We get it, there are a lot of good movies on Netflix; so much so that deciding on just one is no easy task and we end up spending an hour going through our queues and every random genre in the streaming giant’s massive library. To make the most out of our streaming time and maximize our movie-watching time and prevent ourselves from getting caught in the infinite abyss, we’ve put together a list of the best movies on Netflix, with a little something for everyone.
But you may want to get on these movies sooner rather than later before they end up on the list of titles leaving Netflix. Let’s take a look at some of the best movies to watch for anyone with a Netflix subscription as of January 2023. But remember to check back later in the month as there is always something new on Netflix worth checking out.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
In the follow-up to his 2019 whodunit, Rian Johnson introduces audiences to a new set of characters, an exotic location, and a multi-layered murder mystery that can only be solved by Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the first of at least two movies in the franchise exclusive to Netflix, is full of thrills, chills, and hilarity around every corner.
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The Raid 2 (2014)
Gareth Evans’ 2014 crime epic The Raid 2 picks up almost immediately after the events of the filmmaker’s 2012 instant classic, The Raid, further expanding the story of elite police officer Rama (Iko Uwais) as he goes undercover to bring down a powerful and dangerous crime syndicate in one of the best action movies of the past decade.
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The Burbs (1989)
After starting a week-long staycation, overworked Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) does what any 30-something would do with an overdue break from the nine-to-five – he becomes obsessed with his strange and reclusive neighbors. Joe Dante’s The Burbs doesn’t only feature one of the best of Hanks’ performances, it also features what could possibly be his best on-screen meltdown.
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Top Gun (1986)
Decades before Top Gun: Maverick became one of the biggest movies of 2022, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) took flight in Tony Scott’s 1986 classic, Top Gun. Invited to attend a prestigious competition for Navy pilots, the skilled yet cocky fighter pilot goes up against some of the best dogfighters in the world while also dealing with his own personal issues.
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Parenthood (1989)
In 1989, Ron Howard directed the star-studded dramedy Parenthood, a movie centering on Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) as he tries to make sense of his children and his own parenting decisions while also trying to be supportive for his various siblings and their own issues. Rick Moranis, Diane Wiest, Keanu Reeves, and a young Joaquin Phoenix costar in this beloved family dramedy.
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Prisoners (2013)
Several years before Denis Villeneuve was expanding the Blade Runner and Dune universes, he found success with the 2013 psychological crime thriller Prisoners. The movie, which stars Hugh Jackman as a father frantically searching for his missing daughter and Jake Gyllenhaal as the detective on the case, dives into the darkest corners of the human psyche to create a tense and terrifying drama with an even more twisted ending.
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Told over the course of several decades, Ang Lee’s neo-Western Brokeback Mountain explores love, loss, and sexual identity through the story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), two sheepherders who fall for one another deep in the Wyoming wilderness. The groundbreaking movie went on to receive eight Academy Award nominations, winning three including Best Director for Lee.
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Jerry Maguire (1996)
Released in 1996, Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire manages to blend the romantic comedy and sports drama genres without feeling overstuffed or neglecting one aspect of the story for another. Throughout the movie, Tom Cruise’s titular character faces struggles at his sports agency thanks to a needy client (Cuba Gooding Jr. in an Oscar-winning performance) while also finding love with a single mother (Renee Zellweger).
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Grease (1978)
The 1978 musical Grease follows Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) as the T-Bird and transplant from Australia as their summer romance is put to the ultimate test during their senior year at Rydell High School. With one iconic song after another, and some great cinematic moments, millions remain hopelessly devoted to this adaptation of the 1971 stage production of the same name.
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Forrest Gump (1994)
Tom Hanks, in his second consecutive Oscar-winning performance, takes on the role of the titular character in Robert Zemeckis’ sprawling drama Forrest Gump. From his formative days in Greenbow, through the Vietnam War, days as a shrimp boat captain, and a much-covered run crossing the country multiple times, Forrest’s epic story is told in great detail.
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Minority Report (2002)
Steven Spielberg’s flashy adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report follows Tom Cruise’s John Anderton, a precrime officer who finds himself on the opposite side of the law after he is falsely accused of committing a murder in the future, forcing him to go on the run and prove his innocence before it’s too late.
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The Rocky Movies (1976 — 1990)
In 1976, a little movie titled Rocky was released in theaters and went on to launch one of the biggest sports movies franchises of all time. Centering on Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa, the movies follow the skilled boxer as he goes from a relative nobody to a major force in the world of professional fighting. Facing off with legendary opponents like Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), Clubber Lang (Mr. T), and Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), Rocky just keeps rolling with the punches.
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Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Now a detective in her own right, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) is given her first major case: a matchstick girl who has gone missing in Victorian era London. With the help of her older brother, Sherlock (Henry Cavill), the young sleuth attempts to get to the bottom of a vast criminal conspiracy (and matters of the heart) in the wonder Enola Holmes 2.
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21 Jump Street (2012)
Rookie cops Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Greg Junk (Channing Tatum) are given their first major assignment in 21 Jump Street: an undercover operation… at a local high school. Forced to masquerade as teenagers, the two best buds put their police skills and friendship to the ultimate test.
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Paddington (2014)
Following the death of his beloved uncle, a young bear named Paddington (Ben Whishaw) travels to London in search of a new life, which he finds, along with a new family. Upon moving in with the Brown family, the marmalade loving bear encounters his biggest and most dangerous adventure yet.
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The Imitation Game (2014)
Trailblazing English mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) and a team of top minds attempt to break the code to the German’s enigma machine, a feat that could turn the tide of World War II if successful. Despite his heroics and dedication to his country, the brilliant man becomes the target of the British government due to his sexuality in The Imitation Game.
