It’s been a while since our ” series to watch on Netflix” list, and we are still opening Netflix like an empty refrigerator. So movies are added to the wallpaper. Some of them are very famous and liked, but maybe worth refreshing. They remain less popular, but also appreciated by viewers and critics (probably for other reasons). Maybe you will find something for yourself? Good luck!

This is not a country for old people

Texas. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam veteran who spends his days hunting. One day, near the Mexican border, a man finds several bodies, packages of heroin and a suitcase of $ 2 million. Little thought, decides to take the money and run away. Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a psychopathic hired killer, follows him. Moss, however, can skillfully obliterate his traces. A dark thriller of the four times awarded Academy Award of the Coen brothers (The Serious Man, Fargo). The existential drama lined with black humor received 4 Oscars – including Best Film, Adapted Screenplay and Direction. The picture is full of expressive characters and is a display of Javier Bardem’s acting (Oscar in the category of “Best Supporting Actor”). The film also stars Golden Globe winner Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah), Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin (Citizen Milk), four-time Golden Globe nominee Woody Harrelson (HBO The Detective) and Emmy Award-winning Kelly MacDonald. The production is an adaptation of a novel by Cormac McCarthy.

Roma

2018 Mexican-American drama film directed by Alfonso Cuaron. The film, set in 1970 and 1971, is a partially autobiographical tale of the director of his childhood in Mexico City and the fate of a housewife who runs a middle-class family home. The title of the film refers to one of the districts of Mexico, Colonia Roma. The premiere took place on August 30, 2018 during the 75th Venice IFF, where the painting won the Golden Lion main prize. The film received ten nominations for the 2018 American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (including Best Film, Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay). During the 91st Oscar ceremony, he won 3 awards: for Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Non-English Film.

Princess Mononoke

Princess MononokeA warrior named Ashitaka defends his village from the evil monster. Though he triumphs, his joy is short. During the fight, the monster threw a cage on him, from which only the legendary animal god can clean him. Ashitaka goes in search of him. He soon finds himself in the middle of a conflict between civilization and the mythical forces of nature, which, when threatened by man, declared war on him. On the side of wild nature is Princess Mononoke, raised by a white she-wolf. She fights with the owner of a powerful settlement whose activities endanger the existence of animals in wild forests. Ashitaka has to take one side.

Django

Oscar-winning Jamie Foxx plays the title role of a slave in the movie “Django”, set in the South of the United States two years before the Civil War. As a result of brutal treatment by the former owners, he one day comes face to face with the award hunter Dr. King Schultz from Germany. Schultz is on the trail of the dangerous Brittle brothers and only Django can lead him to them. Not submitting to conventions, Schultz buys Django back, promising to give him back his freedom as soon as he captures the Brittle brothers – dead or alive. Schultz finds the brothers, keeps his promise, and frees Django. Together with a former slave, Schultz tracks down the most wanted criminals. Django has one goal ahead: find and save Broomhilde (Kerry Washington), wife,

Believe in the spirit

Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are a happy couple. They are moving into a new apartment. On their return from the theater, Molly tells Sam that she would like to marry him. Moments later, they are attacked by a bandit who shoots at Sam as a result of an argument. The man dies and the killer escapes.

Freelancer

The dark face of the American dream and a portrait of a man who, for the sake of success, will not stop even before his crime. Jake Gyllenhaal in a lifetime outfit of a freelancer who can do absolutely anything to climb the ranks of a chronicler of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles. See how the American Dream comes true in a time when conscience is a defect and the road to victory often leads over the dead.


Gladiator

General Maximus (Russell Crowe), one of the most outstanding commanders in the Roman army, learns that the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) wants to make him his heir to the throne. The rightful heir, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who decides to get rid of his rival and sends him to death together with the whole family, does not like it. Maximus miraculously manages to escape. He is captured and trained as a gladiator.

Aquaman

Aquaman – Arthur Curry, actually. Superhero from the DC universe, ruler of Atlantis and the oceans. Member of the Justice League. His opponents include his half-brother Marius Orm (Ocean Master) and Black Manta. Appears in DC’s comics, their acting and animated adaptations and video games. The genesis of characters has changed in comics several times. Initially, he was e.g. an ordinary man who gained the ability to live underwater as a result of an experiment. The most popular version of Aquaman, however, is Arthur Curry, the son of Atlantis banished from Atlantis and an ordinary lighthouse keeper. He has a number of superhuman skills: he can breathe underwater, communicate with ocean life forms, and is an extraordinary swimmer. His beloved is Mera.

