The 40 best movies on Netflix to watch this week
New this week: Get your true crime fix with What Jennifer Did, and soak in the sun of the 1999 classic The Talented Mr. Ripley
GQ's best Netflix movies guide is updated weekly.
The thing about movies, not least on a streamer like Netflix, is that there are so goddamn many of them. Shit-yourself-scary movies; shoot ‘em up action movies; frenetic thrillers that send your heart into your mouth and blood pressure into overdrive.
Spinning through the bright red carousel like the world's longest magazine rack, how are you to separate the good from the naff? We just have so little free time, and we give too much of our lives to movie-picking.
But freeze no more in the shadow of the Big Red N. Here are GQ's top 40 movies now streaming on Netflix, updated every Monday morning for the week ahead.
New this week: Soak in the sun of 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, get lost in Lost in Translation and indulge in some peak-era Ryan Gosling with Crazy Stupid Love.
Looking for the best things arriving on Netflix UK in April 2024? Look no further. And if you fancy taking a gamble on Amazon Prime and Disney+, try these guides.
Rex / Shutterstock1/39Crazy Stupid Love
Before the upcoming The Fall Guy, before Barbie and before the criminally underappreciated The Nice Guys, there was Crazy Stupid Love, a film where Ryan Gosling got to prove to the world that he's just a goofy, funny guy underneath the tan and the abs. In it, he plays a reforming ladies' man who takes a shlubby almost-divorcee (Steve Carrell) under his wing to teach him how to get laid. It's better left there, as it's really not worth spoiling the meat of its movie (which would make the writers of any 50s screwball comedy shed a tear of pride). You can watch Crazy Stupid Love on Netflix.
Rex / Shutterstock2/39The Talented Mr. Ripley
If you so desire, thanks to Netflix right now, you can give yourself a Tom Ripley overdose. Not only is there the lush new black-and-white series starring Andrew Scott as the notorious scammer, but you can also indulge in the 1999 Anthony Minghella classic starring young Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Props to Minghella for not only evoking the sundrenched sensuality of 1950s Italy, but securing these later-iconic stars in their absolute prime. It's truly hard to imagine any group of people ever looking better on screen. You can watch The Talented Mr. Ripley on Netflix.
Rex Features3/39Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola's vignette of two lonely people in Tokyo soothing their isolation in the strange comfort of each other is iconic. Chances are, if you know anyone who's been to Japan, they made some punny Instagram caption referring back to the movie or grabbed a drink at the Park Hyatt bar shown in the movie. The movie is both heavy and light, showing the crushing weight of being stuck in the mud of your own life while at the same time letting us find joy and levity in the way Scarlet Johansson's lonely wife and Bill Murray's existential actor fill their time. You can watch Lost in Translation on Netflix.
4/39Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver
Dunk on it all you like, film nerds, but the first 15 minutes of Rebel Moon — all the stuff with Corey Stoll being a Space Viking Sex God, basically — is pretty great! The rest… not so much. But we're dreamers at GQ UK, just like Zack Snyder with his ludicrously capacious imagination for showy sci-fi worlds — even if they're a bit ‘we saw it in Star Wars’ — and we'd love to see part two, The Scargiver, redeem Rebel Moon in the eyes of cinephiles across the universe. Why not? Well, there's no Corey Stoll now, but… Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver comes to Netflix on Friday 19 April.
5/39The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Here's something to tide over the Pedro Pascal fanatic in your life until The Fantastic Four and/or The Last of Us season two — whatever comes first, we guess. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is an absurd meta-comedy starring Nick Cage as a down-on-his-luck fictionalised Nick Cage, who agrees to spend time with a rich megafan for a million bucks. Alas, shit goes sideways when Nick is recruited by the CIA to spy on Pascal… there are loads of gun battles, cool homages to Cage's career aplenty, poignant self-deprecating jokes about his once-waning stardom. A great Friday night watch. Especially for Nick Cage nerds. You can watch The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent on Netflix.
