If the silent film version of "Metropolis" isn't an easy sell, I highly recommend the recent anime version by Osama Tezuka. I thought it was a beautiful movie and every bit as moving as the original.
The Matrix is also at the very top of my list, as well as the film version of 1984.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"