The vast collection of films available on Netflix is growing every day, every week, and every month. This makes it difficult, at best, for someone who is not tuned into the mysterious rhythms of the service to stay up to date with the finest that it has to offer, much alone figure out what to watch after a long day, which feels impossible at worst.
We are available to assist. We’ve reduced your selections to the greatest films Netflix has to offer in addition to our top picks for the current slate of films on the platform for anyone experiencing decision paralysis in July.
ATLANTICS
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81082007
Description
It’s a lovely, eerie love story with a heart that beats with real intensity, touching on romance, loss, labour, class, and the aftereffects of tyranny. One of the most amazing feature film debuts for a director in recent memory, it was directed by a Black woman, Mati Diop, and cinematographer Claire Mathon. Shot beautifully, it was the first film to be featured in competition at Cannes, winning the Grand Prix award but losing out on the Palme d’Or to Parasite.
- Genre – Drama
- Director – Mati Diop
- Actors- Ibrahima Traoré, Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow
- Story Writer- Mati Diop, Olivier Demangel
- Age Restriction – A
Rating
IMDB: 6.7/10 (10K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 96% (161 Votes)
THE BAAHUBALI MOVIES
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80205231
Description
The Beginning tells the story of Shivudu, a superhumanly strong explorer who uses a waterfall the size of a building to leave his little town. He then helps and befriends Avanthika, a rebel fighter, and works with her to save a queen who has been abducted by a villainous emperor.
- Genre – Adventure, Action, Drama
- Director – S.S. Rajamouli
- Actors- Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty
- Story Writer- K. V. Vijayendra Prasad, S.S. Rajamouli
- Age Restriction -U/A 13+
Rating
IMDB: 8/10 (135K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 91% (22 Votes)
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81030198
Description
Chi-yan (Gao Yuanyuan), an investment bank analyst who recently ended a long-term engagement, finds herself caught up in a romantic triangle. Chi-yan works across the street from Sean (Louis Koo), a CEO, on one side, and he longs for her through the big corporate glass windows that divide them. On the other side is Chi-yan’s helper, Kevin (the incomparable Daniel Wu), a former architect who struggles with alcoholism and finds inspiration in her to pick up art again.
- Genre – Romance
- Director – Terry Ingram
- Actors- Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Gao Yuanyuan
- Story Writer- Nina Weinman
- Age Restriction -U/A 13+
Rating
IMDB: 6.6/10 (1K+ Votes)
EMILY THE CRIMINAL
https://www.netflix.com/title/81586728
Description
Emily (Aubrey Plaza) has a little criminal record, which keeps her off the job market and burdened with educational debt. She accepts a dubious job as a “dummy shopper,” using credit cards that have been stolen and provided by a charming and attractive intermediary called Youcef (Theo Rossi), out of a need for money. After going through a string of fruitless job interviews, Emily quickly finds herself drawn to her mentor Youcef, and the quick money and illegal thrills of black market entrepreneurship. They came up with a strategy together to expand their company in Los Angeles.
- Genre -Crime, Drama, Mystery & thriller
- Director – John Patton Ford
- Actors- Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Gina Gershon
- Story Writer- John Patton Ford
- Age Restriction -A
Rating
IMDB: 6.7/10 (51K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 94% (206 Votes)
LAGAAN
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/60020906
Description
Aamir Khan plays Bhuvan in Ashutosh Gowariker’s classic sports film. Bhuvan is a self-assured young man from a hamlet that is coping with drought and British persecution. Bhuvan decides to form a team and learn the game after the evil Captain Russell (Paul Blackthorne, who is deliriously good in this) challenges the village to a game of cricket, which they do not know how to play, as a bet, with their unpaid taxes on the line. A thrilling sports tale filled with emotion, humour, and a thrilling match conclusion unfolds next. At the 74th Academy Awards, Lagaan was a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Genre – Romance, History, Drama
- Director – Ashutosh Gowariker
- Actors- Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley
- Story Writer- Ashutosh Gowariker
- Age Restriction -U/A 13+
Rating
IMDB: 8.1/10 (119K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 95% (64 Votes)
MISSING
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81643622
Description
When June’s mother (Nia Long) goes missing while on vacation in Colombia with her new lover, international red tape impedes her hunt for answers (Storm Reid). June, stranded in Los Angeles hundreds of miles away, utilises her creativity and every available piece of technology to try to locate her before it’s too late. When June unearths mysteries about her mother, she finds that she never truly knew her at all. However, as she continues to go deeper, her digital detective work produces more questions than it answers.
- Genre – Mystery & thriller
- Director – Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson
- Actors- Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung
- Story Writer- Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson
- Age Restriction -U/A 16+
Rating
IMDB: 7.1/10 (56K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 88% (147 Votes)
THE NICE GUYS
https://www.netflix.com/title/80049284
Description
In 1977, Ryan Gosling’s character Holland March is a struggling private investigator in Los Angeles. Russell Crowe plays Jackson Healy, a hired enforcer who makes his career by torturing victims. After a young woman called Amelia (Margaret Qualley) vanishes inexplicably, fate brings them together as unlikely companions. Healy and March quickly find out the hard way that Amelia is also being sought after by some deadly individuals. Since everyone else engaged in the case tends to end up dead, their research leads them to some very dark places.