Irishman

“The Irishman” is an epic tale set in post-war America, seen through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a fraud and hired murderer working for the most notorious criminals of the 20th century. The saga, unfolding over several decades, is devoted to one of the greatest criminal mysteries in the history of the United States – the mysterious disappearance of the legendary trade union leader Jimmy Hoff. Viewers will take part in a brutal journey, during which they will be exposed to the backstage of the functioning of the criminal underworld, internal struggles for influence and criminal ties with the world of politics.

Spotlight

“Spotlight” is a cinematic record of a shocking story that really happened. Pulitzer-winning journalists from the Boston Globe have found outrageous and shocking figures about a consistently covered up pedophile net in the Catholic Church of more than 70 priests. History shocked the world in 2002. But the journalists’ discoveries were just the tip of the iceberg …

Saturday night fever

19-year-old Tony Manero has been waiting all week for Saturday night to spend it at the disco. Fascinated by the dancer Stephanie Mangano, Anette, his current partner, abandons for her. Together with Stephanie, they decide to take part in a dance competition. They both hope that their victory will open their way to a better world.

Baby Driver

A talented young driver (Ansel Elgort), who earns a living by participating in heists, is led by a musician through life. It is she who helps him be the best at what he does. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), she decides to abandon her criminal past and start living a normal life. Forced by the mafia boss (Kevin Spacey) for whom he works, to take part in the upstairs doomed to fail, he risks losing everything that is most important to him – love, freedom and music.

Bekarts of War

The action of the film begins in occupied France during the execution of the family of Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), to whom the girl is a witness. The execution is carried out by Nazi colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna manages to escape and go to Paris, where, as a cinema owner, she adopts a new identity. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to commit acts of revenge.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. When Sweeney Todd arrives in London with good-natured young sailor Anthony Hope, he meets Mrs. Nellie Lovett – the owner of a pastry shop. The woman recognizes Sweeney as Benjamin Barker, who was banished from the city years ago by the ruthless Judge. The villain and his subordinate devised a vile plan – in Barker’s absence, they brutally raped his wife and kidnapped his daughter, Johanne. Now, as Sweeney, he swears revenge on them. With Mrs. Lovett’s help, he starts a bloody business: he opens a hairdressing salon, where he slits the throats of innocent customers and thus supplies his partner with … biscuit filling. Mrs. Lovett’s products are gaining immense popularity and recognition among the Londoners, while Sweeney still plans to retaliate against his wife’s killers …


The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

In 1992, Marsha’s body was found in the Hudson River. Her friends never believed the suicide version of the police. How did Marsha P. Johnson really die? In the film, the activist Victoria Cruz plays the role of a detective, and the film investigation will convincingly answer at least one question – why the police did not conduct an effective investigation.

Private Ryan

World War II was a turning point in the 20th century and a decisive moment for America and the world. It has pushed the borders of states. It forever changed those who survived it and shaped the generations that came after it. The “last great war” has been called. Nothing could prepare the soldiers on Omaha Beach for the battle they were about to fight. Filled with hope and determination, neither of them knew if he would survive. Looking out over the Normandy coast, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) believed that the fight ahead was the greatest challenge of this war.

Back to the past

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a typical teenager, but has an amazing friend – Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who invented the time machine. At night in front of the mall, Dr. Brown shows his invention to Marty. It looks like an improved car, and it works on a platoon. Dr. Brown kidnapped it from the Libyans who wanted them to be nuclear bombed. During the experiment, the terrorists kill the doctor. Marty miraculously survives, but moves to 1955. Searching for Dr. Brown from the 19s, he comes across his parents and prevents them from getting to know them. As a result, she may never be born …

Sophie’s choice

United States, 1947. Stingo (Peter MacNicol), an aspiring Virginia writer, rents a room in Brooklyn. The neighbors are disturbing the calm he needs to write his first novel. A young couple lives nearby, whose loud love and noisy quarrels absorb the man’s attention. It turns out that Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline), an unbalanced Jewish intellectual with a morbid obsession, collects evidence of crimes committed against his nation. His beloved is Zofia Zawistowska (Meryl Streep), a Polish woman from Krakow, a former prisoner of the Auschwitz camp, whose father, husband and two children were murdered by the Nazis. Stingo becomes a friend and confidant of a couple of lovers, learns their secrets and a dramatic past full of suffering.

