I am not talking about trilogy sets and that sort of thing, so let's not mention Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, etc...

What are the best DVD collection box sets? I'm talking about this sort of thing:

Controversial Classics
WB Film Noir Collection
WB Gangster Collection

What else should one look into getting? Are the Fox Noir DVDs in a box set? I only seem them as single DVD releases.

Since I don't have many boxed sets that don't apply to your criteria, the best I can do is the Stanley Kubrick collection.

I think everything else are trilogy/sequels sets.

Right now it's the James Stewart collection

Non-trilogy box sets that I own and enjoy constantly:

Wrong Men & Notorious Women: Five Hitchcock Thrillers 1935-1946
Alfred Hitchcock: The Signature Collection
Warner Legends Collection
The Martin Scorsese Film Collection
Martin Scorsese Collection
The Billy Wilder DVD Collection

Hammer Horror set!

Bruce Lee: 30th Anniversary Commemorative Edition (R2)
Monster Legacy Gift set
Mondo Cane Collection
Friday the 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Could've been better, but still gets enough love from me)
WB Gangster Collection (I just wish Eric Lax did the commentaries for all of them)

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Classic Comedies Collection
Errol Flynn Signature Collection
Cary Grant Signature Collection

Without drawing up a long list i'll chime in with the Herzog/Kinski collection - very good presentation all round from packaging to disc content etc IMO.

My complete James Bond collection

The only set I got like that was the Ultimate Disney Box, which came with the Ultimate Toy Box () and the extra fancy versions of Emperor's New Groove (), Atlantis (), Tarzan (), A Bug's Life (), and maybe another movie I am forgetting.

Hey. Speaking of box sets... that WB John Wayne Signature Collection, are those snapper cases in there?

I actually have only one non-anime non-trilogie boxset:

Akira kurosawa boxset(6DVD), Arte R2

Really good movie and good overall quality (good pq, good commentary...)
Nice box actually

Yes, and I am specifically holding out on it hoping they will convert them ASAP.

Alien Quadrilogy

Warners Film Noir v1, and yes the Fox film noirs are only available individualy, unless someone like Costco packages them as a set

The Antoine Doinel box and the Hou Hsiao-Hsien box. Both are examples of classy packaging of great movies.

Alfred Hitchcock: The Signature Collection
WB's Gangster Collection
WB's Film Noir
Criterion's John Cassavetes set
Martin Scorsese Collection

Don't know if this counts but Band of Brothers. Best set evar.

On a lesser note, the Super Troopers/Office Space 2-pack was the best pairing of comedy movies ever.

The Dirty Harry box set.

Hitchcock Signature Collection
Kurosawa Four Samurai Classics

Quadrilogy is an awesome set, but the packaging sucks imo. I wish I had the R3 edition - same content, better package.

Also to Band of Brothers, Wrong Men/Notorious Women, Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, The Toy Box and Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection.

The original Universal Monsters Collection: eight discs with Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera, The Invisible Man, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon on their own separate discs. The Monster Legacy Collections are okay, maybe even better as far as Bride is concerned, and are surely outstanding values, but I just hate flippers.
Also both Marx Brothers sets, the Ray Harryhausen fantasy set, and Band of Brothers, although if we're counting this then I'm also counting all five seasons of Babylon 5.

Anchor Bay's Herzog/Kinski Set. I love this set.

WB's Film Noir Box Set #1 is a close second for me.

Renier Fassbinder's BRD set from Criterion.