Everything in life is ephemeral, both sadness and joy. We are mere spectators of fate’s implacable decisions. But, fortunately, he doesn’t always act against us. Therefore, there is no point in worrying too much about things beyond our control. The best we can do is fulfill our role as best we can and hope for the best. So don’t take life too seriously. Take time for yourself, forget about worries and negative news for a few moments. Press play on Netflix and allow yourself a few hours of fun.
Netflix is the streaming giant and continues to invest heavily in original productions. And that year, many productions were nominated for the Oscar 2023. As was the case with the productions “Nada de Novo no Front”; “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”; and “Blond”. We currently have several movies worth checking out on Netflix.
If you’re looking for movie suggestions, here you’ll find the best current Netflix movies to watch in 2023, including: “Certain People” (2023), by Kenya Barris; “The Kings of the World” (2023), by Laura Mora; and “As Linhas Tortas de Deus” (2022), by Oriol Paulo. All titles are available on Netflix.
God’s Crooked Lines (2022), Oriol Paulo
The Crooked Lines of God follows Alice who is a detective and ends up voluntarily entering a psychiatric hospital to try to discover the death of a patient. Federico del Olmo is the one who would have hired her to try to discover the truth, since he is the father of the victim. Alice feigns paranoia in order to be hospitalized and the family doctor signs the paper attesting to her madness. In addition, her history also includes an attempt to kill her husband Heliodoro with poison. As soon as she enters the psychiatric hospital, Alice starts looking for clues about García del Olmo’s death, which at first would have been suicide, but which she is determined to discover the truth about this case. How far can our imagination take us?
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Rian Johnson
In this plot of mystery with comedy Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn and other stars share the scene with Daniel Craig, who once again plays the best detective in the world. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the sequel to Knives Out (Knives Out, in the original). Detective Benoit Blanc is in Greece when he meets tech billionaire Miles Bron who has hosted an annual get-together with his friends, only things get out of hand when a murder takes place on site. In this game, everyone is a suspect and the murderer may be the one least imagined, when secrets and motivations begin to be revealed.
Certain People (2023) Kenya Barris
Certain People is a comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill. Eddie Murphy (Dolemite Is My Name) and Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street), in addition to the two, the cast also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever After), Rhea Perlman (Matilda) and Lauren London (Madea’s Big Happy Family). A couple and their families examine modern love and family dynamics amid cultural conflicts, societal expectations and generational differences in this comedy from Kenya Barris. Two young people from completely different families and cultures fall in love and must deal with the biggest test of their relationship: meeting their parents.
Bardo, False Chronicle of Some Truths (2022), Alejandro G. Iñárritu
The Mexican film with drama and comedy follows an acclaimed journalist and documentary filmmaker who sets out on an introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his own identity.
White Noise (2022), Noah Baumbach
An adaptation of the book of the same name written by Don DeLillo in 1985. The plot accompanies an unconventional family that deals with love, happiness and death in the midst of a catastrophic event. The catastrophe makes the characters have to deal with death, which arouses anxiety and leads them to addictions, demonstrating the difficulty of dealing with an uncertain world. Adam Driver (Casa Gucci) and Greta Gerwig (Little Women) take the lead roles.
All New at the Front (2022), Edward Berger
The German film “Nothing New at the Front” is based on the eponymous bestseller by Erich Maria Remarque and brings the exciting story of a young soldier during the First World War. Paul and his colleagues, in the trenches, fighting for their lives, feel how the initial euphoria of war turns to despair and fear. They thought they would defend the homeland and march on Paris in a few days, only to end up experiencing unimaginable horrors on the front lines of World War I.
Enola Holmes 2 (2022), Harry Bradbeer
Mystery film about social issues. How about two Holmes to solve a mystery of historic proportions? Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and Helena Bonham Carter are back in “Enola Holmes 2”. Enola in her first official case as a detective needs to find a missing girl. For this, she will have the help of her friends and her brother, Sherlock.
Kings of the World (2023), Laura Mora Ortega
The film tells the story of five young friends who live in the streets of Medellin, without law or family. They leave the city and embark on a perilous journey through the Colombian countryside to reclaim land left by one of their grandmothers.
Unfaithful (2023), Patxi Amezcua
In March 2020, on the first day of the state of alert in Asturias, two detectives are called to a small mining town to investigate the case of the reappearance of a young woman presumed dead. With the world collapsing and personal tragedies unfolding all around, the pair realize that the coronavirus may not be the only enemy to fight.
In Search of Me (2022), Michiel van Erp
“Em Busca de Mim” is directed by Michiel van Erp. In the plot we follow the story of a woman tormented by her family problems who goes on vacation, Sara. She recently went through a divorce. With the idea of taking some time for herself, she decides to travel, but ends up on an intense self-help retreat, ‘From Fear to Love’ on the volcanic Italian island of Stromboli.
