Best movies on Netflix (Canada) : our Top 20

1999 · Atom Egoyan

Pregnant at seventeen, Felicia crosses the Channel to find her boyfriend but instead falls into the care of Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a genial catering manager whose outward kindness masks a chilling secret.

With Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald, Gerard McSorley, Brid Brennan and Sheila Reid

2019 · Todd Phillips

In 1980s Gotham City, a struggling stand-up comedian crushed by rejection and isolation spirals into madness, shedding his former life to become a calculating, unhinged criminal whose theatrical violence and anarchic schemes plunge the city into fear.

With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham and Bill Camp

2004 · Cassandra Nicolaou

When two squeegee kids accost Sarah’s luxury sedan, a tense game of cat and mouse ignites, and the distinction between captor and captive quickly becomes blurred. Forced to continue to a remote cottage, she finds herself trapped with a volatile trio who circle one another, provoking, manipulating and tempting in a dangerous bid for answers. As secrets surface and loyalties unravel, their reckless hunt for the truth threatens to consume them all.

With Michelle Nolden, Katharine Isabelle, Kett Turton, Gabriel Hogan and Allegra Fulton

2008 · Stephan Elliott

A young Englishman brings his glamorous American bride home to meet his parents, and her bold, modern charm upends their prim, old‑fashioned reserve.

With Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson and Kris Marshall

1985 · Paul Donovan

Three people — two men and a woman — orbit the Earth in a satellite armed with a nuclear warhead. When World War III erupts, the craft eventually re-enters and crashes months later. They survive the impact, but one man is killed by desperate survivors and the other is taken prisoner. The woman remains at the wreckage, only to be soon captured by a brutal gang of punk marauders who have seized control in the aftermath.

With Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Kevin King, John Walsch, Tim Choate and Jeff Pustil

2001 · Richard Eyre

A true-life portrait of the enduring love between novelist Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, tracing their relationship from university beginnings through the heartbreaking years of Murdoch’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

With Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Samuel West and Timothy West

2000 · Mary Harron

A successful, well-heeled investment banker in New York projects a flawless public image while secretly harboring a psychopathic alternate personality; as his detached, increasingly irrational impulses grow bolder and more gratuitous, he conceals the mounting danger from colleagues and friends.

With Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross and Bill Sage

2004 · Martin Scorsese

From 1927 to 1947, this biographical drama traces Howard Hughes’s ascent from ambitious filmmaker to a towering figure in both Hollywood and the aviation industry, charting his inventive productions and daring aeronautical endeavors. As his influence and wealth grow, his private life frays—he struggles with intensifying obsessive-compulsive disorder that gradually undermines his relationships and stability.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alan Alda, Danny Huston and Ian Holm

2005 · Steven Spielberg

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, a Palestinian militant group abducts and murders eleven members of the Israeli delegation; in the aftermath, the Israeli government quietly assembles a covert Mossad team to track down and take out those behind the attack.

With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Mathieu Amalric and Geoffrey Rush

2002 · Julie Taymor

A cinematic portrait of Frida Kahlo, depicting how she transformed the trauma of a debilitating injury and the upheaval of a tumultuous marriage into powerful, deeply personal works of art.

With Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Diego Luna, Roger Rees and Ashley Judd

2010 · Michael Greenspan

He regains consciousness in a mangled car at the bottom of a sheer cliff, unable to recall his name or how he got there. As he struggles to make sense of the wreck, a police scanner crackles to life with breaking news of a violent bank robbery — and when the announcer names one of the suspects, he looks into the rear seat and finds the dead body matching that name. Now trapped between amnesia and evidence that links him to a crime, he must piece together the truth before the authorities arrive.

With Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins, Adrian Holmes, Adrian G. Griffiths, Lloyd Adams and Mark McConchie

2013 · Matt Johnson

A vivid chronicle of Mötley Crüe’s climb from the gritty Sunset Strip club circuit of the early 1980s to international rock superstardom.

With Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Krista Madison, Shailene Garnett, Jay McCarrol, Brandon Wickens and Josh Boles

2002 · Rob Marshall

Set in 1920s Chicago, two women convicted of murder share a death row cell and scramble to win the kind of notoriety that might spare them from execution.

With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs

2011 · Kelly Asbury

Set against a neighborhood spat between rival yards, this whimsical retelling of the star-crossed lovers tale follows two garden gnomes from opposite camps. Gnomeo and Juliet fall for each other but must dodge sabotage, territorial decorations, and outlandish confrontations—complete with plastic flamingo spies and raucous lawnmower races. As pranks escalate and loyalties harden, the young couple must decide whether their love can bridge the divide and survive the turf war.

With James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Jim Cummings and Jason Statham

2006 · James Wong

On the brink of graduation, senior Wendy has a chilling vision of a rollercoaster catastrophe and, by warning her classmates, spares herself and a handful of others from the wreck. Their narrow escape, however, only invites a darker consequence: an unstoppable, unseen force begins hunting the survivors, intent on reclaiming the lives they were meant to lose.

With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss and Gina Holden

2020 · Chris Sanders

A warm-hearted dog’s peaceful existence in California is shattered when he is torn from his home and thrust into the icy, lawless Yukon during the 1890s Gold Rush. Recruited onto a mail-delivery sled team as a novice—and later rising to lead it—he faces brutal conditions and breathtaking adventures that awaken his ancestral instincts, ultimately guiding him to discover where he truly belongs and to forge his own destiny.

With Harrison Ford, Dan Stevens, Colin Woodell, Karen Gillan, Omar Sy, Raven Scott and Wes Brown

2023 · Cal Brunker

Ryder and his team of pups are summoned to Adventure City to thwart Mayor Humdinger's plot to plunge the lively metropolis into chaos.

With Christian Convery, Mckenna Grace, Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell, Lil Rel Howery, James Marsden and Finn Lee-Epp

2002 · Phil Alden Robinson

An unexpected death in the Kremlin ushers in a successor whose political views are largely unknown. The sudden transfer of power sets off a wave of suspicion inside the CIA, so Director Bill Cabot enlists a young analyst to help interpret the emerging threat. Then catastrophe strikes: a nuclear device detonates in an American city, and the U.S. government quickly points to Russia as the culprit.

With Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Bates and Ciarán Hinds

2023 · Cal Brunker

A mysterious meteorite barrels into Adventure City, infusing the PAW Patrol pups with incredible powers and turning them into a fearless team of super-powered heroes.

With Christian Convery, Mckenna Grace, Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell, Lil Rel Howery, James Marsden and Finn Lee-Epp

2023 · Cal Brunker

When an enchanted meteorite collides with Adventure City, it bestows extraordinary abilities on the PAW Patrol pups, turning them into the superpowered team known as the Mighty Pups.

With Christian Convery, Mckenna Grace, Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell, Lil Rel Howery, James Marsden and Finn Lee-Epp