This overview contains all Netflix Critically-acclaimed Movies movies and series. Netflix's content is updated with several new Critically-acclaimed Movies movies and series every month. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 4.5, is The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
January 8, 2019 | Movie | 2018 | 102 minutes
An Icelandic single mom struggling with poverty and a Guinea-Bissauan asylum seeker facing deportation find their lives intertwined in unexpected ways.
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January 3, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 94 minutes
Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 memoir, this documentary investigates the effects of factory farming on human, animal and environmental health.
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January 3, 2019 | Movie | 2018 | 91 minutes
Cut off from the rest of the world, a tight-knit family lives in constant fear of making any sound that will attract terrifying alien creatures.
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January 3, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 71 minutes
This documentary highlights spontaneous encounters with the elusive, comedic veteran, who touches lives by simply showing up anywhere.
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December 31, 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 92 minutes
Based on the New York Times best-selling book, this film examines the lives of families each contending with a child who is uniquely different.
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December 31, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 135 minutes
Based on true events, this story follows a Norwegian saboteur’s harrowing struggle to reach safety after escaping a Nazi attack during World War II.
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December 28, 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 91 minutes
This sobering documentary highlights the poaching and trafficking of elephants and rhinos, and the activists who will stop at nothing to protect them.
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December 28, 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 85 minutes
From losing his eyesight as a child to achieving global glory, this documentary follows the life and rise of legendary card magician Richard Turner.
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December 23, 2018 | Movie | 2015 | 117 minutes
Kidnapped, confined to a tiny room and raped, a young woman gives birth to a son. When he reaches his fifth birthday, she begins plotting an escape.
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December 16, 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 93 minutes
Three childhood friends attempt to finish the pet project they've worked on for over 30 years: re-creating "Raiders of the Lost Ark" shot for shot.
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December 16, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 134 minutes
Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker's journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico.
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December 10, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 109 minutes
To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.
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December 10, 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 98 minutes
Social media stars Paris Hilton, Josh Ostrovsky, Brittany Furlan and Kirill Bichutsky hustle to build online empires -- and face the pitfalls of fame.
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December 6, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 100 minutes
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
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December 3, 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 99 minutes
Explore the life and times of legendary soccer manager Bobby Robson, whose keen mind for the game was matched only by his devotion to his teams.
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December 3, 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 95 minutes
A divorced visual artist wanders through a series of fraught romances, shedding light on her lovers' psyches -- and her own solitude and desires.
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December 3, 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 94 minutes
Storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his film researcher wife, Lillian, recall the influence they had on 60 years of Hollywood's biggest hits.
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December 3, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 96 minutes
Husband and father Pedro becomes increasingly suspicious that a series of mishaps at a resort during a family vacation are part of a sinister plan.
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December 3, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 127 minutes
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise's son will change his world.
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November 22, 2018 | Movie | 2002 | 179 minutes
Frodo and Sam head to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin.
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