My recommendations
Just did a dump from my netflix rental history & picked out the good ones:
BTW: Drop BB and go with Netflix -- much better in my opinion, I've never been ass-raped by Netflix like I have been with Block Buster sometimes.
Das Boot [go for the director's cut; 4 hrs = good, 6 hr mini-series in orginal German = better, 2 hr original release = selling yourself short]
Stranger than Fiction [surprisingly refreshing for a Wil Ferril movie]
Breach
Extras:
V for Vendetta
Syriana
Fun with Dick and Jane
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: (7-Disc Series)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig: (7-Disc Series)
Brick [excellent modern film noir, even if set in high school... very edgy]
Memoirs of a Geisha
Gosford Park
Easy Rider
The Blue Max
Fly Boys
The Sand Pebbles
Mosquito Squadron [this movie was the inspiration for Lucas' attack on the Death Star]
Von Ryan's Express
Doom
Love Actually
Wedding Crashers
Drunken Master
Sin City
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Merchant of Venice
The Phantom of the Opera: Special Edition
National Treasure
The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut
H.O.T.S. [blatant t&a fest]
Reform School Girls
The Notebook
Key Largo
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Magdalene Sisters
House of Flying Daggers
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Hero
Myths and Logic of Shaolin Kung Fu
Raising Helen [bonus points because they mention Lutherans!]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Maltese Falcon
Citizen Kane
RKO 281
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Plan 9 from Outer Space
A Streetcar Named Desire
House of Sand and Fog
Soylent Green
GoodFellas: Special Edition
Amelie
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Amazon Women on the Moon
The Punisher
Taking Lives
Casino
Hair
Hellboy
Desperado / El Mariachi
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A Beautiful Mind
Office Space
The Godfather
The Manchurian Candidate (The original, not that remake abomination)
Secret Window
Horatio Hornblower [the whole series is excellent]