He seems to want to just want to fill his Netflix quere, so see if they have these animes thru them too.
I can't believe nobody said Serial Experiments Lain yet. They even have a movie out that starts out similar to it (but they turned it to some bizarre horror flick)
And only one person said Nadesico? That series is downright legendary for it's ability to go from funny to serious to funny again with such smooth transition.
If you just need to fill up your neflix quere of stuff, I understand, mine's on the low-end again. So let me show you some of the stuff that you might not have thought to look for:
The Weird Al Show (YES IT'S OUT NOW!!)
Night of the Living Dead series
anything by Akira Kurosawa
Vampire Hunter D (original only)
Battlestar Galactica (original AND remakes)
Highlander everything (even that crappy Raven-series)
Kung Fu
and about any old movie you can think about