Best Movies of All Time on Netflix
Last updated March 12, 2025
Highest Rated Movies with a 3.9 / 5 Star Rating
Summit on Ice
1992 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn September 1972, the world watched as Canada faced Russia in the most significant sports event of its time. It was a battle of beliefs, a clash of cultures and some would say, a war.
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Superbad
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 Stars40-Year-Old Virgin collaborators Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen re-team for this partially autobiographical high school comedy starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as best buddies facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from their fake ID-toting friend, "McLovin" (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
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Swades
2004 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAn Americanized NASA scientist returns to his native India on a business trip and tries to get back in touch with his roots by finding the nanny who helped raise him. His mission forces him to examine his ways and all the changes he's been through.
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Tai Chi Hero
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsPicking up where the off-kilter Tai Chi Hero Zero ended, this sequel follows Yang Lu Chan's training under his master and new bride, Yu Niang. His new kung fu skills come in handy when Yu's brother launches an insidious plot against their village.
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Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis fact-based Lifetime drama follows one mother's nightmarish struggle to retrieve the 7-year-old son her ex-husband whisked out of her life when he abducted the boy and took him back to his native South Korea.
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Talaash
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsSet in the jumbled landscape of Mumbai, this mystery drama centers on a police inspector who's trying to cope with the collapse of his marriage. When he meets a prostitute while investigating a recent death, events conspire to further entangle them.
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Tapped
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe high cost -- to both the environment and our health -- of bottled water is the subject of this documentary that enlists activists, environmentalists, community leaders and others to expose the dark side of the bottled water industry. Americans may rethink their obsession with bottled H20 when they learn of the unregulated industry's willingness to ignore environmental and health concerns, and the problems that arise as a result.
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Tegan & Sara: Get Along
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis collection dedicated to the beloved musical duo features short documentaries that follow Tegan and Sara on tour in India and the United States, plus an intimate studio concert filmed in Vancouver, B.C.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this sequel, director James Cameron delivers scene after scene of action-packed thrills. A bigger, better Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is gunning for a shape-shifting T-1000 who's out to kill John Connor (Edward Furlong), the son of Sarah (Linda Hamilton), the original Terminator's nemesis. This Extreme Edition of the film includes 16 minutes of unseen footage and other extras.
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsTo make the most of their meager retirement savings, a group of British seniors moves to India to live out their golden years at the Marigold Hotel. But upon arrival, they discover the once-lavish resort has wilted considerably.
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
2010 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhen they inherit a creepy castle in Romania, high school girl-geek Jordan and her family pick up and move to that werewolf-obsessed country. But when Jordan herself becomes a werewolf, she must elude her own brother, who sets out to slay her.
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The Business of Being Born
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsDirector Abby Epstein's controversial documentary takes a hard look at America's maternity care system, juxtaposing hospital deliveries against the growing popularity of at-home, natural childbirths that some expectant parents are opting for. Former talk show host Ricki Lake was inspired to produce this compelling exposé after a dissatisfying birthing experience with her first child left her with many unanswered questions.
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The Caine Mutiny
1954 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsCaptain Queeg: madman or misunderstood taskmaster? That's the dilemma facing the first officer (Van Johnson) of the U.S.S. Caine when its stern new captain (Humphrey Bogart) drives the crew to the brink of mutiny. Part sea-going adventure, part courtroom drama, The Caine Mutiny is a tale that manages to be both thrilling and thought-provoking. Bogart shines in one of his last roles.
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The Cartel
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn his first feature film, director Bob Bowdon takes aim at America's public school system, revealing a self-serving network of wasteful cartels that squander funding and fail to deliver when it comes to academic testing and basic skills. Both parents and teachers want change, but reform is an uphill battle in the face of heel-digging bureaucrats and so-called "dropout factories." It's a bona fide crisis that's burgeoning out of control.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWith their dour, bookish cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) in tow, the youngest Pevensie offspring -- Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) -- take an unexpected trip back to Narnia and join noble King Caspian (Ben Barnes) for an epic high-seas adventure. Setting sail aboard the Dawn Treader, the young heroes head for the end of the world, determined to rescue seven once-powerful lords banished by Caspian's evil uncle.
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The Cure
1995 | PG-13 | 3.9 out of 5 StarsRejected by his peers, an 11-year-old Minnesota boy who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion develops a kinship with his new neighbor. When the duo reads about a New Orleans' doctor's cure for AIDS, they head down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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The End of the Line
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsFilmmaker Rupert Murray traverses the world exposing the devastating effects that overfishing with modern technology is having on fish stocks and exploring the real solutions to solve the crisis.
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The Endless Summer
1966 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe quintessential surf film directed and narrated by Bruce Brown follows summer around the globe in 1966. Mike Hynson and Robert August ride the wild waters of Hawaii, Australia, Africa and other exotic locales in search of the perfect wave.
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The Fifth Element
1997 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this imaginative sci-fi epic, a 23rd-century cabbie finds himself involved with a fetching alien who may hold the key to saving the world. But it's curtains for planet Earth unless the duo can stay a step ahead of a demented villain named Zorg.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsHacker Lisbeth Salander becomes the prime suspect when two journalists die after magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist launches an expose of the Swedish sex trade, so the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhen a young computer hacker is tasked with investigating a prying journalist, their separate missions become entangled amid a decades-old conspiracy. David Fincher directs this English adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsA journalist and a rebellious computer hacker team up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's niece, only to uncover dark secrets about Vanger's powerful family in this adaptation of the bestseller by Stieg Larsson.
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsTom Joad, a Depression-era everyman, leads his poor family on a harrowing journey from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to the promised land of California in this adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel.
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The Hole Story
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsFilmmakers dig deep into a discussion about corporate greed, public health and environmental disaster in this exposé of the Canadian mining industry. With a long history of injustice to workers, the business continues to be dangerous and corrupt.
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The Man from Snowy River
1982 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAfter his father's death, young cowboy Jim must earn money so he can keep his father's farm going. When he takes work breaking wild horses and falls in love with his boss's feisty daughter, Jim must prove his worth to keep both his job and his girl.
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