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Top 10 Netflix Movies

THE ALL-TIME TOP 10 NETFLIX MOVIES

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1. Klaus (2019)

In 2019, Sergio Pablos made his directing debut with the animated Christmas adventure comedy feature Klaus, which was distributed by Netflix and produced by The SPA Studios. Norm Macdonald (in his final film role released during his lifetime), Joan Cusack, Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Will Sasso, Neda Margrethe Labba, and Sergio Pablos (in a dual role) are among the voices of the traditionally animated film, which was co-directed by Carlos Martinez Lopez and co-written by Zach Lewis and Jim Mahoney. The novel takes place in a fictional 19th-century setting and serves as an alternative origin story for Santa Claus, separate from the actual Saint Nicholas of Myra. It centers on a postman assigned to an isolated settlement in the Far North who meets a reclusive toymaker.

2. Marriage Story (2019)

Noah Baumbach is the writer and director of the drama film Marriage Story, which he co-produced with David Heyman in 2019. In it, Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver play a combative couple divorcing each other coast to coast. In supporting parts are Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty, Ray Liotta, and Merritt Wever.

The cast was announced for the movie in November 2017, the same month it was released. From January to April of the next year, filming was done in Los Angeles and New York City. The Netflix-produced movie debuted on August 29, 2019, at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. It was then released in restricted theaters on November 6 and became available for streaming on December 6.

Marriage Story won praise from critics, especially for Baumbach’s direction and screenplay as well as for Johansson, Driver, and Dern’s performances. The movie won six nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Driver), Best Actress (Johansson), and Best Original Screenplay, among its many other honors. Dern received numerous awards for her work, including the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the BAFTA Award.

3. The Irishman (2019)

The Irishman, also titled I Heard You Paint Houses, is a 2019 American epic gangster film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the 2004 novel I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt and was written from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. In addition to Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jesse Plemons, and Harvey Keitel in supporting parts, the film stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci. Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a truck driver, is the main character of the movie. He first works as a hitman for gangster Russell Bufalino (Pesci) and his criminal family before going on to work for the formidable Teamster Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). In addition to being Scorsese’s fourth collaboration with Joe Pesci, his first with Al Pacino, his fourth collaboration with De Niro, and their first joint venture, the movie also represented the ninth cooperation between Scorsese and De Niro.

After having its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival, The Irishman was released in restricted theaters on November 1, 2019, and then on November 27, 2019, Netflix released it on streaming services. Numerous critics praised the picture, praising Scorsese’s direction, the production, costume design, editing, writing, photography, de-aging effects, and De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci’s performances. The National Board of Review rated it the Best Film of 2019, while the American Film Institute listed it among the top ten movies of the year. In addition to winning multiple other awards, the movie was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

4. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of the same name, All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, or “Nothing New in the West”) is a German epic anti-war film released in 2022. After the films in 1930 and 1979, this is the third adaptation of the book for the big screen. Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, and Devid Striesow star in the Edward Berger-directed film.

It centers on the life of a young, idealistic German soldier named Paul Bäumer and is set during World War I. Bäumer and his buddies enlist in the German Army, where he soon learns the harsh reality of war and loses his early dreams of being a hero in the process of trying to live. A parallel plot that follows the armistice negotiations to end the war is added by the movie and is not in the book.

5. Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Aaron Sorkin is the writer and director of the 2020 American historical legal drama film titled The Trial of the Chicago 7. The Chicago Seven, a group of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators accused of conspiracy and of crossing state lines to incite rioting during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, are the subject of the movie. The ensemble cast includes Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Ben Shenkman, Michael Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Jeremy Strong.

6. Roma (2018)

Alfonso Cuarón wrote and directed the drama film Roma (2018). He also produced, filmed, and co-edited the movie. In Roma, which is a semi-autobiographical portrayal of Cuarón’s childhood in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma area, the life of a live-in indigenous (Mixteco) housekeeper for an upper-middle-class Mexican family is followed throughout the years 1970 and 1971. Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira play the key parts in the movie. Mexico and the United States are the co-producers on this international project.

