Best Movies of All Time on Netflix
Last updated November 09, 2025
Highest Rated Movies with a 3.5 / 5 Star Rating
The Return
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe sudden reappearance of a man who left his family 12 years earlier stirs up a torrent of mixed emotions in the household. His sons only know him from photographs, and his younger brother, Ivan, wants answers.
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The Road
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSet in a postapocalyptic future, this end-of-days tale follows two survivors, a father and son, who navigate an ash-covered wasteland in search of a better life, with only a sliver of hope that salvation awaits them at the end of their journey.
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The Road to Guantanamo
2006 | 14A | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDirector Michael Winterbottom presents the true story of three British Muslim men known as "the Tipton Three," who were unjustly arrested and held for more than two years in the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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The Seventh Sign
1988 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDemi Moore plays Abby, a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word. As the nosy and nearly-to-term Abby uncovers her tenant's secrets, she finds out her role in bringing about the seventh sign. This drama's popularity stems from Moore's turn, which smoothes over plot holes.
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The Skeleton Key
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSent to New Orleans to care for a stroke victim who lies bedridden and speechless, hospice worker Caroline finds a key that unlocks ancient secrets. Lonely in the patient's mansion, Caroline eventually opens up a Pandora's box of voodoo and danger.
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The Skin I Live In
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBrilliant plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard seeks to overcome the grief of his late wife's disfigurement in a fiery car crash by inventing skin that's impervious to injury. But his experiments on a living woman hasten his descent into madness.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCharming sociopath Tom Ripley maneuvers into the lush life of Dickie, a young heir vacationing in Italy. Hired to persuade Dickie to return to America, Tom embraces Dickie's posh lifestyle and takes extreme measures to hold onto it.
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The Thief and the Cobbler
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this colorful animated fantasy, a modest cobbler who pines for a beautiful princess has a chance to win her heart by doing battle with an evil sorcerer and saving her father's kingdom from a marauding army of one-eyed warriors.
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The Tourist
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAn American tourist seeking solace for his broken heart instead finds it in danger again after encountering a beautiful Interpol agent. Little does the Yank know that the lady arranged their "chance" meeting and is using him to trap a thief.
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The Tournament
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsEvery seven years, the world's deadliest hired guns converge on a random town to compete in the Tournament. The rules are simple: The last contestant standing receives $10 million and the title of the world's greatest assassin. Meanwhile, the competition is recorded on closed-circuit cameras and broadcast live to a secret room, where billionaires bet on the results. Ian Somerhalder, Kelly Hu and Robert Carlyle star in this killer thriller.
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The Trap
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen their son is diagnosed with a deadly disease, Mladen (Nebojsa Glogovac) and Marija (Natasa Ninkovic) place an ad in the paper seeking help with the cost of his treatment. The only response comes from Milos (Miki Manojlovic), who will pay for the boy's care if Mladen murders Milos's business partner. Tension threatens to tear the couple apart in this morality tale set amid the social disparity of modern-day Belgrade.
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The Trip
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSteve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the stars of the 2005 comedy Tristram Shandy, reunite with director Michael Winterbottom for this rib-tickling mockumentary about a pair of actors who set off on a foodie road trip across England.
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The Trouble with Harry
1955 | PG | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAlfred Hitchcock's second American comedy demonstrates the director's flair for gallows humor. The trouble with Harry is ... he's "expired," and the residents of a quaint New England tourist spot just can't seem to get rid of him. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut, and that's Jerry Mathers (the Beave himself) as the bewildered boy. See if you can spot Hitchcock in his customary cameo (hint: he's strolling past a limo).
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The Vanishing
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBarney (Jeff Bridges) is a deranged man who plans to abduct a woman, but despite his careful design and numerous run-throughs, things never go quite right. He's finally successful when Diane (Sandra Bullock) makes herself an obvious target after a fight with her boyfriend, Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland). Jeff spends years trying to figure out what happened to Diane, almost destroying his own life. Director George Sluizer remakes his own 1988 film.
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The Violin
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDon Plautarco (Ángel Tavira), his son Genaro (Gerardo Taracena) and grandson Lucio (Mario Garibaldi) earn a living as traveling musicians while also smuggling weapons to rebels fighting the country's oppressive regime. But when they return home to find their town occupied by the army and the residents forced into hiding, they make a bold play to recover the ammunition the troops have seized. Francisco Vargas directs.
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The Virgin Suicides
1999 | 14A | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn sharp response to the lax moral milieu of the mid-1970s, Ronald and Sara Lisbon keep their five alluring, adolescent daughters on a short leash by embracing religion and pushing away the opposite sex. But when the youngest unaccountably commits hara-kiri and a wayward elder sister violates curfew, Sara puts all the girls under a virtual house arrest.
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The Way of the Gun
2000 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCriminals Longbaugh (Benicio Del Toro) and Parker (Ryan Phillippe) kidnap a pregnant surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) for a $15 million ransom from the baby's gangster father in Oscar-winning writer Christopher MacQuarrie's (The Usual Suspects) directorial debut. But as the duo waits in Mexico with the woman in tow, they discover they may be in over their heads. Packed with twists, this actioner features a killer turn by co-star James Caan.
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The Wind Journeys
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn the wake of his wife's death, Ignacio leaves his small Colombian town and journeys to the country's remote northern region, resolving to return his devil-cursed accordion to the teacher who once gave it to him. His traveling companion is teenager Fermín, who aspires to emulate Ignacio's past life as an accordion-playing troubadour who roamed the countryside. Marciano Martínez and Yull Núñez star in filmmaker Ciro Guerra's enthralling odyssey.
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The Winslow Boy
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his 14-year-old son is expelled from the Royal Naval College for stealing, bank manager Arthur Winslow launches a long and costly effort to clear the boy's name. But in the process, the determined Arthur may destroy his family.
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Thieves by Law
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFormer heads of the Russian Mafia who have shrewdly transformed themselves into reputable businessmen reveal their past experiences influencing their nation's economy, building up immense wealth and strictly adhering to a private code of thieves. Granted unprecedented access and cooperation, director Alexander Gentelev presents an intriguing documentary that exposes a chilling chapter of Russia's hidden history.
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsKirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence. Interviewees include John Waters, Darren Aronofsky, Maria Bello, Atom Egoyan and more.
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This Is England
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter his father is killed fighting in the Falklands War, a 12-year-old boy named Shaun falls in with a gang of young skinheads. Still angry and in pain, Shaun becomes susceptible to carrying out the group's hateful agenda.
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This Property Is Condemned
1966 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen railroad official Owen Legate visits a small Depression-era town to shut down its rail yard, he begins a passionate affair with a local girl. The romance angers her domineering mother and ignites the town's economic resentments.
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To the Arctic
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMeryl Streep narrates this touching chronicle of a mother polar bear and her 7-month-old cubs, who band together to survive the Arctic wilderness amidst an array of snow-white challenges.
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Tomboy
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsUncomfortable living as a girl, 10-year-old Laure decides to spend her childhood as Michael. When Michael's family moves to rural France, the child wins friends and comes to understand the complexities of gender.
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