Do you have problems choosing a film from the extensive Library of Netflix? Look no further, because here we bring you a list of the best films at the moment in the UK, ranging from action and adventure to thrillers and musicals.
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This list is updated every month, but films change every day on Netflix. This may mean that one or two of these films are no longer available to view by the time you come to read this article, and some good new films may have appeared.
Then let’s get started. Here are the best films to watch on Netflix in the UK at the moment.
Arrival
Denis Villeneuve is perhaps best known for the Dune series, but arrival is an incredible sci-fi blockbuster not to be missed. Amy Adams plays the lead role as linguist Louise, who is recruited to lead an elite team to discover a way to communicate with recently closed aliens. If they don’t, they risk destruction for the rest of the world.
The trainee
Most of Nancy Meyers films are like a warm of hot chocolate, but the trainee offers a more friends -based story with an unlikely couple. Robert Di Niro plays like Ben Whittaker, a retired widow who realizes that he needs something to keep his days busy. He ends up a role as an intern in an online fashion store with a workaholic boss, played by Anne Hathaway.
Supernova
If you feel like a good cry, supernova will scratch that itch. Acting legends Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci star like Sam and Tusker, a few of more than two decades. The couple takes a camper to travel through England and to make contact with loved ones again, while he also has to deal with Tusker’s diagnosis of early dementia.
Beetlejuice
Micheal Keaton has returned as the iconic Beetlejuice in the sequel to the 1998 film. If you want to illuminate the chaos, the original film now streams on Netflix. Recently the deceased pair of Barbara and Adam are in a pickle when an unbearable family enters the house that they are chasing. While they try to leave them, they attract the help of the Spirit Beetlejuice, and things from hand.
Godzilla Min one
Perhaps you know the American Godzilla series Best, which includes ridiculous blockbusters such as Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Godzilla Min one, however, is the only film in the franchise that wins an Oscar, and rightly so. This highly acclaimed Japanese film follows a former Kamikaze pilot who is still recovering from the Fallout of WW2 and bombing. A monster is born from the destruction.
Parasite
If you have missed the Oscar-winning thriller parasite of Bong Joon Ho (the first non-English film that has the title of Best Picture), then this is the time to catch up. This nail biting film follows the Kim family, who have difficulty staying in Seoul, South Korea. When a job for the household occurs in the rich Parkhuis, the Kims get entangled in a complex household dilemma around the class.
Glass onion
Rian Johnson’s sequel to The Hit Knives Out has everything you need from a murder mystery. Southern Detective Benoit Blanc is back to resolve another complex case when he is invited to a luxury island owned by a tech billionaire. One of those present is dead and Blanc has to be careful who is guilty.
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Don’t look at it
Don’t look up is a black comedy that follows two astronomers who discover that a giant comet is on track to touch the earth and cause en masse extinction. However, trying to warn the general public and the media is difficult, because people just don’t just don’t look up and face the truth.
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All quiet on the Westfront
All silent on the Westfront was the joint second most nominated film of the 2023 Oscars, for nine prizes. This adjustment of the novel from 1929 maps the last days of WW1 through the eyes of a young German soldier. He gradually learns about the horrors of the fight while struggling to survive.
Tick, Tick … Boom!
Tick, Tick … Boom! Is the biographical story of Jonathan Larson (the maker of Rent), an aspiring -musical maker in New York City who asks if he is on the right career path, trying to juggle his own personal relationships. If that is not enough for you, the Andrew Garfield will play and is directed by musical royalties, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Far away
There is a whole ton of studio -Ghibli films now on Netflix, and one of the most loved one is Spirited Away -who has received countless awards, including sixteenth place on the list ‘Best films of the 21st century’. The film follows the young Chihiro, who has to save her parents to be converted into animals forever.
Beasts of no nation
Idris Elba can describe the first original film from Netflix in his cast, but great as he is, he is not the real star here. That honor is of Abraham Attah, the Ghanaian teenager who makes his acting debut here as a young boy hired as a child soldier in a cruel civil war. It is not surprising that it is pretty disturbing things, but it is unmistakably powerful and difficult to forget.
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Shadow
This Persian language film takes place in Tehran during the war in Iran-Iraq, and is the rarest things: a horror film that feels really new. That is partly thanks to the relatively new monster (the shadow -like Djinn), partly the setting, and partly the brilliant central version of Narges Rashidi. It also manages the neat trick to be completely frightening while it hardly of a single drop of blood.
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The Mitchells versus the machines
The Mitchells vs. The Machines is one of the funniest animated family films in years and criminal underestimated. Katie Mitchell will register for the film school. However, her family is on her on a road trip to the university. Their journey is interrupted by the approaching robotapocalyps, and as such the four must go together to save the world.
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Wedding story
Strap yourself for an emotional grilling with a wedding story, because over the course of a few hours we see the gradual process of a divorce unfolding and becoming more toxic and ugly over time. It shows the complexity of a breakdown of relationships and how the legal elements of separation are contrary to the emotions of the couple. It is not the easiest watch, but it is certainly enlightening and rather heartbreaking.
Destruction
This smart sci-fi film by director Alex Garland (of the excellent ex Machina) received a cinema release in the US, but immediately went to Netflix here in the UK. However, do not take that as a bad sign: it is not that destruction is bad, but simply that studio Paramount was worried about his mix of trippy visuals, dark horror and loose plot would not convert to large cash register decay. This is not an easy watch, but believe us, it’s worth it.
Anima
Anima is something else: this 15 -minute shorts is essentially an extensive music video. However, it is an extensive music video with Thom Yorke who includes three songs from his album Anima, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Turn the volume up and set for a surreal, dystopian dance that would be the perfect warming for a meatier film.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
This Western anthology of the Coen brothers tells six different, non -bound stories in the Old West. Do not look forward to character connections – there are no – but instead follow the ebb and stream of themes, while the directors investigate mortality, kindness and uselessness of existence about these completely different, completely memorable stories.
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The night comes for us
If you liked the Indonesian martial arts Epic, but thought it was just one small More violent, the night might come for you. The star of the raid back IKO UWAIS returns – although this time in a supporting role – and the Martial Arts promotion is just as impressive, but now supported by enough gore to let the malignant dead blush blush.
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Smile
Smile tells the story of therapist Rose Cotter. She takes care of a young woman, Laura Weaver, who witnessed the suicide of her university professor. Laura claims that she is being chased by a mysterious creature that appears in the form of creepy smiling people. Initially, skeptically, Rose starts to experience things that she had never thought possible.
