Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Thought it might be fun/useful to devote a thread that flagged semi-obscure or off the radar films & tv shows on Netflix's Watch Instantly service.

A few recent discoveries:

Burnt Offerings
MST3K: The Wild World of Batwoman
American Grindhouse
Vampyr
Who Is Harry Nilsson?
Shock Waves
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Man with the Movie Camera
World's Greatest Dad
Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

There are so many MST3K movies available, it is awesome.

My roommate and I watched about three quarters of the Doors doc that Tom DiCillo made. Johnny Depp narrates.
It's pretty ridiculous and awesome.

xpost -- between that, the DVD sets and YouTube it's a golden time.

yeah, I think I've gone through about a dozen MST3K's this month already

x-post - I'm not a Doors fan, but that I've heard good things about that doc

Between checking a few months ago and checking a few days ago, a bunch of Criterion Collection films have been added. I don't remember so much from the Essential Art House boxes being available before, and it looks like almost all of them are there now.

Unfortunately, I found this out after I added the Bergman box set to my Criterion order the other day. Hopefully they'll let me return it unopened so I can get the Cassavetes box instead.

you can stream a woman under the influence now so... maybe rethink that, too

oh shiiiit, Killing of a Chinese Bookie is streamable now too!

Recently I've watched and enjoyed the following: The Watermelon Woman, Suspiria, Rockers, She, The Last Picture Show, and Le Jetee (inspiration for 12 Monkeys).

Oh and a lot of old Nickelodeon cartoons from the 90s have been added but y'all probably already know that.

The White Ribbon is available!

Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum

I think all of the Paul Morrissey Warhol-produced films are on there.

Louie season 1, one of the most fascinating shows in a long time.

Dogs Decoded: Nova is an awesome doc about recent canine research. Highly recommended for any dog owners.

Loved Louie as well.

Also streaming:
The Girlfriend Experience
Slings and Arrows
Blue Thunder

And HAVOC!

i watched the happy hooker goes hollywood on streaming netflix tonight. "recommendation" is a strong word, but i had fun.

"American Grindhouse"

Haha so amusing who co-produced this (it's okay btw as talking head features like this go).

if you liked "The Wild World of Batwoman", make sure to check out "Eegah!"

Louie season 1, one of the most fascinating shows in a long time.

Yeah, I never got a chance to check this out until it was on Netflix - it's great.

"I Am Love" is pretty fascinating

if you liked "The Wild World of Batwoman", make sure to check out "Eegah!"

I did and it was great!

barking dogs never bite - korean black comedy about eating the dogs
we jam econo - awesome minutemen doc

if i start posting on this thread i will be participating in 3 different netflix streaming threads which seems excessive

There's two other streaming threads? Did I miss something?

dont feel bad, one of them is my own self-indulgent fault and the other is on I Love Games.

JJJUSTEN MAKES ONE SENTENCIRIFIC REVIEWS OF ALL THE CRAP THAT HE WATCHES LATE AT NIGHT ON NETFLIX STREAMING XBOX SOMETHING WHY BECAUSE HE BORED ALSO BECAUSE
Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

one is jjjusten's personal joint and the other has a tmi title

xp

Sorry jjjusten! I totally missed your thread. Thought I did a search first. Look forward to reading those threads.

Tales from the Script has interviews with everyone from Richard Rush to Paul Schraeder to Shane Black about big-studio screenwriting. Lots of guys I'd never heard speak before. Good documentary.

the documentary about milton glaser (hugely important graphic designer) is on instant netflix. can't wait to see it.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (aka "The Banksy documentary") is an unexpected mindfuck, and surprisingly isn't really about Banksy at all. I recommend!

yeah that looks good

^Had me all fucked up over art, commerce, life in general, for a couple days.

Recent watches:

Soul Kitchen
Vengeance
Valhalla Rising
Centurion
Rewatched first five eps of Party Down Season 2
Planet B-Boy

Another thumbs up for Exit Through the Gift Shop. Just watched the Joan Rivers doc this weekend, too.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a good doc, not sure if it's on Netflix instant.

