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Our On TV Tonight movie-buffs turned on Netflix for this useful list of the best movies on Netflix right now.


LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Why you should watch: First up is some romantic comedy before getting into the serious stuff. I must say I was surprised with this one, it actually kept my attention. The story follows 20-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s as she misses her flight and is stuck at JFK airport and late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s sitting in her row. A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. There’s a lot of running around London as these two try to reconnect, all backed by a great soundtrack. It’s worth a few hours on the couch.

Director: VANESSA CASWILL
Cast: HALEY LU RICHARDSON, BEN HARDY, KATRINA NARE, TOM TAYLOR, JAMEELA JAMIL, DEXTER FLETCHER, SALLY PHILLIPS, ROB DELANEY

THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR

Why you should watch: This is the first in a series of unusual short films by the wonderful Wes Anderson adapted from a Roald Dahl collection written at various times during his life, aimed at an older audience. Henry Sugar, an independently wealthy man who enjoys gambling, finds, and reads a doctor’s report on a strange patient the doctor met while stationed at a hospital in India. This patient, who called himself “The Man Who Sees Without Using His Eyes”, had the ability to see even after the doctors had medically sealed the man’s eyes shut and bandaged his head. Sugar decides to master this art and use it to his advantage. The cast in all four films is somewhat minimalistic.

Director: WES ANDERSON
Cast: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, RALPH FIENNES, DEV PATEL, BEN KINGSLEY, RICHARD AYOADE, DAVID GANT, JARVIS COCKER

THE SWAN

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k079JTEH3Pg

Why you should watch: The second film in this series is somewhat disturbing. A young boy, Peter Watson, is harassed and essentially kidnapped by two vicious, heartless, gun-armed bullies. Peter is intelligent and a keen studier of wildlife, especially birds. His torment is heightened when the bullies turn the aim of their gun on a beautiful swan. Truman Hanks, son of Tom, has a small part in this one.

Director: WES ANDERSON
Cast: RUPERT FRIEND, RALPH FIENNES, ASA JENNINGS, TRUMAN HANKS

THE RAT CATCHER

Why you should watch: This is hilarious, although I must say Ralph Fiennes is very creepy as the rat catcher. In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a rat catcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey, some of which are rather bizarre.

Director: WES ANDERSON
CAST: RUPER FRIEND, RICHARD AYOADE, RALPH FIENNES

POISON

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m_nY66io0F4

Why you should watch: When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman’s stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.

Director: WES ANDERSON
Cast: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, DEV PATEL, BEN KINGSLEY

REPTILE

Why you should watch: A good crime drama with quite a few twists to keep you interested. Benicio Del Toro stars as policeman Tom Nichols, who is called on to investigate the murder of real estate mogul Will Grady’s girlfriend Summer, who he finds at a house she’s showing. Grady flips foreclosures on expensive homes in the area under the watchful eye of his mom, Camille. Of course, Nichols finds this all a bit suspicious, and finds himself becoming a target when he begins to see the extent of the corruption.

Director: GRANT SINGER
Cast: BENICIO DEL TORO, ALICIA SILVERSTONE, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, ERIC BOGOSIAN, FRANCES FISHER, DOMENICK LOMBARDOZZI, MICHAEL PITT, ATO ESSANDOH

HORSE GIRL

Why you should watch: I didn’t really get what was going on with this one, but it is intriguing to endeavour to work it out. It starts out fine and Alison Brie is excellent as Sarah, a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, who finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions from reality. It’s supposedly a darkly humorous tale of a woman’s search for the truth… I’m not sure if she found it, and I’m not sure I did either, but it is interesting. I guess it depends on what your version of truth is. Alison Brie was a co-writer.

Director: JEFF BAENA
Cast: ALISON BRIE, MOLLY SHANNON, DEBBY RYAN, JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN ORTIZ, ROBIN TUNNEY, MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER

STRUGGLE: THE LIFE AND LOST ART OF SZUKALSKI

Why you should watch: I was unfamiliar with the work of Szukalski so this excellent documentary was a revelation. In old Betamax footage, the Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) speaks animatedly about his life and work. Art aficionado Glenn Bray filmed his elderly friend in the last years of his life to document his remarkable career and personality before it was too late. In this wide-ranging portrait, Bray explains how he met Szukalski by chance in 1971 when he came across one of his expressionist drawings and discovered that its maker lived only a few miles away from him. The man leading a modest, anonymous life in Burbank, California turned out to have been a well-known avant-garde artist in Chicago and pre-war Poland. A remarkable man who created equally remarkable sculptures.

