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23 Best Movies On Netflix You Haven’t Yet Seen - A Good Movie to Watch

23 Best Movies On Netflix You Haven’t Yet Seen - A Good Movie to Watch
Having only made its way to the U.S. 6 long years after its initial release, this is the long-awaited film from the Oscar-winning director of A Separation– and it is in every way extraordinary. It’s a movie stripped down of almost everything to keep only its humans in focus, it is honest and realistic beyond belief and quite simply a must-watch. A group of old friends and relatives reunite for vacation in northern Iran with one of them bringing a new person to the group, Elly, in hopes of her marrying one of the friends, Ahmad. Thanks to the perfect performances and the director’s unparalleled talent, About Elly will feel interesting at times, thrilling and devastating at others, but above all, and because of it being so… human, it will feel familiar to you no matter where you are from. Movie Page & Comments Related:  Movies & TV

Best Netflix Movies, Series Found With These 5 Apps Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away. Content is removed from Netflix each and every month, but new content is added as well. The problem is keeping track of all those additions and subtractions, and finding good content to watch when you want to watch it. There are a wide range of services that aim to make it faster and easier to find and watch good movies and TV shows on Netflix, and today we’re sharing five apps in particular that will make it easier than it has ever been before to find great movies and TV series on Netflix. MUST-READ: HTC One M9 review Last week we told you about a terrific Netflix tweak called “God Mode” that makes it much easier to browse content on Netflix’s website. Here are five great tools for Netflix users in no particular order: 1. FlickSurfer makes it insanely easy to find the highest-rated content on Netflix at any given time. Visit FlickSurfer 2. Visit What is on Netflix? 3. Visit Netflix Roulette 4. Visit InstantWatcher 5. Visit Netflix Enhancer

The most transgressive sex on screen “To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance,” wrote Jean Genet, France’s pre-eminent peddler of literary filth, in his novel The Thief's Journal. But when it comes to sex, it’s a philosophy that few filmmakers have seen fit to put on screen. When it isn’t taking place off-camera, sex in cinema is too often a distressingly vanilla affair, long on the soft-focus frotting under moonlight and short on the kind of anything-goes WTF-ery (voyeurism, sadism, masochism... other types of ‘ism’) that was Genet’s stock-in-fleshy-trade. Happily, some films don’t stint on the weird stuff. Here’s a look at the scenes that celebrate eroticism in all its strange and multifaceted glory. Steven Shainberg’s oddly touching S&M flick concerns a self-harming 20-something, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is drawn into a strange love affair with her boss (James Spader) when she starts work as a secretary at his legal firm. Oh look! Ever loved someone so much you just have to have them forever?

10 Independent Films You Must See - Fame10 In the realm of cinema, there are a host of films that people put on a “must see” bucket list of sorts, but oftentimes, the indie darlings get lost in the shuffle because their budget was small, and their marketing budget was even smaller. Sure, it’s presumptuous to believe any particular reader wouldn’t have seen any or all of these films, but they’re definitely in a category of forgotten, or undiscovered treasures. Here are 10 wonderful independent films from the contemporary era that you should definitely see! 10. Hard Eight (1996) Hard Eight is the film that introduced Paul Thomas Anderson to the niche elite of the filmmaking world. 9. Before Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley became rivals in the Divergent series, they played one of the greatest on-screen, tween couples that few people know about.

Watch Free Documentaries Online Best Mystery/Thriller/Crime TV Series - a list by nikunjtanna-116 The Feminist Power of Female Ghosts The new movie The Conjuring has been called "scary as hell" and "the summer's scariest movie"—it's so frightening, in fact, that it earned an R rating despite an absence of any explicit violence, sex, gore, or foul language. According to star Patrick Wilson, the film gave the ratings board a case of the willies that was simply too intense for a mere PG-13. Part of what makes the The Conjuring so very disturbing is that, like The Amityville Horror before it, it's "based on true events." The Conjuring tells the story of the Perrons, a family of seven who moved into a rural Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971 to find it already occupied by a variety of spirits, and the real-life paranormal investigators whom they called in to mediate. Those real-life investigators, by the way, were Lorraine and Ed Warren, who would later become known the as couple who investigated that famous house in Amityville. Vera Farmiga, as Lorraine Warren, notices things getting creepy in The Conjuring AAA!

Reel Times Reflections on Cinema The Best Films of 2010 1. LOURDES (Jessica Hausner, 2009) LOURDES asks what a miracle is, on whose terms one should be determined, and who is deserving of such a blessing. 2. Dazzling in its conception and execution, INCEPTION continues Christopher Nolan’s reign as the maker of Hollywood’s brainiest and eye-popping films. 3. Joel and Ethan Coen settle into a vintage western remake that also has room for their signature quirks and humor. 4. Comedies don’t get any nervier than director Chris Morris’s FOUR LIONS, which is built on the exploits of bumbling Islamic terrorists in a cell near London. 5. The brash and hilarious survey of the street art scene in the documentary EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP is enough to put one’s head spinning. 6. HADEWIJCH delves into its study of religious ecstasy and confusion with uncommon thoughtfulness. 7. The well is usually long dry by the time of the third film in a series, but the creative minds at Pixar again prove themselves an exception to the rule. 8. 9. 10.

Talking to the Directors of the Austrian Horror Film 'Goodnight Mommy' When a single mother returns home with her face bandaged from reconstructive surgery, her twin sons begin to suspect that more than her face has changed—or perhaps the bandaged woman is not their mother, at all. This is the story of Goodnight Mommy, the artful, claustrophobic Austrian horror film that was recently chosen to be the country's 2015 foreign-language Oscar nomination. VICE recently s... When a single mother returns home with her face bandaged from reconstructive surgery, her twin sons begin to suspect that more than her face has changed—or perhaps the bandaged woman is not their mother, at all. This is the story of Goodnight Mommy, the artful, claustrophobic Austrian horror film that was recently chosen to be the country's 2015 foreign-language Oscar nomination.

Uncle Orson's All-time Film List Uncle Orson's List of the Best Films Ever Made To make this list, a film had to move me deeply or entertain me greatly on first viewing, and continue to move me and entertain me upon repeat viewings in later years. The first twenty or so are roughly in order of importance to me; after that, the order of the rest could be shuffled a bit without harm. I mean, can I really say that Hudsucker Proxy is "better" than The Man Who Would Be King? Of course not. But I can say that Man for All Seasons is more important to me than any other movie in my life, though the next few aren't far behind. 1. This is the reason stories are worth telling. 2. In a way, the opposite of Man for All Seasons, this Julie Christie/Terence Stamp/Alan Bates film, based on a novel by Thomas Hardy, shows us the cost of a life lived selfishly, and how redemption comes from the faithful love of someone good. 3. This movie is astonishingly dark (like all the best Christmas movies). 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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