On August 30, 2018, the movie made its world premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, where it took home the Golden Lion. On November 21, 2018, it debuted in limited theaters around the United States. On December 14, 2018, it became available for streaming on Netflix in the US and other countries. Aparicio and de Tavira’s performances, as well as Cuarón’s screenplay, direction, and cinematography, were praised in particular for the film’s widespread critical acclaim. Several critics’ “top ten” lists of 2018 included the movie, which is regarded as one of the greatest of the year.

7. Beasts of No Nation (2015)

The 2015 African war drama Beasts of No Nation was written, co-produced, filmed, and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. It centers on a young child who, during his nation’s horrifying civil war, is forced into the military. The film, which was filmed in Ghana and stars Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Abebrese, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh, and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, is based on Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel of the same name, which was titled after a Fela Kuti album.

It was exhibited in the 72nd Venice International Film Festival’s main competition section, where it was awarded the Marcello Mastroianni Award. On October 16, 2015, the movie was distributed on Netflix worldwide and through a limited distribution deal with Bleecker Street. It had its premiere in the Special Presentation section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

8. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson are the directors of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, a stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy picture from 2022. Patrick McHale and del Toro wrote the screenplay. The drawings by Gris Grimly for a 2002 reprint of The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, the 1883 Italian classic that Matthew Robbins and del Toro modified for the story, had a significant effect. The experiences of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet that comes to life as the son of its carver Geppetto, are reenacted in the movie.

The film, which is set in interwar fascist Italy, features Ewan McGregor, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, and Tilda Swinton in addition to Gregory Mann’s voice as Pinocchio and David Bradley’s as Geppetto. Prior to his passing in 2024, Gustafson’s last motion picture credit was Pinocchio.

On October 15, 2022, Pinocchio made its theatrical debut at the 66th BFI London Film Festival. On November 9, 2022, it was released in a few theaters, and on December 9, Netflix started to watch it. Its voice acting, animation, emotional nuance, musical compositions, and images won it praise from critics.

9. The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation are the producers of the 2021 animated science fiction comedy The Mitchells vs. the Machines. Based on a screenplay they both wrote, Mike Rianda (making his feature directorial debut) and Jeff Rowe co-directed the movie. Producers Kurt Albrecht, Christopher Miller, and Phil Lord. Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, Rianda, Eric André, and Olivia Colman are among the ensemble voice cast members in the movie. In supporting roles are Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Blake Griffin, Conan O’Brien, and Doug the Pug. It centers on the dysfunctional Mitchell family, who, while on a road trip, end up having to save Earth from a worldwide robot rebellion.

After finishing work on the 2015 animated series Gravity Falls for Disney Channel/Disney XD, Rianda had the idea for the movie. In May 2018, the project was revealed, with Rowe and Rianda serving as directors and Lord and Miller serving as producers. A year later, more information was released when it was confirmed that the movie would employ an animation technique akin to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), a previous film from Sony Pictures Animation. The announcement of the voice cast took place between 2020 and 2021. The Mitchells vs. the Machines utilized a lot of the same technology as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but new tools were also developed in order to fulfill Rianda’s goal of a “hand-painted watercolor style” for the movie. Miller and Lord’s regular partner.

10. The Two Popes (2019)

Directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten, The Two Popes is a 2019 biographical drama film. It is an adaptation of McCarten’s play The Pope, which had its premiere at the Royal & Derngate Theatre. Set mostly in Vatican City following the scandal involving the Vatican leaks, the movie centers on Anthony Hopkins’s Pope Benedict XVI, who tries to talk Jonathan Pryce’s Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio into changing his mind about resigning as archbishop after the latter announces his intention to abdicate the pope.

On August 31, 2019, the movie had its world debut at the Telluride Film Festival. On November 27, 2019, it had a limited theatrical release in the United States; on November 29, 2019, it opened in the United Kingdom; and on December 20, 2019, Netflix began offering it digitally. Critics praised both Pryce and Hopkins’ performances and McCarten’s screenplay, and the three men were nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and British Academy Film Awards for their respective roles.