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
Killer rabbits, an unflinching Black Knight, and other dangers aren’t enough for King Arthur (Graham Chapman) or the men in his company as they embark upon a quest to find the mythical holy grail. Released in 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is certainly a comedy that will cheer you up when in a funk.
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The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Renegade Soviet captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) causes an international incident after defying orders and taking a nearly untraceable nuclear submarine to the East Coast of the United States with unknown intentions. Sent to find him and learn of his plans is CIA agent Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) in John McTiernan’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October.
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Skyfall (2012)
The past comes back to haunt M. (Judi Dench) after former MI6 operative Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), emerges from the shadows to expose his former boss’ past transgressions while also putting undercover agents around the world in grave danger. In Skyfall, it is up to James Bond (Daniel Craig) to get the job done, whatever it takes.
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The Addams Family (1991)
More than 30 years before Tim Burton took a swing at the property with the Netflix original series Wednesday, Barry Sonnenfeld brought the spooky and kooky family to life in The Addams Family. This 1991 adaptation of the classic TV show of the same name follows Gomez Addams (Raul Julia) as he encounters a man claiming to be his long lost brother Fester (Christopher Lloyd).
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Notting Hill (1999)
Considered one of the best romantic comedies, Notting Hill follows travel bookstore owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant) as he has not one, but two chance encounters with Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), which result in one of the most unlikely love stories of all time.
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The Bad Guys (2022)
After years of pulling off one improbable heist after the next, Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) tries to convince his tight-knight group of thieves to do something radically different in Pierre Perifel’s The Bad Guys: go good. But as the ringleader of the gang quickly finds out, getting everyone on board with the new lifestyle is easier said than done.
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All Quiet On The Western Front (2022)
Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) and his school buddies think they are in for the adventure of a lifetime upon joining the German army at the height of World War I, but they soon find out that claims of “Paris in six weeks” are nothing more than false hopes given to new recruits. In Edward Berger’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, boys become men as they face one hellish day after another while members of the government attempt to broker a peace deal with France and its allies.
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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Barry Jenkins’ 2018 Academy Award-winning (though it should have been nominated for more) drama If Beale Street Could Talk centers on the longtime relationship shared by Clementine “Tish” Rivers (KiKi Layne) and Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt (Stephan James), which is put to the test when Fonny is accused of a crime he did not commit.
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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy (2002 — 2007)
Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) goes from an intelligent albeit socially awkward high school student to New York’s premier crimefighter after being bitten by a radioactive spider in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. Throughout the trilogy, which almost had a fourth entry, the iconic comic book character goes through a series of battles, both as Spider-Man and Peter Parker.
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Woman In Gold (2015)
Decades after leaving her home in Vienna to escape the Nazis, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) makes a tireless crusade to take back what was stolen from her family during World War II. With the help of a young lawyer named Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), Maria goes to battle with the Austrian government to take back a painting and other family heirlooms she believes rightfully belong to her.
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The Power Of The Dog (2021)
Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch), a closed-off and abrasive rancher in 1920s Montana, becomes even more cruel when his brother, George (Jesse Plemons) brings home a new wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in Jane Campion’s Academy Award-winning drama The Power of the Dog.
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The Gift (2015)
The lives of married couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are disrupted when Gordo (Joel Edgerton), an old high school friend, shows up at their door with a series of odd gifts and sheds light on the two men’s dark past.
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Big Fish (2003)
After spending years hearing what he believes are nothing more than tall tales about his father’s life, Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) begins digging into Edward Bloom’s (Albert Finney) past and uncovers the strange truths behind all those fantastical stories in Tim Burton’s Big Fish.
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The Harder They Fall (2021)
When the man who murdered his parents is released from prison, Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) seeks vengeance for the pain and misery Rufus Black (Idris Elba) brought to his life 20 years earlier. Jeymes Samuel’s revisionist history western film The Harder they Fall takes some of the Old West’s most iconic figures and puts them up against one another in an epic showdown.
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The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (2021)
The 2021 Netflix original The Mitchells vs. the Machines follows Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobson) and the rest of her dysfunctional family as they embark upon a cross-country road trip that will forever change their lives. Partway through their journey, the family finds themselves in the middle of a global takeover being carried out by a rogue artificial intelligence with an army of robots at its disposal.
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Mank (2020)
David Fincher’s Mank (which was written by his late father in the 1990s) serves a flashy history lesson of 1930s Hollywood (and society as a whole) as experienced by alcoholic and sometimes unlikeable screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he writes Orson Welles’ crowning achievement Citizen Kane and deals with the fallout from the people on which his characters were based. This black-and-white affair is classic Fincher but with a “Golden Age of Hollywood” feel to it.
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
It is hard to say who is the protagonist and who’s the antagonist in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but that doesn’t matter to the two leads (played by Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman) as their performances go above and beyond in this 2020 adaptation of a stage play about a high-tempered and heated recording session in 1920s Chicago. The biggest tragedy of this film is the fact that Boseman tragically passed away before he became aware of the universal acclaim his portrayal of Levee Green would receive upon its release.
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Roma (2018)
Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 black-and-white drama Roma follows the lives of domestic workers and the families whose lives they tend to set in 1970s Mexico City. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards (winning three) following its release, Roma is a touching and daunting feat in filmmaking, and helped further cement Cuarón’s place in movie history.
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This is just a small portion of the best movies on Netflix, as there are literally thousands of decorated films from all corners of the earth. If you want to see all of the good movies on Netflix that are set to come out this year, check out CinemaBlend’s 2023 Netflix Movies guide.
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