Top 10 Movies on Netflix

Boredom is a common evil, especially now that there is a fear of leaving home, and for good reason. People are beginning to distrust the street and it is preferable to avoid stepping on it for fear of catching it. Meeting friends or going to a bar, even if it is allowed, is not the best we can do for now.

However, locking yourself at home should not be synonymous with having to have a hard time, without any training. We can liven up our afternoons after a hard and heavy day of teleworking with all kinds of hobbies that can be done from the comfort of our sofa, including watching a good movie.

Are you a movie buff and have Netflix? Well, today you are in luck! Next we will see a list of the best Netflix movies that we can find on this platform.

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Action, mystery, science fiction, LGTBI + friendly... Next we are going to see several movies currently available on Netflix, the name of the actors and directors of her and part of the plot ..

1. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (David France, 2017)

"The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson ”is a documentary film by the American journalist and writer David France speaking to us, as its title suggests, about the life and suspicious death of Marsha Johnson. But who was this Marsha? She is about an African-American transgender woman and drag queen who has become an icon of the LGTBI + activism, a symbol of the struggle for the recognition of the rights of people not heteronormative.

This woman gave rise to talk in life, and more so once she was dead. On July 6, 1992, her body was found in New York's Hudson River. The police ruled that it was a suicide but this did not seem to convince people that it they knew, missing them so much that Marsha had wanted to end her life so suddenly and mysterious.

The film shows how activist Victoria Cruz seeks evidence to reopen the investigation of the Marsha Johnson case, and to see if what was really behind her death was not a suicide but a murder. In addition, the documentary delves into the history of the gay rights movement, especially after the events of Stonewall, and how different factions of the LGTBI + collective do not always agree on what the direction of the fight should be organized.

The documentary is 96% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 7.4 in movie reviews. But despite the fact that the plot of this film is very interesting and demanding, in addition to its high score, the controversy is also present since a transgender filmmaker named Tourmaline alleged that David France had taken over his investigation and, although this accusation has not found any evidence to prove it, it has caused this film to have generated more interest. Whatever happened, this documentary is a must.

2. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)

Despite being only about 14 years old, "Pan's Labyrinth" has become a classic, a huge reference in Spanish cinema and that, of course, the Netflix platform could not stop putting among its contents. Beautiful and tragic in equal measure, the film combines elements of science fiction, the terror and a certain surreal air, a combination that made its well-known director, Guillermo del Bull.

The story takes us to the bled Spain after the Civil War. Its protagonist is Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), a young woman of great imagination who is about to achieve something that all a girl her age would like to be, even if she does not suspect it at first: to be the princess of a fantastic kingdom Underground. The girl has a cruel military stepfather who has abandoned her and is isolated from her motherSo you decide to explore the family-owned country grounds.

Exploring the field, the girl comes across a curious stone maze in which a suspect is waiting for her. It is about a faun, named Pan (Doug Jones), who asks him to complete three tasks, only three although dangerous, threatening his life. If done properly, young Ophelia will become the mythical princess who must return to the kingdom to claim it. But despite her apparent success in her adventure Ofelia will be a victim of the political situation in Spain, still turbulent in postwar times.

Critics received this film very well, which has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. The list of awards that the film has is very long, but it is worth highlighting among them six Goya Awards, three Oscars, three BAFTAs, the Sant Jordi award for best Spanish film and no more and no less than ten Ariel awards won in 2006.

3. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a young reporter who is desperate to find work in the world of criminal journalism in Los Angeles. After discovering a group of freelance cameramen whose job it is to film accidents, fires, murders and other misfortunes of the big city Lou he is making his way through the murky world of "Night Crawling" which consists of just that: documenting urban misfortunes as if birds of prey were treated.

Thus, the alarming sirens, the screams, the smoke, the suffering of any innocent passer-by is, in essence, what will feed young Lou. A very cloudy and morbid image can be what makes him earn his day's wages, something that will make Lou lose some sensitivity towards the catastrophes of the big city, looking through his camera lens at the victims simply as a synonym for money. Through his graphic reports, Lou will make a place in this world, but he will also end up being the protagonist of one of these stories.

"Nightcrawler" is 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and has won multiple awards, including a Saturn Award, two Awards Independent Spirit and was honored by various critics across the United States, holding up to twenty awards from this type. She has been nominated for an Oscar award although she could not take it, but has also been widely recognized by critics as a film detailing the murky and nightly hard work of image journalists bloody.

4. Enola Holmes (Harry Bradbeer, 2020)

We all know Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective who emerged from the mind of the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but do we know his sister? Indeed, the English detective had a sister who had also inherited detective skills: Enola Holmes. Enola (Millie Bobbie Brown) is Sherlock's teenage sister who, one day, she receives the news that her dear mother has disappeared on her sixteenth birthday.

The reasons why her mother, Eudoria Holmes, has disappeared may be related to the fact that she is a member of the wing most radical of the suffrage movement, fighters for women's rights who were not very well regarded by men Victorians. Enola, determined to also be part of the research world and inspired by her mother's struggle, ventures to investigate her strange disappearance but at her her own form of her, avoiding the so stretched way of her older brother although, yes, she borrows a suit of hers from when she was younger to be able to do well of her detective.

