Best movies on Netflix : our Top 20

2012 · James McTeigue

A respected banker convicted in the 1940s of killing his wife and her lover is sent to Shawshank Prison, where he puts his financial expertise at the service of a corrupt warden. Over many years behind bars, his moral steadiness and relentless optimism earn him the respect and friendship of his fellow inmates, particularly an older man named Red.

With John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jimmy Yuill

1994 · Frank Darabont

Convicted in the 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, former banker Andy Dufresne is sent to Shawshank State Prison, where he must rebuild his life behind bars. Using his expertise with numbers, he becomes indispensable to a corrupt warden, and over the course of many years earns the respect of his fellow inmates—especially an older lifer called Red—who admire his moral strength and persistent optimism.

With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows and Mark Rolston

2008 · Christopher Nolan

Batman pushes his campaign against Gotham’s underworld to the next level, joining forces with Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent to systematically break apart the last criminal networks. Their cooperation brings hope for a safer city, but a cunning new antagonist who calls himself the Joker sparks a spiral of violence and anarchy that threatens to overwhelm them all.

With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman

2014 · Ivan Reitman

Set between 1945 and 1955, this tale follows the fictional Italian-American Corleone family as power struggles and loyalties deepen. After the family’s patriarch, Vito Corleone, barely survives an assassination attempt, his youngest son Michael takes matters into his own hands, methodically pursuing the attackers and unleashing a violent campaign of vengeance.

With Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella, Sam Elliott, Sean Combs and Terry Crews

1994 · Robert Zemeckis

A man of limited intelligence finds himself swept into landmark moments of history, repeatedly achieving far more than anyone expects and leaving a trail of remarkable accomplishments. Despite the fame and the extraordinary life he builds, the woman he truly loves remains just out of reach.

With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Conner Humphreys and Hanna Hall

1974 · Francis Ford Coppola

Across two eras, the film charts Vito Corleone’s path from a Sicilian childhood to an immigrant coming-of-age in 1910s New York. Decades on, his son Michael maneuvers to reshape and expand the family’s power, setting his sights on Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba during the 1950s.

With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire and Lee Strasberg

1994 · Quentin Tarantino

A burger-obsessed hitman, his introspective partner, a drug-addled gangster’s companion and a fallen prizefighter cross paths in a sprawling, darkly comic crime caper. Their tangled exploits unfold across three interwoven episodes that cleverly leap through time, peeling back secrets, rivalries and unlikely loyalties as past and present collide.

With John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel and Eric Stoltz

1972 · Francis Ford Coppola

Set from 1945 to 1955, the story follows the fictional Italian‑American Corleone crime family. When the family’s head, Vito Corleone, narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, his youngest son Michael takes matters into his own hands—tracking down those responsible and launching a ruthless campaign of retaliation that irrevocably changes him and the family’s destiny.

With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden and John Marley

2006 · Paul Verhoeven

A fast-food-obsessed hitman, his contemplative accomplice, a narcotics-addled mobster’s companion and a once-promising prizefighter collide in a wide-ranging, darkly comic crime romp. Their intertwined misadventures play out across three interlocking episodes that slyly leap backward and forward through time.

With Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Matthias Schoenaerts and Theo Maassen

2010 · Shim Hyung-rae

Young-goo, the bumbling son of Don Carini, is dismissed as unfit for the inner circle of his father's criminal empire. Determined to change that perception, he begins rigorous training under Tony V to prove himself worthy of inheriting the family. Soon after, he unwittingly becomes involved in the rescue of Nancy, the only daughter of Don Bonfante, leader of a rival clan. Unbeknownst to Young-goo, Vinnie, a scheming underboss within the Bonfante organization, has actually abducted her and conspires to pin the crime on him. Vinnie’s deception ignites a deadly confrontation between the two families.

With Shim Hyung-rae, Harvey Keitel, Michael Rispoli, Jason Mewes, Jocelin Donahue, Blake Clark and Jon Polito

1972 · Živko Nikolić

Against the fading echoes of its epic past, Zivko Nikolic paints a Montenegrin village in the wake of legend, exposing a stark present inhabited by the poor, the marginalized, and people with intellectual disabilities—lives neglected and left out of the grand heroic narratives.

1985 · Peter Bogdanovich

A brilliant teenage boy with pronounced physical deformities and his mother, who belongs to a motorcycle gang, struggle to preserve a semblance of normal life amid social stigma, danger, and the constraints of their circumstances.

With Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern and Micole Mercurio

1990 · Martin Scorsese

Based on the real-life rise of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn youth of Irish and Sicilian parentage who is taken under the wing of local mobsters and, mentored by Jimmy Conway, climbs the hierarchy of a Mafia crew.

With Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero and Tony Darrow

2008 · Vicente Amorim

John Halder is thrust into the spotlight when senior Nazi officials appropriate his newest novel to bolster their cause, elevating his career and social standing overnight. But as he uncovers the regime’s monstrous designs and watches how their plans will devastate the people he cares about, he faces a brutal moral crossroads: remain complicit to protect his success, or risk everything by opposing them.

With Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Jones and Anastasia Hille

1959 · Marc Allégret

César Dandieu, a scrupulously honest cashier at a petroleum firm, is preparing to hand over the day’s receipts to his manager when Fernand Mouchette, a perpetually absent-minded inventor, bursts in to pitch a novel carburetor design.

With Pierre Fresnay, Darry Cowl, Anne Collette, Louis Seigner, Jacques Charon, Hubert Deschamps and André Brunot

2024 · Michael Vaynberg

Desperate to give her child a chance, a mother living without legal papers accepts a caregiving job for a reclusive elderly man — only to discover, too late, that he is hiding a chilling and dangerous secret.

With Monte Bezell, Michael Doyle, Lorianna Izrailova, Karyna Kudzina, Chris LaPanta, Rebecca Packer and Tim Shelburne

2022 · Sean Anders

Every Christmas Eve the Ghost of Christmas Present chooses a hardened soul and summons three spirits to try to redeem him. This time, however, he misjudges his target: Clint Briggs fights back, flipping the haunting into a power struggle that leaves Present forced to confront and reassess his own past, present and future.

With Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Sunita Mani, Loren G. Woods and Tracy Morgan

1999 · Frank Darabont

On death row in a Southern penitentiary, a towering, soft-spoken inmate named John Coffey harbors a baffling ability to lift illness and suffering from others. When Paul Edgecomb, the cell block’s chief guard, witnesses Coffey’s restorative gift, he becomes obsessed with preventing the condemned man’s execution. Battling institutional forces and his own uncertainty, Edgecomb mounts a desperate attempt to save a man whose power challenges everything they thought they knew.

With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter and Graham Greene

1998 · Steven Spielberg

As Allied forces sweep onto the beaches of Normandy, three brothers are killed in combat and a fourth is left stranded behind enemy lines. Captain John Miller, a U.S. Army Ranger, leads a seven-man squad on a dangerous incursion into German-held territory to find the young soldier and bring him home.

With Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Vin Diesel

2015 · Peter Sohn

A young girl named Chihiro is pulled into a hidden realm teeming with spirits; when her parents are strangely transformed, she must discover a deep well of courage she never knew she possessed to save them and return home.

With Frances McDormand, Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Zahn, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin and John Ratzenberger