As the end of the month approaches, Netflix is set to lose a lot of the movies it had on loan from other studios.
There’s a good chance that some of these titles will eventually return, but why wait?
To help you narrow down the selection, Watch With Us has chosen the five best Netflix movies to watch before they leave this week.
Our picks include a Best Picture winner, a biopic, a historical drama, an action flick and a war film.
The Best Picture winner from 2013 was 12 Years a Slave, which is based on Solomon Northup‘s book about his harrowing experience. In 1841, Solomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was a free Black man who was kidnapped and forced into slavery despite his pleas.
While Solomon’s first owner, William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), showed him some favor, his final owner, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), was a monster. Solomon not only has to deal with his own suffering, but he also has to witness a fellow slave, Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o), endure torment as well.
12 Years a Slave is streaming on Netflix through April 30.
Writer and director Sofia Coppola adapted the biography of Priscilla Presley in Priscilla, and it’s not a super flattering portrait of her husband, Elvis Presley. The film starts in the late ’50s, when Elvis (Jacob Elordi) met
Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) and expressed romantic interest her despite the fact that she was 14-years-old.
As the years pass, Priscilla and Elvis eventually get married, but their relationship problems are at the forefront of this flick.
Priscilla is streaming on Netflix through April 30.
Eugene Allen was a Black man who served as a butler in the White House for over three decades across multiple administrations. Lee Daniels’ The Butler is loosely inspired by Allen’s story, but changes the name of its main character to Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker).
During his time in the White House, Cecil meets Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (Robin Williams), John F. Kennedy (James Marsden), Lyndon B. Johnson (Liev Schreiber), Richard Nixon (John Cusack), Ronald Reagan (Alan Rickman) and more. The film also focuses on Cecil’s home life with his wife, Gloria Gaines (Oprah Winfrey), and their rebellious son, Louis Gaines (David Oyelowo), who actively fights for social change.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is streaming on Netflix through April 30.
There have been eight Mission: Impossible movies to date, but Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the one that took the franchise to another level. Pixar helmer Brad Bird made his live-action directorial debut with Ghost Protocal, and it’s a riveting action flick.
Early in the film, the Kremlin is destroyed in a massive bomb that’s laid at the feet of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise). The real culprit was Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), a man who wants to push the United States and Russia into a nuclear war. To clear his name, Ethan needs a new team: William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Jane Carter (Paula Patton). Their lives are also on the line as the countdown begins to a potential nuclear Armageddon.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is streaming on Netflix through April 30.
Lone Survivor is based on the true account of First Class Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), a soldier who went on a covert mission inside Afghanistan alongside Lieutenant Michael P. “Murph” Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Gunner’s mate Second Class Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) and Sonar technician Second Class Matthew “Axe” Axelson (Ben Foster).
After the team goes in to locate Taliban warlord Ahmad Shah (Ali Suliman), they find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by enemy forces. Luttrell is the only member of the team to live through the initial battles, and he’ll need help from the locals if he wants to make it out of Afghanistan alive.
Lone Survivor is streaming on Netflix through April 30.
