What are some of the most iconic movies ever?

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I'm thinking movies like The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, King Kong. Movies that everyone should watch, or at least everyone who aspires to be a member of the luminati.

And, please don't say The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.

No Country for Old Men

Godfather 1&2; the first two Alien movies; Taxi Driver; Full Metal Jacket; Citizen Kane; The Seven Samurai; first three Star Wars; Dumb and Dumber; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Apocalypse Now; first two Terminator movies; Die Hard 1, 2 & 3; Mad Max; Trainspotting; Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad; Carpenter's The Thing; Seven; The Zodiac; Fight Club; Serpico; Pulp Fiction; True Romance; Lock Pots and two Smoking Barrels; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The usual Suspects;

The Shawshank redemption, Good Will Hunting, Independence day

Anchorman
American Splendor
Close Encounters

AldousH got most of the rest.

It basically defined Will Ferrel's career and is accepted as being one of the best recent American comedies if not the best, whether you like it or not. Everyone knows who Ron Burgandy is, what he looks like and some of the lesser mortals quote his lines.

First of all, love the quote from How to Train Your Dragon, Delphiki!
Second, here are my picks:
The Cider House Rules
Good Will Hunting (yeah, I know, it's already been mentioned, but it's such a good movie)
Pride and Prejudice (am thinking about actually reading Jane Austen's books, not just seeing the movies)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
That's all I can think of right now.

Here are a few really good, iconic films. Nothing recent, but all really solid and worth watching.

"Wild Strawberries" by Bergman
"Rashoman" by Kurosawa
"La Strada" by Felini
"Chinatown" by Polanski
"The Battleship Potemkin" by Eisenstein
"Duck Soup" (Marx Brothers)
"Shadows" by John Cassavettes
"Sherlock Junior" by Buster Keaton
"M. Hulot's Holiday" by Jacques Tati
"Raising Arizona" by the Coen Brothers
"Citizen Kane" by Orson Wells
"Crimes and Misdemeanors" by Woody Allen

Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas

Metropolis
The Great Dictator
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Bicycle Thieves
The 400 Blows
Dr. Strangelove
Easy Rider
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Once Upon a Time in the West
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Blade Runner

Apocalypse Now, Rambo, Rocky, Goodfellas, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Scarface, Napoleon Dynamite.

If you look at the IMDB 250 or any of the AFI 100 lists, those are pretty good listings of iconic films. Here are my personal picks (for space reasons, I'm limiting it to 25).

-Citizen Kane
-Casablanca
-The Godfather
-Star Wars
-Gone With The Wind
-Ben Hur
-It's A Wonderful Life
-Singin' In The Rain
-Psycho
-The Searchers
-E.T.
-Jaws
-Some Like It Hot
-The Maltese Falcon
-The Ten Commandments
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-The Wizard Of Oz
-Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
-The Seven Samurai
-The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
-Lawrence Of Arabia
-Birth Of A Nation (controversial, but important)
-The Gold Rush
-Metropolis
-Rebel Without A Cause

Following is a list of must see films

Cool Hand Luke
Pulp Fiction
The Wizard of Oz
All 3 of the Bourne films
Resevoir Dogs
Out of Africa
Tommy
Moulin Rouge!
Chicago
Good Will Hunting
Predator
The Terminator
Star Wars (all)

Pulp Fiction
A Clockwork Orange
The first three Star Wars movies
The first Star Trek movie
Citizen Kane
The first Godzilla movie

1. Scarface
2. Godfather
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Mighty Ducks (for the kid in me)