Ranking: The 50 Best Movies of All Time on Netflix (May) (2023)

😍 2022-05-20 ​​14:00:57 – Paris/France.

There are so many feature film options that the platform Streaming offers in its catalog, that it is sometimes difficult to choose a good story to enjoy on screen.

That's why we collect 50 best movies from Netflix available in May 2022 and the we order from lowest to highest according to their rating on IMDB (ranging from 1 to 10).

50. Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down, released in 2001. Rating 7.7 on IMDB

Recently Ridley Scott He strives to give life to films that are part of one of the great inspirations of his career: historical reality. Thus, in the last duel revived a combat of knights, fought in France in the XNUMXth century, and in the house of gucci depicts the events surrounding the murder of Maurizio Gucci.

Something he had already done in several other titles, among which stand out Gladiator, Crusade, all the money in the world Yes The fall of the Black Hawkthe latest film in which the British filmmaker focuses on Battle of Mogadishu in Somaliawhich between October 3 and 4, 1993 caused an obscure number of deaths and injuries.

The one whose story is based on Ken Nolan's screenplay, in turn inspired by the non-fiction book Black Hawk Down: A History of Modern Warfareby journalist Mark Bowden, whose narration – lasting almost two and a half hours – takes as its starting point the moment, in the early 1990s, when famine devastated Somalia.

Specifically when Somali leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid governs the capital, Mogadishu and seizes food so that after the departure of a large contingent of US Marines he declares war on the few remaining UN representatives in this East African country.

To which Washington sends the Delta Force, the Army Rangers and the 160th Regiment. The protagonists of the series of violent events that take place after an arms dealer has been taken prisoner. At the beginning of a film which has in its cast Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor and Sam Shepardamong others.

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49. The Official History

The Official Story, released in 1985. Rating 7.7 on IMDB

It is a film that shook not only Argentinabut to everyone. In fact, he won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1986a time when Latin American cinema figured little or not in the international concert.

Here, the great actress norma alexander plays Alicia, a teacher who begins to suspect and attempt to unravel a conspiracy in which the Argentine dictatorship, her husband and her infant daughter are intertwined.

Luis Puenzo was in charge of the production of this moving film which deals with the subject of missing prisoners and the struggle of Plaza de Mayo grandmothers to find out where many children were, children of the missing.

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48. Lost in Tokyo

Lost in Tokyo released in 2003. Rating 7.7 on IMDB

who fell in love with sophia coppola with the virgin commits suicide (1999), ended up falling at the filmmaker's feet with lost in tokyo (2003), his third feature film.

The lights of the Japanese capital and the melancholy bathe this film, which became one of the best of that year and received four Oscar nominations.

Finally, he won the statuette for best original screenplay, with the story of two people who meet in a hotel in Tokyo, Bob (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson).

She is a movie star who has traveled to participate in various events and she is a young woman who has accompanied her husband, a successful photographer who does not stop working.

The loneliness, the strangeness of being in an unknown city and the hotel lobby bring them together and thus begins a romance that has left memorable scenes, such as this taxi ride through the streets of Tokyo, with the Sometimes of My Bloody Valentine in the background.

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47. The game

The Game, released in 1997. Rating 7.7 on IMDB

In the fascinating career of David Fincher recognitions always go to masterpieces like The seven deadly sins (year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five), Zodiac (2007) or The social network

But in his filmography, there are also little forgotten nuggets, like The game (1997), his third feature film, another one of those thrillers with its disconcerting and gripping cachet.

It all starts on Nicholas Van Orton's birthday (michael douglas), a cold and arrogant banking magnate, whom his brother Conrad (Sean Penn) gives you a ticket to take part in a mysterious game. And what is it? Nobody knows exactly and despite this the businessman agrees to participate, although reluctantly.

And it starts gruesomely, with a wooden clown lying outside his mansion the same way his father died jumping off the roof when Nicholas was a child. From there, the game mingles with his daily life, gradually blurring the line between what is real and what is not.

The challenge every time more perverse, dark and oppressiveleading the protagonist but also the spectator towards a sort of dead-end labyrinth where nothing and no one is what it seems.

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46. ​​American Gangster

American Gangster, released in 2007. Rating 7.8 on IMDB

Frank Lucas was the drug dealer who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, challenged the supremacy of the Italian mob on the streets of New York.

