Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Erm. Who edits a trailer for a TV show on a hip "network" to look like some crappy Hollywood feel good barf?

thought it was weird that The Interview is up already! but then i stopped watching it about a half hour in. wasn't funny to me. started watching the bag man with cusack and de niro but i couldn't do it. like a bad 90's movie. so i watched tim roth liar t.v. show instead.

scott, that sounds almost exactly like what I would do in that situation, including falling back on Lie to Me even though I've seen every episode twice already. (Except I probably wouldn't watch The Interview in the first place? But everything else is perfect.)

The Painting (Le tableau) (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5NNf1lrj2c

If you're in the mood for a visually engaging French language animation that touches upon class issues/racism and theology in a narrative about painted characters seeking their painter, literate kid friendly (though with artistic toplessness), its rather fine.

artistic toplessness

sold

"In this harrowing drama, which has no dialogue..." NOPE.

morbs fave "fifi howls from happiness" is up

The Paul Williams documentary from a few years ago was just added.

TV Junkie, rick kirkham's video diaries of his drug addiction and fucked up life, is pretty good. he's comes off pretty badly - he def sees himself as the star of his own movie, and he's very manipulative and abusive - but v compelling to watch.

stray dogs looks cool. did you guys see that one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xsQfTkvBwg

yeah, i noticed today (and just mentioned in the detritus thread) that it's now netflixable. kind of pisses me off, though, because i've been holding off on watching a crappy dvd rip for a while now, and the netflix stream - even forced to max resolution - is no better. cross >:[

not sure whether to just watch what's available or wait for better quality.

you could have a good gallery show of the stills from that movie.

it's a regularly cited end of year best of

TV Junkie, rick kirkham's video diaries of his drug addiction and fucked up life, is pretty good. he's comes off pretty badly - he def sees himself as the star of his own movie, and he's very manipulative and abusive - but v compelling to watch.

― just1n3, Friday, February 6, 2015 12:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep this is really good, i shd rewatch some time

Last night I thought I had come out the other side of Netflix, unable to find a single thing I wanted to see. UNTIL, while scrolling through nature documentaries, I found LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS--and it's just the most charming thing. Everyone in it made me very happy.

So clearly it was important to break my heart as quickly as possible, and the best tool for that was the doc ALIVE INSIDE about playing music for dementia patients.

I can't understand people who claim to run out of things to see on Netflix.

Like, Netflix is great, UNLESS you hate movies, in which case, you're out of luck.

Well exactly. I'm going to need an endless supply of episodes of PEAKY BLINDERS and CROSSING LINES, and y'all can let me know when SCANDAL gets onto nf. Otherwise, nah.

Netflix doesn't have enough Vines.

endless TV, just what the hell

i think the problem is more that netflix conditions most ppl to casual lazy comfort-viewing, like aw man look they have 5 haneke films ive been meaning to screen, maybe some day **checks hulu for new parks & rec episode**

Really the other problem is that I don't have a DVD player or drive, so I only get the instant options. Which is especially disappointing after checking for a bunch of stuff I did want to see, and them not having it on Instant.

some recommendations:
Child's Pose: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70270821
Manakamana: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80010744
Like Father Like Son: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275749
The One I Love: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299863
Watermark: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293817
Stranger by the Lake: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285670
Blue Ruin: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70278931
Bird People - http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Bird_People/80008461
Gideon's Army: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70267832
Finding Fela: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299905
Particle Fever: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296323
We are the Best! : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293818
The Unknown Known: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292939
Exhibition: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296526
Gloria: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Gloria/70270790
Stop at Nothing: Lance Armstrong
Ida: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293721
Memphis: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301276
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274594
Frank: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299856

Queue:
The Missing Picture: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70285668?
Miele: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285698
Venus in Fur: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275370
Violette: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293814
The Last of the Unjust: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285696
The Double: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293645
Virunga: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80009431
Test: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70288488
The Immigrant: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275521
The Retrieval: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70272892
Oculus: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293316
13 Sins : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70291114
Big Bad Wolves: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274589
The Taking of Deborah Logan: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301341
Stray Dogs - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293821
Joe - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293723
Last Hijack - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80014767
Fifi Howls from Happiness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80011705
Abuse of Weakness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292975
Dormant Beauty - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70257739
Norte End of History - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285700

Yeah, but what else do you have to recommend.

I'm looking for a home film festival, not a date night.

1 channel and nothing on

started watching death comes to pemberley -- pd james' jane austen fanfic starring the dude from the americans! looks nice, will probably be sorta silly.

Yeah, but what else do you have to recommend.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 6, 2015

can't bring myself to watch nic cage dirty fingernails joe movie. i see ulee's gold is up and i'd much rather watch that for the 5th time. i am sad comfort netflix too...

i REALLY don't want to watch that big head frank movie after seeing the trailer. you guys really liked that movie? the trailer looks like everything i would ever run from.

I have problems committing to the time a movie takes tbh. Maybe if I could smoke indoors and had someone to trade comments with during it? And if it's a "slow" movie, you can absolutely forget it.

i'm on the nicotine gum. and pot brownies. so, i'm good. if maria hasn't seen ulee's gold and next stop wonderland i kinda want to watch them with her. and she should see stray dogs. but then there is that whole season of parenthood we haven't watched yet on hulu....

Frank is a little precious but there's some good acting (Gyllenhall aside) and it's very much of the current moment. Not a bad watch.

Blue Ruin is a great, Coen Brothers influenced flick
Gloria is a 60something gets her groove back
Particle Fever will teach you things you never knew about CERN
Watermark is good eye candy
Gideon's Army is a moving look at the public defender system

not to mention nashville...

Oh I love Next Stop Wonderland!!

I'm thinking of watching Kids for Cash but I can only handle so much heartbreak at once.

had someone to trade comments with during it?

yep, stick to TV.

i finished watching The Fall with scully as the ice queen with a heart of mulder. kinda getting sick of the netflixoriginal tone. i liked the first season of the killing a lot but all these shows require SOOOOOOO much suspension of disbelief that it gets a little hard to keep watching sometimes.

rufus and maria and i did watch we are the best cuzza you guys and we liked that.

donald sutherland eurocrime netflix show is really really bad. even for me! just all kinds of terrible and also nevergonnahappen moments every five minutes.

Haha I love it though. Yeah it's that bad.

the hologram "tech genius". hoo boy...

i always kinda liked that hound dog-faced american actor though...

no way in hell i'm watching that bird people movie. that thing reeks of sundance. plus, got so sick of looking at that dude's face on the good wife.

bird people is worth watching for the second half sequence and the very interesting filmwork of bird perspectives

that guy's face though...

eh, he reads as sports night to me so um yeah okay i get your point

sorry. we just watched a lot of good wife. that face wears on you. don't really know why they didn't cast someone cool and handsome. love is apparently blind though. and yeah he reads as sorkin to me too which is another negative.

i mean i guess it was GOOD casting as far as what a lot of smug rich lawyers are like. i liked everything about the good wife except for him.