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50 best films to watch on Netflix right now
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Animated fantasy adventure from the director of Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke. Sisters Satsuki and Mei move to the country with their professor father and soon encounter a mysterious forest sprite named Totoro, with whom the girls share a multitude of magical experiences.
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.
Comedy starring Lindsay Lohan. A teenager who has been educated at home in Africa by her anthropologist parents is sent to an American high school for the first time, where she soon learns about the "survival of the fittest".
Psychological horror drama starring Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine. As a child, Owen is isolated and awkward, but he finds a friend in fellow outcast Maddy, who introduces him to her favourite TV show: The Pink Opaque. This dark and sometimes troubling fantasy series exerts a strange pull on the pair, and the boundary between reality and the world of the show soon appears to blur.
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.- Houston, Texas, 1969. The triumphant moment of the first moon landing comes to life through the eyes of a boy with intergalactic dreams of his own.
Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Montana, 1925: ranch owner George Burbank meets and falls in love with widowed restaurant proprietor Rose Gordon. Though the two marry and make a home together, George's tyrannical brother, Phil, determines to make life hell for Rose and her sensitive son, Peter.
Historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh and Emily Watson. It's Christmas 1985 in County Wexford where coal merchant Bill, devoted father to five daughters but still troubled by a traumatic past, chances upon an imprisoned girl in freezing conditions when delivering to the local convent laundry. It's soon apparent this is just one part of a larger system of church oppression that threatens to blow his family life apart.
Satirical fantasy comedy starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. When blonde and bubbly Barbie experiences a series of sudden crises, she must leave Barbieland to track down her human owner and make things right. But the adoring Ken follows her to Los Angeles where he discovers something called the "patriarchy" and develops some radical ideas...
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.
Comedy starring Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton. Salvadoran toy designer Alejandro is struggling to make it in New York City, not least with his visa requirements. Things go from bad to worse when he is fired from his job at a cryogenics lab, but help comes in the dubious form of an eccentric and volatile art critic, whose deceased husband has been frozen at the lab.- 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
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.