The last family

The action of the film begins in 1977, when Tomek Beksinski moves into his apartment. His parents live next door in the same neighborhood, so their contacts remain very intense. Tomek’s oversensitive and disturbing personality means that his mother, Zofia, is still worried about her son. At the same time, Zdzislaw Beksinski tries to devote himself entirely to art. After Tomek’s first unsuccessful suicide attempt, Zdzislaw and Zofia have to fight not only for their son, but also for regaining control over their lives. When Zdzislaw signs a contract with Piotr Dmochowski, a dealer living in France, and Tomek starts working at Polish Radio, it seems that the family has the worst problems behind him. However, a series of strange and doomed events are yet to come …

Gods

A story about a rebel who challenges nature, power and his own limitations. This is a film about the first successful Polish heart transplant performed by prof. Relige in Zabrze. The drama of unsuccessful operations, a fight for every heartbeat, great ambitions and painful failures, the loneliness of a genius who stood alone against his mentors and started a revolution in Polish medicine. What price did he have to pay for success?

Corpus Christi

Inspired by real events, the story of 20-year-old Daniel, who during his stay in the reformatory, undergoes a spiritual transformation and secretly dreams of becoming a priest. After a few years of imprisonment, the boy is conditionally released and then sent to work in a carpentry shop. Instead, however, driven by an impossible dream, Daniel heads to the local church where he befriends the parish priest.

Outlaw boy

A teenage Henry, fascinated by the local mafia and its power, enters the care of Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro), a mobster respected in the mafia circles. Henry wants to be like Jimmy, he wants money, respect and friends. Another young boy, Tommy DeVito, is hired into the organization. They both easily learn their new duties and the rules of the mafia. They are also getting used to violence, cruelty and huge amounts of money obtained through crime.

Cast Away – out of the world

Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), as a result of a plane crash, ends up on a deserted island somewhere in the waters of the Pacific. He will have to face nature and his own ideas. For the island is often haunted by storms, gusty winds seem to blow without ceasing, and nature has soaked both animals and edible plants. So slowly he learns to live, although he does not lack moments of doubt. Each day feels like the day before. Months and years pass, nothing changes except the length of the protagonist’s stubble. Time seems to stand still and nothing foreshadows change. The main character hears only the raging ocean, falling coconuts and the terrifying night, island silence …

Music lesson interrupted

Film adaptation of the novel by Susanna Kaysen. The action of the film takes place in the sixties. The main role is played by Winona Ryder, who plays the lost 17-year-old girl. Susan’s sensitivity does not allow her to find herself in the reality around her. The girl’s parents decide to send their daughter to a doctor who recommends her stay in a psychiatric hospital. Soon she goes to the local department for teenagers and starts living in a completely different world. He spends almost two years there, and in the meantime he befriends the sociopath Lisa (Angelina Jolie).

Cold War

The story of the difficult love of two people who cannot live without each other, but at the same time cannot be together. The events shown in the “Cold War” take place in the 19s and 1960s, in Poland and the awakening Europe, and in their background there is a unique soundtrack, combining Polish folk music with jazz and songs from Parisian bars of the last century .


Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The smiling cowboy sings happily to himself to the rhythm of successive corpses falling in front of him. A minor showman travels with a familiar freak, looking for people who will pay without much thought, to listen and see a man without hands or legs. An elderly gold seeker discovers a real paradise by chance, but it is not what it initially appears to be. Six stories straight from the classic Wild West, full of super-fast eccentrics with always loaded six-shot revolvers, hot-headed bank robbers in trouble, Indians enthusiastically attacking white invaders and women who are more or less successful in the male world.

Lord of the Rings – all parts

Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) is a hobbit living in the Shire. His uncle, Bilbo (Ian Holm), has long held the Ruling Ring. It was created by Sauron the Great (Sala Baker), Lord of Darkness. This ring is part of Sauron, the center of his powers, the essence of Evil. Only Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Mithrandir, the Sorcerer and Medrzec know about the power of the One Ring. I realize that if Sauron regains him, Darkness will gain power over the Middle Earth and put an end to all good …

Easy girl

Olive, a high school student, accidentally becomes a victim of her own lie about the alleged loss of her virginity. While the whole school is buzzing with gossip, the girl begins to see similarities between her situation and the life of Hester Prynne – the heroine of the book “Scarlet Letter”, which she is discussing in the lesson. After a while, Olive decides to use the gossip to improve her social and financial standing.

