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.
Inside
Thriller•Mystery•Drama•Crime
Overview
Mel is transferred from a juvenile to an adult jail and is taken under the wing of Mark, Australia's most hated criminal, and Warren, a soon-to-be-paroled inmate. The parental love triangle that forms between them becomes their doom.
Director
Charles Williams
Cast
Guy Pearce, Cosmo Jarvis, Toby Wallace, Vincent Miller, Tammy Macintosh
Duration
104 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
Nine to Five
Comedy
Overview
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house, they assume control of his department, and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?
Director
Colin Higgins
Cast
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden
Duration
110 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
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
Black Bag
Thriller•Drama•Mystery•Romance
Overview
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Cast
Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris
Duration
94 minutes
September 5
Drama•Thriller•History•Mystery
Overview
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Director
Tim Fehlbaum
Cast
John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, Zinedine Soualem
Duration
95 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
Accused
Mystery•Thriller•Drama
Overview
After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target, a young man must survive the night as the online witch-hunt arrives at his front door.
Director
Philip Barantini
Cast
Chaneil Kular, Lauryn Ajufo, Frances Tomelty, Nitin Ganatra, Robbie O'Neill
Duration
88 minutes
Fall
Thriller•Action•Adventure•Mystery
Overview
For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter’s expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights
Director
Scott Mann
Cast
Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mason Gooding, Jasper Cole
Duration
107 minutes
Drop
Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
Director
Christopher Landon
Duration
100 minutes
The Sixth Sense
Thriller•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Cast
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg
Duration
108 minutes
Troy
Adventure•Action
Overview
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Cast
Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, Brian Cox, Sean Bean
Duration
156 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
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
Veronica Mars
Crime•Mystery•Drama•Thriller•Comedy
Overview
Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
Director
Rob Thomas
Cast
Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Chris Lowell, Percy Daggs III
Duration
108 minutes
Calibre
Thriller•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
Director
Matt Palmer
Cast
Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran, Kate Bracken, Cal Macaninch
Duration
102 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
Nightcrawler
Thriller•Crime•Drama•Mystery
Overview
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Director
Dan Gilroy
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton, Kevin Rahm
Duration
118 minutes
Ma
Thriller•Horror•Mystery
Overview
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
Director
Tate Taylor
Cast
Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis, Corey Fogelmanis, McKaley Miller
Duration
95 minutes
The Blind Side
Drama•Sport
Overview
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Director
John Lee Hancock
Cast
Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Lily Collins
Duration
128 minutes
Boss Level
Action•Thriller•Sci-fi•Mystery•Adventure•Comedy
Overview
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
Director
Joe Carnahan
Cast
Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Annabelle Wallis, Ken Jeong
Duration
97 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
Apollo 13
Drama•History
Overview
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Director
Ron Howard
Cast
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Duration
140 minutes
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
War•Action•Thriller•Mystery•Adventure•Drama
Overview
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
Director
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Jonny Lee Miller
Duration
123 minutes
Fargo
Crime•Drama•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
Director
Joel Coen
Cast
Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, John Carroll Lynch
Duration
98 minutes
Leave the World Behind
Drama•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout. As the threat grows more imminent, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.
Director
Sam Esmail
Cast
Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Mahershala Ali, Myha'la Herrold
What We Do in the Shadows
Comedy•Horror•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Director
Jemaine Clement
Cast
Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Jonny Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford
Duration
85 minutes
Conclave
Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.
Director
Edward Berger
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati
Duration
120 minutes
Shrek
Animation•Kids•Comedy•Fantasy•Family•Romance
Overview
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
Director
Andrew Adamson
Cast
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel
Duration
90 minutes
Jurassic Park
Sci-fi
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
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
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
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
Mickey 17
Sci-fi•Comedy•Fantasy
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
Eurotrip
Comedy
Overview
When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
Director
Jeff Schaffer
Cast
Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Travis Wester, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jessica Boehrs
Duration
91 minutes
Godzilla Minus One
Action•Drama•Sci-fi•Horror•Adventure
Overview
In postwar Japan, a new terror rises. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?
Director
Takashi Yamazaki
Cast
Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Duration
125 minutes
We Don't Live Here Anymore
Drama•Romance
Overview
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.
Director
John Curran
Cast
Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts, Sam Charles
Duration
95 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
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
Babe
Kids•Comedy•Drama•Family•Fantasy
Overview
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Director
Chris Noonan
Cast
Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn
Duration
92 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
Black Mass
Crime•Drama•History
Overview
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Director
Scott Cooper
Cast
Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Julianne Nicholson, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon
Duration
123 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
John Wick
Action•Thriller•Crime•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Director
Chad Stahelski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan
Duration
101 minutes
The End of the Tour
Drama
Overview
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Director
James Ponsoldt
Cast
Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky, Mamie Gummer, Joan Cusack
Duration
106 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
Jungle
Action•Thriller•Adventure•Drama•Mystery
Overview
In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.
Director
Greg McLean
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Thomas Kretschmann, Alex Russell, Joel Jackson, Yasmin Kassim
Duration
115 minutes
The Time Traveler's Wife
Romance•Drama•Sci-fi•Fantasy
Overview
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Director
Robert Schwentke
Cast
Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Nolden, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston
Duration
107 minutes
Spawn
Action•Adventure•Fantasy•Horror•Drama•Crime•Mystery•Thriller•Sci-fi
Overview
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda. In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
Director
Mark A.Z. Dippé
Cast
Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, John Leguizamo, Theresa Randle, Nicol Williamson
Duration
96 minutes