There’s something about the shift into cooler evenings that makes staying in feel less like a compromise and more like the actual plan. My routine hasn’t changed much over the years — something to eat, the lights low, Netflix open while I take far longer than necessary to settle on anything. The homepage keeps reshuffling the same posters, and twenty minutes disappear before a single episode has even started playing.
This month, the indecision is almost justified. Netflix has put together a genuinely strong stretch, from the return of a fan favorite to a couple of true-crime deep dives with real teeth and one coming-of-age surprise nobody saw coming. If you’ve been scrolling for the best Netflix top movies right now and still haven’t landed on anything, these are the five that made our list.
Netflix Top Movies Right Now
The Gentlemen Season 2
Guy Ritchie’s gangster comedy returns with Eddie and Susie now running Bobby’s criminal empire out of Italy, tangling with a ruthless new crime boss and his unpredictable fixer. It’s less thriller than full-blown caper, built on scheming, betrayal, and razor one-liners. What makes it stand out is how confidently it wears its own charm without ever tipping into parody.
Available to watch now.
The Whisper Man
Robert De Niro plays a retired detective pulled back into old, unfinished business after his estranged son’s child vanishes under circumstances unnervingly close to a case he closed decades earlier. Adapted from Alex North’s bestselling novel, the film trades cheap jump scares for a dread that builds patiently, scene by careful scene. The father-son reckoning tucked underneath the central mystery is what actually stays with you long after the credits roll.
Available to watch now.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Ella Beatty takes on the fourth Monster installment as Lizzie Borden, the New England woman acquitted of murdering her parents with an axe back in 1892. Ryan Murphy’s anthology finally centers a woman, and it shows in nearly every frame: less whodunit, more slow suffocation inside a household quietly built on repression and cruelty.
Available to watch starting September 17.
Crew Girl
A gifted teenage rower’s world collapses when her father’s public scandal exiles her to a small town with no girls’ rowing program, so she talks her way onto the boys’ crew team instead. Miku Martineau anchors the fallout with real texture, letting the rivalry and slow-burn romance breathe rather than rushing toward the obvious beats you’d expect. It’s soapy, sure, but the kind of soapy that actually remembers how humiliating adolescence can genuinely be. A satisfying next stop once you’ve burned through Netflix’s entire hockey-romance catalog.
Available to watch starting September 10.
Unabomber
Jacob Tremblay plays a young Ted Kaczynski subjected to brutal psychological experiments at Harvard, while Russell Crowe’s chillingly composed professor oversees the damage with unnerving detachment. The story cuts forward to the 1990s manhunt led by Shailene Woodley’s dogged FBI agent, carefully tracing how isolation curdled into violence over three long decades. It’s the heaviest watch on this list, but it never once feels like a lecture.
Available to watch starting September 25.
