Best Movies on Netflix – April 2026

The best movies on Netflix right now, ranked by critic and audience scores. Updated for April 2026.

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Poster of Hell or High Water (2016)

1. Hell or High Water (2016)

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

IMDb7.6Rotten Tomatoes97%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster

Directed by: David Mackenzie

Poster of Mudbound (2017)

2. Mudbound (2017)

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.

IMDb7.4Rotten Tomatoes97%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell

Directed by: Dee Rees

Poster of Roma (2018)

3. Roma (2018)

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

IMDb7.6Rotten Tomatoes96%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Poster of Marriage Story (2019)

4. Marriage Story (2019)

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

IMDb7.9Rotten Tomatoes95%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern

Directed by: Noah Baumbach

Poster of The Irishman (2019)

5. The Irishman (2019)

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.

IMDb7.8Rotten Tomatoes95%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Poster of The Power of the Dog (2021)

6. The Power of the Dog (2021)

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.

IMDb6.8Rotten Tomatoes94%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst

Directed by: Jane Campion

Poster of Beasts of No Nation (2015)

7. Beasts of No Nation (2015)

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.

IMDb7.7Rotten Tomatoes91%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga

Poster of Sicario (2015)

8. Sicario (2015)

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.

IMDb7.7Rotten Tomatoes91%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Poster of The Two Popes (2019)

9. The Two Popes (2019)

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.

IMDb7.6Rotten Tomatoes89%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín

Directed by: Fernando Meirelles

Poster of Wind River (2017)

10. Wind River (2017)

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

IMDb7.7Rotten Tomatoes87%

Streaming on: Netflix

Starring: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham

Directed by: Taylor Sheridan

Poster of Okja (2017)

11. Okja (2017)

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

IMDb7.3Rotten Tomatoes87%

Streaming on: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

Directed by: Bong Joon Ho

Poster of Ex Machina (2015)

12. Ex Machina (2015)

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.

IMDb7.1Rotten TomatoesN/A

Streaming on: Netflix, HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Netflix Standard with Ads

Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac

Directed by: Alex Garland

Scores reflect critic ratings at time of publish. Streaming availability is US only.