Best Movies on Netflix
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Definitely. Netflix has plenty of under-the-radar films that don’t get as much hype but offer excellent storytelling and performances. These hidden gems are often favourites among dedicated movie fans.
Yes, Netflix lets you create profiles with specific viewing restrictions to ensure kids only access age-appropriate movies. This makes it easy to stream family-friendly films safely.
Netflix uses your viewing history and ratings to tailor suggestions. The more you watch and rate, the better the system becomes at recommending movies that match your tastes.
Yes, Netflix features a broad selection of international films in multiple languages, often with subtitles or dubbing. This is ideal if you want to explore cinema from around the world.
Netflix regularly updates its library, so some titles come and go. If a favourite movie disappears, you can look out for it on other streaming services or check if Netflix plans to bring it back soon.
Bugonia
Comedy•Sci-fi•Crime•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Duration
118 minutes
Mickey 17
Sci-fi•Comedy•Fantasy•Action•Adventure
Overview
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Director
Bong Joon Ho
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
Duration
137 minutes
Mortal Kombat
Action•Adventure•Fantasy•Sci-fi•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
Director
Simon McQuoid
Cast
Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, Mehcad Brooks
Duration
106 minutes
The Hunt
Thriller•Mystery•Horror•Action•Adventure
Overview
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
Director
Craig Zobel
Cast
Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ethan Suplee, Teri Wyble, Ike Barinholtz
Duration
92 minutes
Along for the Ride
Romance•Drama
Overview
The summer before college, Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on nightly quests to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.
Director
Sofia Alvarez
Cast
Emma Pasarow, Belmont Cameli, Kate Bosworth, Andie MacDowell, Laura Kariuki
Duration
108 minutes
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Fantasy•Drama•Action•Adventure
Overview
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Director
Peter Jackson
Cast
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean
Duration
171 minutes
Eddington
Western•Comedy•Drama•Crime
Overview
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Director
Ari Aster
Duration
151 minutes
Enola Holmes
Crime•Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Director
Harry Bradbeer
Cast
Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter, Louis Partridge
Duration
124 minutes
Companion
Sci-fi•Thriller•Mystery•Horror
Overview
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.
Director
Drew Hancock
Cast
Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén
Duration
97 minutes
In Her Shoes
Comedy•Drama•Romance
Overview
Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives, the sisters face some complicated truths about themselves and their family.
Director
Curtis Hanson
Cast
Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Ken Howard
Duration
130 minutes
Americana
Comedy•Crime•Drama•Western
Overview
When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls into the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine.
Director
Tony Tost
Duration
100 minutes
Enola Holmes 2
Adventure•Crime•Action•Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends — and Sherlock himself — to unravel.
Director
Harry Bradbeer
Cast
Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Louis Partridge, Helena Bonham Carter, David Thewlis
Duration
129 minutes
The Batman
Action•Adventure•Crime•Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Director
Matt Reeves
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro
Duration
169 minutes
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Drama•Music•Musical•Comedy•Romance
Overview
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
Director
James Griffiths
Duration
100 minutes
Trap
Thriller•Horror•Mystery•Crime
Overview
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.
Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Cast
Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill
Duration
105 minutes
Sweet November
Drama•Romance
Overview
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.
Director
Pat O'Connor
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Greg Germann, Lauren Graham
Duration
119 minutes
Heat
Crime•Drama•Action•Adventure
Overview
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore
Duration
170 minutes
The Black Phone 2
Mystery•Thriller•Horror
Overview
Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
Director
Scott Derrickson
Duration
114 minutes
The Comeback Trail
Comedy•Crime
Overview
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.
Director
George Gallo
Cast
Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch
Duration
99 minutes
Downton Abbey 3
Drama
Overview
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
Director
Simon Curtis
Duration
124 minutes
The Truman Show
Comedy•Drama
Overview
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.
