Movies On Netflix India Everyone Must Watch Atleast Once In Their Lives

Having a Friday Night in? Can't decide what to watch on Netflix? We are here to your rescue. Make sure you watch these 10 best movies on Netflix India to make it a fulfilling weekend. From Drama to Suspense, Sci-Fi to Comedy and Romantic to Thrillers we have jotted down everything for you. What's more, you're waiting for? Let the party begin: 

*Disclaimer: The movies listed in the blog are available on Netflix on a temporary basis.

1. Boyhood

Director: Richard Linklater

Starcasts: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke 

This is an Oscar-nominated American drama earned it's way out bragging several awards - Best Director, Best Film, and even Best Supporting Actress at Oscars. The movie was lauded with a positive review because it was filmed over 12 years with the same cast creating a nostalgic capsule of the recent past and reflecting an ode to growing up and parenting. It's a journey of a boy which depicts the realities of childhood and adolescence incorporating everyday life experience to make it as realistic as possible.

IMDB Rating: 7.9/10

2. Forrest Gump 

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starcasts:  Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise 

30 years of a life of an intellectually disabled man, critical appraisal, large audiences and six Academy Awards later, Forrest Gump made to the list of one of the most amazing movies ever made. Based on a 1986 novel of the same name, Forrest Gump is played by Tom Hanks in the movie. It spans several decades in the life of a man with sub-normal IQ but his way of looking at things and living life if a lesson for all of us. He lives a truly aspirational life. Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese.

IMDB Rating: 8.8/10

3. Inception

Director: Christopher Nolan

Starcasts: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page

Christopher Nolan, known to be a visionary filmmaker, can think about dimensions, we don't even understand even if they are put on the screen in front of us and made into a film. This sci-fi psychological movie gave this person the power to steal things by entering somebody else's dream. The protagonist in this movie i.e. Leonardo Dicaprio does not steal things but ideas by entering into someone else's subconscious. This is the make-believe world of corporate espionage and the thief here is the key to this agenda. However, this time around the agenda is not stealing but implanting an idea in someone's head. Would Dicaprio be able to do it or not depends on the powerful plan and the enemy who knows exactly what their plan is? This movie will f**k your mind up but open horizons that even you didn't know existed before.

IMDB Rating: 8.8/10

4. Schindler's list

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starcasts:  Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley 

Seven Academy Awards + five more nominations, this film went on to become the best portrayal of the holocaust toll on humans. A story of valor and determination of the sort you haven't seen before. The best monochromatic account of the Nazi destruction of European Jews has been acclaimed as Stephen Spielberg's best work up until now. There are many scenes in the movie that depict the suffering and the heroism of children during the Holocaust. It exposed millions around the world to the gruesomeness of the Holocaust. It's a story of a perpetrator, a German Factory owner turning into an altruistic savior after witnessing the suffering of the survivors and saving the lives of 1100 Jews. 

IMDB Rating: 8.9/10

5. The Matrix

Director:  Lana Wachowski

Starcasts: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss 

It's been 15 years to this movie, and we can surely say that this mind-boggling movie changes the way we think, see, perceive, and feel everything around us. This movie is about a dystopian future where all human beings perceive their reality in a simulation called 'the matrix'. This movie has made us question our existence over and over again. It's an imagined version of everything's that's happening today. We are so scared of artificial intelligence controlling us no sooner than a decade. The Matrix was imagined reality because in the movie, Thomas Anderson is a young and dissatisfied computer programmer realizes that there is something wrong with the world and concludes that we are not living in our own reality but in an illusion: a computer simulation  designed to keep humanity passive and captive under the control of a race of sentient machines.
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 

6. Whiplash

Whiplash is a movie about music and a story revolving around a student and a teacher. This movie's subject is being born with excellence and being excellent it through hard work and persistence are two different things. We focus too much on excellence but we are all surrounded by mediocre people. But the enlarged gap between the two can be reduced with persistent effort. Miles Teller plays a young drummer Andrew Neyman in Whiplash who is an ambitious striver, striving to become the best at the best Manhattan music school under the leadership of a terrifying instructor, Fletcher. The movie builds up adrenaline, tension, and suspense up until the championship game. 
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10

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7. Interstellar

Director: Christopher Nolan

Starcasts:  Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain 

Imagine it's the end of the Earth and you are held responsible for figuring out what the future of humanity holds. A former spaceship pilot goes on a mission through a wormhole to find inhabitable places for humanity. Using state-of-art digital effects, Christopher Nolan has made you believe in 5 dimensions through the movie. He has tried to answer questions so many us have for years about existentialism. Wormhole mouths and black holes are depicted as genuinely three-dimensional holes, while the high-energy colliding matter is vividly portrayed. So impressively does Interstellar render these phenomena that if we ever see such things close-up, reality may suffer by comparison?
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10