Rewatched first five eps of Party Down Season 2

when are they going to put up the final 5 is my question

they took mall cops away :(

i only got to see, like, 4 episodes.

you could write, like, ten doctoral thesiseseses just watching that show and never leaving your couch. amerikkka writ sad.

Just watched Black Narcissus -- so good.

when are they going to put up the final 5 is my question

up now

Milton Glaser doc is good btw.

Just watched Black Narcissus -- so good.

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Beautiful stuff like these seems worth waiting for the disc to show up, no?

I just watch Hoarders and old SNLs

Exit through the gift shop is so awesome

I know the disc would be better quality than streaming, but streaming is definitely better quality than regular tv -- there are far fewer compression artifacts than I get on cable. Maybe Netflix can tell I have decent downstream bandwidth (10 Mbps), I dunno. Turn off the lights in my office, watch fullscreen on the larger monitor, in with the earbuds, ask the family not to mess with me for two hours (or watch in the morning before they get up), a nice near-cinema experience.

"Beautiful stuff like these seems worth waiting for the disc to show up, no?"

Not with my TV, no.

ah good point

i'm a little of worried that Netflix is gonna phase out discs before the internet connections get good enough for streams to be disc-quality

I'M STILL HERE, one of the greatest and most underrated films of the year, is now on instant. Time will be very kind to it.

Just watched Moon, pretty good.
Now starting the Red Riding Trilogy.

Just watched "I Think We're Alone Now" about two disturbed dudes obsessed with Tiffany. Pretty interesting, if a bit depressing.

Come to think of it, both of the dudes are probably ILM regulars.

the bearded dude was one of the worst characters
such a void!! i continued to find the vet excessively wholesome but that is what this show is about i guess

i thought it was funny that two ridic attractive dudes just happen to live in the town

But one of them is named Mutt Schitt, so a lot to overcome...

wait his last name was Schitt too?!

yep he’s Roland’s son

Has anyone here braved The I Land yet?

Is it so bad it's actually entertaining or just plain terrible?

I am on episode 4. It's pretty bad. Everyone is a shitty character making stupid choices although there is kind of a reason for that. And it's Neil Labute! And I could not figure out who this brawny guy was and it was Alex Pettyfer!

We are actually bailing on it. I think were about to stop on episode 3 but then ended up doing something else while episode 4 started playing.

I hate Neil Labute, but your post made me wonder what he's been up to. First, I forgot he made the "Wicker Man" remake! Second, I had not even heard of his last couple of writer/director films, "Some Velvet Morning" and "Dirty Weekend." But! Both of those movies star Alice Eve, who I had never heard of, either, but who I have just learned through wiki has "heterochromia, a condition that causes her eyes to have irises of different colours. Her left eye is blue and her right eye is green." Which caught my, er, eye, because "The I-Land" (which I had also never heard of) stars Kate Bosworth, who for some reason I knew *also* has heterochromia, with a hazel right eye and a blue left eye! Strange coincidence.

Heh, just noticed: "The Eye-Land!"

I hate Neil LaBute too. I think everyone does? I was reading a review of I-land where it has this very otm line "Bosworth makes her scenes something weird and different, like an overheated Tennessee Williams play that nobody else was warned they were participating in. "

haha!

New eps of Hip Hop Evolution

I guess LaBute only got cancelled as a playwright...

I started s6 of Orange Is The New Black but I realised I couldn't remember anything that had happened in the last season and kind of don't care enough to put up with watching that level of cruelty.

yup

Mutt is such a bad actor it is astonishing

he is like a human spray beard

Toys That Made Us s3 on Nov 15, yay
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/282741/the-toys-that-made-us-season-3-what-to-expect
anybody who was raised in the 80s or 90s should try this out

I was bored so I gave the i-land a good go but it is laughably awful. Literally everything about it. Worst thing I've watched in a while, and I watched I Love You, Man the other day.