6/39Scoop
Did we really need a recreation of the Prince Andrew interview, just five years after it went out to air? Probably not. But at least the film we got is entertaining — not least in Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell's duelling roles as BBC journo Emily Maitlis and the disgraced Prince — and puts enough flesh on the bones behind-the-scenes to give it reason to exist. Scoop highlights the personal stakes for the team who brought the interview together, from Andrew's beleaguered publicist, who never really seems to know what she's doing, to the BBC's talent booker, who just wants the respect of her colleagues (played brilliantly by Billie Piper). It's better than this sort of thing ever should be, even if there's not a lot of new ground to be touched. You can watch Scoop on Netflix.
7/39The Beautiful Game
This surprisingly poignant crowdpleaser dramatises the Homeless World Cup, a yearly international tournament which brings together homeless football players from across the globe to compete for their countries, engendering a sense of personal pride in those who have been left to the wayside. Bill Nighy plays the gaffer, an ex-football scout who discovered the talented West Ham wannabe Vinny (Micheal Ward), who failed to go pro but joins the Homeless England squad for a chance to make good on his dream. You can watch The Beautiful Game on Netflix.
8/39Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
This small and sweet film about the sexual awakening of a woman in the wake of her husband's death joins together the veteran charisma of Emma Thompson and promising newcomer Daryl McCormack. He's hardly given an easy task, here: he plays the young sex worker helping Thompson's Nancy along her journey, which they complete over a series of sessions in a hotel room. All the while, they learn a lot about each other — and themselves. It's a touching story which tackles sex and body image with refreshing honesty. You can watch Good Luck To You, Leo Grande on Netflix.
9/39Annihilation
With Alex Garland's sure-to-have-hands-wringing-everywhere Civil War coming out in April, why not catch up with his other big action-infused bit of cerebral dystopian fiction? Sure, this one doesn't have a Donald Trump stand-in played by Nick Offerman, but it does have a fucking terrifying alien-deer-creature-thing which copies the last sound you make before it kills you to bits. Natalie Portman stars as a bulky military scientist type who leads an expedition into “The Shimmer,” an eerie no-go zone which appeared in a Floridian nature reserve after a meteor landed and has since been ETifying the local fauna. Thrilling action-horror which actually asks you to use your brain: who'd'a thunk it! You can watch Annihilation on Netflix.
10/39Pulp Fiction
When was the last time you saw this stone cold classic? Quentin Tarantino's sophomore feature, which he wrote and directed in his early 30s (cue us feeling very, very insignificant) stands up as a feast of witty dialogue, timeless performances and cinematic maximalism. You know the drill. There are the suited assassins who like quoting scripture and debating French fast food (Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta); there's the boxer (Bruce Willis) who refuses to throw a fight, and subsequently comes to blows with the match fixer he double crossed (Ving Rhames); there's Uma Thurman doing the twist. There's the soundtrack. There's Marvin (Phil LaMarr) getting his brains blown out. Let's face it: you will watch this at least 100 times before you die. You can watch Pulp Fiction on Netflix.
11/39The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Wes Anderson's inventive anthology of shorts starts with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, adapted from Roald Dahl with his playful spirit at its core — it tells the whimsical story of a gambling addict who fleeces casinos across the globe and invests his winnings into orphanages and hospitals. Can't get better natured than that, can you? This is a very Wes Anderson-y series so your mileage will vary depending on your stomach for his saccharine affect and quaint, colourful style; appropriately, like a story book come to life. Whatever the case, his ensemble of regular players (the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley) are clearly having a lot of fun. You can watch The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More on Netflix.
20th Century Fox12/39Ford V Ferrari
There are many different types of Dad Movie — Dad Thrillers, which were particularly popular in the ‘90s; Sad Dad Space Movies, like Ad Astra, which may not be for dads so much as about them; courtroom dramas, another ’90s staple; big, Wikipedia-entry-packed biopics like Oppenheimer. Few examples, nevertheless, are quite so prototypical as Ford v Ferrari, which released in 2019 and single handedly ushered in the new Dad Movie Dadenaissance. (Read more about that here.) It's exactly what it says on the tin: Team Ford go up against Team Ferrari in a two-and-a-half hour, stylish retelling of the 1966 Le Mans. Watch stood six feet from the screen with a cup of coffee in your hand. Huff contentedly. You can watch Ford v Ferrari on Netflix.
