I only use the disc service (yeah, I'm the one!). Too bad. The wife and I were trying to get through the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die". Although, the truth is, Netflix has maybe only about 80% of them.
When I first got Netflix, I spent a couple years watching everything from the IMDB top 250 that I hadn’t seen. There were a handful of movies that Netflix didn’t have that I ended up getting (on VHS!) from the local library. I would recommend checking the library for your gaps in the list.
In fact plenty of the movies you and I have probably already seen ("Easy Rider", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "The Graduate" for example). So perhaps even before I began going through the list I may have seen 20% or so.
But there are also a lot of early films from the 1930's I had not seen, and plenty of foreign films. In fact, now that I'm working through the 1970's, "foreign films" is more or less the rule.
Sadly the foreign films are the ones hardest to find both on Netflix and at the local library.
