Best Netflix Movies Streaming Right Now. Netflix offers a wide array of movie streaming goodness, but sometimes the sheer number of films available can be overwhelming. Here, we’ve rounded up the 5.
US Netflix. While the new year is well underway, there’s no escaping that it’s still winter, and will continue to be so for a fair while longer. While the outlook continues to be grey and grim, there is a light in the form of Netflix, the streaming platform which stands in for a myriad of activities – from vegging out on the couch to date night (wink wink). The only problem comes when it’s time to choose a film from the platform’s bottomless scroll of ideas. To help out here, we’ve rounded up the 5. So, get the popcorn popping, fix yourself a drink and hunker down with our pick of the best Netflix fare currently available.
Directed by Henry Johnston. With Burt Young, Austin Pendleton, Lauren Ashley Carter, Tyler Ross. A comedy-drama, King Rat examines the possibility that years after. A recap of the 2017 True/False Film Festival. Hear New Tyler, The Creator Music In Aminé’s Vevo Film Becoming.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1. Director: Wes Craven. Years after being burned alive by a mob of angry parents, child murderer Freddy Krueger returns to haunt the dreams and waking hours of small- town teens in this spine- chilling slasher classic from director Wes Craven. The Secret Life of Pets (2. Director: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney. The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes. Schindler’s List (1.
Director: Steven Spielberg. The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. Gremlins (1. 98. 4)Director: Joe Dante. When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town. The Prestige (2. 00. Director: Christopher Nolan.
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life- long battle for supremacy – full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. Chicago (2. 00. 2)Director: Rob Marshall. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1. Chicago. Blazing Saddles (1. Director: Mel Brooks. A town – where everyone seems to be named Johnson – is in the way of the railroad and, in order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable.
After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west. Jurassic Park (1. Director: Steven Spielberg.
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. Midnight in Paris (2. Director: Woody Allen. A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Memento (2. 00. 0)Director: Christopher Nolan. Suffering short- term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman’s noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of photos to aid in his search and jog his memory, even tattooing his own body in a desperate bid to remember. Paris is Burning (1. Dvd Movie Chips (2017). Director: Jennie Livingston. A chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1.
Magic Mike (2. 01. Director: Steven Soderbergh. A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
The Blair Witch Project (1. Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez. Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind. Superbad (2. 00. 7)Director: Greg Mottola.
Two co- dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze- soaked party goes awry. As Sharon approaches her own wedding day, she returns home to Michigan to ask her parents how their love survived against all odds. I Am Sun Mu (2. 01. Director: Adam Sj. His hidden identity is nearly compromised when a massive historical exhibit in Beijing is shuttered by Chinese and North Korean authorities.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1. Director: Robert Mulligan.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression- era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Barry (2. 01. 6)Director: Vikram Gandhi.
A look into the early life of U. S. President Barack Obama. Spotlight (2. 01.
Director: Tom Mc. Carthy. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover- up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. Moonrise Kingdom (2. Director: Wes Anderson. A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Hard to be a God (2. Director: Aleksei German. A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2. Director: David Gelb.
A documentary on 8. Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu. Man on Wire (2. 00. Director: James Marsh. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high- wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. The Way of the Dragon (1.
Director: Bruce Lee. A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2. Director: Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in The Royal Tenenbaums with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary filmmaker, Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain. White God (2. 01.
Director: Korn. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.
Grizzly Man (2. 00. Director: Werner Herzog. A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2. Alaska. Lucky Number Slevin (2. Director: Paul Mc.
Guigan. A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city’s most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Breaking A Monster (2. Director: Luke Meyer. Chronicling the break- out year of the band Unlocking the Truth, following 1. Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins as they first encounter stardom and the music industry.
Hush (2. 01. 6)Director: Mike Flanagan. A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window. The Usual Suspects (1. Director: Bryan Singer.
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which begin when five criminals meet at a seemingly random police lineup. Rats (2. 01. 6)Director: Morgan Spurlock. A history of rat infestations in major cities throughout the world.
Captain America: Civil War (2. Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo.