Best Movies on Netflix
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Frequently Asked Questions
Netflix offers personalised recommendations based on your viewing habits, but you can also use the search bar to navigate the available content. Check back to this page to see a regularly updated, curated list of the best movies on Netflix worth streaming.
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.
Tenet
Action•Sci-fi•Thriller•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia
Duration
144 minutes
Sinners
Horror•Mystery•Thriller•Action•Adventure
Overview
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Director
Ryan Coogler
Duration
131 minutes
Jurassic Park
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure
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
Dunkirk
War•Drama•History•Action•Thriller•Adventure•Mystery
Overview
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy
Duration
102 minutes
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
Tarot
Horror
Overview
When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
Director
Spenser Cohen
Cast
Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Avantika Vandanapu, Jacob Batalon, Alana Boden
Duration
92 minutes
Inception
Sci-fi•Mystery•Thriller•Action•Adventure
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
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Action•Adventure•Sci-fi
Overview
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
Director
Jon Watts
Cast
Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau
Duration
128 minutes
My Brilliant Career
Drama•Romance
Overview
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Director
Gillian Armstrong
Cast
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen
Duration
96 minutes
Wicked: For Good
Romance•Family•Kids•Fantasy•Drama•Action•Adventure
Overview
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
Director
Jon M. Chu
Duration
137 minutes
Prometheus
Sci-fi•Horror
Overview
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba
Duration
124 minutes
Death on the Nile
Mystery•Thriller•Crime•Drama
Overview
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
Director
Kenneth Branagh
Cast
Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Tom Bateman
Duration
122 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
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Action•Adventure•Comedy•Sci-fi•Fantasy
Overview
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
Director
Jon Watts
Cast
Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau
Duration
124 minutes
Batman Begins
Crime•Drama
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
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
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
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 History of Sound
Romance•Drama•Music•Musical•History
Overview
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
Director
Oliver Hermanus
Duration
127 minutes
Rams
Comedy•Drama
Overview
In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work together to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.
Director
Jeremy Sims
Cast
Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson, Wayne Blair, Asher Keddie
Duration
118 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
The Terminator
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Director
James Cameron
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
Duration
107 minutes
The Town
Crime•Thriller•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
Director
Ben Affleck
Cast
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively
Duration
125 minutes
Heretic
Horror•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Director
Scott Beck
Cast
Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Topher Grace, Elle Young
Duration
111 minutes
The Post
Drama•History•Mystery•Thriller•War
Overview
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts
Duration
111 minutes
Rush
Drama•Sport
Overview
A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Director
Ron Howard
Cast
Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino
Duration
123 minutes
Spit
Comedy•Crime•Drama
Overview
Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his back, he navigates a series of comedic misadventures, sharing with his fellow detainees the meaning of mateship and what it is to be truly Australian.
Director
Jonathan Teplitzky
Cast
David Wenham, Helen Thomson, Gary Sweet, David Field, David Roberts
Duration
105 minutes
Inglourious Basterds
War•Drama
Overview
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Cast
Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender
Duration
153 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
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
Hell or High Water
Crime•Thriller•Western•Drama•Mystery
Overview
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Director
David Mackenzie
Cast
Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Marin Ireland
Duration
102 minutes
Parasite
Thriller•Drama•Mystery•Comedy
Overview
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Director
Bong Joon-ho
Cast
Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam
Duration
127 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
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
Gladiator II
Action•Adventure•Drama
Overview
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn
Duration
148 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
300
Action•Adventure•Drama•War
Overview
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Director
Zack Snyder
Cast
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan
Duration
117 minutes
Promising Young Woman
Thriller•Crime•Drama•Mystery
Overview
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Director
Emerald Fennell
Cast
Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge
Duration
113 minutes
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Mystery•Thriller•Horror
Overview
One year since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the stories about what transpired there have been twisted into a campy local legend, inspiring the town's first ever Fazfest. With the truth kept from her, Abby sneaks out to reconnect with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, setting into motion a terrifying series of events that will reveal dark secrets about the real origin of Freddy's, and unleash a decades-hidden horror.
Director
Emma Tammi
Duration
104 minutes
A Minecraft Movie
Fantasy•Action•Adventure•Comedy•Family•Kids•Animation
Overview
Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve.
Director
Jared Hess
Duration
105 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
Talk to Me
Horror•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Director
Michael Philippou
Cast
Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto
Duration
95 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
Joy Ride
Thriller•Mystery•Drama
Overview
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Director
John Dahl
Cast
Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, Michael McCleery, Dell Yount
Duration
97 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
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 Fast and the Furious
Action•Adventure•Crime•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.
Director
Rob Cohen
Cast
Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Rick Yune
Duration
107 minutes
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Action•Thriller•Drama•Adventure•Mystery
Overview
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Director
Kenneth Branagh
Cast
Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Lenn Kudrjawizki
Duration
106 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
Jurassic Park III
Adventure•Action•Sci-fi•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
Director
Joe Johnston
Cast
Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan
Duration
92 minutes