Excellent thread ebryberndy, i've gleaned many good additions to my watchlist.
One movie I personally can recommend is A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers. As Barry Zellin said to Jeffrey Epstein, "run, do not walk and see A Serious Man, a film
by the Coen brothers." Do be warned that it is an extremely jewish movie, but rest assured that the Coen Brothers are masters of their craft and the movie is a consummate juvenalian satire of humans in general and ellis islanders in particular. 
A show I can reccomend is "Yes, Minister". It's a well-done geggy sitcom about Bongland bureaucracy.
I would give more recs, but I either can't think of them off the top of my head rn, or it's stuff most kinophiles are already familiar with.
Also I'm not sure why I'm getting Czechiaball. I'm an American using an American veep :P