With his 100% pure, low-cost heroin, which he himself brought back from Thailand, he became a powerful, albeit low-key, millionaire man who was portrayed in the New York Magazine article The return of Superfly.

This report is the basis of the film that the director Ridley Scott created in 2007 and that chronicles the rise and fall of Lucaswho left as a driver and bodyguard for “Bumpy” Johnson, the drug dealer who ruled Harlem and followed in his footsteps.

The film is structured as a side story which, on the one hand, shows how Lucas (played by a superb Denzel Washington) built his empire and, on the other, Newark Police Department detective Richie Roberts (Russel Crowe), the very man who would later put an end to the rising career of the African-American mobster.

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45. Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips, released in 2013. Rating 7.8 on IMDB

If the word piracy immediately evokes characters such as Blackbeard or the privateer Francis Drake, there are still groups today who engage in maritime plunder off the coasts of Africa and Asia. Like the Somali pirates who in 2009 took hostage Richard Phillips.

The then captain of the US-flagged merchant ship Mærsk Alabama, which suffered the attack he would later recall in A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Seaa book he wrote in 2010 with Stephan Talty that would later become a movie.

which, led by Paul GreenGrass (Bourne: The Ultimatum, News from the big world), is inspired by the pages of this novel to bring to the screen the experience of the sailor, under the skin of tom hanksince he leaves his home in Vermont to take the flight that takes him to Oman, from where he will embark to sail to Kenya.

But it is also the story of Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who at the beginning of the film recruits fishermen from her town to leave the African coast in a fishing boat and boats and go in search of a boat to plunder. . In the launch of the two stories that later converge in the Indian Ocean.

When Muse and her men, after chasing the freighter for hours, board and bring the crew back to the deck, while the rest hide in the engine room. As the story begins to sail the tension that drives drama and suspense from Captain Phillips.

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Another Round, released in 2020. Rating 7.8 on IMDB

More than two decades later The invitation (1998), Danish filmmaker Thomas vinterbergwho rose to prominence for being part of the controversial Dogma 95 movement, has once again won over critics with another round (pressure in its original title).

If he even won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year with the story that features a group of friends who work as teachers in a school: Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Magnus Millangj).

It was on the occasion of the latter's 40th birthday that they began to discuss the theory of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, who argues that having 0,05% alcohol in the blood makes people more creative and relaxed. And they decide to verify it empirically, in several days of drunkenness, together and separately, which leads to good and bad consequences.

Yet this heady film isn't about or challenging alcohol, but rather a celebration of life and, most importantly, second chances at life.

A conclusion that becomes clearer in its unforgettable final scenewhere Mikkelsen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), superb with her performance throughout the film, you show off your dancing skills.

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43. Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, released in 2005. Rating 7,8 on IMDB

A real time travel victorian england is the one offered by this 2005 film, which adapts the popular homonymous novel by de Jane Austen.

Every detail, from costumes and sets to customs, magically leads to this when women were not allowed to inherit family property and that's why they had to get married to have a home and have fun.

The five Bennet sisters, the daughters of a lower-class couple who live in a rural area, focus on this goal.

One of them, the eldest, Jane (Rosamund Pike), apparently got lucky when she teamed up with a millionaire who came to live in a nearby mansion, Charles Bingley (Simon Woods). While his sister, Lizzy (Keira Knightley), falls in love with a friend of Mr. Bingley, the haughty and proud Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen).

The latter looks like impossible romanceof those which are inevitable in the novels of Jane Austen, and which will end up breaking your heart.

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42. Drive

Drive, released in 2011. Rating 7.8 on IMDB

A little over ten years ago, in September 2011, it was released in theaters Drivingthe big screen version of the homonymous novel by James Sallis, after several years as a project of producers Marc Platt and Adam Siegel, which included names like Hugh Jackman.

However, his realization began to materialize when Ryan Gosling signed on to be the leading man and also, for the first time in his career, he got to choose his director. His choice fell on the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refnwho at that time was already known for the trilogy pushers and the biopic Bronson.

Thus, under the direction of the European filmmaker, the filming of the action and drama film was completed, which was nominated for the British Academy Film Awards -in categories such as best film and best director- and the Oscar, for Best Film Editing. Sound section. Additionally, Refn won the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.

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