BBK- "Blazing Saddles (not very easy child, but funny nonetheless)"
husband & I were talking about that (from our Aussie point of view) - the use of what I now know has to be called "the n word" could perhaps still be considered easy child, because those in the film using the word are the ones clearly, obviously depicted as racist.
Unless you're referring to the Lily von Shtupp bit, or the governor and his secretary?
We love it, anyway.
We don't hire films, we buy them. Hiring rates here are sometimes a bit steep, because we're so geographically isolated, our local video hire shop is small and we've already seen most of what they have.
But some of our favourites have been hard to acquire, with the various different regions (grrr...).
Family favourites - the classics, including "Arsenic & Old Lace", classic Hitchcock such as "The Birds", anything by Mel Brooks, most musicals ("Chicago", "The Producers", Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, "Oklahoma", anything by Lloyd Webber). "Flying High" and sequels.
Other favourites - anything with Johnny Depp in it (easy child 2/difficult child 2 especially) such as "From Hell", "Finding Neverland", "Edward Scissorhands" and of course "Pirates of the Caribbean". "Ed Wood" is fabulously surreal - watch it as a double with "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
Science fiction - "The Andromeda Strain" and other films based on Michael Crichton's books such as "Jurassic Park", "2001" and the subsequent films, "Apollo 13", classics such as "Forbidden Planet", "Metropolis" (very old - German silent film), "Flash Gordon" (the one with the Queen soundtrack).
Mini-series - "From the Earth to the Moon" should be compulsory watching for every US citizen and every world citizen with ANY interest in the space race, which should be everybody; "I, Claudius" (British mini-series from mid-70s about the Caesars of Rome, from the young days of Augustus to just before Nero - brilliant cast, fabulous acting, very detailed and machiavellian); and documentaries by David Suzuki, David Attenborough, anything by Robert Winston.
There's lots of other stuff too, that's just a start. A mini-series great for a touch of the horrors at politics would be "House of Cards" - another British mini-series, like a British version of West Wing only much darker, the twisted, seamy side of politics. The closest you can get to a horror version of West Wing. But absolutely brilliant - mesmerising, like watching a cobra sneak up on a mongoose.
That should keep you going for a while.
Marg