Some good recommendations here...
Here's a few of mine, bearing in mind that I have a penchant for offbeat films and am not a fan of most Hollywood / action films at all:
City of Lost Children/ Delicatessen - spectacular French escapism from Jeunet et Caro
Harold And Maude - One of my personal top two ever, the story of the relationship between two radical outsiders - a 17 year old boy and an 80 year old woman
Naked (dir. Mike Leigh) - The other one in my top two - gritty, sometimes grim but also stunning - David Thewlis has never been this good again
Made In Britain / The Firm (the Gary Oldman one not the Tom Cruise one!) Alan Clarke kicks arse - he's also responsible for Scum. The films that first made Tim Roth and Gary Oldman's names respectively
The Butcher Boy - Excellent Irish film about a boy whose inability to deal with his chaotic home life turns him psychotic. Shares many actors with The General, which is also excellent
Anything at all by the legendary Czech animator Jan Svankmajer - the greatest animator of all time, no question.
Search For The Wrong Eyed Jesus - Part fantasy, part biography, amazing music. A glimpse into the real American south.
Anything by Bill Plympton - the greatest 2D animator of all time to my mind!
Dead Man's Shoes or pretty much anything by Shane Meadows - but I guess you know those by now!
Pink Flamingoes - Made for peanuts, John Waters has never done better
Clerks - Kevin Smiths' only masterpiece

I really could go on all day - so many films get made and then lost in the tidal wave of shite Hollywood constantly foists on us and the glare of the resultant publicity.
(rampants, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 13:00, 1 reply)

I quite enjoyed Delicatessen..

But overall something felt a little flat; I love foreign film but something was amiss with that one. Maybe I'm missing something :/

Naked was a very good film, havent seen that for some years now. I still chuckle at the thought of the "Why take the stairs when you can use the escalator?" line.

Good set of films.
(Lythium deals in lead, my friend., Tue 22 Jul 2008, 15:55, closed)