from the conquistador himself, as surveyed from our circle of friends:

"here is the list, in alphabetical order beginning with the letter l.... there are over 100 films with a depth and breadth that i am impressed with. most all genres and [recent] decades are represented; a few classics as well as some that you would never find on any critic's list."
... [the conquistador], currently of london, england

LA Confidential
La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)
Labyrinth
Last Picture Show
Leon
Little Otik
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lord of the Rings
Lost in Translation
Magnolia
Maltese Falcon, The
Manchurian Candidate, The (original version)
Matrix, The
May
Midnight Cowboy
Mission, The
My Cousin Vinny
Mystic River
New Waterford Girl
North by Northwest
North to Alaska
Office Space
Old School
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Perfect Murder, The
Pieces of April
Pink Panther, The
Player, The
Pulp Fiction
Royal Tennenbaums, The
Sandlot, The
Say Anything
Scarface
Seven
Sex and Lucia
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption, The
Shining, The
Silence of the Lambs, The
Singin' in the Rain
Sixteen Candles
Sleeper
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Solaris
Spaceballs
Spellbound
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Sting, The
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Swiss Family Robinson
This is Spinal Tap
Three Amigos
Treasure of Sierra Madre, The
Triplets of Bellview
Uncle Buck
Underground
Underworld
Usual Suspects, The
Vanilla Sky
Vertigo
Waking Life
Wave Twisters
Whale Rider
Wizard of Oz, The
Y Tu Mama Tambien
50 First Dates
Amelie
Art of War, The
Being John Malkovich
Big Lebowski, The
Big Sleep, The
Blind Date
Blues Brothers, The
Boondock Saints
Bottle Rocket
Braveheart
Brazil
Buffalo 66
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Caddy Shack
Cage aux Folles, La
Casablanca
City of God
City of Lost Children, The
Contact
Dazed and Confused
Delicatessen
Donnie Brasco
Elephant
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Ever After
Fantasia
Fight Club
Fog of War
French Connection, The
Funny Farm
Giant
Gone with the Wind
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
Goodfellas
Halloween
Home Alone
Hoop Dreams
House of Games
Ice Storm, The
In America
Jackie Brown
Karate Kid, The
Key Largo
Kill Bill


note: if you would like to submit additions to the original list, please simply add them via the comments section... 'twill become something of an appendix, if you will.