Best Movies of All Time on Netflix
Last updated March 19, 2025
Highest Rated Movies with a 3.6 / 5 Star Rating
Mercury Rising
1998 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAn autistic 9-year-old boy (Miko Hughes, in an amazing performance) cracks the U.S. government's top-secret code when an unapproved test matrix gets published in a crossword magazine. Naturally, the National Security Agency can't allow anyone to have the key to the code, and unctuous villain Alec Baldwin is willing to end the boy's life to protect the nation. Can demoted FBI Agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) save the day?
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Mere Dad Ki Maruti
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWith his daughter about to get married, proud papa Tej Khullar buys her a new car as a wedding present. But all hell breaks loose when his son takes it out for a spin to impress a sexy college coed -- and promptly loses the vehicle.
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Midnight Cowboy
1969 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTo earn cash as a freelance sex stud and work toward his dream of becoming a kept man, hayseed hustler Joe Buck heads to New York City, where an improbable friendship blossoms when he meets seedy con man Ratso Rizzo.
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Mission for Mussolini
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis riveting documentary centers on Italian journalist Luigi Romersa and the task given to him in 1944 by Benito Mussolini: to investigate and report back on Adolf Hitler's claims of Nazi superweapons, including a bomb that would "shock the world."
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Mobsters
1991 | R | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDirector Michael Karbelnikoff's blood-soaked crime saga traces the ascent of notorious street thugs Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Frank Costello to the top of the syndicate. Setting aside their ethnic differences, the quartet ultimately turns their small-time bootlegging enterprise into domination of the underworld. The high-powered cast includes Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Lara Flynn Boyle and Anthony Quinn.
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Monte Carlo
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDisappointed with their tour group in Paris, three friends are swept into a whirlwind of wealth and glamour when one of them is mistaken for a British heiress. As the girls fall deeper into the lie, the alluring lifestyle opens up new opportunities.
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Mother India: Life Through the Eyes of the Orphan
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNarrated by Rebecca St. James (Grammy Award Winning Artist), Mother India is a compelling documentary capturing the stories of abandoned and orphaned kids living in India. For one week, David and Shawn stepped into the lives of 25 boys and girls living alongside the railway station in the southern town of Tenali (Andhra Pradesh). With over 31 million orphans in India, the stories that emerge reflect the complexity of the issues and the challenge of rescuing kids from a life of begging and addiction. Find out what happens when these two friends eat, sleep, and play among this 'family' of street kids in an effort to experience life through their eyes. You'll never be the same.
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Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this modern romance, two thoughtful but unpopular youngsters impersonate more conventionally appealing peers online to express their true feelings. But it turns out they're each pretending to be the object of the other's affections.
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Murder by Death
1976 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this murder-mystery spoof, enigmatic millionaire Lionel Twain invites six brilliant detectives to a dinner that turns into a murder investigation with a hefty prize going to the one who solves the case.
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My Bodyguard
1980 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTormented by a gang of bullies -- led by Matt Dillon, in one of his first film roles -- sheltered new kid Clifford (Chris Makepeace) seeks protection from older student Linderman (Adam Baldwin), a burly loner who's rumored to have killed -- and possibly eaten -- his own brother. Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon and Joan Cusack also star in this coming-of-age story about an unlikely friendship between two outcasts. Tony Bill directs.
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National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds), a party-loving student shuffling through his seventh year in college, learns that his father won't pay for another semester, he has to figure out a way to pay for his education all by himself.
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No One Killed Jessica
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis political thriller tells the true story of model Jessica Lall -- who was shot dead while tending bar in a New Delhi restaurant -- and the lengthy campaign waged by her sister (Vidya Balan) and a news reporter (Rani Mukherjee) to deliver Jessica's killer to justice. Although a trial is conducted and dozens of witnesses testify, the suspected gunman is acquitted, but media outcry and petitions to the president lead to a reopening of the case.
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Of Two Minds
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWeaving together the stories of several fascinating Americans living with bipolar disorder, this documentary explores their triumphant highs, despairing lows and struggles to survive in a culture that doesn't always understand them.
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One Day on Earth
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCapturing ordinary and extraordinary life events from around the globe over the course of one day -- October 10, 2010 -- this documentary explores the human experience in an attempt to answer the question, "Who are we?"
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One Week
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJoshua Jackson stars in this bittersweet odyssey as Ben, a young man who's just received news of his terminal illness. Leaving his perplexed fiancée, Samantha (Liane Balaban), Ben buys a 1973 Norton motorcycle and heads for the Pacific. His journey takes him through nature, introduces him to interesting fellow travelers, brings him unexpected romance and begins to put his impending fate in perspective.
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Our Idiot Brother
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNed is a seemingly clueless but earnest idealist who must rely upon his three exasperated sisters for shelter and support after he's dumped by his fed-up girlfriend and loses custody of his beloved dog, Willie Nelson.
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Penelope
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this modern-day fairy tale, a young woman cursed with the nose of a pig lives her entire life in seclusion -- until an unlikely beau stumbles onto the scene and convinces her to celebrate her inner beauty.
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Pirate Radio
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1966, hard-partying British DJs have the time of their lives running a radio station on a ship in the North Sea, broadcasting generation-defining (but banned) music to millions. But they face getting shut down by a government minister.
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Planet 51
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to recover his spaceship and make it home safely with help from an empathetic little green being.
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Play It Again, Sam
1972 | 14A | 3.6 out of 5 StarsHerbert Ross brings Woody Allen's play to the big screen, with Allen in the starring role as Casablanca-obsessed film critic Allan Felix, who turns to an imaginary version of Humphrey Bogart for guidance on how to deal with the departure of his wife. And while Allan listlessly dates a variety of women, he finds himself most connected to his best friend's wife (Diane Keaton) -- and Bogart urges him to act decisively.
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Poetry
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA poetry-writing class inspires serenely self-possessed grandmother Mija (Jeong-hie Yun) to open her senses to her suburban surroundings, but in rushes an array of unsettling discoveries in this lyrical South Korean melodrama. Along with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease comes information that Mija's teenage grandson was party to a horrific incident, and it is left to Mija to compose order from the untidy emotional consequences.
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Power Rangers: Megaforce: The Robo Before Christmas
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsRobo Knight learns the true meaning of the holidays from a group of children when he is mistaken for a donated Christmas toy and is shipped in a charity crate to a far-off foreign land.
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Princess and the Pony
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhile trying to settle in to her new environment after being dispatched to live with relatives in America, a cosseted young princess (Fiona Perry) nurtures a pony held captive by a callous, underhanded carnival owner. Will she be able to set her four-footed friend free and thwart a kidnapping scheme? Ron Hajak and Bobbi Jo Lathan also star in this inspiring family tale from director Rachel Lee Goldenberg.
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Que Pena tu Familia
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJavier Fernández and Ángela de María decide to get a divorce. Javier will have to pull himself together to get his family back, but it won't be easy.
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Que Pena tu Vida
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJavier Fernández, a publicist, just lost his job and girlfriend. His best friend offers her support, but Facebook and Twitter won't let him forget.
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