Recommended Movies You Can Stream on Netflix
Here are all the movies I rated either four or five stars on Netflix that are available to stream as of 8/21/2015. Some of these ratings are really old and I’m not sure they’d stand up to a rewatch. Even glancing at it now, some seem indefensible. YMMV!
I compile this list from the Netflix Watch It Again page. The code I use follows this list, if you’re into that kind of thing.
- 13 Assassins
- 13 Going on 30
- The Act of Killing: Theatrical Cut
- Adventureland
- Almost Famous
- Amelie
- Annie Hall
- Apollo 18
- The Aviator
- The Babadook
- Bad Santa
- Bandslam
- Battle Royale
- The Battleship Potemkin
- The Believer
- Beverly Hills Cop
- The Bicycle Thief
- Bigger, Stronger, Faster
- The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
- Bloody Sunday
- Blue Ruin
- Bound
- Braveheart
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Changing Lanes
- Charade
- Chef
- Children of Heaven
- Chinatown
- Chocolat
- Cinema Paradiso
- City of God
- Clerks
- Coach Carter
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- Control Room
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Croupier
- The Crow
- Dead Man Walking
- Deep Water
- Detective Dee & Mystery of Phantom Flame
- District 13
- The Emperor’s New Groove
- Europa Report
- The Exorcist
- Fargo
- Finding Neverland
- Fish Tank
- Fist of Legend
- Following
- Force Majeure
- Forrest Gump
- From Here to Eternity
- The General
- Get the Gringo
- The Giant Mechanical Man
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Gladiator
- Good Will Hunting
- Goon
- The Great Escape
- The Guest
- Headhunters
- Heathers
- The History of Future Folk
- Holes
- Honeymoon
- Hoop Dreams
- Hot Fuzz
- Housebound
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- The Hunt
- The Hunter
- The Hurt Locker
- The Hustler
- I Saw the Devil
- I’m Not Scared
- In Bruges
- In a World…
- In the Bedroom
- In the Loop
- Infernal Affairs
- Inglourious Basterds
- Ip Man
- The Italian Job
- Jerry Maguire
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- The Killer
- Kung Fu Hustle
- The Lady Vanishes
- The Legend of Drunken Master
- Let the Right One In
- The Lifeguard
- Like Water for Chocolate
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Lord of War
- The Machinist
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- The Man from Nowhere
- Man on Wire
- Mansfield Park
- Marathon Man
- Mean Creek
- Mission: Impossible II
- Mr. Mom
- Mud
- Mulan
- The Naked Gun
- National Treasure
- Next
- Nightcrawler
- Nine to Five
- Oculus
- Odd Thomas
- Oldboy
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The One I Love
- The Others
- The Pact
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Point Blank
- The Prey
- Pulp Fiction
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Red Cliff: Theatrical Version
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rocky
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Scenic Route
- Scream
- The Secret of Kells
- Shakespeare in Love
- Shanghai Noon
- Sherlock Jr.
- Short Term 12
- Side Effects
- Silence of the Lambs
- Silver Linings Playbook
- A Simple Plan
- The Sixth Sense
- Sling Blade
- Snowpiercer
- Stake Land
- Stand by Me
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Stardust
- The Station Agent
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- Sunset Boulevard
- Swingers
- Tell No One
- The Terminator
- There Will Be Blood
- These Final Hours
- The Thin Blue Line
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Three Days of the Condor
- Three Kings
- Total Recall
- Touching the Void
- Trainspotting
- Tsotsi
- Undefeated
- United 93
- The Verdict
- WarGames
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Winnebago Man
- Witness
- World War Z
- World War Z: Unrated Version
- The World’s Fastest Indian
- Y Tu Mamá También
I run this code in Firebug to generate the Markdown that Hugo then converts to the HTML you see above. Note that you have to scroll all the way down the Watch It Again page so that all the titles are loaded before running this script.
var movies = [];
var result = '';
function titleSort(a, b){
var aTitle = a.title.replace(/^(a|an|the) +/gi, '');
var bTitle = b.title.replace(/^(a|an|the) +/gi, '');
return ((aTitle < bTitle) ? -1 : ((aTitle > bTitle) ? 1 : 0));
}
jQuery(".mdpLink").each(function(index) {
var title = jQuery(this).text().trim();
var tv = title.toLowerCase().indexOf("episodes)");
if (tv <= 0) {
movies.push({
title: title,
href: jQuery(this).attr('href').replace(/\?trkid=[0-9]+/gi, ''),
loved: jQuery(this).closest("td").siblings(".cell-starbar").find("span .sbmf-50").length
});
}
});
movies.sort(titleSort);
jQuery.each(movies, function (i, movie) {
var title = movie.title;
if (movie.loved) {
title = '**' + title + '**';
}
result = result + ' - [' + title + '](' + movie.href + ')' + '\n';
});
console.log(result);
Fri, Aug 21, 2015