It’s a new month, and that means we here at For The Win have a bunch of new viewing recommendations if you’re looking for some good movies to watch on Netflix.
The streaming service has some new items, some classics and some wackier choices, depending on what kind of mood you’re in.
And! Here’s how to hack Netflix using category codes to find every movie and series offered in a specific genre, down to very specific categories.
But if you’re not a Netflix user and are still looking for something good to watch, we can help with that too. Check out some of our other viewing recs:
- The 45 best movies streaming on Amazon Prime
- The 24 best movies streaming on Hulu right now
- 26 great free video games to play
Away we go with what to watch on Netflix in June:
1
Don't Look Up
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth. (IMDb)
2
tick, tick...BOOM!
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City. (IMDb)
3
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy is San Diego’s top-rated newsman in the male-dominated broadcasting of the 1970s, but that’s all about to change for Ron and his cronies when an ambitious woman is hired as a new anchor. (IMDB)
4
We Are Marshall
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team’s new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive. (IMDB)
5
The Amazing Spider-Man
After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe. (IMDB)
6
Phantom Thread
7
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. (IMDb)
8
Forrest Gump
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart. (IMDb)
9
Taxi Driver
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. (IMDb)
10
The Imitation Game
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life. (IMDB)
11
Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation-owner in Mississippi. (IMDb)
12
When Harry Met Sally
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. (IMDb)
13
Always Be My Maybe
Everyone assumed that Sasha and Marcus would wind up together, except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder–maybe? (IMDb)
14
Molly's Game
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. (IMDB)
15
She's Gotta Have It
Story of a woman and her three lovers. (IMDb)
16
Titanic
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. (IMDB)
17
Dolemite Is My Name
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon. (IMDb)
18
Big Eyes
A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. (IMDB)
19
Sorry To Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed. (IMDb)
20
Roma
A year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s. (IMDb)
21
The Lincoln Lawyer
An iconoclastic idealist runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car in this series based on Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels. (IMDB)
22
Girl, Interrupted
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s. (IMDB)
23
My Fair Lady
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. (IMDB)
24
To All The Boys I've Loved Before
A teenage girl’s secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life. (IMDb)
25
Argo
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. (IMDb)
26
Dirty Harry
When a madman calling himself “the Scorpio Killer” menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. (IMDb)
27
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex – and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend. (IMDb)
28
Something's Gotta Give
A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age. (IMDb)
29
Bonnie and Clyde
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. (IMDb)
30
Les Miserables
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker’s daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. (IMDb)
31
Into the Wild
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. (IMDb)
32
Casino Royale
After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro. (IMDB)
33
The Irishman
Hitman Frank Sheeran looks back at the secrets he kept as a loyal member of the Bufalino crime family. (IMDb)
34
The Power of the Dog
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love. (IMDb)
35
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. (IMDb)
36
The Tinder Swindler
Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, he wooed women online, then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now some victims plan for payback. (IMDB)
37
Saving Private Ryan
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. (IMDb)
38
Nightcrawler
When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. (IMDb)
39
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles. (IMDb)
40
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. (IMDb)
41
Marmaduke
A legendary dog trainer believes he can transform Marmaduke from an undisciplined, but lovable dog, into the first Great Dane to win the World Dog Championship. (IMDb)
42
Once Upon a Time in America
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. (IMDb)
43
Stand By Me
After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. (IMDb)
44
Hail, Caesar
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio’s stars in line. (IMDb)
45
Happy Gilmore
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother’s house. (IMDb)
46
Oh, Hello on Broadway
Two delusional geriatrics reveal curious pasts, share a love of tuna and welcome a surprise guest in this filming of the popular comedy show. (IMDb)
47
The Meyerowitz Stories
An estranged family gathers together in New York City for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father. (IMDb)
48
Private Life
An author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge. (IMDb)
49
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. (IMDb)
50
Tangerine
A hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart. (IMDb)
