Best Movies on Netflix: Watch Now, Although the service can be surprisingly accurate with its suggestions, it’s often still tough to find something worth watching amid the deluge of choices.
So we’ve taken the time to wade through Netflix’s robust catelog in order to bring you a list of some of the right now. Whether you’re into poignant documentaries or Scorsese’s latest mobster flick, our list has you covered.
List Of Movies
1.Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
3.Back to the Future (1985)
4.Marriage Story (2019)
5.Cape Fear (1991)
6.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
7.The Irishman (2019)
8.Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
9.V for Vendetta (2005)
10.Okja (2017)
11.Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
12.The Tigers of Scotland (2018)
13.Fire At Sea (2016)
14.The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
15.Fyre (2019)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Director: Mike Rianda
Writers: Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe
Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, and Beck Bennett
You’ve seen a zillion animated family comedy movies, but The Mitchells vs. the Machines is undoubtedly one of the best. Produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and originally made by Sony Pictures Animation – the studio behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – the film finds a father and daughter struggling to connect, and follows the family as the father decides they should take a road trip to send her off to college where she’s studying to be a filmmaker.Alongthe way, the robot apocalypse occurs, forcing them to work together to make it through. At every turn The Mitchells vs. the Machines is surprising. It puts in the work so that the emotional scenes hit hard, but it’s also wildly colorful and beautifully artistic as Mike Rianda pushes the boundaries of visual expression. On top of all that, the film is hilarious, bringing to mind the colorful comedy of Lord and Miller’s other films – most notably Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This movie will have you cackling and crying in equal measure, and it’s one of the best films of 2021 full stop. – Adam Chitwood
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
A beloved classic for people of all ages, E.T. is a sci-fi masterpiece that takes a gentler approach to humanity’s first encounter with intelligent life in the cosmos. Elliott (Henry Thomas) is a lonely boy who lives with his single mother (Dee Wallace), his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore). One day, when he’s exploring in the backyard, Elliott senses something watching him. Sure enough, an alien spacecraft on a scientific mission to earth has mistakenly left behind one of their own. Putting aside his fears of the strange-looking creature, Elliott works to help E.T. find his way home before the government can get a hold of him.
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
Genre: Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Stars: Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore
Director: Steven Spielberg
Rating: PG
Runtime: 114 minutes
Back to the Future (1985)
One of the most beloved and influential sci-fi of all time is officially on (As is Part II!) Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is an ordinary high schooler with a somewhat unpleasant life. He’s browbeaten by his principal at school, must endure the strained relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and beautiful mother (Lea Thompson), and sees his father pushed around by middle-aged bully Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty’s dad’s supervisor. However, when Marty’s eccentric scientist friend Doc (Christopher Lloyd) turns a DeLorean into a time machine, he inadvertently sends Marty back to the 1950s, just before his now-teenaged parents met and fell in love. Of course, his presence causes a stir, and it’s up to him to make sure his parents come together in the end or he will cease to exist.
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Genre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Rating: PG
Runtime: 116 minutes
Marriage Story (2019)
Although it opens on a couple describing all the reasons they love each other, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story quickly dispels the illusion: This is a story of divorce, of a couple coming to the ultimate realization that the futures they want are simply incompatible and the messy process of sorting out where they go from there. The couple in question is playwright Charlie Barber (Adam Driver) and his actress wife Nicole (Scarlett Johansson). Nicole wants to move back to Los Angeles where a new job awaits, while Charlie would rather state in New York. It’s the latest in a series of tensions, the one that finally breaks them, and the two lawyer up, marshaling their grievances as they divvy up what remains of their life together.
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Genre: Drama
Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern
Director: Noah Baumbach
Rating: R
Runtime: 137 minutes
Cape Fear (1991)
Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis each earned Oscar nominations for their roles in Martin Scorsese’s remake of the 1962 suspense classic. The brutal thriller tells the story of a vengeful ex-con who sets out to destroy the lawyer who failed to keep him out of prison for committing a series of rapes 14 years before. Mercilessly stalking the family of his former defense lawyer, the con puts them through the psychological ringer.
Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis
Director: Martin Scorsese
Rating: R
Runtime: 128 minutes
Burning (2018)
Working odd jobs while struggling to come up with an idea for a novel, jaded writing major Lee Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in) runs into a woman he grew up with, Shin Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo). She’s also working a dead-end job to stay afloat, but she’s excited to see Jong-su again, and the two start a fling. When Hae-mi returns from a trip to Africa, however, she has a friend in tow: A wealthy businessman named Ben (Steven Yeun). Jong-su feels an immediate resentment toward Ben, who has charmed Hae-mi. As the three spend time together, Ben reveals himself, little by little, to Jong-su, who begins to understand that behind Ben’s affable veil lurks something dangerous. Burning is an intense psychological thriller, one that touches on issues of masculinity, economic decline, and even international politics; it’s a Netflix film that leaves viewers thinking long after it ends.
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Genre: Drama
Stars: Moon Sung-keun, Chol Seung-ho, Kim-Soo-kyung
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 148 minutes
Bad Trip
Director: Kitao Sakurai
Writers: Dan Curry, Eric Andre, and Kitao Sakurai
Cast: Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish
Bad Trip is outrageously juvenile, and will make you laugh incredibly hard. The film is a cross between Jackass and a traditional road trip comedy, as Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery play a pair of friends who drive from Florida to New York so that Andre’s character can track down the girl of his dreams. Hot on their tale is Howery’s characters sister, fresh out of a prison break and played by Tiffany Haddish. But every scene in the film is shot as a prank, with unwitting strangers serving as the background and supporting characters throughout the movie. It’s silly and embarrassing, but also singles out how ridiculous some of the tropes in traditional romcoms are – like when Andre breaks out into song in the middle of a mall, surrounded by strangers with “WTF?” looks on their faces. And be warned, this is insanely R-rated. – Adam Chitwood
Da 5 Bloods
Director: Spike Lee
Writers: Spike Lee, Kevin Wilmott, Danny Bilson, and Paul De Meo
Cast: Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Norm Lewis, Jonathan Majors, and Chadwick Boseman
For his follow-up film after winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for BlacKkKlansman, legendary filmmaker Spike Lee decided to tackle the Vietnam War with Da 5 Bloods. The story is fairly straightforward, but the film is anything but. It follows four Vietnam War veterans who travel back to Vietnam to find the remains of their fallen squad leader—as well as a pile of gold they left behind. But they soon find that the wounds they carry run deep, and Lee uses the film to examine issues of family, race, and American Exceptionalism in striking, graphic ways. It’s absolutely thrilling and Delroy Lindo gives a genuinely Oscar-worthy lead performance. – Adam Chitwood