Classic Films on Netflix

Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 9.3
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Runtime: 02:22:33
Netflix ID: 70005379 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an organized-crime family patriarch barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son steps in to take care of the would-be killers.

Year: 1972
IMDb: 9.2
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 02:57:03
Netflix ID: 60011152 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This second film in the trilogy explores the Corleone family roots, tracing Don Vito's journey from Sicily to a life of organized crime in New York.

Year: 1974
IMDb: 9
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 03:22:00
Netflix ID: 60011663 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 8.9
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:34:29
Netflix ID: 880640 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8.9
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 03:15:04
Netflix ID: 60036359 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:22:28
Netflix ID: 60000724 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 8.8
Runtime: 01:35:23
Netflix ID: 81462768 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This gripping gangster opus follows real-world mobster Henry Hill, who dreamed of making it big but landed in the Witness Protection Program instead.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:25:23
Netflix ID: 70002022 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 8.7
Runtime: 01:22:14
Netflix ID: 81462773 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned cannibal.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:58:29
Netflix ID: 14546747 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Léon, a hit man in New York, becomes the unwilling custodian of Mathilda, a vengeful 12-year-old whose family was wiped out by a crooked DEA agent.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:49:28
Netflix ID: 7880857 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Eccentric inventor Doc Brown turns a DeLorean into a time machine that inadvertently sends his young friend, Marty McFly, 30 years into the past.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:56:11
Netflix ID: 60010110 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a larcenous real estate clerk goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel.

Year: 1960
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:37
Netflix ID: 879522 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A reprogrammed Terminator arrives from the future to protect young John Connor from a relentless shape-shifting cyborg in this sequel to Terminator.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:27:41
Netflix ID: 60028202 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a Sicilian boy is mesmerized by the movies at his local theater, he befriends a projectionist who tells him to leave home and pursue his dreams.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:04:10
Netflix ID: 60022965 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Tomania's anti-Semitic ruler cracks down on the Jews, a case of mistaken identity gives an amnesiac barber the chance to plea for democracy.

Year: 1940
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:05:13
Netflix ID: 60028133 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Conceived and produced as talking pictures were taking Hollywood by storm, Charlie Chaplin's satire of the machine age was also his last 'silent.'

Year: 1936
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:26:52
Netflix ID: 60028129 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two orphans fight for survival in post-World War II Japan, but society is harsh and they struggle to escape the hardships of war and find enough food.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 8.5
Runtime: 01:28:32
Netflix ID: 557010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Jack Torrance descends into madness -- terrorizing his wife and young son -- after living at a deserted and eerie hotel during its off season.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:59:38
Netflix ID: 959008 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a fanatical U.S. general launches an air strike against the Soviets, they raise the stakes by threatening to unleash a 'doomsday device.'

Year: 1964
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:34:45
Netflix ID: 60020009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Indiana Jones is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 01:55:24
Netflix ID: 60011649 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a widower weds a widow, their blended family keeps everyone on their toes — but the trouble really starts when one son begins dating a rich girl.

Year: 1975
IMDb: 8.4
Runtime: 01:32:47
Netflix ID: 81462774 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Quentin Tarantino's raw directorial debut, a botched robbery indicates a police informant, and pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:39:06
Netflix ID: 902003 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Al Pacino stars as Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who becomes a Florida drug kingpin but makes the fatal mistake of getting high on his own supply.

Year: 1983
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:49:49
Netflix ID: 60029681 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Marine recruits endure the grueling ordeal of basic training and later face the unrelenting Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive in this grim drama.

Year: 1987
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:56:30
Netflix ID: 528677 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While looking out for a misguided child prostitute, an unhinged cabbie descends into madness while grappling with society’s moral decline.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:53:52
Netflix ID: 18907685 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Oscar-winning epic tells the true story of T.E. Lawrence, who helped unite warring Arab tribes to strike back against the Turks in World War I.

