Deciding what to watch on Netflix can be a time-consuming task as there’s so much choice - there’s thousands of movies on there available at the click of a button.
We’ve trawled through the best movies on the streaming site, and found some hidden gems on there too for your viewing pleasure...
Call Me By Your Name
This dreamy and seductive coming of age romance has all the finest ingredients for a near-perfect film; Timothée Chalamet in his breakout role (for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar), the charming and suave Armie Hammer as his older lover, and it’s set in a picturesque 1980s Italy. Seventeen year old Elio (Chalamet) falls for 24-year-old Oliver, who is working as an assistant to Elio’s father and comes to stay at the family home. Heartwarming and heartbreaking, all at the same time.
Baby Driver
The ‘Baby’ of the film’s title is a baby-faced getaway driver with a knack for handbrake turns, good music and jaw-droppingly impressive moves on four wheels, played by Ansel Elgort. A car crash killed Baby’s parents when he was young, and the accident left him suffering from tinnitus, which is relieved by a constant stream in his ears from his iPod. He’s employed by a local crime boss, who’s making him pay off a longstanding debt for stealing a car by being the designated driver on his heists - and he’s almost all paid up. But leaving the murky world of crime is never that straightforward.
Pick Of The Litter
Less a movie, more of an 80 minute feature (which bills itself as a ‘dog-umentary’) featuring a load of cute pooches. What more could you possibly want? It’s like an X Factor for pooches, as it follows a litter of five labrador puppies on their paths to become guide dogs for the blind. Not all will make it as a working dog, but they’re all very good boys (and girls) in our eyes.
Easy A
This often overlooked classic teen comedy stars Emma Stone well before the bright lights and Oscars of La La Land, aka before she went stratospheric. The humorous high school tale following Stone’s character Olive, who pretends to have a secret boyfriend to boost her popularity. Before long, she’s helping other school outcasts to become more popular by pretending to have slept with them too - but at what cost? Soon she’s gained a bit of a reputation. Easy A is packed with brilliant one-liners deserving as much over exposure as any Mean Girls quote.
The Hunger Games
Jennifer Lawrence kicks an impressive amount of ass in the dystopian thrillers as our heroine Katniss Everdeen, and all four films are on Netflix so you can watch them all in one go. Katniss takes on the establishment, she’s not taking any nonsense from anyone in Panem, not least from the Capitol, even when they pit her against her friends in brutal to-the-death challenges. One of the best franchises of all time - as are the three Suzanne Collins novels the films are based on.
A Bad Moms Christmas
The best Christmas film, hands down and I’ll not hear a word to the contrary. Not least because it stars Christine Baranski in one of her most iconic roles as the snooty, sassy and spiky one-liner deliverer Ruth, the ghastly mother of Mila Kunis’ character. The story follows three women who unexpectedly end up spending the holidays with their mothers, and chaos ensues. A brilliant cast in the shape of Kristen Bell, Susan Sarandon and Kathryn Hahn, and a hilarious, good fun film, all year round - a gentle but firm reminder that Christine Baranski is for life, not just for Christmas.
Bridesmaids
An evergreen classic and the film that flung Kristen Wiig’s character Annie into the meme world thanks to an eventful plane journey, Bridesmaids is always a delight to dive back into. Wiig - who also co-wrote the film as well as starring in it - plays Annie, who’s having a real time of it in love, work and life, generally. She’s asked to be her friend Lillian’s maid of honour, and when she meets the gang of bridesmaids, even more chaos ensues. But it’s laugh out loud chaos, and Melissa McCarthy is outstanding as Megan, the groom’s sister. The cast is a real Hollywood comedy roll call - as well as Kristen, Maya and Melissa, there’s Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper and Chris O’Dowd.
Dumplin'
Jennifer Aniston plays a beauty-queen-turned-beauty-queen-judge, and mother to the superb Danielle Macdonald, who plays her daughter, Willowdean AKA Dumplin, a big Dolly Parton fan. While Rosie (Aniston) loves the ridiculous pageantry of the beauty queen circuit, dwelling on past glories and her local celebrity status, Will finds it ridiculous, and grows to resent her mother’s obsession with such shallow endeavours. But Will is soon driven to sign up to the Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant to make a point, much to her mother’s ire. A film that’s as comforting and toasty as a hot water bottle.
Carol
Set in New York in the 1950s, Carol is a beautifully opulent tale of forbidden love. The iconic Cate Blanchett plays glamorous but unhappy divorcee Carol, who meets Therese (Rooney Mara), an aspiring photographer moonlighting as a sales assistant in a department store, where she’s buying her young son Rindy a Christmas gift. But the path of true love never ran smoothly, now, did it? Carol is seductive, swoonsome and truly superb.
Blade Runner 2049
The 2017 follow up to Ridley Scott’s Eighties dystopian sci-fi masterpiece is a triumph laced with the added bonuses of stunning visuals and Ryan Gosling. Ryan plays a bioengineered human known as a replicant, who’s tasked with hunting down fellow androids who’ve gone rogue and killing them. But he soon begins to have doubts about his world, and there’s more - and less - humanity to it than meets the eye.
Burlesque
One of the most culturally significant so-bad-it’s-good films of recent times, Burlesque’s over-the-top storyline and cast have made it a real cult camp classic. Christina Aguilera plays Ali, a singer who wants to make it to the big time in LA in a burlesque nightclub, run by Tess, played by actual Cher. Full of one liners to commit to memory and incredible scenes, the razzle dazzle of Burlesque is loud, proud and truly iconic.
Girls Trip
If you liked Bridesmaids, you’ll love Girls Trip even more. A group of longtime best friends reconnect and rekindle their relationship on a trip of a lifetime holiday to New Orleans - and while their time there is as wild and boorish as you’d imagine, it’s a particularly touching tale of true friendship too. Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Regina Hall star, with Tiffany Haddish the true stand out. Haddish is a true force of nature, and is possibly the funniest person on the planet. Worth watching for her performance alone.
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