The film has a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, being very well received for bringing us a female detective who lives up to none other than Sherlock Holmes. It is also valued for the fact that it takes us to England in the late nineteenth century where the feminist struggle aspires that women can exercise the right to vote and stop being considered as people who do not have the capacity to make the same decisions as the mens. Whether because of the detective air, the story or because we have feminist interests, this film should be seen.

5. Her (Spike Jonze, 2014)

We are in the city of Los Angeles in the not too distant future. Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is a man who makes a living writing personal letters for people who cannot find the exact words to say what they feel. This work is, without a doubt, artistic and very beautiful but, at the same time, ironic considering the personality of the protagonist. Theodore is a man with serious problems saying what he feels, and more so now that he is going through a moment as tense as the breakdown of her marriage.

Heartbroken, the protagonist begins to trust a new operating system, a computer system that is intuitive and unique: Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). Samatha quickly becomes a friend with a sensitive and playful personality, complementing Theodore perfectly. But what was originally a curious friendship between man and machine (or program, in this case) is gradually turning into something more.

With 95% and a plot between the romantic and the murky, "Her" has not gone unnoticed at all. It has won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the best original screenplay, as well as the 2015 Sant Jordi Prize for the best foreign film.

6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman, 2018)

This movie is ideal for all Spider-Man fans. Didn't you have enough with just one? Well, in "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" you have them all, of all dimensions, colors and artistic styles that you can imagine. There are spidermans, spiderwomans, and spideranimals (including a pig) to give and take.

But the main spiderman is Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a boy who one day bites a spider radioactive and develops spider superpowers, come on, the same thing that happened to the rest of their peers superpowers. The difference here is that the film's supervillain, Wilson Fisk (Liev Schreiber), decides to use an experimental machine to try to move between dimensions. With this Miles will be able to meet other spider people, including a tired old version of Peter. Parker (Jake Johnson) who agrees to help the boy deal with the destabilization of universes caused by Fisk.

But Peter and Miles won't work alone: other spider-mans, let's call them spider-folks, they'll help you including Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn), inspired by the anime, and Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage). This movie is really funny and to a certain degree bizarre, in its Anglo-Saxon sense, since it has no problem in teaching strange things to the public. A movie we must see before it is removed from Netflix.

She is 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and is a Golden Globe, Oscar, BAFTA and Critics Winner American film "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is also entertaining of very good quality artistic.

7. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

"Back to the Future" is one of those films that, even though it is already a few years old (35 no more and no less!) being a good reference of how people, of any generation, imagine that he was going to be the future. The protagonist is a teenager named Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) whose best friend is an aging scientist, Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Doc has managed to transform a DeLorean into a machine capable of traveling through time when reaching high speeds.

After witnessing Doc's murder in 1985, Marty finds himself trapped 30 years earlier, in 1955. In order to arrive safely at his time, the young teenager must convince the Doc of the 50s to help him, not to give up on his technological advances. But added to this, he has another task on which his life depends entirely, rather his existence: must convince her mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) to go out with her father George (Crispin Glover) since, if not, goodbye Marty.

It won an Oscar, four Saturn and up to ten other awards from film academies and critics around the world, in addition to being valued on Rotten Tomatoes with 96%.

8. The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017)

Let's be direct. James Franco as a director is rather regular, but in "The Disaster Artist", where he himself stars, he has become an example of the good comedy and drama of the 2010s. The film represents the shooting of another movie, "The Room" (1955), a bad, very bad "play." James Franco plays the director of that film, Tommy Wiseau, imitating his strange gestures and speech. Next to him appears Wiseau's best friend, Greg Sestero (Dave Franco), author of the memoirs on which this film is based.

The film has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe Award for Best comedy film, winning a Golden Globe Award for best comic actor and a Sant Jordi Award for best film foreign. It's 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

9. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

Here we have the oldest movie on the list and the best known. "Taxi Driver" by famous director Martin Scorsese tells us about the life of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a Vietnam veteran who agrees to work as a taxi driver in busy New York City. Travis is still recovering from the war and is uncomfortable and enraged at the world he sees around him.

Disgust and fury invades him when he sees how pimps sexually exploit girls, the ideology of activists and agitators politicians of the moment and ultimately how the world in which he grew up seems to be going down the drain, if it hasn't gone. His anger reaches such a point that Travis goes from being a mere mute witness to the world around him to taking action as a delusional vigilante.

With 96% on Rotten Tomatoes you might think the movie won a lot of awards, even though it didn't. However, the awards won are no small feat: we have two BAFTA Awards, specifically that of Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Music, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes.

10. The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski, 2020)

Jeff Orlowski's “The Social Dilemma” is a documentary with a dramatic and revealing touch in which It exposes how big tech companies, like Google, Facebook and Instagram. In her several workers and also many former employees of the tech giants tell us about the bad side of new technologies. It is true that they keep us connected and informed, but at what cost?

These networks handle large amounts of personal data, know what we like and present us with attractive content through their algorithms, content that can make us obsess, waste time ceasing to be productive and even develop problems of mental health. Of course, this docudrama serves to open our eyes about the need to make responsible and minimal use of mobiles, computers and other devices connected to the large network of networks.

This documentary has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and has been received very positively by critics, considering it a good exposition of how social networks can worsen false beliefs, spread news of doubtful veracity and also how all this is related to psychological problems aggravated by the addiction that these cause media.