Year: 1962
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 03:47:04
Netflix ID: 70012020 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nominated for six Oscars, this edge-of-your-seat dramatic triumph follows the trials of a German U-boat crew during World War II.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:28:18
Netflix ID: 319867 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating the appearance of mysterious monoliths throughout the universe, two astronauts battle their ship's intelligent computer system.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:28:47
Netflix ID: 207856 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

What is true? What is false? Several witnesses see an event differently in Akira Kurosawa's Oscar-winning masterpiece.

Year: 1950
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:28:13
Netflix ID: 60010815 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The theatrical cut of Wolfgang Petersen's epic drama delves into the lives of a German U-boat crew patrolling treacherous waters during World War II.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:29:06
Netflix ID: 70189475 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In director Ozu's last film, an aging widower struggles with modernity and loneliness as he searches for a suitable husband for his daughter.

Year: 1962
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:52:50
Netflix ID: 70104401 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Found after decades in hypersleep, Ripley joins a team of Marines on a mission to the planet where she first encountered a vicious, gut-busting alien.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 8.3
Runtime: 02:17:18
Netflix ID: 60029358 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Accompanied by his father, Indiana Jones sets off on his third adventure to explore the cradle of civilization on a perilous hunt for the Holy Grail.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 02:06:59
Netflix ID: 60010487 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Retired gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes one last job -- and even more reluctantly accepts a boastful young man as a partner.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:10:36
Netflix ID: 1080395 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An elderly couple in post-World War II Japan travel to Tokyo to visit their children but are received rather coldly by their offspring.

Year: 1953
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:15:53
Netflix ID: 60031727 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While spending a summer in the Japanese countryside with their father, two young sisters befriend mystical creatures who live in the nearby forest.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:22:52
Netflix ID: 60032294 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his wife is interrupted when, after he arrives at her office, the building is overtaken by terrorists.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:12:08
Netflix ID: 443317 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Monty Python comedy clan skewers King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they quest far and wide for the Holy Grail.

Year: 1975
IMDb: 8.2
Runtime: 01:32:09
Netflix ID: 771476 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An inept Czech peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the corrupt, Nazi-backed bosses of his small town appoint him 'Aryan controller' of an old Jewish widow's button shop in this drama that earned an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

Year: 1965
IMDb: 8.2
Runtime: 02:07:01
Netflix ID: 60011355 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a revolution breaks out in a South American mining town, a group of fugitives flees to the jungle to escape the despotic regime.

Year: 1956
IMDb: 8.2
Runtime: 01:44:02
Netflix ID: 70123658 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sylvester Stallone shot to fame as Rocky Balboa, an unknown fighter who's given a shot at fighting world champ Apollo Creed as a publicity stunt.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:59:35
Netflix ID: 915927 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A multimillionaire unveils a theme park where visitors can see live dinosaurs, but an employee tampers with the security system and the dinos escape.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:06:27
Netflix ID: 60002360 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When four boys seek adventure in the woods while looking for a missing teenager's dead body, they learn some truths about themselves along the way.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:28:35
Netflix ID: 994992 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This sweeping epic is set in a World War II Japanese prison camp, where British prisoners are forced to build a bridge as a morale-building exercise.

Year: 1957
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:42:11
Netflix ID: 60002970 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Calvero is a has-been vaudeville clown in 1914 London. Although under few illusions about his own prospects for the future, Calvero is able to impart his passion for life to Terry, a young ballerina who believes she is paralyzed.

Year: 1952
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:17:41
Netflix ID: 60028127 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Starting a decade before World War II, a young teacher works to give her 12 students hope, even as the growing shadow of global conflagration looms.

Year: 1954
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:35:53
Netflix ID: 70105681 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff out a quartet of escaped androids.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:57:08
Netflix ID: 70053131 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Born in a stable in Judea, Brian grows up to join a group of anti-Roman zealots, but his fate keeps getting confused with that of a certain carpenter.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 699257 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff a quartet of escaped 'replicants.'

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:57:28
Netflix ID: 70082907 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Facing the destruction of her planet's natural resources, warrior princess Nausicaa rallies her people against an evil queen's rampaging army.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:57:25
Netflix ID: 70019062 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A widow is tormented by the mean-spirited scheming of her late husband’s family, and by her rakish young brother-in-law’s sudden declaration of love.

