The best movies on Netflix include Scream 6, Saturday Night, Back in Action, Hereditary, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, In the Heart of the Sea, and more.

Here are 14 of the best movies you can watch on Netflix right now, and if you'd rather go with a series, check out our picks for the best TV shows to watch on Netflix. Paul Mescal received an Oscar nomination for his work in Aftersun as a father who takes his 11-year-old daughter on a vacation to a Turkish resort.

By its standards, the streamer's lineup of film originals in January is surprisingly slight. There are still a few Netflix-exclusive movies worth recommending this month, though, and the service is making up for its slim pickings of originals with a batch of exciting streaming acquisitions that is practically bursting at the seams with modern classics from the past 30 years.

To be eligible for this list a movie has to have won an Oscar in one of the “major” categories (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay or one of the four acting fields). So, without further introduction, these are the best movies on Netflix that have previously won an Oscar.

The answer to that, thankfully is that there are seven films nominated for an Oscar today that you can watch on streaming in the UK right now (and we don’t mean with some dodgy VPN either). Among these are two on Netflix films, one of which set a major record, and three different Best Picture nominees which you can watch right now.

These Netflix shows are among the best available, but that doesn't mean they're ones that come with regular recommendations.

This month’s selection of movies includes an underseen rock opera, one of the best movies of the 2000s, a paranoid thriller about American misdeeds abroad, and a nice pre-Oscars catch-up on one of Timothée Chalamet’s best performances.