Mean Girls

A film based on the novel by Rosalind Wiseman Fri “Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence”. It is the story of a teenager who, after living in Africa for several years, moves with her parents to Illinois. There, our heroine goes to high school and finds out that her peers can be as dangerous and tricky as African predators.

Full Metal Jacket

Young privates, including the Joker, Cowboy, Snowball and Leonard, end up in a training camp, where under the care of the sadistic Sergeant Hartman, they undergo training to prepare them for the war in Vietnam. Each of the young people wants to become an elite soldier of the marines, although he may pay a high price for it.

Marriage Story

Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) have been married for ten years. The couple live, work and raise their beloved son together. He is a theater director who has gained recognition by staging plays in New York. She, once a youth film star based in Los Angeles, now performs in the theater with Charlie. After ten years in their marriage, she begins to break something. Nicole gets a lucrative offer from Los Angeles, Charlie has the opportunity to make his Broadway debut. The perfect couple begins to drift away from each other more and more.

Bling Ring

“Bling Ring” is a movie based on a true story that shocked America. Directed by Oscar winner Sofie Coppole, it tells the story of a famous group of teenage burglars, obsessed with getting closer to the world of the stars. In search of extreme sensations, the Bling Ring group sneaks into the homes of Hollywood celebrities, where they carry out robberies. The magic of luxury brands and the ubiquitous glamor seem to young thieves a pass to a better, inaccessible life. What is forbidden, however, has serious consequences.

Mystery Game

The story of the extremely talented Alan Turing, a British mathematician who broke the German Enigma code at the key moment of World War II. A team of the most talented people in the world are working under the watchful eye of the genius Alan Turing on breaking the complicated code used by the Nazis. Their amazing achievements, based in part on the work of Polish scientists, make it possible to end the most cruel war in history much earlier than it seemed possible.

Interstellar

As a result of errors made by mankind in the 20th century, the Earth is on the brink of extinction. States have collapsed and their governments have lost power. A functioning economy cannot even provide people with food. However, when the possibility of traveling in space-time is discovered, scientists from the remnants of the NASA organization undertake to explore it, thus becoming the last resort for people and their planet.

Klaus

KlausJesper (Jason Schwartzman) turns out to be the worst student in the history of a postman’s academy and is transferred to a frosty island beyond the North Arctic Circle, where the cluttered inhabitants rarely talk to each other and writing letters is out of the question. Jesper is close to resignation when he finds support from a local teacher named Alva (Rashida Jones) and meets Klaus (Oscar-winning JK Simmons), a mysterious carpenter who lives alone in a hut full of self-made toys. This unique friendship brings back the joy of living in Smeerensburg, inducing the neighbors to be generous and introducing new, magical habits, such as hanging socks on the mantelpiece.

300

The film commends the work of Frank Miller (creator of the popular comic book “Sin City”). It is an interpretation of the 1999 award-winning graphic novel “300” by him. It tells about one of the most important moments of the Second Persian War – the Battle of Thermopylae, which took place in August 480 BC

The hateful eight

A few years after the Civil War, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell), known as “The Gallows”, and fugitive criminal Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) travel through the windy wastes of Wyoming. Ruth is going to bring the woman to justice. During their journey, they meet another infamous prize hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a former Union soldier, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a renegade from the South and self-proclaimed sheriff of Red Rock, to whom they are heading. However, travelers deviate from the trail during a snowstorm.

XIII amendment

A thought-provoking document in which researchers, activists and politicians analyze the causes of the criminalization of African Americans and the rise in the number of prisoners in the US.

Dignity camp: A revolution in the life of the disabled

At a temporary camp near Woodstock, where teenagers with disabilities spent their holidays, a revolutionary movement arose that forever changed the lives of young people and became the germ of a great change. Co-directed by Emmy Award-winning Nicole Newnham and former camp participant Jim LeBrecht, the film “Dignity Camp: A Revolution in the Life of the Disabled” tells the unknown story of this unique initiative. The executive producers are, among others President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan, and Oscar nominee Howard Gertler (“How to Survive the Plague”).