8. Twelve Years A Slave

Director: Steve McQueen

Starcasts:  Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender

You should be watching this: is what comes to my head when we think of Twelve Years A Slave. It is a VERY powerful film based on an 1853 novel written by Solomon Northup, in which he chronicles his experiences as a slave in Bayou Boeuf, Louisiana. He lived in Saratoga, New York all his early adult life with his wife and children only aware of the plight the slaves went through but never had a first-hand experience of the misery of the slaves only until he was himself sold as a slave where he worked for 12 years in Louisiana. He wrote this book as an account of his bad experiences and how he wants to use this as a rebellion against slavery. This movie removes the curtain from our eyes and makes him empathize with these slaves who suffered at the hands of white people who were cruel beyond belief. 
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10

9. The Wolf of Wall Street 

Director: Martin Scorsese

Starcasts: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

Brilliant is an understatement. This wild movie is based on the autobiography of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who made a fortune by selling shady penny stocks and then spent the resulting money on drugs, sex, and other self-indulgences—in the nineties before he was arrested for his frauds in an exuberant and crazy way. Anyone who needs to be explained stock market frauds and how to run away from personal responsibility, Wolf of Wall Street is the way to go. Leonardo Dicaprio does complete justice to his character where he plays Jordan Belfort. When you watch the movie, you wouldn't want the movie to be any shorter than the 3-hour runtime. It is so spellbinding and gasping. 

IMDB Rating: 8.2/10

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10. The Dark Knight

Director:  Christopher Nolan

Starcasts: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart 

Batman, Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger- these three words are enough to get you to open your laptop, open a window to Netflix and get going. The best movie in the Batman Trilogy, The Dark Knight keeps you hooked like no other.  Excellent sequel, much darker and much more violent than the first part. Heath Ledger's show-stopping performance as the Joker steals the show. definitely. The Dark Knight is, I suppose the greatest superhero movie ever made. Enough said. 

IMDB Rating: 9/10

11. Goodfellas

Director: Martin Scorsese

Star Casts: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci 

This classic crime movie is the story about the mob life that is there in New York City. All together stunning, vivid and showing the ugliness and depravity of the glamorized and romanticized subculture of New York City is a Netflix hit. Good Fellas is director Martin Scorsese's greatest ode to a surreal and deeply fascinating take on the life of Henry Hill who was involved in the Mob for three decades and his rise throughout the time span. Must watch the best movie with great direction and best screenplay. A truly classic crime movie of the nineties.

IMDb Rating: 8.7/10

12. Casino

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci 

For all of its violence and tragedy, this is a beautiful and exuberant movie. This best movie on Netflix has a relentless soundtrack of jazz and classic rock and moments of humor and goodwill. A very popular Mafia movie The casino is superbly acted and quite astonishingly obsessive about detail, money, and the mob's decline. Greed, deception, money, power, and murder reign in this thriller movie which illustrates the dark realities of a casino gangster. A must watch if you loved watching Casino Royal.

IMDb Rating: 8.2/10

13. Taxi Driver

Director: Martin Scorsese

Star Casts: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd 

This best movie on Netflix is the product of brilliant direction by Martin Scorsese and greatest historical performance by Robert De Niro. Taxi Driver tells the story in Travis's perspective of how he feels intolerable of activities which occurs in the New York jungle (prostitution) and his life after the Vietnam war. Martin Scorsese has studied the human mind how they will behave in a different life situation and in this movie they showed us how a man reacts to America's condition in 70's.  Robert De Niro has his best to this flick and showed how a lonely person like his character in the movie feels. He has put life into this movie and role which you have to watch on Netflix-India right now!

IMDb Rating: 8.3/10

14. Shutter Island

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo 

This brilliant psychological thriller is directed by Martin Scorsese and screenplay is based on the same name novel by Dennis Lehane. Shutter Island needs the complete attention of the people watching, so that get to feel involved while the characters reveal the mystery of the island. The plot of this best movie on Netflix is about the disappearance of a patient from Ashecliffe hospital for mentally disturbed and violent criminals in 1954. Upon this two detectives played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are called to the island to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Scorsese keeps the anticipation high all through the whole film while never falling back on shoddy startle strategies. Indeed, even in scenes that should not be tensed, the score makes the watcher thrilled. That’s exactly where Scorsese wants his viewer to be, and it makes for a hell of a movie-going experience that keeps you guessing until the last minute.

IMDb Rating:  8.1/10

15. Full Metal Jacket

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio 

Full Metal Jacket is one of those movies after "The Shining" that made a huge impact on the audience and became one of the best movies of all times. This movie depicts what war was like. This film shows the true horror of war that takes purposeful men and unleashes them on a populace on the other hand when suits don't have anything more than public relations in mind. It’s a masterpiece, and one of Kubrick's most indelible creations. IMDb Rating:  8.3/10

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