3 underrated Netflix movies you should watch this weekend (November 8-10)

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Let’s look it: it’s excessively early for Christmas movies. I hardly tin deliberation astir turkey and stuffing correct now, fto unsocial films filled pinch tinsel and vacation cheer. That’s why you won’t find a azygous Christmas aliases holiday-theme movie connected this list.

Honestly, there’s nary request to watch nan accustomed vacation fare since location are truthful galore different types of movies to watch connected Netflix correct now. The pursuing 3 movies each connection thing different that should drawback your eye. Craving vintage warfare action told connected an epic scale? Or possibly an friendly movie that has a formed of conscionable 2 people? This database has those films and more.

We besides person guides to nan best movies connected Netflix, nan best movies connected Hulu, nan best movies connected Amazon Prime Video, nan best movies connected Max, and the best movies connected Disney+.

Daddio (2024)

We’ve each been there: Upon exiting nan airdrome aft a agelong level ride, you get into an Uber aliases cab, and nan driver starts talking to you. Usually, it’s a beautiful unspeakable experience, but what if it is really life-changing? What if you extremity having a deep, meaningful speech pinch a full stranger?

That’s nan conception down Daddio, a two-person characteristic study that takes spot mostly successful a NYC cab. Dakota Johnson’s Girlie initially doesn’t want to chat, but Sean Penn’s cab driver Clark proves to beryllium a bully listener, and Girlie has plentifulness of things to opportunity astir her family, her relationships, and her life successful general. Clark has secrets to uncover too, and soon some of them will cognize much astir each different than they ever thought was possible.

Daddio

Daddio didn’t do each that good during its theatrical tally this past summer, but it should excel now that it’s connected streaming. It’s friendly mounting and aggravated attraction connected conscionable 2 characters who turn much fascinating by nan infinitesimal is perfect for a precocious nighttime successful astatine home. You whitethorn conscionable locomotion distant pinch a desire to chat pinch your driver nan adjacent clip you return that Uber.

Daddio is streaming connected Netflix.

The Family Man (2000)

Nicolas Cage is typically thought of arsenic that “weird” character who does freaky out-there movies for illustration Longlegs aliases Dream Scenario. While that’s true, Cage is simply a versatile actor, and by this constituent of his long, bizarre career, he’s done each types of movies. He’s moreover done sentimental family movies for illustration The Family Man, which is axenic schmaltz that’s besides irresistible to watch, particularly astir this clip of nan year.

Jake (Cage) seemingly has it all: a awesome profession arsenic a Wall Street investor; a swinging bachelor manner successful NYC; and nary bratty kids bringing him down. But connected Christmas Eve, he wonders what could person been, and erstwhile he awakens nan adjacent day, he finds himself married, pinch children and a dog, to his assemblage sweetheart, Kate (Tea Leoni), whom he near 13 years earlier. As Jake originates to unrecorded his “new” life, he questions what he really wants and wherever his existent emotion really lies.

The Family Man is streaming connected Netflix.

Midway (1976)

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World War II movies ne'er spell retired of style. There’s conscionable truthful overmuch history to cover, and location are clearcut bad guys to defeat. (Nazis and their collaborators are nan bad guys and ever will be.) And while Midway, an epic 1976 movie starring Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, doesn’t connection thing caller to nan genre, it’s still a well-made communicative astir 1 of history’s top modern battles: nan Battle of Midway, which was a cardinal infinitesimal successful nan Pacific Theater of Operations successful World War II.

Over 131 minutes, Midway chronicles nan analyzable conflict preparations and execution of American troops and planes battling Japanese combatant pilots complete nan Pacific. The movie does return clip to see a cheesy romanticist subplot, but nan superior attraction is men successful ships and planes shooting guns and sidesplitting nan enemy. Midway isn’t a terribly analyzable movie, but its straightforward style is nevertheless captivating, and if you’re a WWII buff, you’ll get a footwear retired of it.

Midway is streaming connected Netflix.