That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

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Movies:  Naked Lunch, Videodrome, The Doom Generation, Nowhere, Perdita Durango, Freeway, Donnie Darko, The Vanishing, Kiss or Kill, Cache (French), Criminal Lovers (French), Love & Human Remains, Identity, Jawbreaker, Kika (Spanish), I'm Not Scared (Spanish), Class Trip (French), Joyride, The In Crowd, The Nameless (Spanish), Public Access, The Mummy An' The Armadillo, Kontroll (Hungarian)

TV series:  American Gothic, Veronica Mars, Whistler

Got up early, found something's missing/ My only name/ No one else sees but I got stuck/ And soon forever came

I've found that all movies people say are lynchian never really capture that lynch feeling.

I think Donnie Darko is monstrously overrated. 

Here's a very odd film that I rarely see mentioned, by the director of The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer. It stars Rock Hudson in what I feel is his best performance. It's called Seconds.

It's about a wealthy older man who becomes the customer of a company that offers a service of replacement, faking your death by altering a person who is killed to resemble your former self, then doing radical head-to-toe cosmetic surgery to give you not only a new body, but a whole new life and career. It plays a bit like a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode, but has some amazingly surreal plot twists and striking noir cinematography. Really a study on identy and loss of self, which is it's main Lynch connection.

An under-appreciated, little seen masterpiece! Nominated for an Osacar® for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - by
James Wong Howe, and for a Golden Palm at Cannes. It's shown occassionally on TCM.

"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

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i thought John August's "the nines" emulated lynch heavily, especially with the ideolgy of identity crisis and multiple personalities; i also saw an Angelo Badalamenti influence in Alex Wurman's score...

 i also see much of lynch in another of my favorite film makers- Michel Gondry, atleast in their surreal imagery and esoteric plots...

i think someone mentioned veronica mars already; on some late show Kristen Bell actually said that the "Lilly Kane" character is reminiscent of laura palmer in the series ...

Uhm what about movies like La Cite des Enfants Perdus (1995), Delicatessen (1991), Les Diaboliques (1955) and Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960)?

They all, in my opinion, have some Lynchian themes and images.

Is it too obvious to mention LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD?

Yes, you're right, it is.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

I think Polanski is very similar to DL in the way that he integrates the surreal or supernatural into the everyday, Mr Silencio.

I fear this thread may have wandered off topic slightly. Unless there's some sort of delicious irony at work that I'm just not feeling, it appears to have mutated into Obscure Foreign Films You'd Like People To Know You've Seen. Tarkovsky's Solaris anybody?    

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Has anyone seen "Spider Forest" by Song Il-Gon? It's an absolutely beautifully shot film, with a storyline akin to Lost Highway, but not the same. A man wakes up in a forest and makes his way to a house to find a girl he finds very familiar lying dead with a man he does not. He pursues who he thinks is the killer who ends up knocking him out, and wakes up to the same thing again but with different consequences.

How the story unravels is just a joy to experience, although those pissed off with the ending of Mulholland Drive may share that impatience with this film due to it's open ending and lack of a full conclusion.

It's widely available on DVD now, and is highly recommended, especially for Lynch fans.