13/39Top Gun: Maverick
The biggest movie of 2022 comes to streaming from Friday, so you can watch Tom Cruise and Miles Teller fly around to Kenny Loggins, and those deeply homoerotic scenes of half-naked beach volleyball, to your heart's content. One of the greatest sequels ever made; one of the greatest action movies; an unimpeachable argument for the superiority of practical stunts and effects; conclusive proof that Cruise is one of the greatest film stars ever to grace our planet. You can watch Top Gun: Maverick on Netflix.
14/39Memento
With Christopher Nolan's latest big screen epic, Oppenheimer, all but assured to take home a gazillion Oscars over the weekend, why not catch up with the movie that launched him? Memento has many of the tropes that have come to be associated with Nolan's filmography. For one, it's a real head fuck. It tells the story of a man (Guy Pearce) suffering from short-term memory loss who uses an array of photographs and notes that he has left for himself, like breadcrumbs, to find out who has killed his wife. To do this, Nolan eschews conventional linearity: instead, the film intercuts between black-and-white and colour sequences, the latter in reverse order, putting us in the mind of Pearce's character. Still, not as confusing as Tenet. You can watch Memento on Netflix.
©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle15/39Spaceman
The Adam Sandlernaissance takes a giant leap for Sandler-kind in Spaceman, the feature film debut from Chernobyl director Johan Renck. Adapted from an absurdist Czech sci-fi novel, Spaceman sees a lonely Sandler as Jakub, an astronaut drifting into the vast cosmos on a mission to save humankind, leaving his depressed wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan) on terra firma. Just as his own deepening melancholy looks to consume Jakub like a black hole, a new friend appears to keep him company: a giant, sentient, talking, alien spider voiced by The Batman's Paul Dano. You can watch Spaceman on Netflix.
Courtesy Everett Collection16/39Uncut Gems
Lauded by critics as the best performance of his career, Adam Sandler swaps out his family-friendly Hawaiian shirts (not the cool ones from Prada) for leather jackets and some serious bling in the Safdie’s Uncut Gems. Playing a Jewish jewellery dealer, Howard, who’s in some pretty substantial debt thanks to an even bigger gambling habit, the film is a non-stop, two-hour frenzy in which he must come up with a plan to keep underground debt collectors at bay. Also starring Lakeith Stanfield and Idina Menzel, with cameos from The Weeknd and basketball player Kevin Garnett, Uncut Gems will get your heart pumping faster than a SoulCycle spin session – and you don’t even have to leave your house to watch it. You can watch Uncut Gems on Netfilx.
©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle17/39Blonde
Blonde was sold on the run up to release as a Marilyn Monroe biopic, but that isn't entirely accurate. Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates' brick of an epic novel, it similarly fictionalises Monroe's life story in service of a greater statement on the celebrity meat grinder, not least as it has historically pertained to women. It had its fair share of naysayers — director Andrew Dominik's boisterous comments about Monroe on the publicity tour hardly won anyone over — but Blonde is a bold, difficult work, eschewing cradle-to-grave biopic conventions for a grizzlier critique of tabloid objectification. For better or worse, it'll stick with you far beyond its mammoth runtime. You can watch Blonde on Netflix.
Rex Features18/39Edge of Tomorrow
You could argue that this current era of ‘Tom Cruise, franchise behemoth’ all started with Edge of Tomorrow. Ironic, sure, seeing as Edge of Tomorrow is one of the few later-stage Cruise vehicles without a sequel, but it most definitely set him on the path of chasing action flicks like they're going out of fashion. Since its release in 2014, Cruise hasn't graced the kind of paired-back, drama-driven pieces he came up as a darling of. It's all explosions, baby! In Edge of Tomorrow, Cruise plays Captain Cage (great name) who is trapped in a constant time loop as a way to save the world from alien invasion. Honestly, we wouldn't be surprised if a sequel does come our way at some point in the future – he's already set the precedent with Top Gun: Maverick. You can watch Edge of Tomorrow on Netflix.
Courtesy of DreamWorks via Everett Collection19/39Gladiator
With Ridley Scott currently tinkering away in an editing booth working his magic on the very secretive Gladiator 2, what better time to brush up on the original? We still don't know a whole lot about where this long-awaited sequel will take us, so perhaps we all need to dive back into Russell Crowe's 2000 epic to see what threads could be pulled. In it, Crowe plays “Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.” There, he lays it all out for you in one of the film's most enduring quotes! You can watch Gladiator on Netflix.
