General Favorite Movies
Not necessarily in any order

The Lord of the Rings

Harry Potter

Mystery Men

Office Space

The Crow

Equillibrium

The Bishop's Wife

Butterfly Effect

Beauty & the Beast (Disney)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Batman Forever

Full Monty

 

Southern Movies

The Gift

Sling Blade

Outlaw Josey Wales

 

Holiday Movies

Christmas Story

Scrooge
the 1970 British musical

A Christmas Carol
with Alastair Sim

The Bishop's Wife

Nightmare Before Christmas
I watch it every Halloween

 

Melancholy Movies
I have a thing for sad lovestories with tragic love, angels and/or flawed, forlorn characters

The Crow

The Bishop's Wife

City of Angels

Butterfly Effect

Edward Scissorhands

Beauty & the Beast (Disney)

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Ladyhawke

Labyrinth

The Bride (1985)

Les Miserables

Phantom of the Opera

What Dreams May Come

The English Patient

Lord of the Rings
This is here not because of Aragorn & Arwen, but because I love Boromir, Wormtongue and Theoden (all tragic, flawed characters)

 

Angst Genre Movies
Movies about frustration, consumerism, alienation, government, society, etc. .

Ghost World

Donnie Darko

Falling Down

American Beauty

Fight Club

Office Space

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
This isn't really an "angst" movie, but it has messages about government & society

Fantasy Movies

The Lord of the Rings

Harry Potter

Ladyhawke

Legend

Labyrinth

Dark Crystal

Hawk the Slayer

The Last Unicorn

The Neverending Story

13th Warrior

Conan the Barbarian

 

Ireland Movies

The Quiet Man

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

War of the Buttons

The Crying Game

The Commitments

 

Tim Burton Movies

Edward Scissorhands

Nightmare Before Christmas

Ed Wood

Mars Attacks

PeeWee's Big Adventure

Sleepy Hollow

Beetlejuice

Dystopian Movies
A future where something fundamental has gone wrong.

Equillibrium

City of Lost Children

Blade Runner

Brazil

Dr. Strangelove

Fifth Element

Dark City

12 Monkeys

THX 1138

Clockwork Orange

Logan's Run

Zeitgeist Movies
Movies that capture the spirit of a particular time & place

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) post WWII

Hair (1979) 60's hippy culture

Saturday Night Fever (1977) disco 70's

Sixteen Candles (1984)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Office Space (1999) computers & cubicle culture

American Beauty (1999)

Fight Club (1999)

Bowling for Columbine (2002)