shivers down my spine.

Pleasantville

Plunkett & Macleane - a great highwayman movie.

The Point - an animated film from years ago with Ringo Starr narrating and a Harry Nilsson soundtrack.

Pollock -- Watched it one night when I was depressed, matched my mood well.

The Road to Wellville - Oh my gods, I love that movie. John Cusack, as a somewhat naive young businessman looking to cash in on the breakfast cereal craze coming out of Battle Creek, MI, gets suckered by a con man. At the same time, a man and his wife have come to the Battle Creek Sanitarium to "get well," which involves, among other things, sitting in a tub whilst a small electric current is passed through the water.

Ran - by Akira Kurosawa

The Rapture - Want to question whether or not to believe in a God who lets bad things happen? Watch this one. Anything with Mimi Rogers post-Tom Cruise can be counted on to be pretty twisted and interesting.

Rashomon - by Akira Kurosawa

The Red Violin

Return of the Secaucas Seven - by John Sayles (his first)

The Road Warrior

The Rocketeer - A classic not-so-super-hero movie about the good guys fighting the evil Nazi spies, but in style!

The Rutles

Rushmore

Saving Grace - is a lovely & very funny movie. Brenda Blethyn is wonderful as a middle aged housewife & fantastic gardener who turns to hydroponic pot production when her husband unexpectedly dies, leaving her penniless.

The Secret of NIMH - Probably the best animated movie I've ever seen. I've loved it to death since I was a little kid. The characters are -so- real to me. Your kids would probably dig this one too.

The Secret of Roan Inish Shadowland

Shakes the Clown - Okay, this isn't a must see, but is worth a look. Any movie that stars Florence Henderson as a slutty clown groupie is worth one viewing.Show Me Love – Lukas Moodysson

Shrek

Signs - even though I don't normally like scary movies. But it is scary in a Hitchcock kind of way. Its also the most authentically Christian movie to come out of Hollywood in a while, though no one seems to notice. Seems strange they don't since the main character is a pastor who quit when he got mad at God over the death of his wife.

SLC Punk - sobbed like a banshee

Sliding Doors

The Snapper - by Roddy Doyle, great scenes of Irish life

Sneakers The Spanish Prisoner - Steve Martin is in it, but it's not really a comedy. Super clever tho, with amazingly great dialogue.

Stargate - Gotta' love all this Egyptian mythology gone sci-fi.

Still Breathing - While all love stories are really predictable, not all touch me like this one did. Really made me feel good about people, too.

The Straight Story - It's pretty slow-moving, since it's about a septegenarian, but it's beautiful. He sets out on his lawnmower (since he lost his licence) to visit his brother with whom he hean't spoken to in years.

The Sting

Smoke Signals

Sunshine - by John Sayles

Support Your Local Sheriff

The Sure Thing

Talk to Her - fabulous and the music is great.

That's Entertainment (I, II, & III)

The Thin Red Line - Though it might be considered a little mainstream, it's probably one of the more under-appreciated war movies in recent memory. Truly stunning visuals and a very introspective look at war by Three Kings

Terence Mahlick.

The Third Man - The greatest suspense and mystery drama ever. Best camera work too.

Together – Lukas Moodysson

Tokyo story - Ozu's take on aging and disappointment.

Tortilla Soup - a modern mexican American family featuring lots of love and beautifully photographed food.

Toy Story II

Twenty Bucks - with Christopher lloyd, Steve Buscemi, Linda Hunt and more. A small,quirky comedy.

Umberto D - about an old man who is evicted from his apartment, a great neo realist film by De Sica.

Unbreakable.

Undercover Blues War of the Buttons - an Irish remake of a French movie. Absolutely charming.

The Usual Suspects

What's eating gilbert grape

While You Were Sleeping

White Christmas - Rosemary breaks your heart!

Who Is Cletis Tout?

Why has Bodhidharma Gone to the East?

Wit

Yentl - Made me think for days about men and women, power and faith, determination and commitment to one's dream.

Yojimbo - by Akira Kurosawa

The Zero Effect - "Are you telling me you can speak six languages and fly a jetliner but you don't know how to file a tax return?"