Courtesy Everett Collection20/39Past Lives
Celine Song's striking debut film Past Lives is one of the must-watch movies of the year if you haven't already had a chance to see it. The semi-autobiographical picture tells the story of Nora and Hae-sung, former childhood best friends who intermittently reconnect over the course of 20 years until one fateful week in New York brings them back together. Then, they have to contend with a life's worth of ‘what ifs’ all while coming to terms with who they are in the present. Starring Greta Lee (who tragically missed out on an Oscar nom) and Teo Yoo, it's a film that will stick around with you like a crush you just can't shake. You can watch Past Lives on Netflix.
Everett Collection21/39Good Will Hunting
With the Oscars just around the corner, now would be a great time to familiarise yourself with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's winning speech after picking up the little gold man for writing Good Will Hunting. It's about the most delightful few minutes you can experience, witnessing two dudes in their early twenties realising they just won the biggest award in film. Good Will Hunting was a worthy winner as well, telling the story of a self-taught math genius stuck in a cycle of trauma and delinquency who just needs the support and faith from others around him to meet his full potential. You can watch Good Will Hunting on Netflix.
©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection22/39Whiplash
This year it will be a decade since Damien Chazelle’s dive into the competitive inner world of jazz drumming hit screens, so your adrenaline may have only just calmed down. Time to give it a spike again! Chazelle managed to make a psychological thriller out of music school and genuine horror scenes out of jam sessions in his second directorial outing. Miles Teller plays Andrew, an aspiring jazz musician, and JK Simmons plays his conductor, Terrence, in one of the most villainous roles in film outside of playing an actual serial killer. Chazelle has mastered the art of making sensory overload its own technical marvel, from La La Land to Babylon, but we’d argue nothing beats the way he uses it in Whiplash. You can watch Whiplash on Netflix.
23/39Men in Black
An intergalactic classic starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith — the latter at the height of his ‘90s blockbuster powers, having just topped the bill in 1996’s highest grosser, Independence Day. Smith portrays a young beat officer recruited into a clandestine organisation, the eponymous Men in Black, set up to monitor and police the activities of alien refugees, who inhabit the planet unknown to the lion's share of Earthlings. The chemistry between Jones and Smith remains pretty unparalleled, elevating an already whip-smart script. You can watch Men in Black on Netflix.
24/39Get Out
A star making vehicle for the director-actor duo of Daniel Kaluuya and Jordan Peele — who would reunite on the kooky alien horror Nope five years later — Get Out skewers white liberal complicity in American racism. Odds are if you keep up with buzzy films, you'll have seen it: Kaluuya stars as Chris, who visits his white girlfriend's family for the first time. They're amiable enough. They voted for Obama, they say. And then something all the more sinister unfolds, straddling the absurd and the supernatural, as Chris finds himself embroiled in a terrifying family conspiracy going back centuries. Bradley Whitford, so good. You can watch Get Out on Netflix.
25/39Red Rocket
Sean Baker's (best known for Orlando bildungsroman The Florida Project) Red Rocket won Simon Rex — Scary Movie 3's Simon Rex, who once had a thriving career in adult movies — the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor in 2022. For good reason! He's terrific, cast as a tearaway rogue who comes home to Texas from the glitz and glam of L.A. after his once-fruitful porn fame collapses in on itself. It's a performance brimming with raw, expressive vulnerability; it's also quite literally vulnerable in the sense that Rex drops hog for a running scene soundtracked by NSYNC ("Bye Bye Bye," rights for which were approved by all five members, including Justin). You can watch Red Rocket on Netflix.
26/39Dune: Part One
Timothée Chalamet came of movie-star-age in Dune: Part One, the first major studio project he led in the aftermath of his Call Me by Your Name prompted ascendency. And what a mantle to take on. Adapted from Frank Herbert's dense sci-fi tome that has more than its share of zealots, Dune: Part One is a bit like Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings combined. It's packed with granular lore, telling the psychedelic story of a distant intergalactic society who covet control of the sand planet Arrakis (think Tatooine, with gigantic, carnivorous space worms) for its unique resource, a drug called “spice”. So far, so very, very ‘60s. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, it’s big, bold, takes its time and boasts stellar performances across the board, with a sequel — mounted by Zendaya, whose character is briefly glimpsed in Dune: Part One — arriving this year. You can watch Dune: Part One on Netflix.
