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50 best movies to watch on Netflix right now
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Musical romantic comedy featuring the music of Abba, and starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan. On an idyllic Greek island, young Sophie Sheridan prepares to marry the man of her dreams. But a problem looks set to blight the big day as the bride doesn't know who her father is. So Sophie sends out invitations to three men who might fit the bill, hoping to solve the riddle once her guests arrive.- A TV news crew is granted access to Stanton Wood reform school as head teacher Steve (Cillian Murphy), deputy Amanda (Tracey Ullman) and newest recruit Shola (Simbiatu Ajikawo) work tirelessly to offer hope and support to young men who have been abandoned by society and the system. These troubled souls include Andy (Douggie McMeekin), Ash (Joshua Barry), Jamie (Luke Ayres), Nabz (Ahmed Ismail), Tarone (Tut Nyuot) and Shy (Jay Lycurgo), who receives bad news from his mother that tips him over the edge. While Steve resorts to covert swigs of alcohol to carry him through a hellish day he will never forget, Shy spirals out of control, wreaking havoc in front of the TV crew
Horror starring Sophie Wilde. Seventeen-year-old Mia goes to a party where her friends bring out a macabre centrepiece - an embalmed hand that enables the user to speak to the dead. Soon after, Mia experiences visions of her dead mother, and as the visions become more and more disturbing, Mia fears she has let something in that means to do her harm.
Struggling to conceive, a couple in their 40s are almost out of options -- until a sliver of hope arrives in the form of their visiting step-niece.
Comedy starring Sofia Vergara and Jon Favreau. Brilliant but temperamental chef Carl Casper appears to have kissed his career goodbye after he clashes with a restaurant critic. But determined to work by his own rules, Carl buys a food truck and not only renews his passion for cooking but also reconnects with his family.
Sci-fi horror prequel starring Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn. New York City is suddenly attacked by terrifying alien creatures with super-sensitive hearing. Sam, a terminally ill cancer patient, and law student Eric are among those who have survived the initial assault - but how long can they remain alive when the faintest noise can be deadly?
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 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.
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.
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.- 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.
