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With the best Netflix movies, you may never have to leave the house. They'll provide hundreds of hours of entertainment, whether you're in the mood for action, comedy, thrills, romance, or education.
Fortunately, the streaming service is still constantly adding licensed movies. You can find everything from newer hits like "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" and "Wonder Woman" to older classics like "Jurassic Park" and "Apollo 13."
"Goyo" follows an autistic man (Nicols Furtado) who finds comfort and meaning in his role as a museum guide. With a profound appreciation for the masterpieces of Vincent Van Gogh, Goyo has enjoys a stable and familiar existence with a familiar routine. His world is soon shaken by newly-hired security guard Eva (portrayed by Nancy Dupla), who finds herself falling for Goyo and his uncomplicated ways. While they become fast friends, there's a spark between them that rapidly grows until it's consumed the pair in the familiar flames of romance.
Sophie (Frankie Corio/Celia Rowlson-Hall) is a young woman who looks back on a significant vacation she shared with her father, Calum (Paul Mescal), two decades earlier at a once-vibrant but now deteriorating holiday resort. As Sophie delves into her memories, she focuses on the precious moments spent with her father when she was just 11. Simultaneously, Calum grapples with the challenges of life beyond his role as a father now as he struggles with the cornucopia of issues plaguing him throughout his adult life.
Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) is a seemingly ordinary man who finds himself entangled in a web of deception when he pretends to be a professional hit man. Madison (Adria Arjona) is a woman with secrets of her own who enlists Gary's services. As their paths intertwine, the chemistry between them is undeniable, and a romantic connection begins to develop. However, their budding relationship is soon put to the test as layers of lies and deceit threaten to unravel the truth. It turns out no one has been telling the complete truth about themselves, after all.
"Godzilla Minus One" takes us back in time to postwar Japan for a thrilling mixture of emotional drama and destructive action. Chiefly, it follows kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) who struggles with guilt both over his military abandonment and his failure to fight during an earlier encounter with the giant lizard.
On his return home, he takes in and starts to build a connection with homeless woman Noriko Ōishi (Minami Hamabe) and an orphaned baby. When Godzilla looms over an already-devastated Tokyo, Shikishima links up with a group of veterans who are determined to stop the monster in its tracks.
Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) visits a couple known for their widely publicized, controversial age-gap romance. Berry's role in the movie is to portray Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), who ends up marrying the same man she was involved with in her 30s when he was only 13, now twenty years later. As Berry delves into the dynamics between Gracie and her husband Joe (Charles Melton), she discovers the frailties in their marriage. This journey uncovers a trove of long-buried secrets that threaten to break the couple apart.
Noah Baumbach, the indie director who was also half of the writing team that just blessed us with Barbie, made his name with movies like The Squid and The Whale. Here, we see a family on the verge of collapse. Frustrated father Bernard (Jeff Daniels) can't get his books published anymore, while wife Joan (Laura Linney) has been unfaithful and successful.
All of this finds its way to their sons (Owen Kline and Jesse Eisenberg), who have a very hard time adjusting to everything. A fantastic small story that gets all of its emotional beats perfect, The Squid and the Whale is still a great watch.
Netflix's 2022 version of All Quiet on The Western Front does the improbable: it actually earns a space alongside the 1930 original film. For those unfamiliar, the movie tracks 17-year-old Paul Bumer (Kammerer), who is compelled to enlist to serve in the Imperial German Army for the First World War. He enters the battlefield with a mind filled with propaganda but soon realizes his dreams of being an iconic hero reached too far. A tough and emotionally gripping movie that will make you uncomfortable and compelled to keep watching. It's one of the best Oscar movies to stream online with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes.
Director/writer Noah Baumbach is continuing to improve as he matures, as evidenced by his latest feature: "Marriage Story", released both in theaters and on Netflix. While Baumbach has fared well in fractured family tales before, this film stands out for deftly telling both sides of the chaotic divorce at its core. Of course, that would mean little without strong acting, and the leading performances of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver make the emotional trauma real for all watching. In short: watch to understand the meme of the film's stars arguing, keep watching to engage with one of the best Netflix movies.
Forget all of the Scorsese vs comic book movies debate, the only drama you need to know about in this conversation is how good the famed director's latest film, The Irishman, is. One of the best movies on Netflix is long enough to be broken into 4 digestible 'episodes' that are about 52 minutes each. And this crime thriller utilizes each and every moment to build suspenseful situations for Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino, with the latter portraying Jimmy Hoffa, a good friend of De Niro's character.