Director
Peter Weir
Cast
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Ed Harris
Duration
103 minutes
Us
Horror•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Director
Jordan Peele
Cast
Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Tim Heidecker
Duration
116 minutes
Silver Skates
Drama•Romance
Overview
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
Director
Mikhail Lokshin
Cast
Fedor Fedotov, Sonia Priss, Aleksey Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janušauskaitė
Duration
138 minutes
Unforgettable
Thriller•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Barely coping with the end of her marriage, Tessa Connover learns that her ex-husband, David, is now happily engaged to Julia. Trying to settle into her new life after moving in with David, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her forget her troubled past. Soon, Tessa's jealousy starts to consume her, and she will stop at nothing to turn Julia's paradise into the ultimate nightmare.
Director
Denise Di Novi
Cast
Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl, Geoff Stults, Isabella Kai, Cheryl Ladd
Duration
96 minutes
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Romance•Comedy•Drama
Overview
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
Director
John Requa
Cast
Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei
Duration
118 minutes
Train Dreams
Drama
Overview
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
Director
Clint Bentley
Duration
102 minutes
Inception
Action•Sci-fi•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page
Duration
148 minutes
Greenland
Action•Thriller•Adventure•Mystery•Sci-fi
Overview
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
Director
Ric Roman Waugh
Cast
Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Roger Dale Floyd
Duration
119 minutes
Blue Jay
Drama•Romance
Overview
Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
Director
Alexandre Lehmann
Cast
Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Clu Gulager
Duration
85 minutes
Twilight
Romance•Fantasy•Drama
Overview
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
Director
Catherine Hardwicke
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene
Duration
117 minutes
Prime Minister
Documentary
Overview
A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years in power and beyond as she redefined leadership on the world stage.
Director
Lindsay Utz
Duration
101 minutes
Nobody 2
Action•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller•Comedy•Crime
Overview
Former assassin Hutch Mansell takes his family on a nostalgic vacation to a small-town theme park, only to be pulled back into violence when they clash with a corrupt operator, a crooked sheriff, and a ruthless crime boss.
Director
Timo Tjahjanto
Duration
89 minutes
Civil War
Action•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller•Drama•War
Overview
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Director
Alex Garland
Cast
Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Duration
109 minutes
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Drama•Mystery•Thriller•Comedy•Crime
Overview
When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.
Director
Rian Johnson
Duration
145 minutes
The Accountant
Thriller•Action•Drama•Mystery•Adventure•Crime
Overview
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Director
Gavin O'Connor
Cast
Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor
Duration
123 minutes
Batman Begins
Action•Adventure•Drama•Crime•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Duration
140 minutes
The Beekeeper
Action•Thriller•Adventure•Crime•Mystery
Overview
One man’s campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
Director
David Ayer
Cast
Jason Statham, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson
Duration
105 minutes
Jennifer's Body
Horror•Comedy
Overview
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.
Director
Karyn Kusama
Cast
Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons
Duration
102 minutes
Madame Web
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller•Fantasy
Overview
Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.
Director
S.J. Clarkson
Cast
Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor, Tahar Rahim
Duration
116 minutes
Jurassic Park
Adventure•Action•Sci-fi•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck
Duration
126 minutes
The Hunger Games
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
Director
Gary Ross
Cast
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks
Duration
143 minutes
Top Gun
Action•Adventure•Drama•Romance
Overview
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Director
Tony Scott
Cast
Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt
Duration
110 minutes
The Gentlemen
Crime•Action•Adventure•Comedy
Overview
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Director
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
Duration
109 minutes
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Comedy•Drama
Overview
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Director
Taika Waititi
Cast
Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Rhys Darby
Duration
97 minutes
John Wick: Chapter 4
Action•Thriller•Crime•Adventure•Mystery
Overview
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Director
Chad Stahelski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne
Duration
170 minutes
Fight Club
Thriller•Drama•Mystery•Crime
Overview
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Director
David Fincher
Cast
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto
Duration
133 minutes
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Sci-fi•Mystery•Thriller•Action•Adventure
Overview
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
Director
Gareth Edwards
Duration
134 minutes
Hook
Kids•Fantasy•Comedy•Family•Action•Adventure
Overview
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith
Duration
142 minutes