Best Movies of All Time on Netflix
Last updated November 09, 2025
Highest Rated Movies with a 3.5 / 5 Star Rating
The Accidental Spy
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBuck is a salesman with dreams of a better life who hits the jackpot when he discovers he may be the long-lost son of a wealthy businessman. But Buck's father turns out to be a secret agent who makes Buck the key figure in locating an elusive drug.
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The Assassins
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn 198 B.C., Cao Cao, prime minister of the Han Dynasty, ventures to the east and defeats China's greatest warrior, Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, Cao crowns himself King of Wei.
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The Back-Up Plan
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, her perfect match. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
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The Boys from Brazil
1978 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this thriller based on Ira Levin's novel, young Nazi hunter Barry Kohler stumbles on the trail of the infamous "Angel of Death," Dr. Josef Mengele, who is planning to resurrect Hitler's vision in South America.
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The Burbs
1989 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) and his friends (Bruce Dern and Rick Ducommun) let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation. Carrie Fisher and Corey Feldman co-star.
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The Chamber
1996 | R | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIdealistic young attorney Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) takes on the death row clemency case of his unrepentant Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman), in this big-screen adaptation of a John Grisham novel. The pair's prickly meetings and Adam's visits with his alcoholic Aunt Lee (Faye Dunaway) force Hall to confront his family's dark past just as new evidence arises and suggests a government conspiracy in Cayhall's case.
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The Chicago 8
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe political turmoil of 1968 leads to several days of rioting in Chicago, after which eight notorious political activists, including Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, are arrested for conspiracy and tried in a case that rivets the nation.
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The Code
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDeeply in debt to the Russian mob, master jewel thief Ripley recruits a talented burglar to help him pull off one more daring heist: filching two gem-encrusted Fabergé eggs worth a cool $20 million each.
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The Condemned
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhile waiting out a death sentence in an infamous Central American prison, hard-boiled convict Jack Conrad (retired professional wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin) is surprised to learn he's been bought by a reality show mogul who wants to cast him in his latest project. His assignment? To join nine other convicted murderers on the shores of a deserted island, where they'll fight to the death for the title of sole survivor.
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The Covenant
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen four boys tap into the supernatural powers they inherited from their fathers, they unknowingly release a malicious evil into the world. Several years later, their only hope for survival is to use their collective force to repair the damage. Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford and Taylor Kitsch co-star in this drama based on the comic book by Aron Coleite and Tone Rodriguez.
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The Crazies
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this chilling remake of the 1973 horror classic, a plane crash unleashes a biological weapon on a small town. As the toxic substance infiltrates the water system some residents become gravely ill, while others descend into homicidal madness.
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The Crucible
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsPlaywright Arthur Miller's parable of the 1950s anti-communist crusade (thinly veiled here as the Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692) receives lush treatment in this Oscar-nominated film adaptation from director Nicholas Hytner. After being spurned by her married lover (Daniel Day-Lewis), young Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) stirs up a frenzy of hysteria and fear with accusations of witchcraft. Joan Allen earned an Oscar nod for her role.
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The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter his skating partner is injured, handsome ice skater Zack asks hockey player Alejandra to join him on the ice. The new partners set their sights on an international competition, but it won't be easy, especially when love gets in the way.
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The Debt
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRachel Singer is a former Mossad intelligence agent who is forced to relive her 1965 pursuit of a notorious Nazi war criminal after the bold and dangerous fugitive is suspected to have reemerged 30 years later in the Ukraine.
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The Desperate Hours
1955 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this classic William Wyler thriller, times get desperate indeed when three escaped convicts -- Glen, his brother Hal and Sam -- break into a home in a Midwestern suburb and take a family hostage.
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The Devil's Rejects
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsEnlisting the aid of two vigilante brothers, Texas sheriff John Wydell seeks vengeance against his brother's creepy murderers in this Western-flavored sequel to writer-director Rob Zombie's bloody House of 1,000 Corpses.
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The Dream Team
1989 | PG-13 | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhile escorting four of his patients to a Yankees game, a shrink (Dennis Boutsikaris) gets waylaid by crooked cops, and his quartet of crazies is unleashed on the streets of New York City in this comic gem from director Howard Zieff. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst deliver first-rate performances as the foursome of lovable loonies who are forced to fend for themselves while banding together to save the doctor.
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The End: British Gangsters
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTake a close, hard look at the seedy underbelly of London's East End in the post-World War II era in this unflinching documentary, which profiles a violent group of local gangsters who openly discuss their shocking exploits and unique code of honor. With surprising candor, this intriguing look at criminal life explores how the neighborhood's aggressive and confrontational culture spawned so many lawbreakers.
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The English Patient
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSet against the backdrop of World War II, this Oscar-winning drama stars Ralph Fiennes as a badly burned pilot who recounts a tale of doomed romance to the nurse tending him. As his story spills out via flashback, so do secrets about his identity.
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The Errand Boy
1961 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsHired to spy on the employees of a major movie studio, well-intentioned but disaster-prone Morty Tashman wreaks havoc on Hollywood as he wanders into a string of mishaps at the Paramutual Pictures lot, looking for infractions to add to his report.
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The Escapist
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen Frank Perry, a con serving a life sentence, learns that his estranged daughter has fallen terminally ill, he enlists a hapless group of inmates to help him escape the maximum-security facility so he can reconcile with her before it's too late.
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The Fast and the Furious
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDomenic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian Spindler infiltrates Toretto's crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.
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The Four Seasons
1981 | PG | 3.5 out of 5 StarsChronicling the upscale neuroses of three middle-aged couples, this wry comedy of manners stars Alan Alda (who also writes and directs), Carol Burnett, Sandy Dennis, Len Cariou, Jack Weston and Rita Moreno. The longtime friends take vacations together every season until till one of the men ditches his spouse for a much younger woman (Bess Armstrong), tilting the group dynamics and putting their interrelationships to the test.
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The General's Daughter
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRespected Army Gen. Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is headed for a hero's retirement -- until his daughter is raped and murdered on his military base, and warrant officers and ex-lovers Paul Brenner (John Travolta) and Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe) are given 36 hours to solve the convoluted case. But what they discover could bring the entire base down. Simon West directs this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille.
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The Grocer's Son
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his father suffers a stroke, Antoine (Nicolas Cazale) reluctantly returns home from the big city to his small mountain village to help out with the family business, a grocery that makes daily rounds to the town's elderly inhabitants. But when Antoine's poor manners rub the villagers the wrong way, can the lovely young Claire (Clotilde Hesme) help smooth things over? French director Eric Guirado helms this charmingly low-key film.
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