Best movies on Netflix (Royaume-Uni) : our Top 20

1995 · Ang Lee

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood—one reserved and practical, the other headstrong and romantic—find their prospects clouded when their father dies and the family fortune legally passes to his son from a previous marriage. Stripped of their home and left with only a modest income, their mother and sisters must navigate a society that prizes social rank and financial security above all. As each woman seeks love, she confronts the harsh realities of a world where money shapes choices and reputations; together they learn to balance prudence with passion in the pursuit of both stability and happiness.

With Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Greg Wise and Elizabeth Spriggs

2020 · James Reed

For years Craig Foster swam daily in the frigid seas off Africa’s southern tip, until an unexpected teacher emerged: a young, unusually curious octopus. He returned to her lair again and again, shadowing her explorations for months, gradually earning her trust and forging an intimate, extraordinary connection between human and wild animal.

With Craig Foster and Tom Foster

2004 · Tony Scott

A world-weary former CIA operative, John Creasy, begrudgingly takes a protection job for a ten-year-old girl in Mexico City. Their uneasy rapport slowly deepens into a heartfelt bond, and when she is abducted his smoldering fury erupts into a relentless, no-holds-barred quest to rescue her at any cost.

With Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony, Giancarlo Giannini and Mickey Rourke

2024 · Nick Park

Gromit’s unease about Wallace’s growing reliance on gadgets is proven right when Wallace creates a “smart” gnome that begins behaving with a will of its own. As evidence mounts that a resentful figure from Wallace’s past is orchestrating the chaos, Gromit must confront dark forces and rescue his inventor friend—otherwise Wallace may lose the ability to create forever.

With Ben Whitehead, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh and Lenny Henry

1993 · James Ivory

A fastidious head butler in post–World War I Britain, whose life is governed by strict ritual and unspoken rules, finds his ordered existence unsettled when a new housekeeper arrives and quietly falls for him. As a tentative romance blooms, his loyalty is further tested by his employer’s growing connections to Nazism, forcing him to reconcile the polished mask of servitude he has perfected with the moral compromises it may now demand.

With Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, Peter Vaughan and Ben Chaplin

2022 · Sally El Hosaini

Fleeing a Syria devastated by war, two teenage sisters undertake a perilous odyssey, risking everything and relying on love, bravery and their remarkable swimming talent as they pursue the chance to reach the 2016 Rio Olympics.

With Manal Issa, Nathalie Issa, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ali Soliman, James Floyd, Ahmed Malek and Kinda Alloush

2024 · Edward Berger

Following the unexpected passing of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is entrusted with stewarding the Vatican’s clandestine, centuries-old process to select his successor. Locked inside the Holy See with the Church’s most powerful leaders until a new pontiff is chosen, he becomes ensnared in a conspiracy that could bring the institution to its knees.

With Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diehz and Sergio Castellitto

1996 ·

A Hungarian cartographer hired by the Royal Geographical Society spends the 1930s leading expeditions across the Sahara alongside renowned explorers, mapping its endless sands. When World War II erupts, his work and relationships are drawn into a tangled web of passion, betrayal and political maneuvering that will redefine his fate.

With Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth and Julian Wadham

2020 · Christopher Nolan

Clutching a single clue—the word "Tenet"—and striving to stop global annihilation, the Protagonist plunges into the shadowy world of international espionage on a mission that defies ordinary time.

With John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia, Himesh Patel and Aaron Taylor-Johnson

2010 · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

A Swedish family vacationing in the French Alps finds itself confronted with selfish, panic-driven behavior from others when an avalanche suddenly descends.

With Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, Rufus Sewell and Christian De Sica

1997 · Jean-Jacques Annaud

An ambitious Austrian climber, Heinrich Harrer, leaves his family in 1939 to lead an expedition into the Himalayas. With the outbreak of World War II he is captured by Allied forces and held as a prisoner of war, but he and a fellow detainee manage a daring escape. Their long, perilous trek eventually brings them to Lhasa, Tibet, where Harrer encounters the 14-year-old Dalai Lama; the young leader's compassion and teachings gradually erode Harrer's arrogance and transform his outlook on life.

With Brad Pitt, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Lhakpa Tsamchoe and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

2009 · Christopher Smith

A celebrated supermodel pair accept an invitation aboard an extravagant cruise for the ultra-wealthy, overseen by a dangerously unstable, hard-drinking captain. What begins as a picture-perfect escape collapses into catastrophe, leaving the remaining guests marooned on a deserted island where social masks fall away and a brutal struggle for power and survival takes over.

With Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Emma Lung, Rachael Carpani, Michael Dorman, Joshua McIvor and Henry Nixon

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

2013 · Stephen Frears

Philomena Cunk, irreverent and insatiably curious, launches her most daring film yet: an audacious investigation into existence itself. She journeys from the dawn of the cosmos to the frontiers of biology, art and artificial intelligence, grilling leading thinkers and unlikely experts as she chases answers to why anything exists and whether life has a purpose. With deadpan humor and plain-speaking persistence, she weaves science, philosophy and culture into a search for meaning that is as funny as it is thought-provoking.

With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham, Barbara Jefford, Ruth McCabe and Peter Hermann

2023 · Laura McGann

United by their devotion to freediving, a record-holding champion and a fearless safety diver embark on a dangerous, record-breaking dive, willing to put everything on the line for a chance to etch their names into history.

With Alessia Zecchini, Stephen Keenan, David Attenborough and Natalya Molchanova

2023 · Georgia Oakley

Back in their tiny California hometown by chance, two former high‑school sweethearts run into each other and revisit the memories, regrets and lingering what‑ifs of their shared past.

With Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday, Lydia Page, Stacy Abalogun, Amy Booth-Steel and Aoife Kennan

2017 · Danny Boyle

Having spent twenty years overseas, Mark Renton comes back to Scotland and is drawn back into the lives of his old companions—Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

With Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Anjela Nedyalkova, Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald

2002 · Mehdi Norowzian

Leo, a world-weary 74-year-old lizard, has spent decades confined to a classroom terrarium in Florida alongside his long-suffering turtle roommate. When a bleak prognosis gives him roughly a year to live, he vows to break out and taste the wider world before it’s too late. His bid for freedom, however, is sidetracked when he becomes unwittingly entangled in the worries and dramas of the school’s anxious children — and must reckon with the havoc caused by an impossibly cruel substitute teacher. As Leo moves beyond the glass, he discovers that the messy, tender reality of the classroom can be more adventurous and meaningful than any solo escape.

With Joseph Fiennes, Elisabeth Shue, Justin Chambers, Sam Shepard, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Kara Unger and Mary Stuart Masterson

2024 · Al Campbell

Philomena Cunk, intrepid documentary presenter, sets off on an audacious investigation that stretches from the birth of the cosmos to the everyday bits that make up living, trying to pin down whether life has any point at all. She quizzes physicists, biologists, artists and AI experts—probing the big bang, evolution, creativity and machine intelligence—to strip away the noise and uncover what, if anything, gives existence meaning.

With Diane Morgan, Michelle Greenidge, Charles Aitken, Rory Bray, Atlanta Johnson, Eleanor Seeley and Jerry Wilder

2026 ·

Nick and Charlie have always been close, but Nick’s imminent move to university and Charlie’s growing independence at school force them to face the strain of a long-distance relationship. As doubts and distance creep in, their bond is pushed to its toughest test yet. Around them, friends wrestle with their own romances and friendships, navigating the poignant, sometimes painful lessons of growing up and learning to let go.