The Princess Bride

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Big Lebowski
• Inception

Edit: Can’t believe I left these out:

• High Fidelity
• Princess Bride

Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Because I haven’t seen it mentioned:

They Live

• The Fifth Element
• Big Trouble in Little China
• LOtR
• Akira
• Up

Princess Mononoke

• The Thing Carpenter’s version
• Shawshank Redemption
• Yojimbo
• The Seventh Seal
• Duck Soup
• No Country For Old Men
• The Naked Gun
• Back to the Future
• The Guest
• Shrek
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Blues Brothers
• Dark City
• The rifftrax version of Jaws
• Double Indemnity
• Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Hot Fuzz
• The Dead Don’t Die
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Free Solo
• In the Loop
• Evil Dead original
• Office Space
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Clue
• North by Northwest
• Brick
• The Sting
• Return of the Jedi
• Casablanca
• The Third Man

Most of mine are already listed but here’s a couple more.

Army of Darkness

Dogma

The Protector

Clue

Full Metal Jacket

One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest

Howl’s Moving Castle

Four Rooms

Pulp Fiction

• Caddyshack
• Animal House
• Goodfellas
• The Godfather
• Shawshank Redemption
• Schindler’s List
• The Shining
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Idiocracy. It was funny when it came out. Now it hurts.

Big Trouble in Little China

Princess Bride

Romancing the Stone

The Shining

Full Metal Jacket

Memento

• Airplane!
• Ghostbusters
• The Naked Gun (Already mentioned)
• Gremlins + Gremlins 2
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom + Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Great Dictator
• Forrest Gump
• American History X
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Rear Window
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Braveheart
• Highlander
• Resevoir Dogs (Already mentioned)
• Children of Men (Already mentioned)
• My Neighbor Totoro (Already mentioned)
• The Exorcist
• Rambo: First Blood
• Groundhog Day
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
• Scent of a Woman
• Predator

American History X and The Green Mile

No particular order. Also, it’s movies that I watched, can’t speak on essentials that I might be missing.

It’s kinda hard to make a list on essentials tho. Because your personal taste obviously plays a big role. I can’t see my girlfriend liking more than 10 percent of those…

Schindlers List

Gladiator

No country for old men

The grand Budapest hotel

The big Lebowski

The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers

Star Wars (the original one)

Requiem for a dream

Pulp fiction

The good, the bad, the ugly

The lives of others

La vita é Bella

All quiet on the western front (1930 version)

The dark knight

The Truman Show

2001: Space odyssey

Alien

7 Samurai

Princess Mononoke

Trainspotting

Boyz N the Hood

Scarface

The Godfather 1, 2

The Matrix

Clockwork Orange

Shutter Island

Kingdom of Heaven

Wolf of Wall Street

Honorable mentions because they are popular and everybody always talks about them (I like a lot of them, too. Don’t consider them essentials tho):

Inception

Interstellar

Fight Club

Harry Potter

Return of the King

Rest of Star Wars (whatever people consider the good ones at last)

Saving Private Ryan

Django Unchained

Toy Story

The Lion King