Director: IRENEUSZ DOBROWOLSKI
Cast: STANISLAV SZUKALSKI

SCOUT’S HONOR: THE SECRET FILES OF THE BOY SCOUTS

Why you should watch: A confronting documentary revealing the extent to which those in power will go to protect their interests and ideals. Survivors, whistle-blowers and experts recount the Boy Scouts of America’s decades long cover-up of sexual abuse cases and its heartbreaking impact.

Director: BRIAN KNAPPENBERGER

MADE YOU LOOK: A TRUE STORY ABOUT FAKE ART

Why you should watch: Goodness me! Who would ever have imagined that the art world could be filled with so much intrigue and corruption. Personally, I find it ludicrous that anyone would spend millions of dollars on a painting. This revealing documentary begins in 1995 with the Knoedler Gallery, the oldest art gallery in New York purchasing an unknown canvas by Mark Rothko. It was sold to Ann Freedman, the gallery’s director, for $750,000 (a fire-sale price). The person who brought it to her was Glafir Rosales, a woman from Long Island who didn’t have much of an art pedigree but claimed to represent a wealthy anonymous collector, and the story she told about him seemed just plausible. I find it implausible that those who are experts in their field were so gullible.

Director: BARRY AVRICH

68 Comments

  • James Guinane says:

    Is Netflix ever going to add season 14 of Heartland?

  • Monique Priester says:

    Are there going to be episodes added to sweet magnolia, & after we collided?

  • Kay Ross Slater says:

    How about more episodes of virgin river?

  • Gayle Mayer says:

    Yes more episodes of virgin river .

  • Michelle says:

    Tried to watch greater last week not found in search icon

  • Beverly White says:

    Is there a 3rd season of Manifest?

  • Kim Apps says:

    When is the next season of Ozark coming back on. Been waiting for 12 months now.

  • Marian says:

    When will Netflix get Vera?

  • MILLIE says:

    WHAT I RESENT MOST IS AFTER WATCHING AND BECOMING ENGROSSED WITH A SERIES, YOU THEN FIND OUT YOU HAVE TO PAY IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE WATCHING WHY AREN’T YOU TOLD BEFORE YOU START WATCHING?
    MILLIE

  • Arlene Moffa says:

    Love Virgin River🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • Marilyn says:

    Is “9 Days” on yet?

  • Joy Jeschke says:

    Why doesn’t Netflix or Amazon run all of the Castle series?!?! It was one of the best shows on TV, but I’ll admit the final episode was disappointing. The Rookie is ok, but Castle was much better. Wishing 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

  • NOT nearly enough NEWER SCI FI MOVIES!!! says:

    NOT nearly enough NEWER SCI-FI MOVIES!!!!!

  • tracy williams says:

    I love a good mystery. I also love foreign mysteries. Please keep supplying them!!!

  • hamid mazuji says:

    NOT nearly enough NEWER SCI-FI MOVIES!!!!!

  • Beverly says:

    Will where the heart is season 6 and 7 ever come on Netflix or where can they be watched for free

  • Mary says:

    Why oh why just when you get to the end of seasons of shows you binge watched only to find out there are more seasons already out they leave you hanging or you have to pay to watch the remaining series when you have already paid extra to have Prime Video or Netflix Etc?

  • Gail Arno says:

    Ditto for Virgin River! Heartland is wonderful too.

  • Mike Dempsey says:

    Why are you telling me HACHI: A DOG’S TALE is available for me to view, when its not available in my area?

  • Stephen L. Lamond says:

    With all the available movies out there why isn’t there a better class and mixture of movies on Netflix? Also why isnt there more westerns (good) on Netrlix. Finally, if you have a product why not have a great product? It doesn’t make sense to have a poor or lame product. You want people to really “desire” your product. Not put out a barely desirable product.

  • David says:

    Gee whizz, how many first world problems exist today. It’s amazing.

  • Michael D. Scott says:

    I’m just curious, not complaining, you understand..however, why so many foreign movies? Why are there not more classic shows, Westerns such as Hopalong Cassidy for instance, or Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, etc. I’m sure I’m in the minority. There are so many classic movies of all genres and or TV shows. I have to have several streaming channels to watch what I and my family enjoy, and it just gets worse everyday. Especially for us “old people”! Anyway, that’s my $.02 cents worth.
    Many Thanks…!

  • Isla says:

    Love all Korean tv and movies, thanks Netflix it makes my old age happy and I am never bored living on my own 👌

  • Vince enslein says:

    I just LOVE IT, not really, when NETFLEX say NEW and the movie is 10 years old?

  • Par Barnett says:

    I don’t like starting a movie and then to find out it’s not in English

  • AES says:

    I did not know that if you wanted to watch some additional episodes of A program or movie that you have to pay additional money. That is Absorbed, since you are already paying a monthly subscription

  • Teanna Patricia Babcock says:

    More Virgin River!

  • Janet Vinke says:

    When is virgin river coming with more updates ??

  • Amy Fitzgerald says:

    I second the comment WHY so many foreign movies/series?

  • Ace says:

    Need more historical and biographical films. I like to be educated and entertained when I spend 2 hours of life on a Hollywood production. No more fiction for me.

  • Melody Ann says:

    Yes more Virgin River.
    Please please please more biographies, documentaries, educational histories.
    If you can’t get it dubbed don’t show it no fun having to read the screen.
    Thank you for reading this.

  • Pat Atchison says:

    I don’t see any of these questions answered – why not? Would love more episodes of heartland. Curious also about the paying for episodes to continuations of films we have already watched under our subscription or even paying for some of the new features since we have subscriptions that are paid for.

  • Kurt says:

    I really miss the old Twilight Zone episodes. I watched them for several months starting with season 1 episode 1…then they were gone.

  • Starla says:

    Please don’t write the review in English -if the movie is a foreign language! Huge waste of time to view the trailer thinking it’s an English movie! Makes no sense for the review to be a different language than the movie! Why isn’t there an option to not receive foreign movies? Not many want to “read” the screen either! We’ll just pick up a book! Much cheaper! …Yet here is Netflix giving themselves yet another increase!

  • Starla says:

    I’d guess the reason why there’s so many “Foreign movies” is because it’s cheaper for Netflix to obtain, gives them a higher number of movies to advertise they have, and can show! Never mind that they are useless for majority of people in the USA that speak English! Yet Netflix is giving themselves another increase starting in March!

  • Cheryl Woodward Rodgers says:

    I do not like to start a series and then be told more to come. Virgin River, and many more. I don’t understand why. I guess you don’t need our business. Poor customer service is all I can say.
    And why don’t you answer these questions everyone has asked????

  • Jacqueline I. Smith says:

    Fewer Foreign Movies and Horror movies. Fewer violent movies. I appreciate adult drama about families and situations that are reality.

  • Phyllis C says:

    I’ve read all the comments (so far), and find them interesting, and a little sad. We ALL have so much already, but our flexibility and willingness to expand our viewing “appears” to be very limited. I personally enjoy getting the option (& by the WAY it IS an option) to watch some of the foreign films, LOVE that most are dubbed into English, or we are at least provided with subtext; and when an older movie is released, that’s ok too. I’ve probably not seen it, or it was a long time ago and good to bring it back as a memory. I’m not into horror movies, but at least Netflix DOES try to cater to all sides of viewing. I’d LOVE to see them expand the original series they do; some are SO VERY GOOD. Those I personally don’t care for, guess what? I don’t watch them. We ALL have this choice. THANKS to NETFLIX for bringing us so many good, new & old, series, films, specials etc. FYI; This is My personal opinion and NOT up for discussion.

  • Barbara Albrecht says:

    I would love to see Moulin Rouge, the Baz Luhrman movie.
    Also the wonderful A Man and a Woman.

  • Julie says:

    Thought Virgin River was supposed to return in March! What happened???? It’s April people!

  • Barry Buckley says:

    I have Netflix now for about 10 years, been quite happy up until now with the service. Have a firestick now for about a year and I find that I can get all of what Netflix provides on the streaming apps that I have on the firestick, my subscription to Netflix is increasing at the end of this month so I have reluctantly decided to cancel my subscription. I live in Ireland so I have to use a VPN to watch Tubi or Crackle here as I really like to watch the content that they have. Netflix are going to lose a lot of subscribers here due to their price increases so I have enjoyed the service but it is time for me to move on.

  • Kim Possible says:

    Spot on Phyllis C!

  • Tom says:

    Has anyone seen Shooter? Stay on the edge of your seat

  • BETTIE says:

    where are the answers to posted questions? No point in wasting my time if there is no response.

  • Viv says:

    I’m with you Phyllis C, the world is full of whiners.

  • Michael D. Scott says:

    OK NETFLIX….Let’s get on with the ANSWERING of these QUESTIONS…!
    You are about to lose subscribers NETFLIX due to the increase and possibly a large amount of the issues brought up here…!
    So COME ON NETFLIX, let’s have some ANSWERS…..!
    Thank you and good night….!✌️

  • Dino says:

    Best 10 movies? Seriously by who’s standards? Looks like a load of rubbish to me.

  • Denise V. says:

    Want my thoughts? I’ll trade you for some answers !

  • Denise V. says:

    How about some answers ? We ARE your customers, right?

  • Denise V. says:

    I would like to see some answers from Netflix. Thanks!

  • Anna B says:

    These are 10 duds as far as I’m concerned … not even one I care to watch. Unless you do better than this I will drop my subscription.

  • Alejandro Ullrich says:

    Why is Netflix going to answer your questions on this web site? You are in the comment section for an Article by “On TV Tonight”. To want Netflix to answer these questions here seems out of place or a little absurd. If you all want Netflix to answer your questions, you might try contacting them through their app or their web site.

    On TV Tonight staff , which wrote the article is not likely to answer questions for Netflix.

  • Michael D Scott says:

    Apparently it’s a HUGE WASTE OF TIME taking the time and effort to post a comment for NETFLIX, since NETFLIX doesn’t seem to be concerned about the messages posted on her by their customers….since NETFLIX doesn’t answer any of the….!
    It’s true…actions or lack of, speak louder than words…NETFLIX, WE HEAR YOU…‼️

  • Sam says:

    Michael D Scott – but this is not the Netflix site, it’s On TV Tonight. Why should they reply to you here? If you’re so concerned, contact them directly.

  • Denise V. says:

    Netflix will be losing lots of customers. It will be a thing of the past and replaced with something better and less costly.

  • hazbyn says:

    Most everyone that commented asked NETFLIX to show more of something. Or when is the next season. Or play some series. But not in foreign language. I live in U.S. so never heard of paying for the next season. Many of the shows requested can be found on other streaming services. If you know how you can get most anything free.
    But, all that being said, you are all requesting a TV review site and expecting a reply. THIS IS NOT NETFLIX. Make your requests to the right place. Remember, Netflix can’t please everyone.

  • Neil cavanagh says:

    How about the 6th season of “outlander”? when or never is this going to be in inventory? Netflix needs to be expanding outbidding your competion

  • Jeff Soster says:

    When is lost in space the series comming back?

  • Tina says:

    Will there be a number 4 kissing booth maybe a double wedding love all the Christmas movie romances

  • Ninius says:

    I enjoy foreign movies. It’s very nice to see how other countries live, and I like that they are in the original language, with subtitles.
    Some people are too lazy to read subtitles, they probably don’t read books in English either.
    Plus a lot of foreign movies and series are better than many of the American ones.

  • Claude says:

    All second rate movies and shows . Very sad for the high monthly cost of $22,99.
    Plus the sound is so poor. Can’t hear what people say and then then blaring music. It’s either too soft or too loud. Absurd as it was never like that before.
    Nothing decent to watch of late. I am seriously thinking of opting out.
    Certainly not as food as they were in the past.

  • J. says:

    All I can say after reading these comments is, you can never go wrong by underestimating the intelligence of people

  • Joe Kremyr says:

    Too many foreign movies that I will not watch. Your list of good Cdn an American movies is shrinking and when I run out of them goodbye Netflix

  • penny allred says:

    ARE THERE ANY ANSWERS TO THE UBOVE QUESTIONS?

  • Kathy Renee Bailey says:

    Guessing To the Lake, season 2 won’t be shown anytime soon due to sour relations with Russia?

  • Christine Cartwright says:

    I agree..too many foreign shows! I hate it when I pick a movie and start watching it only to find it is in a different language! So frustrating!

  • Betty Jones says:

    I would also like some answers!

  • Don R says:

    I think it is a good point that people should be informed that the movie they are considering to watch is in the produced language of its origin.
    While on the point of information why on earth do the people who write up the information bar on TV regarding a movie in quite a few cases, omit to mention the year it was produced and who the actors are that are in it. It could be one of three remakes or nothing at all to do with what you thought it might be. ☹️

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