Breaking Bad fans have had it good. First, they got a prequel in the series Better Call Saul. Then, they got a sequel in this one-off movie, which follows Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after the events of the Breaking Bad series finale. Last we saw Jesse, he was driving off after being held captive. But breaking free is just the first step in a fraught journey for Jesse, who has to figure out how to leave his life behind and start over. Does this movie need to exist? No, but it's deeply satisfying to hang out with Jesse again and to see so many Breaking Bad cameos.
An adaptation of Thomas Savage's novel of the same name, The Power of The Dog is another film that Netflix can use to say "we're not all Adam Sandler comedies and big action movies." An intense western set in 1925 Montana, the film is focused on two ranch-owning brothers: Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George (Jesse Plemons). George marries Rose (Kirsten Dunst) who has sent her son Peter (Kodi Smith-McPhee) to college to study medicine.
Unfortunately, Phil's the mean-spirited and cruel type, and he loves to be meant to Rose and Peter. Stellar performances from the whole cast are heightened by the film's gorgeous beauty and a phenomenal score from Johny Greenwood (whose also composed for The Phantom Thread, among others). It's one of Netflix's latest Oscar-nominated movies.
This beautifully-shot black-and-white film gives director Alfonso Cuarn a chance to show a slice of his past. Taking place in Mexico City in the early 1970s, Roma focuses on an indigenous woman who serves a white family, as they all fight to survive calamity after calamity. From betrayals to natural disasters, Roma throws the kitchen sink at this family, and then tacks on the Corpus Christi Massacre of 1971. Emotionally harrowing, this Academy Award-nominated film (and one of the best dramas on Netflix) demands you watch with tissues or some other coping mechanism.
Black soldiers have fought alongside white soldiers for America in many wars, but come home only to find they have to fight for their lives in a different way. That's the message of Dee Rees' powerful drama, set after World War II. White soldier Jamie McAllen (Garrett Hedlund) and black soldier Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell) return to their small Mississippi town. Jamie's brother owns a struggling farm, where Ronsel's parents work as tenants. The two former soldiers begin to build a friendship, but the racist attitudes of Jamie's family and the community lead to a devastating confrontation.
A delicate, elegant love story that spans continents and decades, Tigertail comes from writer/director Alan Yang, an Emmy winner and co-creator of Master of None. Pin-Jui is a poor young man from Huwei ("tiger tail") who falls for a wealthy girl, Yuan Lee, but ends up losing touch with her. Pin-Jui jumps on an opportunity to go to America, but years of grueling work leave him a shell of himself and unable to connect with his daughter. When a chance to revisit the past comes along, he takes it, hoping to change his life into the one he always wanted.
Cary Joji Fukunaga directed Beasts of No Nation: a wartime drama based on the 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala. In a fictional African country, a war breaks out, which separates the young Agu (Abraham Attah) from his family. Now, he must navigate the war-torn country, evading hostile militia forces and coming face-to-face with senseless violence. This one's not just one of the best movies on Netflix but an original to boot.
Writer/director Aaron Sorkin brings his signature rapid-fire, sharp and witty dialogue to this story of the 1969 trial of seven people charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The star-studded cast is more than up to the task of delivering Sorkin's words.
When a young man with Down syndrome named Zak (Zack Gottsagen), he meets an outlaw fisherman named Tyler (Shia LaBeouf) who's on the run. Zak wants nothing more than to meet his hero, the Salt Water Redneck, so Tyler accompanies him on a trip to North Carolina to attend the Redneck's wrestling training school. All the way, care facility representative Eleanor (Dakota Johnson) trails the pair until she finds herself joining them on their quest, having learned that Zak's future at his home facility is a bleak one.
This thriller, based on Rumaan Alam's novel of the same name, follows a family on a getaway who find themselves in the middle of a world in chaos. While vacationing at an idyllic home in the middle of nowhere, a cyberattack destroys society as we know it. A cautionary tale of overreliance on technology and a terrifying vision of a different kind of apocalypse, this Netflix original is a big budget picture of what our future could look like should social order crumble in many of the same ways around us.
Genre: Apocalyptic psychological thriller
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
Stars: Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Bacon
Director: Sam Esmail
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