This is too hard, so my long list is:
A History Of Violence
Batman Begins; Bourne Identity, The; Bourne Ultimiatum, The; Brokeback Mountain
Children Of Men; Cloverfield
Dark Knight, The; Departed, The; Donnie Darko
Eastern Promises
Fight Club
Gran Tourino; Green Zone
Harry Brown
Kickass
Let The Right One In; Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The - (Purely out of sentimentality, and because it is one of my few childhood joys and memoried that some idiot director has not tried, and succeeded, in screwing in the last 10 years); Little Miss Sunshine
Magdalene Sisters, The; Memento; Munich; Mystic River
Pianist, The; Precious; Prestige, The
Scenes Of A Sexual Nature; Sideways; Station Agent, The
Taken
Venus
Zodiac
Sigh...The shortlist has to be:
Batman Begins
Bourne Ultimatum, The
Let The Right One In
Feel weird not to have included The Departed, but wanted LTROI in as its a horror that doesnt rely on cheap scares (though they can be fine) or young lasses running around in their underwear (though I have no objection to them either, quite the opposite in fact). But maybe I'm a bit of a hypocrite as my shortlist features films that felt more visceral than some of the more "worthy" selections.