I'm not an expert in anime, but for starters I suggest watching the films and OVAs that are way shorter than the typical long low budget tv series, try staying away from tv series that are low budget and based off Mangas, other than a few specific ones that differentiate itself from the original with better pacing and directing. The ones that follows too close to the mangas has a lot of fillers, and the animations aren't really that great to begin with, so unless you have a lot of time on your hands, I suggest you go for the shorter and higher ratings animes, at least they have better animations to start with.
Here's a few that are good or decent that I've seen:
Princess Mononoke
Laputa
Nausicaa
Whisper of the heart
Grave of the fireflies
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Summer Wars
Ghost in the shell
Ghost in the shell 2: Innocence
Sky Crawlers
Evangelion (along with the end of evangelion film after, the ending for the original was pretty sloppy though amusing, the film gives it a "proper" closure)
FLCL
Rebuild of Evangelion (there's still 2 films coming out for this, so you could just wait until it's finished, watch the original series first, I liked it better than what I've seen from the new films so far).
Someone else could probably fill you in better with other tv series and OVAs, as my knowledge with animes only goes up to the 90s, I stopped watching them for quite some time.
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