- Genre – Action, Comedy, Mystery & thriller
- Director – Shane Black
- Actors- Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice
- Story Writer- Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi
- Age Restriction – A
Rating
IMDB: 7.4/10 (365K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 91% (325 Votes)
THE NIGHT COMES FOR US
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80148162
Description
With Joe Taslim from The Raid as Ito, a gangland enforcer who betrays his Triad criminal family by sparing a child’s life and trying to escape the nation, Timo Tjahjanto’s 2018 thriller undoubtedly follows in Evans’ footsteps.
Here, Iko Uwais, another cast member from The Raid, plays Arian, Ito’s boyhood buddy and fellow enforcer, who has been entrusted with finding Ito and retrieving the girl. With energetic choreography and stunning handheld photography that makes every punch, tumble, and slash count, the action moves quickly and furiously in this scene.
- Genre – Action, Mystery & thriller
- Director – Timo Tjahjanto
- Actors- Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle
- Story Writer- Timo Tjahjanto
- Age Restriction- A
Rating
IMDB: 6.9/10 (28K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 91% (33 Votes)
PHANTOM THREAD
https://www.netflix.com/title/80195447
Description
In 1950s London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the epicentre of British fashion, dressed socialites, debutantes, movie stars, royalty, and heiresses. In Woodcock’s life, women come and go, offering the self-proclaimed bachelor companionship and motivation. Alma is a young, independent lady who soon becomes his inspiration and lover, upending his meticulously planned life.
- Genre – Drama, Romance
- Director – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Actors- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps
- Story Writer- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Age Restriction – A
Rating
IMDB: 7.4/10 (143K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato:91% (359 Votes)
RRR
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81476453
Description
RRR, Polygon’s top 2022 film, is an epic bromance fit for a king, full of memorable musical moments, jaw-dropping action scenes, and two guys simply being dudes. In the 1920s, liberation warriors Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju teamed together to oppose British colonialists.
- Genre – Action, Drama
- Director – S.S. Rajamouli
- Actors- N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn
- Story Writer- S.S. Rajamouli, Sai Madhav Burra
- Age Restriction – A
Rating
IMDB: 7.8/10 (163K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 95% (103 Votes)
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81594921
Description
In the upcoming epic adventure, Miles Morales will return as the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man from Brooklyn, travelling across the Multiverse to team up with Gwen Stacy and a new group of Spider-People to take on a villain more formidable than anything they have ever faced. This is the next chapter in the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga.
- Genre – Kids & Family, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
- Director – Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
- Actors- Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac
- Story Writer- Phil Lord, Chris Miller, David Callaham
- Age Restriction -U/A 13+
Rating
IMDB: 8.6/10 (337K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 95% (385 Votes)
THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81439550
Description
THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS is a stunning translation of the manga series by renowned manga artist Jirô Taniguchi and author Baku Yumemakura. It centres on Fukamachi, a teenage reporter from Japan, who discovers a camera that has the power to alter the course of mountaineering history. It takes him to the enigmatic Habu, a misfit climber who has been thought missing for a long time. Fukamachi embarks on a voyage that gradually brings him closer to the top of the gods and into the realm of obsessive mountaineers who are yearning for impossibly difficult accomplishments.
- Genre – Adventure, Drama, Animation
- Director – Patrick Imbert
- Actors- Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, Damien Boisseau
- Story Writer- Patrick Imbert, Magali Pouzol, Jean-Charles Ostoréro
- Age Restriction -U/A 13+
Rating
IMDB: 7.5/10 (8K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 100% (36 Votes)
THEY CLONED TYRONE
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80996324
Description
The film features John Boyega in the role of Fontaine, a shrewd hustler who is shot dead during a confrontation with a rival drug dealer. Amazingly, Fontaine emerges from the altercation unscathed and has no recollection of the encounter at all the next morning. Fontaine discovers a horrifying secret with the assistance of retired sex worker Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) and local pimp Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx): his neighbourhood is the location of a covert government operation testing cloning technology and subliminal manipulation. The group must choose to reveal this plot or accept their assigned duties in the face of the existential horror this discovery has brought upon them.
- Genre – Sci-fi, Comedy
- Director – Juel Taylor
- Actors- John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, Jamie Foxx
- Story Writer- Tony Rettenmaier, Juel Taylor
- Age Restriction – A
Rating
IMDB: 6.6/10 (37K+ Votes)
Rotten tomato: 95% (132 Votes)
Conclusion
In conclusion, we might ask how someone even knows what to watch when they open up Netflix when there are hundreds of films from all over the world available on the behemoth that altered the game? Here’s where to start! After sifting through the numerous movies on the site, we’ve narrowed it down to 30 must-see titles, which include critically renowned dramas, action movies, comedies, horror movies, and even family-friendly movies. Throughout the list, there are also Netflix Originals and licensed movies.
