After wpqx posting on his alternative arrangement of the AFIs infamous Top 100 american films list, we decided to do our own. All films listed are imo mainly american productions, thats why the country of production isnt listed beside each title (even if there were foreign co-producers).
So heres my five cents worth.

PS: I judge films always as a whole, so if youre surprised (and Im sure you are), to find some films in the list you think are a bit weird (or total crap), let me assure you, I think they are masterpieces, or else I wouldnt have listed them. I didnt just like certain aspects, while others were bullshit - no, while the films might have some (minor) flaws, they are nevertheless works of art that will imo stand the test of time.
But of course Im open for discussion. 

Now let the lists begin. 

1. Dead Man (1995 / Jim Jarmusch)
2. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968 / Stanley Kubrick)
3. Vertigo (1958 / Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Arizona Dream (1993 / Emir Kusturica)
5. City Lights (1931 / Charles Chaplin)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004 / Michel Gondry)
7. Fingers (1978 / James Toback)
8. Zabriskie Point (1970 / Michelangelo Antonioni)
9. Leaving Las Vegas (1995 / Mike Figgis) 
10. The Thin Red Line (1998 / Terrence Malick)
11. Stranger than Paradise (1983 / Jim Jarmusch)
12. Bonnie and Clyde (1967 / Arthur Penn)
13. Being John Malkovich (1999 / Spike Jonze) 
14. Groundhog Day (1993 / Harold Ramis) 
15. Mad Dog and Glory (1993 / John McNaughton) 
16. Twelve Monkeys (1995 / Terry Gilliam) 
17. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 / Wes Anderson) 
18. Notorious (1946 / Alfred Hitchcock) 
19. The Birds (1963 / Alfred Hitchcock)
20. Fearless (1993 / Peter Weir) 
21. Bringing up Baby (1938 / Howard Hawks)
22. The Gold Rush (1925 / Charles Chaplin ) 
23. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988 / Philip Kaufman)
24. The Wind (1928 / Victor Sjstrm) 
25. Shoulder Arms (1918 / Charles Chaplin)
26. Permanent Vacation (1980 / Jim Jarmusch) 
27. Monsieur Verdoux (1947 / Charles Chaplin) 
28. Back to the Future Part II (1989 / Robert Zemeckis)
29. City of Angels (1998 / Brad Silberling) 
30. Flesh and Bone (1993 / Steve Kloves) 
31. Paris Trout (1991 / Stephen Gyllenhaal) 
32. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992 / James Foley) 
33. Sweet and Lowdown (1999 / Woody Allen) 
34. Batman Returns (1992 / Tim Burton)
35. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993 / Henry Selick) 
36. The Shawshank Redemption (1994 / Frank Darabont) 
37. The Big Lebowski (1998 / Joel & Ethan Coen) 
38. Punch-Drunk Love (2002 / Paul Thomas Anderson)
39. Paths of Glory (1956 / Stanley Kubrick)
40. King Kong (1933 / Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper)
41. The Princess Bride (1987 / Rob Reiner)
42. Dishonored (1931 / Josef von Sternberg)
43. The Big Sleep (1946 / Howard Hawks)
44. A Perfect World (1993 / Clint Eastwood) 
45. Adaptation. (2002 / Spike Jonze)
46. Gerry (2002 / Gus Van Sant) 
47. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916 / David Wark Griffith) 
48. The Elephant Man (1980 / David Lynch) 
49. Chinatown (1974 / Roman Polanski)
50. Psycho (1960 / Alfred Hitchcock) 
51. Cast Away (2000 / Robert Zemeckis)
52. Monster's Ball (2001 / Marc Forster)
53. 25th Hour (2002 / Spike Lee)
54. The Wizard of Oz (1939 / Victor Fleming)
55. Now, Voyager (1942 / Irving Rapper)
56. Casablanca (1942 / Michael Curtiz)
57. Forrest Gump (1994 / Robert Zemeckis) 
58. Maverick (1994 / Richard Donner) 
59. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928 / Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner)
60. Lost Highway (1997 / David Lynch)
61. Buffalo '66 (1998 / Vincent Gallo) 
62. JFK (1991 / Oliver Stone) 
63. American Beauty (1999 / Sam Mendes) 
64. Ben-Hur (1959 / William Wyler)
65. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 / ?)
66. Rope (1948 / Alfred Hitchcock)
67. Design for Living (1933 / Ernst Lubitsch) 
68. Magnolia (1999 / Paul Thomas Anderson) 
69. Five Easy Pieces (1970 / Bob Rafelson)
70. Gattaca (1997 / Mike Niccol) 
71. Bringing Out the Dead (1999 / Martin Scorsese) 
72. Don Juan DeMarco (1995 / Jeremy Leven)
73. The Accidental Tourist (1988 / Lawrence Kasdan)
74. Judgement at Nuremberg (1962 / Stanley Kramer)
75. Rebel Without a Cause (1955 / Nicholas Ray) 
76. Eyes Wide Shut (1999 / Stanley Kubrick) 
77. Sunset Blvd. (1950 / Billy Wilder) 
78. Pi (1998 / Darren Aronofsky) 
79. Before Night Falls (2000 / Julian Schnabel)
80. Catch Me If You Can (2002 / Steven Spielberg) 
81. The Hours (2002 / Stephen Daldry) 
82. 21 Grams (2003 / Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu)
83. Dances with Wolves (1990 / Kevin Costner) 
84. Before Sunset (2004 / Richard Linklater)
85. I Married a Strange Person! (1997 / Bill Plympton) 
86. Smoke (1995 / Wayne Wang, Paul Auster) 
87. Pulp Fiction (1994 / Quentin Tarantino) 
88. Greed (1924 / Erich von Stroheim)
89. The Night of the Hunter (1955 / Charles Laughton) 
90. East of Eden (1955 / Elia Kazan)
91. Five Graves to Cairo (1943 / Billy Wilder)
92. Changing Lanes (2002 / Roger Michell)
93. Apocalypse Now (1979 / Francis Ford Coppola)
94. Dark City (1998 / Alex Proyas) 
95. King of the Hill (1993 / Steven Soderbergh) 
96. Sign 'o' the Times (1987 / Prince, Albert Magnoli)
97. Blue Velvet (1986 / David Lynch)
98. Heat (1995 / Michael Mann)
99. The Kid (1921 / Charles Chaplin)
100. Magnificent Obsession (1954 / Douglas Sirk)

Kicked out The Pallbearer at 97. and put in Frankenstein.
Kicked out Philadelphia Story at 100. and put in Magnificent Obsession.
Kicked out Frankenstein at 97. and put in Blue Velvet from 10. (Quita a fall, I know, but I hadn't seen it for over 4 years, and tastes change :-)) Put "The Thin Red Line" at 10. instead, after having seen it for the 4th time. A phenomenal film, it's in my personal overall Top 100 now.
Ok, just realised I had it already on 53., but oh lucky me, I discovered that I had forgotten to put Spike Lee's "25th Hour" on the list. So there it is now.