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.

"Another Life" - what if we made Alien but boring

They already did this, but it was just called "Life" then.

Ugh I need something to watch.

I am enjoying Trinkets. I am into this PNW/K records/shoplifters unite vibe.

erika: Good Morning Glass Blowers! - Blown Away: The Netflix Art Reality Show

New season of She-Ra, which is pretty good if that’s your thing.

new Derry Girls season is out, first one was funny in our estimation

The third season of Dear White People got a little meta but is pretty good still.

I finally started watching Ozark. Then I looked at the Ozark thread and everyone hates it there. Is that a commonly held opinion? I'm finding it diverting and amusing enough.

The second season is way worse. I am not bothering with the 3rd.

And I feel bad about Jason Bateman's buttshot.

I couldnt get through 2 episodes of it. cant remember why i hated it now.

I thought it was ok, but can't remember much about season two

The Netflix corporate motto.

there are a whole series of jokes on Dear White People about the 'third season of a Netflix show'.

lol milo otm

Frankly I watch almost every Netflix show in binges while high on the couch with my dog and therefore only see and retain one out of every four episodes

Lol that was exactly what I did until I moved somewhere where I have no idea how to get weed. Anyway I will watch the recent suggestions!

The Great Hackl -- about Cambridge Analytica and psychographic marketing re: 2016 US election and Brexit -- is up there with CitizenFour and Get Me Roger Stone as essential. And like CitizenFour it has the immediacy of following investigative reporters in the moment of doing their work.

hell of a cast here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws1YIKsuTjQ

Greta cast, but that still looks pretty bad. And not bad meaning good.

I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a thread for or any talk about Jeff Sharlett's series The Family?

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/netflix-the-family-jesse-moss-secret-christian-cult-washington-dc-869396/

Or did I just miss it?

decent stuff. been following his work for so long there aren't really any new uh revelations but it's new to my gf and she is very much like wtf!

I keep wavering on watching it (The Family). Did you enjoy it?

more odd new FRIENDS things:

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/236e7b22-a705-4d5c-8a65-d70a61b4dba9/comments_tab

i saw a lot of these at the jonas brothers show on saturday

https://etsy.me/2xy9HwI

I keep wavering on watching it (The Family). Did you enjoy it?

there's a related shirt on maura's etsy link that I cannot believe exists

omg

i've been watching The Family and am also on episode 3
thoroughly disgusted! still watching...
the real kicker was seeing Mark Sanford on Meet the Press in the morning claiming that he was going to challenge _rump in the primary and then watching ep 2 where he visits the Appalachian Booty Trail and gets counseled about sinning in his gross xtian dorm for adult men.

i am having a very difficult time believing that any of them care about Jesus at all in spite of their loudly proclaimed Jesus myopia

watched two episodes of the family so far and think it's well-done — i'd forgotten about that terrible Sanford thing. Seems almost quaint now! What a bunch of assholes.

they are disgusting! i have a hard time believing anyone actually believes they were chosen by god. i realize this is probably a shortcoming of my own imagination but the degree of removal from reality required to believe that all of these men are chosen by god leaves me speechless. they are repulsive. still watching!

addendum: i have a hard time believing anyone actually believes they were chosen by god to hoard power and influence in the political sphere

I’m on ep 4 now and I’m here to say this is not “news” exactly but it’s horrifying to see the throughline of “Jesus and family and friends” spread like a virus all over the planet. The white supremacy machine never sleeps 😢

this planet is tragic and doomed as long as these people are working their “Jesus magic”

the part where the guy said “all you have to do is say his name — Jesus — and the doors open” 🤮

I am pretty much atheist, is this going to be as bewildering as the Abducted in Plain Sight documentary?

Way way worse imo — affects vastly larger swath of humanity than a tiny cult 👎

Or a single abduction

If the words “nonconsensual diplomacy” in the name of Jesus make you recoil, I think it’s important viewing

Also? The next time you hear 45 refer to Norway you’ll know why 🤮🤮🤮

basically there is a large group of people in american public life for whom "jesus" is a code word for "power at all costs and by any means" is how i break it down to an extent

Jane The Virgin S5 is out and the first episode has an unbelievably great 7-minute (!) continuously shot monologue from Gina Rodriguez, A++

I can't believe we don't have a thread for that show, but I guess the last season is a little late to start one

I am halfway through the second epi of The Family. These people are all lunatics. It's a faux spiritual MLM scheme.

it's a diabolical fraternity with enormous tentacles :(

nothing good comes out of a room full of white men that need to keep a secret.

watching them claim over and over that it's "just Jesus" and exploiting/abusing the concepts of "friends" and "family" in addition to poor old Jesus all over the world floating on their official capacity as USA elected officials to conduct what does boil down to "nonconsensual diplomacy" -- it's not for the faint of heart! they are truly evil imo.

It's a great racket that they came up with. That the "chosen one" will be a complete tool to be used by Jesus.

Re: Mark Sanford (HA!): "As a result, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" or "hiking the Appalachians" became a euphemism for a sexual scandal in the English language." -wiki

Enjoyed the new Simon Amstell special, 'Set Free'.

He's very skillful at displaying his vulnerability.

Instant Hotel is some addictive stuff. I really hope they're going to do more of it.