Best movies on Netflix (Allemagne) : our Top 20

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

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

2009 · Quentin Tarantino

In occupied France during World War II, a squad of Jewish-American soldiers known as the Basterds is assembled to spread terror inside the Third Reich by relentlessly hunting and killing Nazi personnel. Led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine, their brutal campaign soon intersects with the life of a young Jewish-French woman who runs a movie theater in Paris—a modest venue that becomes central to the dangerous plans unfolding around them.

With Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger and Daniel Brühl

2014 · Wes Anderson

During the interwar years, a celebrated concierge at a storied European hotel forges a close bond with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. Their partnership is drawn into a daring plot when an invaluable Renaissance painting is stolen, setting off a fierce struggle to recover the work and to claim a vast family inheritance. As they navigate danger, loyalty, and social ritual, they witness the continent’s gradual decline and then rapid convulsions that reshape Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum and Harvey Keitel

2002 · Doug Liman

Severely wounded and bereft of memory after being pulled from the sea, Jason Bourne is cared for by a humble fisherman. With only a cryptic Swiss bank account number as a clue, he begins to piece together his past, only to discover that a web of assassins and covert operatives want him eliminated. As instinctive combat abilities and razor-sharp tactical thinking surface, he realizes he was more than an ordinary man — but the central mystery remains: who did he work for?

With Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Gabriel Mann

2004 · Paul Greengrass

When a CIA sting to buy secret Russian files is compromised by a rival operative, that agent surfaces in the quiet coastal town where Bourne and Marie have been hiding. The couple must flee for their lives, and with his vow to strike back if anyone from his old world reappeared, Bourne is forced to resume the lethal tradecraft of his past to keep them alive.

With Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann and Joan Allen

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

1997 · Taylor Hackford

Kevin Lomax, a promising defense attorney from Florida, accepts an offer to join a prestigious New York law firm. As the cases grow more consequential and the rewards escalate, he soon discovers that his charismatic boss is hiding a far darker, malicious agenda.

With Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Connie Nielsen and Craig T. Nelson

1998 · F. Gary Gray

Facing arrest for his partner's murder, veteran hostage negotiator Danny Roman insists he's been framed as part of a far-reaching conspiracy. Convinced the evidence that could clear him lies inside Internal Affairs, he holds the entire office hostage and demands that a renowned negotiator be brought in to manage the crisis—and covertly help him unmask the plot.

With Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh and Siobhan Fallon Hogan

2022 · Ruben Östlund

Overlooked and desperate to be heard, a teenage girl makes a Christmas wish for someone to finally listen — then wakes up to discover she can only speak the blunt, unfiltered truth, unleashing awkward confessions and upheaval within her family.

With Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić, Vicki Berlin, Dolly de Leon and Henrik Dorsin

2005 · Peter Jackson

Set in 1933 New York, a relentless film producer strong-arms his cast and a hired ship's crew into voyaging to the remote Skull Island, where they come upon Kong, a towering ape instantly enthralled by the leading actress.

With Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis

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

2023 · Maximilian Erlenwein

On the brink of World War II, a wealthy widow hires a keen amateur archaeologist to dig into the ancient barrows on her estate. Their unexpected discovery casts new light on Britain’s past, stirring long-buried stories that reverberate as the nation stands on the threshold of an uncertain future.

With Louisa Krause, Sophie Lowe, Stella Uhrig, Shire Richardson and David Scicluna

2005 · Lasse Hallström

Stoic and grieving, Einar Gilkyson leads a solitary life on a harsh Wyoming ranch, supported only by his steadfast friend Mitch Bradley. His fragile routine is shattered when the woman he blames for his son's death turns up at his door, penniless and desperate, with a granddaughter he never knew existed. As long-buried resentments and harsh accusations resurface, their unlikely household is pulled into an unforeseen journey across rugged terrain that tests old wounds, sparks unexpected connections and opens the possibility of adventure and forgiveness.

With Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner, Josh Lucas, Damian Lewis and Camryn Manheim

2004 · Rawson Marshall Thurber

When egotistical fitness mogul White Goodman moves to swallow up the struggling neighborhood gym run by easygoing owner Pete La Fleur, Pete's only shot at survival is an offbeat solution: dodgeball. With help from an eccentric dodgeball coach, an unlikely legal ally, and a ragged band of misfits, Pete leads his underdog squad into a bruising, all-or-nothing tournament where the stakes are everything.

With Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root and Joel David Moore

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

2023 · Peter Thorwarth

As Nazi Germany collapses, a weary German soldier drifts through shattered towns searching for the daughter he lost in the chaos, clinging to the only thing that makes life bearable. Meanwhile, a ruthless SS detachment hunts for a hidden cache of valuables stolen from Jewish families, determined to secure one last prize before the world they know vanishes. When their paths intersect, loyalties and conscience are tested, forcing both men into a desperate struggle between survival, redemption, and the cost of what they’re willing to take or protect.

With Robert Maaser, Jördis Triebel, Marie Hacke, Alexander Scheer, Roy McCrerey, Stephan Grossmann and Florian Schmidtke

2004 · Marco Kreuzpaintner

Tobi and Achim, the standout duo of their small-town rowing club, have been inseparable for years and believe nothing can ever drive a wedge between them. They eagerly anticipate the summer training camp and the big regatta, confident in their rhythm and partnership. Then a gay crew from Berlin arrives, and Tobi suddenly finds himself unsettled, questioning feelings he never expected. On the eve of the races a storm rolls in—one that strips away more than calm waters, forcing loyalties, desires, and identities to surface and pushing their friendship to the breaking point.

With Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Jürgen Tonkel, Tristano Casanova, Miriam Morgenstern and Marlon Kittel

2000 · Ron Howard

A grouchy loner plots to swipe Christmas from the merry citizens of Whoville, hoping to extinguish their holiday cheer, but the gentle kindness of a small girl, Cindy Lou Who, and her family slowly begins to thaw his frozen heart.

With Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon and Clint Howard

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