Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

re: criterion YES YES YES, i just noticed that "M" is on there and got all giddy because thats one i havent gotten to yet

oh and since this is ILG if you want to suffer through the Uwe Boll adaptation of POSTAL its on there

which Uwe Boll movie was supposed to be good?

forks its a p fucked up movie! just thought it was a lol recommendation w/o giving any context

Yeah, over the last 4 of 5 months Criterion has suddenly been putting tons and tons of stuff on, it's awesome.

Gotta agree about Ichi/Antichrist not exactly being kosher recs, lol. I had to turn off Ichi after 15 minutes!

But I'm the kind of guy who would tell you to watch The Boss of It All instead.

dan have you noticed yet that a bunch of the tom baker dr. who is on there?

another one if you dig docs, The Rape of Europa, which is about people attempting to reclaim their families artwork from museums after it was stolen by the nazis - one of the best docs ive seen in the last few years

oh also season one of dexter, killer klowns from outer space, millers crossing

Okay so here's the list of Criterion films I know of that are available for instant streaming on netflix; it's awful close to a complete list.
Not all of these are great films (some I don't even like) but they're pretty much ALL worth watching. Get through this and you've basically done a year or two at film school.

400 Blows
49th Parallel
8 1/2
A Nos Amours
A Nous La Liberte
A Woman Is a Woman
Alexander Nevsky
Amarcord
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Ballad of a Soldier
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Bed and Board
Black Narcissus
Black Orpheus
Blood of Dracula (Warhol)
Boudou
Branded to Kill
Brief encounter
Burden of Dreams
Carnival of Souls
Che
Children of Paradise
Cleo from 5 to 7
Closely Watched Trains
Cria Cuervos
Diabolique
Do the Right Thing
Elevator to the Gallows
Europa
Eyes Without a Face
Fanny and Alexander
For All Mankind
General Idi Amin Dada
Gomorrah
Grand Illusion
Great Expectations
Green for Danger
Grey Gardens
Harlan County USA
Hearts and Minds
High and Low
Hoop Dreams
Hopscotch
I Vitelloni
Ikiru
In the Mood for Love
Indiscretion of the American WIfe
Ivan the Terrible
Jules and Jim
Knife in the Water
La Bete Humaine
La Jetee
La Strada
Laurence Olivier's Hamlet
Laurence Olivier's Henry V
L'Avventura
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Corbeau
Lord of the Flies
M. Hulot's Holiday
Mala Noche
Man Bites Dog
Metropolitan
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Missing.
Mon Oncle
Mr. Arkadin: The Confidential Report
Murderous Maids
My Man Godfrey
Oliver Twist
Onibaba
Overlord
Pandora's Box
Peeping Tom
Pickpocket
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pierrot Le Fou
Playtime
Rashomon
Ratcatcher
Revanche
Richard III
Rome Open City
Samurai Rebellion
Sanjuro
Sans Soleil
Shoot the Piano Player
Sisters
Slacker
Smiles of a Summer Night
Solaris
Solo Con tu Pareja
Summer Hours
Summertime
THe 39 Steps
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
The Earrings of Madame de...
The Emperor Jones
The Hidden Fortrress
The Lady Eve
The Lady Vanishes
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Most Dangerous Game
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Red Balloon
The Red Shoes
The Rules of the Game
The Ruling Class
The Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
The Spirit of The Beehive
The Third Man
The Vanishing
The Virgin Spring
The Wages of Fear
Thieves' Highway
This Sporting Life
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Story
Tout Va Bien
Ugetsu
Umberto D
Unfaithfully Yours
Vampyr
Veronika Voss
Walkabout
White Mane
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
Yojimbo
Z

oh and one more and then i'll stop babbling here, all the seasons of Wire In the Blood are up there, and it is by far my most loved tv show that no one else cares about at all (really more of a sequential movie-length thing about a psychologist working on super weird murder cases, its absolutely brilliantly written, acted and shot.)

I have watched both Cocaine Cowboys documentaries roughly 1243796386987162387465192634 times each since they became streamable. also the IT Crowd is very much not the best show but I've watched every streaming episode at least twice so w/e.

Playtime is an amazing movie but is really one of those movies you should see in the highest quality possible (ie not streaming digitally) - there's so much stuff going on that you really need to be able to see it.

I tried to watch Wire in the Blood and thought it was pretty bad, sorry.

n/a, i'm able to watch most of my streaming stuff in HD or damned close to it!

gonna try wire in the blood

its ok, like i said no one else seems to give a shit about it other than me, so idk xpost to n/a

I feel like even the HD streaming stuff isn't really the same quality as even a regular DVD. I'm not really snobby about this usually, I just think it's important for Playtime. Really though, the theater is the best place to see Playtime, if possible.

I ain't arguing; tati is all about nuance

fyi election and triad election are both on instant watch

The time windows seem to be getting more prevalent on instant as their library gets bigger.