My name is Dolemite

Overwhelmed by a series of professional failures, the unfulfilled comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Oscar-nominated Eddie Murphy) suddenly experiences an epiphany, thanks to which it hits everyone’s lips – he decides to create his stage alter ego. Drawing full hands on the street mythology of 1970s Los Angeles, Moore takes on the role of Dolemite, waving a chick and pimping like a sleeve to the fucking stories of a pimp. However, Moore does not intend to sell unofficial recordings forever that no radio station dares to play on air. His ambitions go much further.

American Psycho

A film that shows the dark face of the world of young, wealthy businessmen in America in the 1980s. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is making a brilliant career with his father’s company, a Wall Street financier. On the surface, he is a typical, self-centered yuppie whose life is defined by the cult of branded items. However, sick thoughts of serial murders burst into his mind. Under their influence, Patrick’s personality slowly deteriorates.

A star is born

Cooper plays the role of Jackson Maine, a country music star whose career is on the verge of collapsing when he discovers the talented, unknown singer Ally (played by Lady Gaga). When a fiery romance breaks out between the two, Jack urges Ally to come out of the shadows and helps her achieve fame. However, as Ally’s career is rapidly dwarfing Jack’s achievements, he finds it harder and harder to deal with his own fading star.

Okay

For ten peaceful years, Miji’s home in the mountains of South Korea is a haven for a great animal named Okja, who becomes the girl’s best friend. The idyll suddenly ends when Okja is kidnapped by the large international consortium Mirando Corporation.

Zodiac

The title zodiac is the nickname of a serial killer who prowled in San Francisco at the turn of the 60s and 70s of the last century. He sent the police and journalists letters with encrypted messages – perhaps that is why the pseudonym Zodiak still causes a threat among Americans (just like Jack the Ripper in the British). The identity of the murderer was tried to establish by Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), cartoonist from the “San Francisco Chronicle”.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Dr. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is an archaeologist who combines university teaching with research expeditions. He had just come back from the last one in which he had failed in a rivalry with a scientist working for the Nazis. He is not allowed to preach. He receives a secret task from special services. He travels to Egypt, where the storage of the Ark of the Covenant has probably been discovered. He cannot let the holy trophy fall into the hands of the Germans. His old girlfriend, Marion (Karen Allen) will help him.


A Guide to Positive Thinking

Pat Solitano (Cooper) is no ordinary guy and has papers to prove it. After eight months of therapy, he returns to his family home to start over as part of the philosophy of “positive thinking”. His consistent strategy changes when he meets an intriguing neighbor girl, Tiffany (Lawrence). Mutual aversion of a pair of eccentrics turns into an unexpected bond, and all the plans so far can only become unimportant memories.

Ball

Dee Dee Allen (played by three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep) and Barry Glickman (Tony James Corden award winner) are New York-based theater actors with a real problem – their expensive Broadway play turns out to be a big flop, and their chances for a further career are low practically buried. Meanwhile, in a small town in the state of Indiana, high school girl Emma Nolan (debutante Jo Ellen Pellman) experiences a completely different disappointment – despite the support of the school principal (Keegan-Michael Key), the chairman of the parents and teachers association (Kerry Washington) has forbidden her to come to the school’s prom with his girlfriend Alyssa (Ariana DeBose). Dee Dee and Barry conclude that Emma’s plight is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her public image. So they decide to go on a tour with Angie (Oscar-winning Nicole Kidman) and Trent (Andrew Rannells), the second pair of cynical actors looking for a chance to break out. But when the selfish activism of the actors unexpectedly turns against them, the four of them stand on their heads to provide Emma with a night to be fully herself.

The Ghost

United States, 1822. Trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his teenage son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), a half-blooded Indian, hunt in the wild lands of today’s South Dakota with hunters employed by Kompanie Futrzarska of the Rocky Gorge. One day, Glass is attacked by a grizzly bear. The commanding group, Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson), seeing Hugh’s condition deteriorate rapidly, decides not to delay the rest of the squad and orders two people to stay with the dying, and to bury him with dignity after death. Hawk, the young Jim Bridger (Will Poulter), and the tempted generous payment of ruthless mercenary John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) volunteer.

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