Not too long ago, a friend of mine posted an rather exhaustive list of his Netflix movie recommendations. As an avid movie lover myself, I felt it necessary to share some of my own Netflix Instant Watch favorites.

• Sherlock: Series 1 (featuring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch)
• Death Note: anime series
• Parks and Recreation
• Brick (with the ever watchable Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Star Trek: TNG
• Hoop Dreams
• Let the Right One In
• Raging Bull
• Downton Abbey
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Larry Sanders Show
• Robocop
• Midnight Cowboy
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• Ip Man
• The Bicycle Thief
• Arrested Development
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Network
• The League
• The Office (the original UK series)
• Before Sunrise
• Memento
• Mad Men
• Farewell my Concubine
• Precious
• Paper Moon
• Farscape
• Mother