If you’re looking for the best movies on Netflix to stream right now, you’ve come to the right place. There are several thousand new titles on Netflix every single year, which can make deciding what to watch on any given night quite a challenge.
We are here to help with a massive list of all the best movies on Netflix. We will continue to update this post throughout the year as new movies start streaming on Netflix. We’ll also take movies off of the list as Netflix removes them. You can check the bottom of the post to see all of the movies we’ve removed over time.
The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Director: John Hughes
- Cast: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson
- Running time: 97 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “The athlete, the brain, the bully, the princess and the loner break through the social barriers of high school during a Saturday in detention.”
Bruce Almighty (2003)
- Director: Tom Shadyac
- Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
- Running time: 101 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “A TV news reporter (Jim Carrey) rants at God (Morgan Freeman) and is given divine powers for a week to see if he can do a better job at running things.”
Groundhog Day (1993)
- Director: Harold Ramis
- Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
- Running time: 101 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “Grumpy meteorologist Phil Connors lives the same day over and over after he arrives in the town of Punxsutawney for the annual Groundhog Day festivities.”
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Director: James Cameron
- Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
- Running time: 137 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “Two Terminators travel from the future to track down Sarah Connor’s young son, John: One machine is programmed to kill him, the other to protect him.”
A Man Called Otto (2022)
- Director: Marc Forster
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller
- Running time: 126 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “Enraged by the world and hardened by grief, a cranky retiree plots his own demise but is foiled when a lively young family bursts into his life.”
Austin Powers (1997)
- Director: Jay Roach
- Cast: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York
- Running time: 89 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “A swingin’ fashion photographer by day and a groovy British secret agent by night, superspy Austin Powers must foil the sinister schemes of Dr. Evil.”
Captain Phillips (2013)
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
- Running time: 134 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “Four Somali pirates hijack a cargo ship and hold the captain hostage, setting the stage for an explosive confrontation with the U.S. Navy.”
AKA (2023)
- Director: Morgan S. Dalibert
- Cast: Alban Lenoir, Éric Cantona, Thibault de Montalembert
- Running time: 118 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss’ young son.”
The Hateful Eight (2015)
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Running time: 167 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “Years after the Civil War, a bounty hunter and his captive are waylaid by a Wyoming blizzard and hole up in a way station with six dicey strangers.”
Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
- Director: Edward Bazalgette
- Cast: Alexander Dreymon, Harry Gilby, Mark Rowley
- Running time: 111 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “In the wake of King Edward’s death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.”
American Hustle (2013)
- Director: David O. Russell
- Cast: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams
- Running time: 138 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “In this fictionalization of a true story, a con man and his lover assist an eccentric FBI agent in exposing corruption in Congress in the early 1980s.”
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- Director: Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
- Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson
- Running time: 100 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “Shy teen Hiccup must prove to his father and his village that he can still be a viking warrior — even if he’d rather befriend a dragon than slay one.”
Kill Boksoon (2023)
- Director: Byun Sung-hyun
- Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Kim Si-a
- Running time: 139 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “At work, she’s a renowned assassin. At home, she’s a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That’s easy. It’s parenting that’s the hard part.”
Easy A (2010)
- Director: Will Gluck
- Cast: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes
- Running time: 92 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “When a lie about Olive’s reputation transforms her from anonymous to infamous at her high school, she decides to embrace a provocative new persona.”
The Hangover (2009)
- Director: Todd Phillips
- Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis
- Running time: 99 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “A bachelor party in Las Vegas spins out of control when the groom goes missing and his three buddies can’t remember the debauchery from the night before.”
The Woman King (2022)
- Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Cast: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch
- Running time: 134 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “In the 1820s, a battle-tested general trains a new generation of female warriors to protect their kingdom from a powerful foe. Inspired by true events.”
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
- Running time: 99 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “In the violent aftermath of a jewelry heist gone awry, tensions turn deadly for a group of thieves convinced there’s a police informant among them.”
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Cast: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe
- Running time: 139 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.”
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
- Director: Guillermo del Toro
- Cast: Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
- Running time: 116 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents the classic story of a wooden puppet brought to life in this stunning stop-motion musical tale.”
Bullet Train (2022)
- Director: David Leitch
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- Running time: 126 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “Five assassins board a Japanese bullet train bound for Kyoto and come to discover that their seemingly separate missions are mysteriously linked.”
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)
- Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
- Cast: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Matthew Duckett
- Running time: 127 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “Unhappily married aristocrat Lady Chatterley begins a torrid affair — and falls deeply in love — with the gamekeeper on her husband’s country estate.”
My Father’s Dragon (2022)
- Director: Nora Twomey
- Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani
- Running time: 103 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “A young boy leaves the city of Nevergreen and journeys to the mysterious Wild Island, where he finds ferocious beasts — and the friendship of a lifetime.”
Stutz (2022)
- Director: Jonah Hill
- Cast: Phil Stutz, Jonah Hill
- Running time: 96 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.”
The Wonder (2022)
- Director: Sebastián Lelio
- Cast: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy
- Running time: 109 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl’s supposedly miraculous fast.”
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
- Director: Edward Berger
- Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer
- Running time: 148 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches.”
The Good Nurse (2022)
- Director: Tobias Lindholm
- Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Running time: 123 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “An overburdened ICU nurse leans on her selfless new colleague at work and at home — until a patient’s unexpected death casts him in a suspicious light.”
Wendell & Wild (2022)
- Director: Henry Selick
- Cast: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Angela Bassett
- Running time: 106 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living.”
Doll House (2022)
- Director: Marla Ancheta
- Cast: Baron Geisler, Althea Ruedas, Mary Joy Apostol
- Running time: 106 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “A troubled lead singer of a rock band sets out to rekindle the relationship he never had with his long-lost daughter.”