27/39Society of the Snow
If you've seen Yellowjackets (or any of the other series' and films about plane crash survivors chowing down on one another) you'll be familiar enough with the story of Society of the Snow, which retells the real-life 1972 Andes flight disaster. A rugby team crashes in the Andes with sixteen survivors; the movie is about their survival which, yes, includes their gruesome inter-snacking. A technical marvel with one of the most terrifyingly realistic crash sequences we've seen on the streaming screen. But would you expect less from J. A. Bayona, director of A Monster Calls and the best Jurassic World movie? You can watch Society of the Snow on Netflix.
28/39Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
What is Quentin Tarantino's best film? The movie hipsters tend to go for an esoteric option, like Jackie Brown (great!) or Death Proof (fine!) The meat and potatoes enthusiasts? Well, it's gotta be Inglourious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction. And the Uma Thurman stans have the Kill Bill duology. For everyone else there's Tarantino's great feat in historical fantasy making, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, a late-career epic which revisits the most consequential moment in Los Angeles' glitzy, grimy history — the death of actress Sharon Tate (portrayed by Barbie's Margot Robbie) at the hands of the Manson cult. Simultaneously it's a two-hours-and-45 hangout flick, basking in the Hollywood sun with washed up actor Rick Dalton (Leo DiCaprio) and his washed up stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Just a banger. And maybe the most Tarantino has ever Tarantino'd. You can watch Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood on Netflix.
29/39Jaws
Spielberg’s blockbuster trendsetter broke new ground for monster movies and we can thank it for a tonne of the ones to come after it: the likes of Alien and even Spielberg’s later classic Jurassic Park, about violent monsters stalking their human prey for two-hours-plus of runtime, might be reductively described as “Jaws in space” or “Jaws in a giant T-rex zoo,” respectively. But the O.G. holds up just as well as it did in the mid-70s, with its iconic piano stabs and astonishingly life-like animatronics. You can watch Jaws on Netflix.
30/39Scarface
Al Pacino has been better than he was in Scarface, but one wonders if his career at any point boasted a greater line-read than “say hello to my lit-ahl fwend!” (Maybe the similarly terse cue from 1975’s Dog Day Afternoon: “Attica! Attica!”) Cue M16 going brrrrrrrr. Brian De Palma’s coke empire classic, with its palm tree synths and ‘80s neon wash, tells a distinctly American story of criminal greed not far off from Jordan Belfort or any one of Martin Scorsese’s many cautionary tales about men corrupted by Capitalism. We also have it to thank for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — and so the upcoming GTA VI — and that episode of South Park where Cartman took on KFC for hegemony over the Fried Chicken Industrial Complex. You can watch Scarface on Netflix.
Everett Collection31/39Little Women
Before Greta Gerwig dropped her megapink Barbie bomb and ended life on Earth as we know it, she was best known for plying her trade in the studio-indie sphere, on quaint — but deeply felt — artsy pics like Lady Bird. And, indeed, Little Women. This modern adaptation of the Victorian coming-of-ager, with a handsome trim of festive frost, was Gerwig's starriest movie to date: Lady Bird herself Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Florence Pugh star in the film, with terrific supporting performances from Laura Dern, Meryl Streep and an ascendant Timothée Chalamet, rocketing to stardom in the sunnier shadow of Call Me by Your Name. Watch for the heartfelt ode to female adolescence; stay for the scene where Bob Odenkirk says the titular line. You can watch Little Women on Netflix.
32/39The Killer
After his big Old Hollywood passion project Mank, The Killer marks a return to familiar territory for David Fincher, with his noted career-running interest in weirdos and outcasts. Michael Fassbender certainly plays one here: the eponymous Killer is the most anal assassin of all time, meticulous and exacting. He's also pretty inept, as becomes clear twenty minutes in and a crucial hit goes to shit, setting in motion a globetrotting revenge story with the Killer exacting bloody retribution for an attack on his girlfriend. A pulpy, noirish delight from a technical master, simple and effective. You can watch The Killer on Netflix.
