Dogville - A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds her their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away...
Battle Royale - A group of students are sent to an island where they are forced to kill each other until only one of them is left alive. Everyone loves this movie. I thought it was good, not great, but everyone else might love it. Great premise.
Summer of Sam - Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City in the summer of 1977.
Raising Victor Vargas - A Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother.
Boxing Helena - David Lynch's daughter's first and only movie. A man is in love with a woman, whose legs he cuts off and keeps hostage in his home.
Elephant - Artsy movie that observes a highschool during a school shooting.