Good movies to watch on Netflix - Page 5

Young Ganga moves to Bombay with dreams of a cinema career but is deceived and sold into a brothel in 1950s Kamathypura. Despite the challenges, she transforms into Gangubai, a fierce defender of prostitutes' rights, working with the local mafia.

Genres: Drama, Drama

In 1972, Flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashed into a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survive the accident. Cattered in one of the most inaccessible and hostile environments on the planet, they are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.

Genres: Drama, Reality

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer (Thomas) is a young German patriot eager to fight. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and his friends are killed or seriously injured, Paul questions the sanity of fighting.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama

Kubo, a young storyteller in feudal Japan, uses a magical shamisen to animate origami. He must journey to recover his fallen samurai father's enchanted armor to save his mother and confront the Moon King.

Genres: Animation, Action/Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 1969, one of the most popular trials in the history of the United States took place, in which seven people accused of conspiring against national security were tried. This event would bring with it a series of social conflicts that would go down in posterity at a time of great changes at all levels of American people.

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller, Mystery

Struggling puppeteer discovers a hidden door into actor John Malkovich’s mind, letting people inhabit him for 15 minutes. The portal is monetized, causing jealousy, identity theft, power struggles and moral collapse.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

In the midst of a civil war in an African country, little Agu, separated from his mother, loses the rest of his family and becomes a child soldier, manipulated by a fearsome warlord, Commander, who will teach him to kill and instruct him in the ways of war.

Genre: Drama

In the early 20th-century American South, The Color Purple follows Celie, abused and forced into marriage, who, through sisterhood and singer Shug Avery, reclaims her voice.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama

Early-20th-century London: linguist Henry Higgins wagers he can teach cockney Eliza Doolittle to speak and behave like a lady. She succeeds, leaves when unacknowledged; he realizes he needs her. A musical about class and independence.

Genres: Drama, Romance

During the 1930s Depression, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls for ex-con Clyde Barrow; they form a gang, rob banks and steal cars across the Southwest. Their spree turns deadly as lawmen close in.

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Action/Adventure

Two teens, Tenoch and Julio, and an older woman, Luisa, take an impromptu road trip in Mexico after she learns of her husband’s infidelity. The trip triggers sexual awakenings, rivalries and class tensions, pushing them toward adulthood.

Genres: Romance, Drama

A close friendship blossoms between a man and a woman in a movie about sex. The film is based on the true story of a young man and his girlfriend, Sally Kelly.

Genres: Drama, Romance

Tracker Cory Lambert and rookie FBI agent Jane Banner investigate the frozen death of an 18-year-old Native woman on Wind River Reservation, battling severe weather, local mistrust and hidden violence.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Melvin Udall, a maniac writer who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, is the most unpleasant and ungrateful being one can have as a neighbor in New York. Suddenly, one day, Melvin has to take care of a small dog even though he hates animals. The animal company will help soften his character.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

In a future where DNA dictates status, natural-born Vincent steals Jerome Morrow’s biometrics to join elite GATTACA despite a heart defect. A murder inquiry threatens to expose him.

Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance

Mexico DF. A government agent (Washington) disappointed with his life, reluctantly accepts a job that consists of protecting a girl (Dakota Fanning) whose parents have received kidnapping threats. The relationship with his protected will awaken unknown feelings. When the girl is kidnapped, her anger will unleash those responsible.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Zodiac (late 1960s–70s) follows the real hunt for the Zodiac Killer, showing reporters, detectives and a cartoonist obsessing over coded clues. The unresolved case strains careers, relationships and sanity.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In 1944 Major John Reisman leads 12 convicted soldiers on a near‑suicide mission to seize a Nazi officers’ château. Promised pardons, he must train them for parachute raids, sabotage and assassinations amid escapes and distrust.

Genre: Action/Adventure

In San Francisco a sniper nicknamed "Scorpio" terrorizes the city. Hard-edged Inspector Harry Callahan clashes with the justice system as he hunts the killer, rescues a kidnapped girl and confronts vigilantism.

Genres: Crime, Action/Adventure, Thriller

Trans American Flight 209 departs Los Angeles for Chicago. Among the passengers are several curious characters, including a former fighter pilot who, mid-flight, will be forced to take command of the commercial plane, after the pilots are unwell due to a bad meal.

Genre: Comedy