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50 best movies to watch on Netflix right now
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Cleo works long hours in 1970s Mexico City as a maid in the home of Antonio and his wife Sofia. The couple have four demanding children, whose care is part of Cleo's daily duties, and they share the household with Sofia's formidable mother Teresa. Over the course of 12 turbulent months, Cleo witnesses fissures in her employers' marriage against a backdrop of social and political unrest in the city. The maid faces her own romantic woes when her relationship with boyfriend Fermin buckles- Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach directs this incisive and compassionate look at a marriage coming apart and a family staying together.
Oscar-winning drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Hustler Charlie Babbitt feels cheated when he is disinherited in favour of his autistic older brother Raymond, whom he hardly knows. Demanding a fair share of his late father's fortune from his brother's trustees, Charlie takes Raymond out of care and heads for California.- Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents the classic story of a wooden puppet brought to life in this stunning stop-motion musical tale. Animated family drama, with the voice of Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann and Finn Wolfhard
Action comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. After a shocking on-set accident, stuntman Colt Seavers is taking some time out from the movie game. But when the lead actor vanishes from a film being directed by his old flame Jody Moreno, Seavers is persuaded to help track down the missing star and finds himself drawn into a disturbing conspiracy.
Science-fiction horror starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. Working from evidence gathered from ancient cave paintings, a group of scientists embark on a mission to a planet millions of miles away that could hold the key to civilisation on Earth. But some on board have an ulterior motive for making the trip.
Romantic comedy drama starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. While in Tokyo to star in a lucrative commercial, jaded film actor Bob Harris meets the unhappy Charlotte, whose photographer husband is there on an assignment. Against the neon-lit landscape the two slowly begin to fall in love.
Horror thriller starring Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens and Alisha Weir. A ragtag gang kidnaps the 12-year-old daughter of a wealthy crime lord, intending to hold her for ransom. Holed up in an empty mansion, the group starts to be picked off one by one - and it gradually transpires that this cute young ballerina isn't all she seems.
Portmanteau comedy drama from director Wes Anderson. Following the death of its editor, a respected American magazine publishes one final issue, featuring a selection of classic articles from the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé: a cycling tour of Ennui; a profile of an artist serving time for murder; a report on the student-led "Chessboard Revolution"; and an anecdote about the dining habits of the local police commissioner.
Oscar-winning crime drama starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro. Determined young federal agent Eliot Ness leads a tough team of investigators in a dangerous mission to end Al Capone's violent reign of terror in Prohibition-era Chicago.- In this provocative political thriller, a close-knit family is torn apart as a new movement envelops the United States. Diane Lane stars.
Ethan Coen's action comedy sees two women cross paths with a group of inept criminals while on a road trip. With Margaret Qualley.- Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church. Biographical comedy, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce and Juan Minujín.
A life-affirming, genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Fantasy drama, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay and Benjamin Pajak
Romantic comedy starring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg. Thirty-something singleton Nancy is fed up with her friends' attempts at matchmaking. But when she's mistaken for a blind date by divorcee Jack, she decides to go with the flow. It proves to be a memorably chaotic evening.
Period drama starring Joel Edgerton. Born towards the end of the 19th century, orphan Robert Grainier spends eight decades living and working as a logger and railroad labourer across the USA's north west. Over the years, he witnesses progress, destruction, beauty and violence, and he experiences both love and unspeakable loss.
Supernatural adventure starring Paul Rudd, featuring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. The spook-hunting Spengler family joins forces with the original Ghostbusters, whose work is continuing via a secret research lab. When an ancient artefact is discovered and releases an evil force, the team must work together to prevent the dawning of a new Ice Age.
Period drama starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Florence Pugh. New England, 1860s: with their father away fighting in the Civil War, the four March sisters, each smart, strong-willed and with different aspirations, are brought up by their mother. Soon they are experiencing the joys and pains of romance, and an unexpected tragedy.
Sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson. A young software programmer is given the opportunity to spend time at the home of his company's reclusive chairman. But when he arrives he discovers that he will be required to be part of a strange experiment.- A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.
- Convict Ruth Slater is released back into society after serving a long sentence for a violent crime. She reluctantly returns home to track down her younger sister Katie, who she was forced to leave behind. Back in the place where her life whirled out of control, Ruth encounters anger, disbelief and harsh judgement.
Drama adapted from Emma Donoghue's novel, starring Oscar-winning Brie Larson. The mother of five-year-old Jack strives to make her son's life as normal as possible. But it's a difficult task given they are incarcerated in a claustrophobic space, the only world Jack has known since birth.
Classic psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Promising FBI student Clarice Starling is assigned to help in the search for the serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill", a brutal murderer who skins the bodies of his female victims. Starling seeks the assistance of Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, a sociopathic former psychiatrist held in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane.
Crime drama starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian. New Mexico gym manager Lou encounters bodybuilding drifter Jackie and the two fall in love. But Lou's criminal past, not to mention her violent brother-in-law, soon spell trouble for the couple - trouble only exacerbated by Jackie's excessive steroid use.