Year: 1964
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:38:10
Netflix ID: 81402109 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Faced with few options, a widowed bar hostess entertaining businessmen in the cutthroat Ginza district tries desperately to better her circumstances.

Year: 1960
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:51:03
Netflix ID: 70063286 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Believing he has only six months left to live, office worker Mülayim Sert finds the courage to take absurd risks. A classic comedy starring Kemal Sunal.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:14:57
Netflix ID: 81462782 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hoping to earn some cash during the Thanksgiving holiday, a poor prep-school student agrees to look after a blind and cantankerous retired colonel.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:36:20
Netflix ID: 937499 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a movie actress begins to suspect that an evil spirit is possessing her young daughter, she calls in two priests to try to exorcise the demon.

Year: 1973
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:01:51
Netflix ID: 14546619 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ben Kingsley stars as the diminutive attorney who stood up against British rule in India and became a global symbol of nonviolence and understanding.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:08:23
Netflix ID: 60010384 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A woman is thrilled to find out she's pregnant. But as her belly grows, the more certain she becomes that her unborn child is in serious danger.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:16:44
Netflix ID: 60002403 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Dustin Hoffman turns in a landmark performance as a naïve college graduate who is seduced by a middle-aged neighbor in this Oscar-winning classic.

Year: 1967
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:45:57
Netflix ID: 555221 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sent to cover the annual ritual of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, a self-centered TV weatherman mysteriously begins living the same day again and again.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:41:04
Netflix ID: 563104 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

There's no place like home for a girl who's swept away from farm life to a wonderland of munchkins, flying monkeys, and different-colored horses.

Year: 1939
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:41:42
Netflix ID: 70039535 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes Amity Island, a police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the beast.

Year: 1975
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:03:54
Netflix ID: 60001220 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young boy growing up in a poor neighborhood of postwar Osaka makes a new friend and slowly becomes aware of the ways the adults around him survive.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 80103562 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young physician and his beautiful mistress get swept up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik Revolution in this Oscar-winning epic.

Year: 1965
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:19:56
Netflix ID: 449931 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide -- and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's sent to the remote Western frontier.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 03:01:06
Netflix ID: 60028940 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Karl, a professional cremator in Prague, fervently believes he is saving the soul of each body he burns. But as the Third Reich advances, Karl's dedication gives way to madness as he seeks to turn the world into one big crematorium.

Year: 1969
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:40:18
Netflix ID: 70113746 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Everyone wants to tame 10-year-old Eda, from his conservative father to his regimented new school teacher. But Eda is a free, and mischievous, spirit.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:40:44
Netflix ID: 81192010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this children's anime adventure, a young miner and a mysterious girl search for a long-lost island that's rumored to hold great riches.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 02:04:51
Netflix ID: 60027393 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, sparking jealousy from his mistress.

Year: 1959
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:58:58
Netflix ID: 60036789 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While on tour for a theater production about women and war, three actresses find parallels between their personal lives and the drama onstage.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:35:55
Netflix ID: 70052262 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man named Domenico gives up schooling to support his parents and enters a soulless corporate world after landing a job in Milan.

Year: 1961
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:37:07
Netflix ID: 60028420 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This legal thriller profiles a lawyer's attempts to exonerate a man who's charged with a local barkeep's murder but claims the victim raped his wife.

Year: 1959
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 02:40:34
Netflix ID: 60001625 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The athlete, the brain, the criminal, the princess and the basket case break through the social barriers of high school during Saturday detention.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:37:03
Netflix ID: 330210 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Brian De Palma's period crime drama, Eliot Ness will stop at nothing to take down legendary Al Capone -- even if it means bending some rules.

Year: 1987
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:59:31
Netflix ID: 60004086 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on a sweltering day in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:59:47
Netflix ID: 448860 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this gritty Oscar-nominated Western, an ex-Confederate soldier on the run comes to rest in a quiet community, where he falls for a pretty settler.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 02:15:46
Netflix ID: 835516 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this animated adventure, a young witch moves away from her family to practice her craft, but she finds that making new friends is difficult.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:43:40
Netflix ID: 60027106 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shady mayor hires a magical minstrel to lure away rodents with his flute but fails to pay him. Soon, the children of the town begin disappearing.

