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

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

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

"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

The Kite Runner follows Amir and Hassan, childhood friends in 1970s Kabul. Amir's failure to stop violence shatters their bond, leading to exile, lifelong guilt, and a return under the Taliban to seek redemption.

Genres: Drama, Drama

Suzume: a 17-year-old in Kyushu touches a mysterious door and unwittingly opens portals that unleash disasters across Japan. She and a traveling stranger journey to find and seal each doorway, facing loss, wonder, and uncanny time-blurs.

Genres: Anime, Action/Adventure, Family, Anime

Katie's film-school plans are derailed by a family road trip that collides with a global robot uprising. The eccentric Mitchells—parents, brother, loving pug and two helper robots—must unite to fight machines and save humanity.

Genres: Family, Children, Comedy

Rahul has just lost his wife, Tina, due to childbirth. His daughter, Anjali, and his mother is all she has left. Tina has left eight letters for her daughter to read on each of her birthday.

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Drama

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Erin Brockovich is a single mother who gets a job in a small law firm. The personality of her unconventional will make her the beginnings of her not too encouraging, but everything will change when she decides to investigate the strange case of customers suffering from a suspicious disease.

Genres: Drama, Biography

After a traumatic event involving her best friend, Cassie lives a double life: by day low-profile, by night luring predatory men to exact her own uncompromising justice. A new relationship forces her to choose revenge or a fresh start.

Genres: Drama, LGBTQ

In 1970s Colorado Springs, rookie Black detective Ron Stallworth becomes the city's first Black officer and infiltrates the local KKK via phone, with white colleague Flip Zimmerman attending meetings in his place. Their undercover probe exposes Klan plans and forces moral reckonings and social edge.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Comedy, Biography, History