The mentioned thread on Hacker News. Below the list of movies in the order as they appear in the top level comments. All movies are linked to their TMDB page. I've also created a Letterboxd list.

• Groundhog Day (1993)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Arrival (2016)
• Solaris (2002)
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Pig (2021)
• Threads (1984)
• Cloud Atlas (2012)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• Dark City (1998)
• Midsommar (2019)
• Children of Men (2006)
• The Discovery (2017)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• About Time (2013)
• V for Vendetta (2006)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 
• Come and See (1985)
• 20 Days in Mariupol (2023) 
• The Ear (1990)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Earthlings (2005)
• The Zone of Interest (2023)
• Dead Man (1995)
• Melancholia (2011)
• American History X (1998)
• Primer (2004)
• Upstream Color (2013)
• White Oleander (2002)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The 6th Day (2000)
• The Birds (1963)
• Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984)
• The Man from Earth (2007)
• The Fog of War (2003)
• A River Runs Through It (1992)
• Yi Yi (2000)
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
• A Most Violent Year (2014)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Breaking the Maya Code (2008)
• Equilibrium (2002)
• Margin Call (2011)
• Moonfall (2022)
• Good Kill (2015)
• Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
• Inception (2010)
• Seven Days in May (1964)
• The Leopard (1963)
• Trudell (2005)
• Until the End of the World (1991)
• Into the Wild (2007)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
• The Big Year (2011) 
• Transcendence (2014)
• Her (2013)
• Robot & Frank (2012)
• Revolver (2005)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Lobster (2015)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• The Secret of NIMH (1982)
• The Truman Show (1998)
• Akira (1988)
• Contact (1997)
• Lilya 4-ever (2002)
• Alone in the Wilderness (2004)
• Predestination (2014)
• Shoah (1985)
• Autumn Ball (2007)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• UHF (1989)
• Dakota 38 (2012)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• Ex Machina (2015)
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
• The Holy Mountain (1973)
• Mr. Nobody (2009)
• Oppenheimer (2023)
• RoboCop (1987)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Click (2006)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
• Risen (2016)
• Open Hearts (2002)
• The Florida Project (2017)
• Waves (2019)
• The Man Who Never Was (1956)
• Under the Skin (2013)
• Syriana (2005)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Smoke (1995)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
• Peaceful Warrior (2006)
• Ran (1985)
• Eraserhead (1978)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Dersu Uzala (1975)
• High and Low (1963)
• They Live (1988)
• The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
• Aftersun (2022)
• Bokeh (2017)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Okja (2017)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
• The Notebook (2004)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• Annihilation (2018)
• Prisoners (2013)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
• Pi (1998)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
• Samsara (2011)
• Show Me Love (1998)