It's kind of crazy right? Like the dialogue, the acting, the laziness of what is going on.

I thought the same thing about that Birdbox/Quiet Place ripoff with Stanley Tucci in it. I couldn't believe how awful it was.

wow, i-land is getting some amazing reviews

we watched another episode last night. We have two episodes left if we choose to finish. I don't know why we are doing this to ourselves besides it's the first option right now on our netflix.

Otm Yerac, it's sooooo lazy! There's a great/terrible bit involving someone trying to escape from prison and it's just laughable, the actor involved literally looks likes she's already tired of this shit. I admire yr perseverance but, having now skipped to the end, I feel obligated to warn you - it doesn't get any better.

The first episode, I kept saying why would you try to rape someone on your first day after waking up on an island without your memory? Your first day!

yeah, give it 24 hours at least!

god that sounds fucking awful, I'll probably watch it. I watched the stupid similar one where all the kids were transported to a town that looked just like their own but with no adults....The Society. It's awful. This sounds worse.

The Great Hack is a fine documentary even if I think it overstates CA's actual effectiveness.

Anyone else seen any of Marianne? I watched an episode last night (as per a recommendation from Andrew Male who has a pretty flawless hit rate) and found it generic and hokey but pretty unsettling in places. The premise is pretty much a Stephen King short (horror writer starts writing to stop nightmares; finishes series of books and the nightmares return but it seems the nightmare has invaded reality...) but with a nice folk-horror edge - almost like something out of Robert Aickman.

I Land is way worse than The Society (which we watched all of).

I like the Two Ferns movie.

Marianne was fine - I enjoyed it, nothing mind blowing.

Started watching The Innocents. First episode was intriguing (TM Netflix) but assuming it turns to shit fairly rapidly as I don't know a single person who watched it.

I don't generally like or find police dramas interesting but we watched Unbelievable and it was pretty good. Partly because of Merritt Wever being insanely watchable.

6 eps in... it's harrowing

Big Mouth's back on Friday!

Avatar the Last Airbender is available now - if anyone hasn't seen it, it's good.

akm xpost. I set up my netflix in Chile so the fees are 4,990; 5,990; and 8,990clp for the 3 tiers. There is currency fluctuation of course but it's been in the $8 range at least for the last year (I just checked) regardless if I am using it in the US or Europe.

"Think of your favorite movie and I’ll bet you think of a vivid and memorable setting," said Horowitz, a correspondent for MTV News. "This series brings those iconic locations back to life with the participants themselves. As a film lover, I'm honored to be the guy to bring viewers along for the ride."

How is this not verbatim Turkington?

oh shit for On Cinema thread

oh damn wrong thread.

Yerac take my hand

let me moisturize first.

Thoughts on The Politician? Getting terrible reviews but I found it enjoyable, even if it lost the plot completely 3/4 of the way through like almost every other Ryan Murphy series I've seen (well, mainly, most AHS series). There were some annoying characters and weirdly dropped or truncated storylines, but on the whole I liked it. I didn't realize it was intended to run into a second season until the last episode which did a lot to course correct where it went wrong toward the end so I'm looking forward to season 2.

also, I'm Sorry is still funny even though Andrea Savage grates after about 15 minutes. She wiggles her shoulders less in the second season, thankfully. She is a funny writer though.

first episode of unbelievable before bed was a bad idea.
great writing, great acting, what a phenomenally sad story.

It's not out yet but Sion Sono has a new movie coming through Netflix! Forest of Love (not the Nicolas Cage project Prisoners of the Ghostland, sadly)

This sounds incredible:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tell-me-who-i-am-inside-the-most-jaw-dropping-documentary-of-the-year

cool, thanks; will bookmark that

Carmen Sandiego is pretty fun! I like the art and character designs a lot, and the characters are well fleshed out, and some of the plot points pack a real punch. Can't wait for the third season.

I enjoyed the first season! Haven't watched the second - too busy watching crappy horror films on Prime.