35 must-see Netflix original movies

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As the legend is told from Reed Hastings himself, a $40 late fee from Blockbuster for renting Apollo 13 compelled him to create the company Netflix. Today, Netflix is one of the biggest and most powerful film and TV streaming services in the world, with many of its own “Netflix Original” movies actually must-see movies. But what might be some of the greatest Netflix Original movies of all time?

After successfully launching as a movie rental service where subscribers borrowed and returned DVDs (remember those?) via snail mail, Netflix found the capital and clout to begin an online streaming service circa 2007. This venture was wildly popular, especially for anyone who loved The Office and were desperate to catch up on Lost.

With a library of original movies, some of which have competed for Oscars, Netflix has no shortage of movies that seriously warrant everyone with an account to check out. Below, we rank 35 must-see Netflix original movies.

35. Extraction 2 (2023)

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Extraction 2

34. The Old Guard (2020)

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The Old Guard

33. Horse Girl (2020)

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Horse Girl

For the first time in his career, writer/director Jeff Baena walks on the darker side of life with his psychological drama Horse Girl. Community’s Alison Brie stars as a lonely and shy twee woman with a penchant for horses and supernatural television shows. Out of nowhere, her lucid dreams start bleeding into her waking world, making it impossible for her to distinguish between fantasy and reality. In a fresh turn from his usual flavors of black comedies, Baena exhibits serious muscle as a director in the style of David Lynch and Charlie Kaufman.

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32. Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

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Velvet Buzzsaw

31. Always Be My Maybe (2019)

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Always Be My Maybe

30. El Conde (2023)

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El Conde

A sharp-toothed political satire from Chile, El Conde hails from director Pablo Larrain who imagines the late 20th century Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a depressed, blood-sucking vampire. Jaime Vadell stars as Pinochet, along with actors Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger, Catalina Guerra, Amparo Noguera, Diego Muñoz, Antonia Zegers, and Stella Gonet (as a vampiric Margaret Thatcher). Half supernatural horror, half “bickering family” black comedy, El Conde entertains with gorgeous grayscale cinematography, legitimately awe-inspiring flying sequences, and delirious humor with biting wit.

29. Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021)

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Tick, Tick… Boom!

For anyone feeling the anguish of their quarter-life crisis, there is Tick, Tick… Boom! Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature film directing debut in this adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s stage musical. A powerhouse Andrew Garfield plays a fictionalized version of Larson, a young diner employee in New York City who feels like he’s racing against his imminent 30th birthday to write a hit musical. Though Larson died in 1996 at the age of 35, his works like the musical Rent have ensured his name lives on, and Tick, Tick… Boom! shows us all that it’s never too late to be great.

28. The Killer (2023)

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The Killer

27. The Wonder (2022)

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The Wonder

26. His House (2020)

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His House

In his directorial debut, Remi Weekes explores the scary injustices of migrant public housing in his acclaimed horror picture His House. Wunmi Moskau and Sope Dirisu star as traumatized Sudanese migrants granted probational asylum in the UK; they move into dilapidated housing outside London, a place with peeling walls, creaky floors, and maybe something else lurking inside. Alongside Doctor Who’s Matt Smith as their callous case worker, His House is one of those eerily perfect movies that mix social commentary with B-movie scares in all the right ways.

25. Our Souls at Night (2017)

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Our Souls at Night

24. The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

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The Kindergarten Teacher

A remake of a 2014 Israeli movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in Sara Colanego’s The Kindergarten Teacher as, well, a kindergarten teacher, who finds out that one of her very young students may be a poetry savant. While she’s eager to cultivate his talent, the student’s parents insist he lead a normal life. This compels her to take a dramatic turn as she tries a little too hard to rear a would-be visionary. Provocative and daring in a way so few modern movies are, The Kindergarten Teacher is instructive in how it quizzes us all to wonder where nurturing ends and obsession begins.

23. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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All Quiet on the Western Front

22. Manhunt (2017)

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Manhunt

21. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

20. The Power of the Dog (2021)

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The Power of the Dog

19. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

18. Apostle (2018)

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Apostle

A few years after his Indonesian-language The Raid duology kicked up everyone’s standards for martial arts cinema, Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans focused his camera on his native Wales for his folk horror period piece Apostle. Set in 1905, Dan Stevens (known for movies like The Guest and FX’s Legion) stars as a man who infiltrates a demonic cult living on a remote island in search of his lost sister. While Apostle awkwardly flips between gothic horror and brutal action, it is still a heavy-hitter that pleases anyone whose tastes lie in the Venn Diagram of Midsommar and The Raid.

17. Gerald’s Game (2017)

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Once thought to be “unfilmable,” Stephen King’s suspense thriller novel from 1992 finally made its way to the screen from director Mike Flanagan. Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood star as a married couple whose romantic weekend getaway at an isolated lake house turns dark when husband Gerald (Greenwood) handcuffs his wife Jessie (Gugino) to act out an uncomfortable fantasy in bed. After Gerald dies of a heart attack, it quickly dawns on Jessie that she has no hope of getting out, succumbing to the panicked voices in her head. Flanagan has since become one of Netflix’s go-to artists as the creator of The Haunting of Hill House/Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. But his adaptation of King’s novel remains a stand out even in a packed library of horror-oriented hits.

16. The Pale Blue Eye (2023)

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The Pale Blue Eye

It’s a movie with Edgar Allan Poe as a supporting character, and that’s not even the strangest thing about it. The Pale Blue Eye, from writer and director Scott Cooper (adapting Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel) stars Christian Bale as Augustus Landor, an alcoholic detective in 1830 who conducts an investigation into the grisly death of a literally heartless cadet of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. To pin down the murderer, Augustus teams up with another young trainee at the academy, none other than soon-to-be author Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Eerie and haunting in its wintry atmosphere, The Pale Blue Eye is an enthralling mystery thriller that takes us long into the night.

15. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

14. The Night Comes For Us (2018)

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The Night Comes For Us

A spiritual successor to The Raid movies, Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim reunite for another blood-soaked smackdown in Timo Tjahjanto’s The Night Comes For Us. A triad enforcer (Taslim) has a crisis of conscience after he rescues a young girl. His actions compel his friends in the crime syndicate to turn against him, including his closest pal and ambitious prospect (Uwais). Though Tjahjanto’s movie does not reach the same sublime heights as The Raid, The Night Comes For Us is a fist-pumping thrill ride that has you wincing and cheering at the same time.

13. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

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The Meyerowitz Stories

12. 13th (2016)

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13th

11. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things

10. The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

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The Other Side of the Wind

Netflix obtaining the legendary Orson Welles' previously unfinished final movie The Other Side of the Wind was a flex, but thank the cinematic gods the streamer had the muscle for it. In Welles' final movie which he left unfinished in 1976, the story tells of a grizzled director (John Huston) who returns from Europe to a vastly different Hollywood environment where he struggles to stage a career comeback. A self-reflective portrait of Welles and his own navigation amid the transgressive New Hollywood era, The Other Side of the Wind feels like a miracle, an otherworldly statement from a long-gone artist who has just one last thing to say.

9. Roma (2018)

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Roma

It might seem like an “Oscar bait” movie, and indeed Alfonso Cuarón’s tender period drama accrued a bunch of Academy Award nominations and won the coveted Golden Lion at Venice. But Roma is so much more than its trophies. Yalitza Aparicio, an actual school teacher making her acting debut, plays Cleo, a domestic worker in 1970s Mexico who finds out she’s pregnant. After the father of the children she watches over runs away with his mistress, Cleo joins the family on a vacation that brings her closer to them. Roma’s appealing sincerity and warmth stems from Cuarón himself, who sourced the film from his own childhood experiences in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City.

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8. Okja (2017)

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Okja

In his second English-language feature film, Bong Joon-ho essentially does his own version of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle in this science fiction adventure about the devouring nature of greed and capitalism. A young girl who raised an oversized pig - nicknamed “Okja” - embarks on a rescue mission to save Okja from the cruelties of the American pork industry. Ahn Seo-hyun leads an ensemble bilingual cast that also includes Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Shirley Henderson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Jake Gyllenhaal. As darkly comic and socio-political as his other movies like The Host, Snowpiercer, and his Oscar-winner Parasite, Okja ranks up there as the rare Netflix original with infinitely more meat than bone.

7. The King (2019)

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The King

6. Hold the Dark (2018)

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Hold the Dark

Jeremy Saulnier’s frosty thriller sprinkles an awful lot of blood in the snow, and it chills the spine. Jeffrey Wright stars as a wildlife author who is beckoned to a small rural village in Alaska at the behest of a young woman (Riley Keough) to hunt the wolves she believes are responsible for taking her young son. Upon arrival, things get very weird after the woman’s disturbed husband (Alexander Skarsgård) returns home from serving in Iraq. With a strange mix of David Fincher-esque crime mysteries and eldritch horror in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft, Hold the Dark can make one beg to keep the lights on.

5. The Harder They Fall (2021)

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The Harder They Fall

The euphoric power fantasy of gunslinger Westerns goes from white to Black in Jeymes Samuel’s directorial debut, which packs in an all-star Black principal cast. A fictionalized story featuring many real-life figures of the 19th century American West, The Harder They Fall centers on notorious cowboy Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) who seeks revenge for his family’s murder at the hands of outlaw Rufus Buck (Idris Elba). Also starring Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Danielle Deadwyler, and more, The Harder They Fall brings some much-needed color to a dusty genre.

4. The Irishman (2019)

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The Irishman

3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs screenshot

The Coen Brothers belt a real tune out of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, their black comic anthology film set in the American frontier. Consisting of six beautiful vignettes, starring the likes of Tim Blake Nelson, Clancy Brown, James Franco, Ralph Ineson, Liam Neeson, Zoe Kazan, Harry Melling, and many more, the shorts collectively paint a singular portrait of American grit in a way which only the directors of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country Old Men can. Hilarious but never silly, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a true modern classic.

2. Marriage Story (2019)

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Marriage Story

1. Beasts of No Nation (2015)

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Beasts of No Nation

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

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3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”

3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”

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Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”

4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

5Marvel Rivals review: “So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths”

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Marvel Rivals review: “So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths”

1Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”

Shadow brandishes a gun in Sonic The Hedgehog 3

1Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”

2Mufasa: The Lion King review – “It’s no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie”

2Mufasa: The Lion King review – “It’s no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie”

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Mufasa: The Lion King review – “It’s no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie”

3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

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Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”

4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”

5Nightbitch review: “Amy Adams' disappointing dark comedy is all bark and no bite”

5Nightbitch review: “Amy Adams' disappointing dark comedy is all bark and no bite”

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Nightbitch review: “Amy Adams' disappointing dark comedy is all bark and no bite”

1Squid Game season 2 review: “Secures its place as one of the best shows on television right now”

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Squid Game season 2 review: “Secures its place as one of the best shows on television right now”

2Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special review: “Ncuti Gatwa is as magnetic as ever in this delightful festive treat”

2Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special review: “Ncuti Gatwa is as magnetic as ever in this delightful festive treat”

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3Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”

3Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”

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Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”

4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”

4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”

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Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”

5Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

5Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

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Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

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