Year: 1972
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:30:27
Netflix ID: 70100329 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a neurologist tests an experimental drug on a catatonic patient, he must come to grips with life as an adult as he awakens from a 30-year coma.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:00:41
Netflix ID: 268371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Zany Willy Wonka causes a stir when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside his candy bars will admit holders into his secret confectionary.

Year: 1971
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:39:41
Netflix ID: 60020949 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Marty and Doc are at it again in this sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:01
Netflix ID: 60010111 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ferris convinces his entire school he's at death's door, then hits the streets of Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend for a day of fun.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:42:57
Netflix ID: 498716 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Parapsychologists create a business exterminating ghouls and hobgoblins -- and end up facing one killer demon in a cellist's apartment.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:45:08
Netflix ID: 541018 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This stirring drama follows the first African-Americans to serve in combat during the Civil War -- and shows how they helped turn the tide of the war.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:02:12
Netflix ID: 547335 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Steven Spielberg's 1982 smash hit tells the heartwarming story of the special bond 10-year-old Elliot forges with an alien he names E.T.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:59:55
Netflix ID: 60022398 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An assassin agrees to take on one final assignment to raise money for a woman he accidentally maimed during a shootout in John Woo's action thriller.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:46:35
Netflix ID: 70020140 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A doctor wrongly convicted of murder escapes from custody, but as he tries to find the real killer, a gung-ho U.S. Marshal is hot on his trail.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:10:11
Netflix ID: 528009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ted is a career-driven yuppie whose wife leaves him and their 6-year-old son. As he adjusts to life as a full-time dad, she comes to reclaim the boy.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:44:54
Netflix ID: 60010559 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Legendary Japanese director Shohei Imamura (The Eel) helms this chilling tale of horror and revenge based on actual events about a seemingly harmless young man who blossomed into a cold-blooded, remorseless murderer.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:20:22
Netflix ID: 70067850 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns home for a murderous Halloween night rampage in this classic slasher-horror film.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:27:11
Netflix ID: 569090 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this retelling of the classic fairy tale, feisty Cinderella endures hassles by her stepfamily but gains the upper hand on the bachelor prince.

Year: 1973
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:22:14
Netflix ID: 60028616 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Southern woman's correspondence with her sister in Africa and friendship with a singer help her escape an abusive husband and a hardscrabble life.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:33:43
Netflix ID: 60026621 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A store clerk and a mechanic fall in love in the coastal town of Cherbourg, but their romance is cut short when he is drafted into the army.

Year: 1964
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:32:28
Netflix ID: 1077059 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this Merchant-Ivory period drama, a dutiful butler dedicates himself to tending his lord's house, turning a blind eye to his Nazi sympathies.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:14:15
Netflix ID: 60011325 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this Academy Award-winning World War II flick, a U.S. Army major is tasked with turning a group of conscripted convicts into a crack fighting unit.

Year: 1967
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:29:34
Netflix ID: 445422 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two wealthy Californians consider themselves progressive until their daughter brings home a black fiancé amidst tense race relations in the 1960s.

Year: 1967
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:48:08
Netflix ID: 564122 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Downtrodden housewife Sadako seizes an unlikely opportunity to escape her oppressive life after she is raped by a robber in her home.

Year: 1964
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:29:54
Netflix ID: 70117959 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An engineer from mainland Japan arrives to survey a remote Okinawan island and gets entangled with a superstitious, incestuous local family.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:54:18
Netflix ID: 81312801 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A rock quarry owner's affair with the daughter of one of his employees sets in motion a series of deep deceptions and long-lasting consequences.

Year: 1951
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:42:17
Netflix ID: 81411232 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A sake-brewing family patriarch in Kyoto struggles with Japan's burgeoning economic modernization, while his daughters enjoy the freedoms it offers.

Year: 1961
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:42:45
Netflix ID: 81402105 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb