Ok, so I'm the nerd who keeps an Excel spreadsheet with 100 movies. I update the thing every time I watch a movie, and I save a new copy of the spreadsheet so I can keep the history. I call it the ever-changing top 100. Here's the current top 20:
1-Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
2-American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
3-Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)
4-The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
5-Life is Beautiful (1997, Roberto Benigni)
6-The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird)
7-There Will Be Blood (2008, Paul Thomas Anderson)
8-In America (2003, Jim Sheridan)
9-Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
10-Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
11-The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
12-Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
13-No Country For Old Men (2004, Joel and Ethan Coen)
14-Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
15-Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze)
16-Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
17-The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
18-Ferris Beuller's Day Off (1986, Jon Hughes)
19-Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
20-Never Cry Wolf (1983, Carroll Ballard)
(List updated 5/19/2009)