Best movies of recent years on netflix

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey(2025)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Two strangers who meet at a mutual friend's wedding have the chance to relive important moments from their pasts, illuminating the path that led them to the present and gaining the opportunity to change their futures.



Ballad of a Small Player(2025)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 63

When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.



Nonnas(2025)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual grandmothers as the chefs.



The Woman in Cabin 10(2025)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A journalist stumbles upon a gruesome secret while traveling aboard a luxury cruise ship.



Left-Handed Girl(2025)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Nina Ye, Shih-Yuan Ma, Janel Tsai,
Shih-Ching Tsou,

A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.



We Have a Ghost(2023)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Finding a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home turns Kevin's family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest investigate the mystery of Ernest's past, they become a target of the CIA.



The Remarkable Life of Ibelin(2024)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Mats Steen, Trude Steen, Robert Steen,
Benjamin Ree,

Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.



Babes(2024)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Lifelong friends Eden and Dawn, one single and wanting a baby, the other already a mother, navigate challenges to their bond when Eden pursues pregnancy alone after a one-night stand.



The Boy and the Heron(2023)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 90

Through encounters with his friends and uncle, follows a teenage boy's psychological development. He enters a magical world with a talking grey heron after finding an abandoned tower in his new town.



The Archies(2023)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Set in 1960s India, Archie and the gang navigate romance, friendship and the future of Riverdale as developers threaten to destroy a beloved park.



Don't Move(2024)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight and hide before her body shuts down.



Lift(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Follows a master thief and his Interpol Agent ex-girlfriend who team up to steal $500 million in gold bullion being transported on an A380 passenger flight.



The Greatest Night in Pop(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 59

On January 28th 1985, dozens of the era's most popular musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity single for African famine relief. Setting egos aside, they collaborated on a song that would make history.



Fighter(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A reckless yet brilliant squadron leader and his team of elite fighter pilots face mortal dangers and inner demons as they unite for a deadly mission.



Under Paris(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 51

To save Paris from a bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.



The Piano Lesson(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and more, in deciding what to do with an heirloom, the family piano.



Night Always Comes(2025)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Risking everything to secure a future for herself and her brother, Lynette sets out on a dangerous odyssey, confronting her own dark past over the course of one propulsive night.



Good Grief(2023)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Dan Levy, Himesh Patel, Ruth Negga,
Dan Levy,

When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face.



The Out-Laws(2023)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A straight-laced bank manager about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.



The Kitchen(2023)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 61

In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home.




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