Add these to your list.
You’ve finished Narcos, binged your way through Stranger Things and watched all of our previous recommendations. What to do next? Don’t fret because we’ve searched through the Netflix library to bring you some of our favourite titles that may have slipped under your radar.
Note, we haven’t included any ‘well known’ or ‘massive’ titles but these are all worth your time.
The Fundamentals of Caring
Plot: A man suffering an incredible amount of loss enrolls in a class about care-giving that changes his perspective on life.
Worth your time because: It’s similar to those feelgood indie films like The Way, Way Back, Garden State and Submarine. Paul Rudd fans will really enjoy it.
Black Dynamite
Plot: Black Dynamite is the greatest African-American action star of the 1970s. When his only brother is killed by The Man it’s up to him to find justice.
Worth your time because: It’s the perfect 1am when you don’t have to think too much. Just sit back, relax and laugh. A loving tribute to those exploitation films of the ’70s that were so bad that they’re great.
Bloody Sunday
Plot: A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Worth your time because: Before he directed the Bourne films, Paul Greengrass established his gritty aesthetic with this superb account of a pivotal moment in modern Irish-Anglo relations.
Barfly
Plot: Based on Charles Bukowski’s famous novel, this tale should strike a chord with anyone who wishes to live free, drink heavily and embrace their inner bum.
Worth your time because: There always comes a point in your life when you just say ‘feck this’.
Community
Plot: A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eclectic staff and student body.
Worth your time because: It’s arguably the funniest TV show that you’ve never seen.
Danger 5
Plot: It’s Christmas in the 1980s, Adolf Hitler is alive and has two Yuletide wishes: Danger 5 dead and the world under his Christmas tree.
Worth your time because: We previously wrote about it’s absurd brilliance and you won’t regret it.
Election
Plot: A high school teacher’s personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.
Worth your time because: It might be one of the more well known titles on this list but Tracy Flick is still one of the greatest villains of modern times.
Equilibrium
Plot: In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Worth your time because: It’s remarkably stylish, the choreography is great and Bale is always incredibly watchable.
Grabbers
Plot: When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Worth your time because: It’s like Tremors with pints.
Hard Eight
Plot: Professional gambler Sydney teaches John the tricks of the trade. John does well until he falls for cocktail waitress Clementine
Worth your time because: Like all P.T Anderson films, the cast here is great with Samuel L.Jackson, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Baker Hall and Philip Seymour Hoffman all staring.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Plot: A rough-around-the-edges martial arts master seeks revenge for his parent’s death.
Worth your time because: Like Danger 5 and Black Dynamite, it’s bonkers but 100% worth a watch if you’re a fan of surreal comedy.
The Lives of Others
Plot: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Worth your time because: The Oscar winner is one of the most immersive, claustrophobic and and tense films that you’ll see.
Looper
Plot: In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits – someone like Joe – who one day learns the mob wants to ‘close the loop’ by sending back Joe’s future self for assassination.
Worth your time because: Before Rian Johnson ventured off to the galaxy that’s far, far away, he released this sci-fi thriller that’s effortlessly stylish and well acted.
Margin Call
Plot: Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Worth your time because: It’s like an Aaron Sorkin film that wasn’t written by Aaron Sorkin.
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Megamind
Plot: The supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life.
Worth your time because: It seems to be the animation that plenty of people missed at the cinema. Perfect 12pm hungover viewing.
Narc
Plot: When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.
Worth your time because: It’s getting harder and harder to find decent cop dramas.
Requiem for a Dream
Plot: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Worth your time because: Yes, it’s remarkably tough to watch but it’s also brilliantly shot and edited. It also gave the world this superb piece of music.
Searching for Sugar Man
Plot: Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
Worth your time because: The Oscar winning documentary is a must-watch for any music fan.
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Plot: A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Worth your time because: It’s incredibly visceral and you almost feel like you’re in the heart of the action.
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