Good movies to watch on Netflix - Page 5

Godzilla Minus One, set in devastated postwar Japan, shows a nation still haunted by the atomic bomb confronting a colossal creature embodying nuclear ruin; in monochrome it blends spectacle with a quiet reflection on trauma.

Genres: Science fiction, Action/Adventure, Drama, Action/Adventure

Evelyn Wang, an overworked Chinese immigrant, faces a failing laundromat, family strains and an IRS audit that opens a multiverse. She confronts alternate selves and a cosmic threat while fighting to protect her family and find meaning.

Genres: Science fiction, Drama, Comedy, Action/Adventure, Action/Adventure

50/50 is a dramedy inspired by true events about 27‑year‑old Adam, diagnosed with a rare spinal tumor. Facing chemo and risky surgery, he confronts fear, shifting relationships and finds dark humor, support and new priorities.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Based on true events in drought-hit Malawi, 13-year-old William self-teaches windmill physics from a library book, builds a turbine from scrap, restoring water and electricity and bringing hope.

Genre: Drama

The Bombay High Court passes judgment in the 1993 Bombay explosion case and Sanjay Dutt is found guilty. Sanju tries to give his life, but is saved by his wife Manyaata, who then asks Winnie Diaz to write his biography.

Genres: Drama, Biography

A lonely girl meets a girl named Marnie, who will soon become her best friend. She learns many things about friendship, and Anna will realize that Marnie is not who she seems.

Genres: Animation, Anime, Drama, Family, Mystery

Technology teachers have created a new form of capitalism where humans are the raw material for AI to capture attention, putting truth and democracy at risk and leading to our own destruction. AI is hidden but powerful, disrupting social norms and directing civilization towards destruction.

Genres: Documentary, Drama

It explores the relationship between Pope Benedict XVI and his successor, Pope Francis, two of the most powerful leaders of the Catholic Church, who address their own pasts and demands for the institution to advance in the modern world.

Genres: Drama, Biography, Comedy, History

Cleo is the young servant of a family that lives in Colonia Roma, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City. In this love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to paint a realistic and emotional portrait of domestic conflicts and social hierarchies during the political turmoil of the 1970s.

Genre: Drama

In 2001, Billy Beane, general director of the Oakland athletics (baseball), became famous to get great hits through the "Moneyball" method, a program that consists of building a competitive team with less economic resources than the Most of the Major Leagues and using statistical computer methods to coordinate the players.

Genres: Drama, Biography, Sport

Patrick Bateman is a superbly crafted specimen that meets all the requirements of Master of the Universe. The more anonymous he becomes, the less control he has over his terrible instincts and his thirst for blood. He is practically perfect, like almost everyone in his world and desperately tries to fit into it.

Genres: Crime, Cult, Drama, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A family of tiny beings, barely 10 cm. tall, live in a house hidden under the floorboards of a country mansion. A bold teenager is accidentally seen by a child who has just settled in the house because of their delicate health. Between them a great friendship arises.

Genres: Animation, Anime, Action/Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who yearns to become a human after falling in love with him.

Genres: Animation, Anime, Family, Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Comedy

A fast-moving virus traps passengers on a KTX train to Busan as travelers become violent carriers. A father and daughter fight through undead and desperate survivors to reach the rumored safe city.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

"Gru" is a deplorable man who plans the most incredible criminal act in history. Incited by an evil mother, he will find only one obstacle in his way.

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Train Dreams follows Robert Grainier, a solitary logger in the early 20th‑century Pacific Northwest. After building a life with Gladys and their child, he endures a devastating loss, isolation, and the upheavals of a changing America.

Genres: Drama, Independent

Sophie, 20 years after a sunlit holiday in Türkiye, revisits mixed real and imagined memories as child and adult to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t — a quiet study of memory, grief and fragile bonds.

Genres: Drama, Independent

Set in an isolated French Alps chalet, Anatomy of a Fall follows novelist Sandra accused after her husband is found dead. The trial, with their visually impaired son as key witness, unravels truth, grief and suspicion.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Independent, Mystery

A reclusive, severely obese online writing teacher, struggling with health and grief in near-total isolation, gets a last chance to make amends by rebuilding a bond with his estranged teenage daughter.

Genres: Drama, Independent

John Wick, declared an outcast by the High Table, fights to regain freedom. He hunts a sadistic crime lord and battles a global network of killers, driven by vengeance in a bloody showdown.

Genres: Crime, Action/Adventure