Best Movies on Netflix – April 2026

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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• Netflix
• MovieSphere+

Director

David Mackenzie

Starring

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

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• Netflix

Director

Dee Rees

Starring

Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

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• Netflix

Director

Alfonso Cuarón

Starring

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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• Netflix

Director

Noah Baumbach

Starring

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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• Netflix

Director

Martin Scorsese

Starring

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

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• Netflix

Director

Jane Campion

Starring

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

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• Netflix

Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Starring

Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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• Netflix

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Starring

Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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• Netflix

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Starring

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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• Netflix

Director

Taylor Sheridan

Starring

Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

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• Netflix

Director

Bong Joon Ho

Starring

An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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• Netflix
• HBO Max

Director

Alex Garland

Starring

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac