Hidden Gems

Hey Screened.com users,
 
At my dorm this coming semester, I want to start a regular weekly event of screening a movie.  I am doing it because my dorm always has many who don't have anything to do on weekends when they feel like "I should be partying..."  During the past 3 years I've lived there, the most effective way of getting people out and gathering together for something has always been watching movies, but the officer's board that helps plan programs can't use just watching a movie as a hall program.  So I'm planning to try organizing one myself.
 
Since my own will and desire to carry through with this lives or dies by the success I have and how many people actually want to come, I need to carefully pick movies that won't drive people away or lose their interest.  So I'm asking for help from you guys.
 
Give me suggestions for movies that people will want to come and see.  I'm trying to find things that are 

1. old enough that people will want to see them again (like Office Space)
2. An old or new classic that isn't overly shown or talked about so much that people won't want to see it again
   
3. A movie that is just plain fun to watch not matter what
   
4. A cult classic that won't drive too many people away who aren't already fans
5. Anything you know about that you think is awesome and that people should see

 
Bottom Line
Give me movies that won't be rejected by a very cynical but common sense using smart person like all of us here at the Whiskey Media sites.

This is my (personal opinion influenced) list so far off the top of my head:

• Drag Me To Hell
• Arachnophobia (a fun squirm inducing movie mostly forgotten)
  
• Darkon
  
• Stepbrothers (While I don't like many of the Will Ferrel improv-a-thons, I really liked this one)
• The Room
• Star Wars episodes 4, 5, and 6
• The Big Lebowski (not a big fan, but can't deny the following it has)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the old one)
• The Goonies
• The Breakfast Club
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

 
That's all I've got so far, I'm sure there are many I'm forgetting

The Big-freakin'-Lebowski. Also Rushmore, and Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

 As far as classic re-watchables are concerned.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas never seems to be shunned away and, for fun, can be compared in a double billing or at a later date to Where the Buffalo Roam.  Also, most of the people I know can watch Spaceballs on repeat (which would also be good to do right after you do the Star Wars Trilogy). 
 
If you want to try something few of them have likely seen,  Bubba Hotep is super quirky,  and suprisingly non-offensive to the general population considering the ultra-genre subject matter.

• The Day After
• Shawshank Redemption
• Life as a House
• Smart People
• Runaway Jury
• Bull Durham
• Dark City

• I Love You, Man
• Role Models
• Jackie Brown
• Clerks
• Panic Room
• Fight Club
• Se7en
• Fargo

I want to suggest L.A. Confidential. Its been kind of overshadowed in recent years but is a most-excellent film that is really rewatchable. I suspect that even if people have seen it, they haven't seen it in quite some time. Really, really great movie.

Distric 9 
Blade Runner 
The Thing 
Blow 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 
Up 
Wall-e 
IRON GIANT 
Any Scorcese gangster flick. Good luck with the club thing-a-mabob! 

Throw some war movies in there.
 

• Full Metal Jacket
• Apocalypse Now
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Hurt Locker

 
I think these fit your parameters, no?

I know it sounds weird, but I'm going to recommend Coraline. I watched it with six or seven friends when we celebrated my birthday this year, and everyone was entertained. It's vibrant and changes up enough, and it gets to be kind of unsettling. Plus, it moves at a good pace, so no one should get bored but no one should feel left out if they have to take a small break. 
 
Unless you just want to have a good party film, in which case I'd recommend Commando or Cobra. Both are hammy action flicks from the greats that are fantastic for their great scenes and fantastic for their horrible flaws. Really any movie that begins with "c" should do you well.

I'd suggest "The In-Laws" from 1979 with Peter Falk as an insane man who may or may not be an agent for the CIA, and Alan Arkin as his future in-law who gets shot at repeatedly and dragged around South America
"To Have and Have Not" from 1944 starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at their funny, sexy best
and "Black Narcissus" from 1941 which is another gorgeously filmed work from the team of Powell and Pressburger about a group of nuns who set out to create a monastery in the Himalayan pleasure palace of a dead prince who are slowly driven mad by the unceasing wind and their own carnal natures (and the sexy David Farrar who goes around shirtless a lot).

1. 
   Le Samourai is a great film.  Also, The 400 Blows, MASH, Casablanca, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Searchers, Raging Bull.

I would like to put my bid in for : 
  
(in no particular order)
1) The Usual Suspects 
2) Memento 
3) Heat 
4) The Prestige 
5) The Hunger 
6) And i cannot believe I forgot about Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Brazil 
Ronin 
Jackie Brown 
Alien / Aliens 
Evil Dead

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 
Kick Ass 
Pulp Fiction 
Slumbdog Millionaire 
Jurassic Park 
Heat 
 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
 
I got others...can't think though.