It helps if you start out watching an anime from the begining and one that doesn't have as many fillers. For example:
Hellsing hell yea
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu meh
Trigun awesome
Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. hell yea but preffered the 2nd GiG
Fullmetal Alchemist the first one i ever watched, still a classic
Cowboy Bebop not bad, didnt dislike it
Outlaw Star never seen but heard good things
Gungrave oh yea, loved the way they said BIG DADDY, and Brandon Heat is teh man
Rurouni Kenshin didnt appeal to me
Read or Die OVA loved it
Serial Experiments Lain wtf
Paranoia Agent again wtf
Tenchi Muyo! never heard of it
Samurai Champloo meh
Rune Soldier nani?
This is a list of good anime I've seen that don't have an ungodly amount of episodes and I have met very few people that hated them. Another good anime premiers tonight on Adult Swim called Bleach. Trinity Blood also airs tonight but I've never seen it so I don't know if it's good or not.
edit. Trinity Blood comes on at 12:00 a.m. and Bleach comes on at 12:30 a.m.
yea bleach is good but its ongoing and i didnt want to get into it cos of what happened with naruto, dont like waiting for the series to end..
seen a few movies tho and you didnt mention these (dont know why):
AKIRA.
UROTSUKIDOJI.
Casshan (& Caskern).
GitS2 Innocence
Hunter X Hunter +the 3 OVA's (which was a high second place in my opinion).
Saiyuki (for all the adults out there wanting an anime with adult humour lol).
Elfen Lied (again for people with a strange and warped personality).
but by far the best was that age old Anime called
DRAGONBALL Z