With such a huge selection on Netflix, finding a good movie can be a daunting task.
That's why we've gone through the Netflix line-up to find the best little-seen films
available.
From horror to comedy to action, here are the best Netflix gems you probably haven't
seen yet.
The Wraith
Back in the technicolor '80s, there was a wonderful movie called The Wraith.
The idea: a murdered street racer returns from the grave to get revenge on a bunch of
street punks in an undead muscle car.
As far as terrible-but-awesome premises go, this sits somewhere near the top of the stack.
And yet in spite of everything it's got going against it, The Wraith actually works.
It's solid B-movie material elevated to hidden gem status by colorful characters, surprisingly
good special effects, and fun dialogue.
The Wraith knows full well what it is, and it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Kill Me Three Times
Simon Pegg is a modern cult megastar, but this hilarious crime thriller still managed
to fly under the radar on its 2014 release.
With a kinetic style reminiscent of Guy Ritchie's good films, Kill Me Three Times follows three
intertwined stories of ordinary people driven to the brink, all of it linked by one man
with a very hitman mustache.
A Simon Pegg hitman mustache.
At times brutal, touching, and hilarious — sometimes all at once — you won't find a more flat-out
fun movie than Kill Me Three Times.
Creep
Who knew a film with a cast of exactly two people could be so enthralling?
Yeah, you might groan at first: if Creep had a downside, it would be the decision to make
it in jerky, handheld, found-footage style.
But Creep pulls it off, and beautifully at that.
In fact, this may be the first film since The Blair Witch Project that couldn't have
been filmed any other way, and arguably the first good one.
Creep switches seamlessly between drama, comedy, and horror thanks mostly to a near-perfect
performance by mumbling maniac Mark Duplass.
Whatever else you take away from it, there's no doubt Creep will give you, well, the creeps.
Bronson
Back in 2008, before he was a household name, Tom Hardy starred in a bizarre biopic called
Bronson.
In real life, Charles Bronson — whose real name was Michael Peterson before he renamed
himself after the actor — has spent more than 40 years in prison and was dubbed "the
most violent prisoner in Britain" — even though he's never killed anyone.
When Tom Hardy was first tapped to star in the movie, the real Bronson was less than
impressed by the actor.
But after Hardy gained a ton of weight and studied the way the real-life criminal moved,
Bronson changed his tune, saying, "Tom looks more like me than I look like me."
If you were impressed by Bane and Mad Max Rockatansky, don't miss out on Bronson.
It's got its weird moments, but the movie is insanity at its best.
"Ha ha."
Ravenous
There aren't a lot of movies that will make you question your dinner, but from the very
first frame, Ravenous turns rare steak into an entre to be regarded with suspicion.
Starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle, this 1999 gem plays like a horror movie on the
surface, but does so with a heart of comedic black gold.
While it begins as a seemingly straightforward story of an army captain assigned to the remote
Sierra Nevada mountains after the Mexican-American War, Ravenous quickly moves into territory
that's hard to classify.
There's the horror of cannibalism in the isolated mountains, the action of a spaghetti Western,
a thick smattering of tongue-in-cheek humor, and a pulsing vein of modern satire woven
throughout.
All of it comes together into an extremely entertaining, offbeat movie experience that
you won't forget anytime soon.
Unfortunately, the film's marketing sent people to theaters expecting a more mainstream, slapstick
comedy, not the violent, black humor they ended up watching.
As a result, Ravenous was chewed to pieces by critics and limped through theaters earning
a measly $2 million—half of which came during its opening weekend.
Beyond the Gates
You could probably get away with calling this movie Jumanji 2: This Time with Demons, but
that wouldn't be entirely fair to Beyond the Gates, a horror thriller about two brothers
who find a VHS board game in their recently deceased father's video store.
Video board games were a real, weird thing in the VCR's heyday, so there's probably a
nostalgia element to Beyond the Gates if you were one of the 30 or 40 people who ever played
one.
But for everyone else, the idea of a video that knows what you're doing lends as much
to the fantasy element of the film as the hellish repercussions the brothers experience
as they fall deeper into the game.
Hellish, in this case, is of course totally literal.
The more the brothers play, the more the game begins to bleed into the real world, turning
their home into the devil's suburban dreamhouse.
It's a fun, twisted film, perfect for a rainy night.
Look Who's Back
This low-key German satire is both unexpected and surprisingly hilarious.
Look Who's Back starts with Hitler waking up in in a park in modern Berlin, still in
uniform, with no idea how he got there.
The first people he meets think he's a crazy hobo, the next ones think he's a Method actor
doing a bit, and before long, Hitler's all over the news as the next big German comedian…and
the people love him.
In fact, it's less a satire on Hitler and more a social commentary on modern-day Germany
as a whole.
On top of all that, it's pretty funny.
Look Who's Back is definitely a weird combo, but it's one that happens to work extremely
well.
Uncanny
If you liked Ex Machina, you'll be right at home with Uncanny, a tight, claustrophobic
movie about a brilliant roboticist named David Kressen who builds the perfect artificial
intelligence.
Or is it?
When the robot's behavior grows more sinister, the programmer and his newfound girlfriend,
a journalist on assignment to write about Kressen's achievements, find themselves trapped
in Kressen's lab with an uncannily human creature who's suddenly become painfully unpredictable.
Beautifully shot and steeped in tension you could cut with a bonesaw, Uncanny is a fantastic
hidden sci-fi thriller.
With incredible performances from everyone involved, you won't be able to look away until
the end.
The Void
In many ways, the John Carpenter horror thrillers of the '80s were a genre unto themselves.
Movies like The Thing and Prince of Darkness reveled in violence and body horror without
leaning on it as a pure shock tactic — and somehow, in 2017, a small sci-fi horror film
slipped unnoticed into that exclusive genre.
The Void is a throwback to those '80s creature features in many ways, from the practical
monster effects to the subdued, foreboding atmosphere, but it also stands on its own
as a bloody good sci-fi creepfest.
Don't miss it.
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