The 8 best movies to watch on Netflix

While the whole world is fascinated by the youngest of the Addams family, we rather want great cinema and great feelings.

You too ? Well done: here is a selection of the best films available on the platform with the red symbol.

Romeby Alfonso Cuaron, on Netflix

He made a noise about it, at the beginning of 2020, this uplifting black and white film by Alfonso Cuaronalready known to have made Severity (and best picture Harry Potter).

Romeis the story of a middle-class Mexican family falling apart, loving each other, and fighting for a better life in the early 1970s.

And for good reason, he flew to the Oscars and won about three trophies there, including best director.

Personally, I have seen Rome a few months later, and it was a real slap in the face.

Everything is beautiful and moving, from the gaze of the members of this Mexican family to the landscapes that rush across the screen.

The Power of the Dog, by Jane Campion

It is fascinating to observe the passages in the filmographies of authors and directors, to understand how and where their obsessions slip.

Thus, Pedro Almodóvar, best known for filming women as few male directors do, abandoned his usual heroines in 2019 to present the world Pain and Glory, a film essentially made about an all-consuming love story between two men. A spectacular work, both in its staging and in its treatment of the subject, which deserved a detour from its usual route.

Jane Campion is doing the same this year. She leaves for a few moments her heroines driven by life (and above all by men). explore a world full of testosterone.

In The power of the dognominated for this year’s Oscars, the director explores the conflicted relationships of Phil and George Burbank, two completely opposite brothers.

As refined, brilliant and cruel as Phil is, George is phlegmatic, meticulous and benevolent. Together, they run the largest ranch in Montana Valley. A region far from the galloping modernity of the twentieth century, where men still assume their virility and where we venerate the figure of Bronco Henry, the greatest cowboy Phil has ever met.

When George secretly marries Rose, a young widow, Phil, drunk with rage, decides to destroy her. So he tries to reach Rose by using his son Peter, a sensitive and effeminate boy, as a pawn in his sadistic and ruthless strategy.

With a singular mastery of a story from which it is a priori very distant, Jane Campion explores the horrors of toxic masculinity.

The Lost Daughter, by Maggie Gyllenhaal

Imagine a postcard setting. A Greek island, on which one projects oneself with ease, equipped with a large hat, sunglasses, book under one’s arm. This is the holiday that a comparative literature professor, Leda (played by the fantastic Olivia Coleman), has decided to spend, in the sumptuous The lost daughter.

Alone, she is determined to have fun, to read on the beach, to eat at the restaurant or on its terrace with good Greek dishes. But without counting on an American family whose meetings disturb the apparent calm of the beach, and whose members don’t want to worry about the presence of this mysterious tourist.

Leda begins to develop a slight obsession with a young mother of this noisy tribe, Nina (Dakota Johnson), in which he recognizes himself. The latter is only a little free to move, her daughter was constantly clinging to her neck.

When the little girl loses her doll, a sort of comforter she can’t do without, things start to go badly for everyone…

A splendid and scary film about a mother’s ambivalence towards motherhood which won an award at the Venice Film Festival and is nominated for the 2022 Oscars.

Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach

If its name doesn’t tell you anything, you’ve probably already come across one of Noah Baumbach’s fictions on the corner of a cinema or magazine.

In 15 years he has signed about ten films, all with their own identity but which still bear the mark of their creator.

We invite you to see Mistress America, Francesca Ha, The Meyerowitz Stories, While we are young Where is it Margot goes to the wedding.

The director often explores the themes of disappointed love, time that clouds feelings, fleeing youth and creation.

So many topics that are brought together in Marriage historyhis intimate and universal drama that won Laura Dern the Oscar for best actress.

Marriage history, is the story of a director and his actress wife, who struggle through a difficult divorce, forgetting the love that once united them. Autobiographical?

Perhaps, since Baumbach himself went through a painful separation and divorce from wife Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2010.

In any case, Marriage history is one of the most successful movies of 2020 and one of the best on the Netflix platform.

Annihilation, by Alex Garland

A little horror in this selection with Annihilationwhich upon its theatrical release on February 23, 2018 in the United States, Annihilation caused a stir.

The Guardian talked about how “one of the best movies of the year” — which didn’t stop it from being deprived of theatrical distribution in France. Thus, it is directly on Netflix that this UFO signed Alex Garland, the director offormer carwhich has already promised the director a clear and brilliant career.

Natalie Portman plays Lena, a biologist and ex-soldier whose husband has been missing for a year and who no one has been able to locate. When she finally returns, she begins to suffer from a strange disease, which causes him to spit out all of her blood.

To lift the veil on what happened to your husband, Lena takes part in a top secret mission, in an area inhabited by a mysterious and a sinister phenomenon is spreading along the American coasts.

The area your husband is from.

Once there, all of the women on the expedition suffer from severe disorientation. They quickly discover that the creatures that haunt the place have undergone significant mutations.

Despite the beauty of the landscapes, danger reigns. They know. It can come from anywhere but also from oneself…

Undoubtedly one of the best genre films of recent years.

Call me by your name by Luca Guadagnino

Italy. Summer 1983.

A young man spends his days in the family home, a sort of seventeenth-century villa lost among the maritime pines.

Elio Perlman is 17 years old; he likes reading, flirting with his friend Marzia, listening and playing classical music. Elio has romantic curls; at home we speak English, Italian and French. Son of a master of Greco-Roman culture, and an eminent translator, he received an excellent education and is endowed with a great general culture.

Many qualities that make him a charming boy, and above all very mature for his age.

One day Oliver, an American with undeniable physical qualities, comes to work with Elio’s father to prepare for his doctorate. Between the two bodies warmed by the dry sun of Italy, the desire rises…

Call me by your name is an initiatory tale born from the pen of James Ivory (Room with a view) and Luca Guadagnino (A bigger splash).

A kind of First sentimental education, à la Flaubert, so hot that the sheets remind it (sorry). Because Oliver and Elio will love each other anytime, anywhere, without asking many questions.

A film that has undoubtedly stirred more than one body since its release in 2018, although one of its two main actors, Armie Hammer, has since been at the center of an ultra-unhealthy case of sexual harassment and cannibalism…

All the way, by Xavier Legrand

It would be inopportune and terribly unfortunate not to add French films to this selection, especially since when it comes to cinema, we are not left out.

The proof with the excellent Until the endfrom Saverio Legrandwhich explores the turpitudes of a family in turmoil.

To protect her son from a father she accuses of violence, Miriam seeks sole custody. The judge in charge of the case grants shared custody to the father whom she believes has been duped.

Taken hostage between his parents, Julien will do anything to prevent the worst from happening.

Crowned with the César as best film of the year in 2019, Up to the Guard is one of those works that mark with a red iron and cross the centuries without ever losing their intensity.

Powerful, essential and on Netflix!

Panic Room, by David Fincher

Panic room is a closed-door thriller by David Fincherdirector of little-known films such as fight club, Seven, Girl gone or Zodiac (which we inform you in passing that it is also available on the platform). Normally, at this stage, you are already convinced that you need to see Panic room.

The film follows Meg (Jodie Foster), a 30-year-old who moves alone with her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) into a large house located in an upscale neighborhood in western New York. A house in which they thought they were alone…

True shot of suspense and adrenaline, Panic room I won’t give you a second to catch my breath. The film maliciously exploits the space of the house and above all presents captivating and surprising characters. Among them, Forest Whitaker is by far the most outstanding. Shines with the richness of his game, which makes it capable of inspiring us both fear and empathy…