We know it can be difficult to narrow down what to watch with so many good choices out there, so we've done the hard part and picked out the 45 best titles on the platform. Everything on this list is available to stream in both the US and the UK, too.

Some of the latest additions include The Power of the Dog from Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons. 

There's also the musical Tick, Tick… Boom!, the directorial debut from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Plus, there's the spooky Fear Street trilogy, Western The Harder They Fall, and family animation The Mitchells vs. the Machines – and that's just the start. 

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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)

Jack Nicholson delivered one of his best performances in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. He plays a criminal who fakes a mental illness in order to go to a psychiatric hospital rather than prison. There, he becomes the leader of the eccentric group of patients and challenges the sadistic head nurse.

The movie is a terrific blend of comedy and drama with Nicholson doing his best devilishly charming performance. The result is a complex and unforgettable story.

Goodfellas (1990)

Martin Scorsese has made a number of gangster movies throughout his career, but many see Goodfellas as his masterpiece. It tells the true story of Henry Hill who became a major player inside a lucrative and dangerous mob family.

Scorsese's brilliance in telling this story is in how he draws the audience in with the intoxicating nature of this exciting and lavish world before shocking them with the violence and ugliness. It also features one of the most unsettling movie villains of all time with Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci.

The Matrix (1999)

With fans eagerly awaiting The Matrix: Resurrections, many will no doubt be revisiting the first movie which remains one of the most groundbreaking movies of the 1990s. From the inventive action to the thought-provoking story, The Matrix is a mind-bending genre masterpiece.

Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a bored office worker who is exposed to a shocking reality about the world he lives in and begins his quest to become the savior of humanity. Even more than two decades later, it has aged extremely well for an action movie.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

It's perhaps shocking to some fans that no Star Wars film broke into the top ten. What is less surprising is that The Empire Strikes Back is the highest-rated film in the franchise. The story set in a galaxy far, far away told a much darker and more complex story this time around.

The story finds the heroes separated with Darth Vader closing in on them. With interesting growth for the returning characters and some iconic new ones turning up, this film truly showcased how much sequels can further a story.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Seeing as The Two Towers is the lowest-rated movie in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, it's quite apparent this series is beloved. The second film saw the fellowship divided as they attempted to defeat Sauron's forces of evil.

The film is another grand fantasy epic with two standout elements, the first being the proper introduction of the character Gollum and the second being in the massive and thrilling battle sequence in the third act.

Fight Club (1999)

David Fincher remains one of the most talented filmmakers working today. His projects are often dark, but always compelling thanks to his own perfectionist approach and unique visual style. Fight Club stands as his most popular project and one of the most exciting films of the 1990s.

Brad Pitt creates an iconic character with Tyler Durden, a mysterious philosopher who leads Edward Norton's mild-mannered protagonist to create an underground fighting community. The dark humor, brutal violence, and warped philosophies make it a thrilling watch and the twist ending makes you want to rewatch the movie again and again.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

The so-called Spaghetti Westerns changed Westerns forever with unique styles of filmmaking that were unlike anything audiences had seen before. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the definitive entry in that subgenre.

The film follows three deadly men on a quest to retrieve buried treasure in the midst of the Civil War. The movie helped popularize the Mexican Standoff trend which is still used in action movies today, made a star of Clint Eastwood, and gave movie fans one of the most iconic film scores of all time.

The Power of the Dog

Year released: 2021
Director: Jane Campion

Jane Campion’s first feature since 2009’s Bright Star is a subtle spin on sibling rivalry, repressed emotions and rural living. Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel, its story dials back to 1920s Montana and into the world of the ranch-owning Burbank brothers, Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George (Jesse Plemons). The more bookish of the two, George manages the business while the rough-hewn Phil can more typically be found castrating cattle. 

When George meets and marries Rose (Kirsten Dunst), widowed mother to sensitive teen Pete (Kodi Smit-McPhee), it sends Phil into an apoplectic rage. Soon, he’s brutally haranguing Rose, who starts to self-medicate with booze, and ominously befriending Pete. But there’s more to this story than jealousy and rage, as Campion drops hints about hidden love from the past that might well be a dangerous thing in cowboy country. 

Beautifully filmed (with New Zealand doubling for the States), The Power Of The Dog is surely Campion’s most elegant movie since The Portrait Of A Lady or even The Piano. True, it has a tendency to meander and lands Last Night In Soho’s Thomasin McKenzie with an underwritten role. 

But at its heart is a brooding Cumberbatch, offering one of the shrewdest performances of his career. The Road’s Smit-McPhee also impresses, especially as his character grows more important in the film’s final, unexpected third.