I liked the Indian movies “The Namesake “ and “Slum Dog Millionaire “.
Also “I Am David”, “Frequency” and everyone says “The Lives of Others” is good. I haven’t seen that yet.
WW2: Kelly’s Heroes, The Enemy Below, Das Boot (directors cut)
The Great escape, Hell is for heroes,In Harm’s way, None but the brave, Run silent run deep,Paths of glory (ww1 really)
Check these 60’ish out: The Manchurian candidate, The Tony Rome movies,The Sand Pebbles, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Oceans Eleven,
Action types: A Fist full of dollars and its sequels, The Eiger Sanction, The Die Hard series, Aliens 1 and 2,
Anything by Akira Kurosawa for your foreign kick.
Kinda out there: The Ninth configuration, Eraserhead, http://366weirdmovies.com/, well let me think hehe theres a start