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - dude is a funny guy

did the picture cropping seem totally fucked up in this on instant?

I've had a couple instant films get screwed up through xbox live but work fine on the web.

yeah, louis WAS fucked up in aspect; maybe it's fixable?

another one i hit like that was blink w/ madeline stowe. she plays a blind woman but the movie has no sound! so confusing.

will anyone rep for trailer park boys?

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one of the best moviegoing experiences I ever had in my life was when I went to go see the 70mm print of Playtime at the Egyptian Theater a couple of years ago. plus it was the English dub, which I would ordinarily find offensively shitty but w/ Playtime it was incredibly liberating being able to let my eyes wander all over all that screen space picking out details. oh, and for some reason there were a bunch of kids in the theater too and it TOTALLY worked; they went into the same shell-shocked awe that all the wine-sipping turtleneck-wearing cineastes as soon as it started. A++++++++++++++++ would see again.

fyi election and triad election are both on instant watch

I've been streaming Spartcus: Blood and Sand. Hilarious.

I also watch a lot of Xena.

okay this is like the first time I've encountered ppl in the context of ILX who have said positive things about The IT Crowd

so wrong dan, read the I.T. crowd thread.

Is spartacus worth watching?

Uh, it's pretty bad actually. Guilty pleasure that occasionally is almost good.

Like a lower budget 300 with more blood and breasts.

But it has Xena in it!

And she shows her boobs!

I tried the pilot. Appreciated the trashiness, but it was just way too slow. Nudity yay, 300 effects zzz.

A couple of quick things:

YES I've seen Dr Horrible, it's fucking awesome

I started watching Baker's Key to Time season a few weeks ago and it's kind of terrifying how well those stories hold up

BRITAIN HATES YOU ALL AND SO DO I

also wait, Spartacus has Xena boobs?

okay that didn't come out the way I intended

from what I've heard about the show, you're better off just finding the clips on Huffington Post or wherever.

wait, Huffington Post has Xena boobs?

yeah pretty sure they had some NSFW clips right after the first boob episode aired.

Newly Available Today Alert:
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also somewhat related: just met with one of my new co-workers for lunch yesterday and she mentioned that she was an actress and suggested that I check her out on IMDB, which I did... turns out she did a large speaking role in a film with Vera Farmiga that is available for streaming, so I think I'll be watching that too.

Newly Available Today Alert:
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yep,in the queue as of this morning

pretty much all of Rescue Me is up as well.

Boot Camp - about a tough love camp for troubled teens. has Mila Kunis. has that russian guy from prison break who's accent changes every scene. has Mila Kunis. pleasantly surprised (expected a 2/10, this is maybe a 4.5/10.) it was smart enough to raise a couple interesting questions about such camps, but nowhere near smart enough to answer them. has Mila Kunis.

DEAD SNOW

A group of Norwegian friends get the scariest history lesson of their lives during a weekend getaway to the snowy town of Øksfjord, where the party is interrupted by throngs of Nazi zombies who once occupied the area. Armed with a machine-gun-equipped snowmobile, the gang fights for survival in director Tommy Wirkola's quirky horror, shot on location in the mountains of Norway. The film had its U.S. premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

nazombies

ThanksKilling is still available.

Gogol Bordello and Dark Funeral concert movies available
Pretty much all of Showtime's Weeds.
And the new woody allen: whatever works

this is not a video game thread and I object to it always being in the top of new answers fwiw

it's here since every this-gen game system has the added bonus of offering netflix streaming and because most folks I know use their systems as movie boxes about 40-60% of the times they use them.
Anyone else against this thread being here? We can move it to ILE if there's enough unhappiness about it.

A question, not a recommendation: is there a site with a film title database which lays out current streaming options for each film? That would be a really handy site.

I've seen something like that before. Can't recall what it was though. Will look.

http://www.canistream.it/

though i've heard it's not quite perfect.

Cool, thanks!

How to Survive a Plague just got added.

On a lighter note:

...beginning on March 30 the streaming service lands all past seasons of Cartoon Network‘s Adventure Time, Ben 10, Regular Show, and Johnny Bravo, as well as Warner Bros Animation’s Green Lantern. It also will have Adult Swim shows Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sony Pictures Television’s The Boondocks and Warner Bros Television’s Studio 2.0′s Childrens Hospital.

Yes! I can finally catch up on Adventure Time and Regular Show!

I can't vouch for it yet, but there's no way I'm not going to watch the newly added Nazis from the Moon Finish production Iron Sky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc

Iron Sky is brilliant fun, I bought the DVD some time ago. Laibach soundtrack too.

Watching Roy Orbison: Black & White Night before it expires. Lots of musical guest stars in the band that maybe you can take or leave but more importantly he's got Elvis's Vegas-era backing band.

Also does some material by the other Elvis, which wasn't too bad actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Girl_(2016_film)

^1 of the best movies I saw this yr, now streaming