50 Best Critically Acclaimed Movies on Netflix New Zealand
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Last updated: 2019-07-23
Looking for what to watch on Netflix? If you follow critic ratings more than others, here's a list of 50 best critically acclaimed movies on Netflix New Zealand streaming right now.ROMA
Genre: Drama
Available From: 2018-12-14
Year: 2018
Director Alfonso Cuaron delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of domestic life and social hierarchy set against Mexico's political turmoil of the 1970s.
Actor(s): Carlos Peralta, Diego Cortina Autrey, Marina de Tavira, Yalitza Aparicio
Dunkirk
Genre: Action, War
Available From: 2018-06-14
Year: 2017
In May 1940, soldiers and civilians struggle by land, sea and air to evacuate the British army and their allies, Europe's last hope, from Dunkirk.
Actor(s): Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, Cillian Murphy, Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Jack Lowden, James D'Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy
45 Years
Genre: Drama, Romance
Available From: 2016-03-31
Year: 2015
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th anniversary, shocking news reopens old wounds and reveals painful secrets about Geoff's past.
Actor(s): Camille Ucan, Charlotte Rampling, David Sibley, Dolly Wells, Geraldine James, Hannah Chalmers, Richard Cunningham, Rufus Wright, Sam Alexander, Tom Courtenay
Spotlight
Genre: Crime, Drama
Available From: 2016-06-22
Year: 2015
A team of reporters and editors at the Boston Globe relentlessly investigate a shocking child molestation cover-up by the Catholic Church.
Actor(s): Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Jamey Sheridan, John Slattery, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Paul Guilfoyle, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci
La La Land
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Available From: 2017-11-08
Year: 2016
Career aspirations run up against bittersweet romance in modern-day Los Angeles, as two artists face a heartbreaking dilemma.
Actor(s): Emma Stone, Finn Wittrock, J.K. Simmons, Jason Fuchs, Jessica Rothe, John Legend, Meagen Fay, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, Sonoya Mizuno
Schindler’s List
Genre: Biography, Drama
Available From: 2015-04-14
Year: 1993
Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
Actor(s): Andrzej Seweryn, Beatrice Macola, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Friedrich von Thun, Jonathan Sagall, Liam Neeson, Malgoscha Gebel, Mark Ivanir, Ralph Fiennes, Shmulik Levy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Genre: Comedy
Available From: 2018-04-14
Year: 1975
The Monty Python comedy clan skewers King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they quest far and wide for the Holy Grail.
Actor(s): Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Neil Innes, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Dirty Harry
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Available From: 2015-12-31
Year: 1971
When a madman dubbed 'The Scorpio Killer' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-boiled cop Harry Callahan is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Actor(s): Andy Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, John Larch, John Mitchum, John Vernon, Mae Mercer, Reni Santoni
Paterson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Available From: 2018-08-23
Year: 2016
A week in the life of Paterson a simple, routine-oriented New Jersey bus driver and poet and his whimsical, loving wife.
Actor(s): Adam Driver, Barry Shabaka Henley, Golshifteh Farahani, Rizwan Manji
Mad Max: Fury Road
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Available From: 2016-04-05
Year: 2015
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Max helps a rebellious woman and a band of female prisoners flee from tyranny, fend off threats and seek their homeland.
Actor(s): Abbey Lee, Charlize Theron, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Riley Keough, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tom Hardy, Zoe Kravitz
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