Everett Collection33/39Portrait of a Lady on Fire
This resplendent period piece was one of a few films in 2019 centring on sapphic love in Ye Olden Days — the strangest but most welcome bit of cinematic kismet in recent memory (beside all the hitman movie parodies of 2023). By French filmmaker Céline Sciamma (shot in her native tongue), Portrait of a Lady on Fire tells the story of a delicate love blossoming between an aristocrat and her painter, with passion and heartbreak aplenty. It's a Film Twitter fave for good reason: it's shot with the artful touch of a decorous watercolour, and leads Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel are sensational. Call it recency bias, but there's a reason the thousand-plus critics assembled for Sight and Sound's most recent poll of the greatest films ever made picked it for 30th. You can watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire on Netflix.
34/39Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name made a star out of Timothée Chalamet six — yes, that's right, you read that correctly, six! — years ago. Half a decade on, it still stands out as a major moment in recent cinematic history. Not only did it lay the foundations for the cult of “Timmy”, it brought the resplendent Italian flair of Luca Guadagnino to the global mainstream. And it stands up impressively on repeat viewing. Beyond the delicate gay love story at its centre, take the watercolour landscapes of Crema, the sleepy little town in Northern Italy (subtitled, like a fairytale, “somewhere”) or those earworm ear drops, from the Psychedelic Furs to any of the original tracks Sufjan Stevens contributed. Then there are the devastatingly chic summer fits: come for the kino, leave with a newfound proclivity for billow shirts and bright blue polos. You can watch Call Me by Your Name on Netflix.
Everett Collection35/39Parasite
After Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2020, Bong Joon-ho — reverently referred to as Director Bong by his fans and acolytes — issued a challenge to movie audiences in the West. “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles,” he said, glistening statuette raised high, “you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” Perhaps it didn't move the dial for world cinema quite as far as we then anticipated, but Parasite — a masterful class thriller — has become a new gateway drug for new cinephiles getting into Korean cinema. You can watch Parasite on Netflix.
36/39The Squid and the Whale
Every Brooklynite movie nerd's fave, Noah Baumbach — otherwise known as husband to Barbie's Greta Gerwig — stuck his flag in the turf with this, his third feature. Produced by Wes Anderson, it's very much in tune with the thematic interests of Baumbach's wider filmography, namely how shitty families can be. This one puts us in the child's eye view of Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline, the Berkman kids, witnessing the unceremonious collapse of their parents' marriage. If you liked Marriage Story… (bonus points: it's just eighty-one minutes, including credits). You can watch The Squid and the Whale on Netflix.
Everett Collection37/39Heat
Anyone worth their weight in cinephilic salt is a Michael Mann's man — the chameleonic movie maestro behind the likes of Manhunter, Thief, Collateral, Ali, the perpetually underrated Miami Vice. Oh, and Heat, the O.G. Pacino-De Niro team-up (The Godfather: Pt. II doesn't count because they share no screen time, duh). It's a grand Hollywood tradition spanning back to The Italian Job, but is there a greater heist flick out there? The only classic we can think that compares, funnily enough, is Thief — and that didn't boast the megawatt mega-pairing of Al and Bob. Nor did it have Val Kilmer's ponytail. A good one to catch up with before Mann's Ferrari comes out in December. You can watch Heat on Netflix.
Netflix38/39Marriage Story
The heartache of divorce is laid bare in Marriage Story as Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson slip into the shoes of a formerly happy couple now dealing with the realities of separation. To make things worse, they have a son, whose world is turned on its head while they negotiate their increasingly messy divorce. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, but mostly you’ll vow to always agree to couples counselling should your relationship ever need it after watching this film. You can watch Marriage Story on Netflix.
39/39The Irishman
Have you been putting off watching Martin Scorsese's The Irishman because it's too long to fit into your very busy schedule? Well, we don't blame you. At well over three hours long, it is quite the commitment, but if you suddenly find yourself at home with some time on your hands, then now is the time to grab that prestigious bit of filmmaking by the horns and hunker down with Scorsese and his pals for 209 minutes of good ol' fashioned gangster movie action. Telling the real-life story of renowned hitman Frank Sheeran, as he becomes involved with the mafia, it's perhaps the last time we'll see De Niro, Pacino and Pesci join forces, so soak up every last, immaculately shot second of it. You can watch The Irishman on Netflix.
