Best Movies of All Time on Netflix
Last updated March 16, 2025
Highest Rated Movies with a 3.7 / 5 Star Rating
Frida
2002 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsJulie Taymor directs this Oscar-winning biopic of painter Frida Kahlo, focusing on her often rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera and her controversial political and sexual reputation (she was a communist and openly bisexual).
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Friday Night Lights
2004 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsPeter Berg directs this gritty but heartwarming tale, based on a book by H.G. Bissinger, that chronicles the efforts of Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), the coach of a local football team in small-town Odessa, Texas, to propel his squad to the state championships. But the path to glory is paved with racial and economic strife, and the coach must help his players navigate through the maze so they can play like winners.
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Friends with Benefits
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis raucous rom-com chronicles the relationship of two busy singles, Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis), who agree to include sex in their friendship -- minus the emotions and commitment. But things get complicated.
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From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRobbers-on-the-lam Seth and Richard Gecko take an ex-preacher and his kids hostage. On a race to the Mexican border, they rendezvous at a cantina, not knowing the owners and clientele are bloodthirsty vampires in this ode to 1960s horror movies.
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From Prada to Nada
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsTwo Latina sisters accustomed to luxury and high style become penniless when their father dies, forcing them to move in with working class relatives, in this spirited comedy loosely based on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility."
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Fun Size
2012 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen feisty teenager Wren loses her offbeat kid brother on Halloween, she joins forces with four friends -- BFF April, wannabe player Peng and nerdy Roosevelt -- to find him during one crazy, adventure-filled night.
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Gattaca
1997 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWith one eye on his lifelong dream of working in outer space, a genetically flawed but determined "In-Valid" (Ethan Hawke) hires a DNA broker (Tony Shalhoub) to help him obtain more desirable genetic material from a paralyzed man (Jude Law). In the process, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful "Valid" (Uma Thurman) with a heart defect. Screenwriter Andrew Niccol also directs this futuristic thriller in his feature-length debut.
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Gentleman's Agreement
1947 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEnterprising reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck), eager to blow the lid off anti-Semitism, accepts an assignment to pen a series of frank exposés for a progressive magazine. Looking for a new angle, Green poses as a Jew and soon endures the full spectrum of bigotry -- from being denied a job and use of public facilities to his son suffering a beating. Little by little, the journalist comes to understand the cruel effects of prejudice.
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Gone Baby Gone
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen a 4-year-old girl vanishes from a rough Boston neighborhood and cops offer little help, her family hires two private detectives to find answers. But the gumshoes face moral dilemmas as the case becomes increasingly complex.
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Gridiron Gang
2006 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen an ambitious probation officer (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) working at a detention camp for juvenile delinquents presents his idea to mold dangerous teenage inmates into a successful high school-level football team, none of his superiors thinks he can do it. But with a spirited co-worker (rapper Xzibit) by his side, he just might prove them wrong. This sports-infused drama is based on an Emmy-winning documentary about a real-life team.
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Grown Ups
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsFive childhood pals reunite after 30 years to mourn the loss of their old basketball coach. Gathering at a July 4th celebration where their families meet for the first time, the friends find themselves acting quite juvenile for their age.
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Gunslinger Girl: Season 1
2004 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAbandoned by the agency charged with caring for her as an orphan, Henrietta hides behind emotional walls and grows up to become a killer. But there's still hope for redemption for this young woman with few memories of her devastating childhood.
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Gunslinger Girl: Season 2: Il Teatrino
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsOne of the Social Welfare Agency's covert squadron of schoolgirls-turned-trained-assassins, who protect Italy from terrorists, has disappeared. Now fellow hit girl Triela must go undercover to infiltrate a rival faction and bring her back alive.
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Guzaarish
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAfter an onstage disaster leaves illusionist Ethan a quadriplegic, he channels his magic into a hit radio show. But on the 14th anniversary of his accident, Ethan elects to fight for his right to die -- just as a young man approaches him for help.
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Heart and Souls
1993 | PG-13 | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA coldhearted yuppie connects with the ghosts of four people who died as he was being born. Their time in limbo is drawing to a close, and to avoid being dumped by his girlfriend, he must help them fulfill their final wishes.
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Heidi
1937 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen young Heidi is orphaned, she's sent to the mountains to live with her stern grandfather and gradually warms his heart with her charm. But on her eighth birthday, she is taken away by her conniving aunt to serve as a disabled girl's companion.
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Season 1
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWith a loose nod to history (and a smattering of ethnic stereotypes), this inventive anime personifies the Axis powers that we all know from World War II -- Italy, Germany and Japan -- and re-imagines them as super-cute boys.
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Season 2
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWith a loose nod to history (and a smattering of ethnic stereotypes), this inventive anime personifies the Axis powers that we all know from World War II -- Italy, Germany and Japan -- and re-imagines them as super-cute boys.
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Hopscotch
1980 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsOne of the CIA's top international operatives, Miles Kendig is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig begins writing a memoir that exposes the secrets of every intelligence agency in the world.
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Horgasm: A Love Story
2012 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsExplore the world of competitive snowboarding through the experiences of record-breaking snowboarder Torstein Horgmo as he travels the world, filming in areas of spectacular scenery or while he competes in Olympic arenas with crowds of thousands.
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House of Flying Daggers
2004 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsNear the end of the Tang Dynasty, police deputies Jin and Leo tangle with Mei, a dancer suspected of having ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Flying Daggers, which steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsTo help land a big ad account, notorious player Ben (Matthew McConaughey) makes a wager with his co-workers that he can get a woman to fall in love with him in just 10 days. But he bets on the wrong girl -- a women's magazine writer (Kate Hudson) with her own hidden agenda. Turns out she's writing an article on how to get rid of a guy in 10 days -- and she's set on seeing her story through to completion.
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Hunger
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAcclaimed visual artist Steve McQueen makes his feature film debut with this gripping drama (and Independent Spirit Award Best Foreign Film contender) that depicts the events surrounding a hunger strike staged by a group of IRA prisoners during their 1981 incarceration in Britain's Prison Maze. Led by IRA volunteer-poet Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), the strikers waged their six-week-long protest in an attempt to be acknowledged as political prisoners and to improve the prison's conditions.
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I Heart Shakey
2012 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSingle father J.T. and his daughter, Chandler, move from to Chicago with their lovable mutt, Shakey. After missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to find Shakey a new home, while Chandler hatches a plan to keep her pet.
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I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsJonathan Demme's documentary began as a film about Hurricane Katrina but became a portrait of one of the disaster's most colorful survivors: Carolyn Parker, a woman determined to rebuild her life -- even if it takes everything she has.
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