There’s a new title at the top of the Netflix movies charts, and it might not be what you expect. Featuring the likes of Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley, and Lea Sava Jeffries, the pulse-pounding survival thriller Beast joined the Netflix catalog last week and instantly rose to the streaming summit. As millions in the U.S. settle in to watch Elba go head-to-head with a lion, there are still many more movies ready and waiting to be enjoyed on the world’s biggest streamer. So what else should you watch? To help you decide, here’s a list of three movies you should stream this week on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Noah Kahan: Out of Body’ (2026)
IMDb: 8.2/10
The season of the sticks is coming to Netflix, with Noah Kahan: Out of Body, one of the most exciting new arrivals on the platform. In a fascinating new music documentary, director Nick Sweeney (Santa Camp) goes behind the curtain of the life of musician Noah Kahan, as his rise through the industry and into superstardom comes with many challenges, especially to his mental health.
As important an exploration of mental health as it is an interesting music documentary, Noah Kahan: Out of Body isn’t just for fans of the musician, but for non-fans as well. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Kahan gave an honest insight into what fans can expect from the movie, writing, “It was a really difficult process to create, a very challenging process for me creatively, considering a lot of the things you’ll see in the movie, like the pressure and the expectation, the changes in my lifestyle.”
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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‘A Quiet Place Part II’ (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% | IMDb: 7.2/10
After a first installment that took the world by storm and proved anything but silent, the Quiet Place franchise continued its impressive run with a breathless second outing. In the sequel, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski return alongside the rest of the Abbott family as they face their most terrifying threat yet.
Also featuring Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe, A Quiet Place Part II is the perfect way to keep you gripped to the edge of your seat this weekend. Scoring success at both the box office and with critics, A Quiet Place Part II won the Critics’ Choice Super Award for Best Horror Movie and was followed in 2024 by the prequel A Quiet Place: Day One, which stars Lupita N’yongo and Joseph Quinn.
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‘The Bad Guys 2’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% | IMDb: 7.0/10
2025 wasn’t the strongest year for animation, but a few gems were released that are more than worth your time. One of the best of last year is The Bad Guys 2, a sequel to the 2022 hit directed by Pierre Perifel. Back in their new lives as Good Guys, the titular group is about to have their old reputation tested as they are pulled out of retirement by an all-female criminal squad.
A perfect family-friendly option this week that has as much for the adults as it does kids, The Bad Guys 2 is a fast-paced adventure packed with laughs. Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, and Maria Bakalova join an all-star returning line-up, including Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Alex Borstein, Richard Ayoade, and Lilly Singh.
