3 Lists

With some prior thought and somewhat off the top of my head. 

26 Movies I Recall Referring to as a Favorite:
Kwaidan 
Heavy Traffic 
Coonskin 
Happy Together 
Walkabout 
Le Cercle Rouge 
Army of Shadows 
Seventh Seal
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
High and Low
Blade Runner
Brazil
Starship Troopers
Road Warrior
Alphaville 
Wizards 
Santa Sangre 
Heavenly Creatures 
Gomorrah 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 
A Prophet 
Subway 
Red Desert 
Henry Fool 
My Own Private Idaho 
Starman

Tentative Top 5:
Heavy Traffic
Heavenly Creatures
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Army of Shadows
Blade Runner

26 Albums I Recall Thinking of as Near Perfect or A Favorite (Post High School):
Converge - Jane Doe
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Split Enz - Time and Tide
The Kinks - Arthur
Mogwai - Young Team
Totalitär - Vi Är Eliten
Wretched - Libero Di Vivere, Libero Di Morire
ELO - Out of the Blue
Repulsion - Horrified
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction
Insect Warfare - World Extermination
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Fugazi - The Argument
This Heat - Deceit
The Knife - Silent Shout
Sepultura  - Arise
The Marked Men - Fix My Brain
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Prurient - Cocaine Death
Wire - Pink Flag
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bastard - Wind of Pain
Discordance Axis - Inalienable Dreamless
Coil - Scatology
Rattus - WC räjähtää