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022)
- Director: John Lee Hancock
- Cast: Donald Sutherland, Jaeden Martell, Joe Tippett
- Running time: 106 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “Craig, a young boy, befriends the elderly billionaire John Harrigan. Craig then gives him a mobile phone. However, when the man dies, Craig discovers that he can communicate with his friend from the grave.”
Klaus (2019)
- Director: Sergio Pablos
- Cast: Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones
- Running time: 97 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “After proving himself to be the worst student at the academy, a postman is sent to a frozen town in the North where he discovers a reclusive toymaker named Klaus.”
Hustle (2022)
- Director: Jeremiah Zagar
- Cast: Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Ben Foster
- Running time: 118 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “After a down-on-his-luck basketball scout discovers an extraordinary player abroad, he brings the phenom back without his team’s approval.”
The Nice Guys (2016)
- Director: Shane Black
- Cast: Russell Crown, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice
- Running time: 116 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is a down-on-his-luck private eye in 1977 Los Angeles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a hired enforcer who hurts people for a living. Fate turns them into unlikely partners after a young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) mysteriously disappears. Healy and March soon learn the hard way that some dangerous people are also looking for Amelia. Their investigation takes them to dark places as anyone else who gets involved in the case seems to wind up dead.”
Rush (2013)
- Director: Ron Howard
- Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde
- Running time: 123 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “In the mid-1970s, charismatic English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) share an intense rivalry in Formula 1 racing. Driving vehicles that are little more than gas-filled, rolling bombs, Hunt and Lauda burn up the track, all the while pushing themselves to the breaking point of physical and mental endurance. Meanwhile, the women (Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara) in their lives can only watch as both drivers risk death with every lap.”
What We Leave Behind (2022)
- Director: Iliana Sosa
- Running time: 70 minutes
- Rating: TV-PG
Synopsis: “Following the life of Julian Moreno, an 89-year-old who has made a 17 hour bus ride every month from Primo de Verdad, Mexico, to visit family in El Paso, Texas.”
The End of Evangelion (1997)
- Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hideaki Anno
- Cast: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yūko Miyamura
- Running time: 87 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “NERV face off against the Eighteenth Angel, humanity itself, but in the end the fate of the world depends upon Shinji’s choices.”
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- Director: Taika Waititi
- Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby
- Running time: 101 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “A boy (Julian Dennison) and his foster father (Sam Neill) become the subjects of a manhunt after they get stranded in the New Zealand wilderness.”
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
- Director: Barry Jenkins
- Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
- Running time: 117 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together, but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.”
The Irishman (2019)
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
- Running time: 209 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “In the 1950s, truck driver Frank Sheeran gets involved with Russell Bufalino and his Pennsylvania crime family. As Sheeran climbs the ranks to become a top hit man, he also goes to work for Jimmy Hoffa — a powerful Teamster tied to organized crime.”
It Follows (2014)
- Director: David Robert Mitchell
- Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
- Running time: 100 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.”
Marriage Story (2019)
- Director: Noah Baumbach
- Cast: Scarlett Johannson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern
- Running time: 137 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a gruelling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.”
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
- Director: Noah Baumbach
- Cast: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman
- Running time: 112 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “Estranged siblings come together to celebrate their father and his work as an artist. Harold Meyerowitz’s children reunite in New York.”
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
- Director: Mike Rianda
- Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph
- Running time: 114 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “Young Katie Mitchell embarks on a road trip with her proud parents, younger brother and beloved dog to start her first year at film school. But their plans to bond as a family soon get interrupted when the world’s electronic devices come to life to stage an uprising. With help from two friendly robots, the Mitchells must now come together to save one another — and the planet — from the new technological revolution.”
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Director: Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
- Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
- Running time: 92 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen.”
The Power of the Dog (2021)
- Director: Jane Campion
- Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons
- Running time: 126 minutes
- Rating: R
Synopsis: “A domineering rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.”
RRR (2022)
- Director: S. S. Rajamouli
- Cast: N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn
- Running time: 182 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
Synopsis: “A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home. After their journey they return home to start fighting back against British colonialists in the 1920s.”
The Sea Beast (2022)
- Director: Chris Williams
- Cast: Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris
- Running time: 119 minutes
- Rating: PG
Synopsis: “A young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, turning his life upside down as they venture into uncharted waters.”
tick, tick…BOOM! (2021)
- Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús
- Running time: 121 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: “Based on the autobiographical musical by playwright Jonathan Larson. It’s the story of an aspiring composer in New York City who is worried he made the wrong career choice, whilst navigating the pressures of love and friendship.”
Here’s a running tally of movies that have stopped streaming on Netflix. We won’t always catch them right as they leave the service, but here’s when we took them off the list:
- Movies removed on June 6, 2023: Paddington, Mirai, A Silent Voice, Inception
- Movies removed on May 11, 2023: 21 Jump Street, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Bourne Identity
- Movies removed on April 4, 2023: It, Top Gun, Forrest Gump, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Movies removed on March 2, 2023: Zero Dark Thirty, Spider-Man 2, The Hurt Locker, The Hunt for Red October, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Casino Royale, Wedding Crashers, Rush Hour, Risky Business, Ocean’s Eleven, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Gladiator, Moneyball, Captain Phillips, and The Conjuring
- Movies removed on December 1, 2022: The Color Purple
- Movies removed on November 1, 2022: Friday
- Movies removed on October 4, 2022: 42, Blade Runner 2049, Boogie Nights, Catch Me If You Can, Dumb and Dumber, I Am Legend, Insidious, Mean Girls, Taxi Driver, The Terminal, and The Town
We’ll be back each month with updates to this list as movies join and leave the Netflix library. You can also check out all of the new releases on Netflix here.
