My list would be.
Blade Runner: the question of what makes us human, and badass Visuals for the time.
Stalker: Well it is a movie that discusses religion, politics, logic and the need to believe in something. helped along by a quite haunting backdrop.
Alien: simple movie that managed to get alot across with very Little, Followed Closely by Aliens, what may be the most quoted movie, ever, and for a reason.
Evil Dead 2: Ok this is an odd movie, I have never seen a more funny horror movie, that really is a horror movie, it does not hold up nowadays, but it is still likely the horror movie which left the biggest impression on me ever, and yet could get me to laugh at the insanity.
Jurassic Park: To the 13 year old me, watching those moving Dinosauers for the first time was pure magic, a feeling that no movie have been able to recreate. It was also helped by some fairly nifty sound at the time. It is likely the overall best movie I have ever seen, acting quite high, it had humor, action, scares, calm, great Visuals, great settings, great sound, and while I would argue that the book might have been better, the movie held its own. I might consider this my favorite movie.
Terminator 2: outside of being a kickass action movie, the effects blew my mind back when I was a kid, oddly it still holds up fairly well. It was a hamfisted movie, with acting ranging from good to outright horrible. But it is the effects that left a lasting impression on me.
Akira (Counts right?): Mind blown, nough said.
Platoon: Hamfisted in its points, yet oddly endearing. I can not point to any single thing that makes this movie so important to me, it is almost horribly bad in its acting and story, yet there is something rarely humane in this movie, that I can not get out in Words, maybe an odd sense of Sorrow.
Grave of the Fireflies: Look above, then multiply by 30. the only thing that prevents this anime in breaking your souls, is that it is an anime. A horribly sad story made more so by portraying somethign very human. It helps that my folks simply allowed me to rent it because it was a cartoon, by a quick glance at the store, but for a 7 year old, it was so soulcrushing that I doubt I will ever get some of those scenes out of my head.
Jaws: Simple in its premise, yet it could plant an almost abnormal fear of going into Water where I could not see the bottom for 2 months. It still holds up fairly well (all apart from the actual shark they use).
Robocop: I am unsure if I should classify Robocop as a dumb sci-fi sction movie, or a warning of a corperate dystopia needed to be taken seriously. THe sick dark humor in the movie, almost started me more then the (for its time) extreme violence. The commentary of sociatal consumption, and corperate greed is still haunting to this day (and yes we talk about the original, nomatter what you say the reboot never happened! *lalalalala* "I can't hear you").
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