Best Movies on Netflix – October 2026

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Starring

Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.

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Director

Bob Persichetti

Starring

Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

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Director

Steven Spielberg

Starring

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

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• Starz

Director

Ava DuVernay

Starring

David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Director

Bo Burnham

Starring

Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

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• Prime Video
• Hulu
• Peacock
• Sundance Now

Director

Christopher Nolan

Starring

Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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Director

Barry Jenkins

Starring

Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

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• Prime Video
• Hulu
• Crunchyroll

Director

Sunghoo Park

Starring

Megumi Ogata, Kana Hanazawa, Yuichi Nakamura

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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Director

Ridley Scott

Starring

Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

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• Fubo
• Philo

Director

James Cameron

Starring

Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn

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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Director

Noah Baumbach

Starring

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern

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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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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Director

Alfonso Cuarón

Starring

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey

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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Director

Martin Scorsese

Starring

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

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• Shout! Factory
• Sundance Now

Director

Dan Gilroy

Starring

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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Director

Luca Guadagnino

Starring

Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg

U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.

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• Sony Pictures Core

Director

Makoto Kamiya

Starring

Matthew Mercer, Courtenay Taylor, Robin Sachs

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

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Director

Jan de Bont

Starring

Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

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• Starz

Director

Paul Greengrass

Starring

Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

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Director

Jean-Marc Vallée

Starring

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

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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Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Starring

Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

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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Director

Jane Campion

Starring

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

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• Paramount+
• Sony Pictures Core

Director

Kathryn Bigelow

Starring

Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

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Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring

Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

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Director

F. Gary Gray

Starring

O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

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Director

Francis Lawrence

Starring

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

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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Director

Fernando Meirelles

Starring

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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• Hulu
• Apple TV
• YouTube TV
• Fubo

Director

M. Night Shyamalan

Starring

Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

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• YouTube TV
• Sony Pictures Core
• Sundance Now

Director

Mike Newell

Starring

Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen

A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

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• Prime Video
• Peacock
• AMC+
• Shudder
• Fubo

Director

Mike Flanagan

Starring

John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

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Director

Phil Alden Robinson

Starring

Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann

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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Director

Taylor Sheridan

Starring

Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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Director

Gerard Johnstone

Starring

Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

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Director

Eric Darnell

Starring

Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Dan Aykroyd

A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle and maturity.

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Director

Judd Apatow

Starring

Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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• Apple TV

Director

David Fincher

Starring

Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer

A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

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• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

Starring

Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

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• Hulu
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• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Mark Mylod

Starring

Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult

A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.

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Director

Goran Stolevski

Starring

Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook

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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Director

Bong Joon Ho

Starring

An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

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Director

Doug Liman

Starring

Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper

When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.

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Director

Ben Affleck

Starring

Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

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• Starz
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Director

Phil Lord

Starring

Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson

In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

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Director

Gary Ross

Starring

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

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• Prime Video
• Paramount+
• MGM+

Director

Parker Finn

Starring

Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

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Director

Paul Greengrass

Starring

Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

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Director

Phil Lord

Starring

Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Peter Stormare

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

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Director

Christopher Nolan

Starring

Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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Director

Brian De Palma

Starring

Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

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Director

Tom Shadyac

Starring

Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper