Best Movies of All Time on Netflix
Last updated March 18, 2025
Highest Rated Movies with a 3.6 / 5 Star Rating
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFrank Popper's engaging documentary follows the 2004 campaign of Jeff Smith, a young political science instructor at Washington University who runs for the seat vacated by retiring congressman Dick Gephardt. Pitted against state Rep. Russ Carnahan, the scion of a powerful political family, Smith proves that an unknown with no money can make a difference, forging a campaign that ultimately poses a serious challenge to Carnahan.
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Capitalism: A Love Story
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFilmmaker Michael Moore (Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11) takes on capitalism's roots, the floundering U.S. economy, and 2008's global financial meltdown and subsequent bank bailout in this rousing documentary. Combining stories about those who suffer most from Corporate America's greed and insatiable thirst for profits and the people most responsible for myriad crises, Moore embarks on another shocking fact-finding rampage.
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Case 39
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTo rescue 10-year-old Lilith Sullivan from her abusive parents, idealistic social worker Emily Jenkins welcomes the girl into her home -- only to discover that Lilith isn't quite the innocent victim she claims to be.
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Casper's Scare School
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen friendly ghost Casper decides he needs to toughen up, he goes to school to learn how to scare people. Little does he know he'll end up in the middle of a scandal that could threaten the whole world!
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Catch-22
1970 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCapt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries to escape the travesties of World War II by convincing his Air Force commanders that he's crazy. Hilarity ensues -- but so does reality as he watches his close friends (Martin Sheen and Art Garfunkel) die in the ridiculousness of war. Mike Nichols directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944.
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Centurion
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 2nd-century Britain, Roman fighter Quintas Dias (Michael Fassbender) is the lone survivor of a Pictish attack on a Roman frontier post. Eager for revenge, he joins the Ninth Legion -- under General Virilus (Dominic West) -- and journeys north on a mission to destroy the Picts. Writer-director Neil Marshall's rousing sword-and-sandals adventure also stars Olga Kurylenko as the beautiful Pict warrior Etain.
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Charlie Wilson's War
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTexas congressman Charlie Wilson sets a series of earth-shaking events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in an Oscar-nominated role) to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels in their fight against the Soviet Red Army.
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Chasing Amy
1997 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsComic book artist Holden meets the perfect woman, only to learn that she's a lesbian. Their friendship develops into something more when Holden confesses his love for her, but secrets from her past threaten their relationship.
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Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsHigh-flying, weed-worshipping comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reunite for their long-anticipated Light Up America tour, stopping off in San Antonio, Texas, to entertain an enthusiastic bunch of stoners at the city's Majestic Theatre.
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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
1980 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDynamic duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong embark on an outrageous road trip of sorts, which finds the pair tearing through Los Angeles, making mayhem in massage parlors, trying to collect unemployment, harassing the rich and taking on the LAPD. On their journey through the city, the stoners encounter Cheech's moocher cousin, a rude hotel receptionist and aliens in this laugh-a-minute comedy. Evelyn Guerrero, Sy Kramer and Betty Kennedy co-star.
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Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
1981 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis third outing for the unambitious kings of stoner comedy -- Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong -- concerns their latest enterprise: selling ice cream from a truck. (But, of course, they're delivering more than just good humor to their customers.)
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Chennai Express
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhat could have been a sad journey turns into a joyful one for Rahul when he falls in love with a woman en route to submerging his grandfather's ashes. Exotic landscapes and rousing musical numbers follow as the pair traverses South India.
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Children of Men
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this futuristic tale, humans have lost the ability to reproduce and face extinction. Things change when a single woman mysteriously becomes pregnant, prompting a conflicted government bureaucrat and his ex-wife to join forces to protect her.
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City of Men
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn director Paulo Morelli's follow-up to Fernando Meirelles's Oscar-nominated City of God, 18-year-old best friends Acerola and Laranjinha are struggling to come to terms with the pressures of manhood in the midst of a bloody neighborhood gang war.
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Clerks 2
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsPicking up 10 years after their original misfit misadventures, director Kevin Smith revisits the doldrums and daily routines of New Jersey's minimum-wage employees in this sequel to his career-defining first film, Clerks. This time, seasoned slackers Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) find themselves working behind the fast-food counter at Mooby's after a catastrophe drives them away from their previous dead-end jobs.
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Clueless
1995 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDirector Amy Heckerling's fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel &NFi;Emma&NFi_; follows the misadventures of meddlesome Beverly Hills high schooler Cher, who gets more than she bargained for when she gives a fashion-challenged student a makeover.
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Coco Before Chanel
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAudrey Tautou stars as legendary French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this lively biopic that explores the fashion icon's storied ascension from orphan to seamstress and cabaret singer and ultimately, the queen of Parisian haute couture. Alessandro Nivola plays Arthur "Boy" Capel, Chanel's lover and influential business investor who makes a lifelong impact on the young woman. Anne Fontaine directs this Oscar nominee for Best Costume Design.
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Commando
1985 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCol. John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger), the former leader of a special ops team, is vaulted back into action to save his young daughter (Alyssa Milano) who has been kidnapped. Her life is threatened lest John assassinate a South American president. Rather than being strong-armed into such a proposition, John takes matters (and lots of guns) into his owns hands as he fights through the jungle against his enemies to save his daughter.
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Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFollowing his unplanned and highly publicized departure from NBC, exiled talk show host Conan O'Brien decides to take his show on the road. This documentary captures that uproarious tour as well as O'Brien's dramatic break with his ex-employers.
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Conan the Barbarian
1982 | R | 3.6 out of 5 StarsArnold Schwarzenegger stars in his breakout role as Conan, who -- after his parents are killed by an evil sorcerer (James Earl Jones) -- is sent to a slave camp, where he trains to be a gladiator. Once granted freedom, the bruiser seeks to avenge his parents' deaths. This pure swords-and-sorcery epic is one of the best of its kind, sparking a wave of fantasy films (as well as a sequel) in the early 1980s.
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Crazy Heart
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen reporter Jean Craddock (Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal) interviews Bad Blake (Oscar winner Jeff Bridges) -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy (Colin Farrell), the upstart kid he once mentored? Robert Duvall produces and co-stars.
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Crooklyn
1994 | PG-13 | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSpike Lee directs this semi-autobiographical tale of a large family sharing a Brooklyn apartment in the early 1970s. The story focuses on Troy, whose musican father and schoolteacher mother work hard to provide for her and her four unruly brothers.
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Cruel Intentions
1999 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsQuenching a thirst for dangerous games, promiscuous Kathryn Merteuil challenges her stepbrother to deflower their headmaster's daughter before summer ends. If he succeeds, he gets to bed Kathryn. If he fails, she'll win his most prized possession.
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Crusade in the Pacific: America at War
1951 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAs fierce battles raged on in Europe during World War II, the Pacific Theater was just as contentious and bloody. This fascinating documentary takes viewers into the heart of the action, from Manchuria to Hiroshima. Get to know the key players of this dramatic and deadly power struggle through this collection of 24 episodes that explore the weaponry and strategies employed in the war, as well as the brave soldiers who fought in it.
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Date Night
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWho knew simple dinner reservations under a different name could turn one New Jersey couple's date night so terribly upside-down? Claire (Tina Fey) and Phil (Steve Carell) Foster leave their kids with the sitter (Leighton Meester) and head out for a night on the town -- as the Tripplehorns. Shawn Levy (Just Married, Night at the Museum) directs this action-comedy; Mark Wahlberg and James Franco co-star.
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