Netflix is the streaming giant and has been investing heavily in recent years in original productions, leading many productions to Oscar nominations. A huge catalog that is increasingly difficult to keep up with all the productions. And in 2023 it couldn’t be any different. Certainly, Netflix already has a schedule full of news for subscribers in 2023 and we follow all of these to show you the best and must-sees to check out on streaming.
With the news radar on here, we list the top 10 Netflix movies in 2023. A new year ahead full of new movies to arrive in the Netflix catalogue. Which of them will be nominated for an Oscar, we will see throughout the year. Now, check out the list below of the best on Netflix in 2023, remembering that all films premiered in 2022, as we are in the early days of 2023.
The 10 best movies on Netflix in 2023
10. 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.
Watch > Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
9. 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.
Watch > Enola Holmes 2
8. Throwing High (2022), Jeremiah Zagar
The film follows the story of a basketball scout, played by Adam Sandler, who seeks to turn his career around and for that bets on a player with potential who wants to reach the NBA, the main basketball league in the world. I can say that it is the best performance by Adam Sandler among his most recent films, with a plot full of dynamism and an exceptional soundtrack. This story is so worth watching to be inspired by life!
Watch > Throwing High
7. Night Nurse (2022), Tobias Lindholm
The film “The Night Nurse” features Academy Award winners Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in its cast. A touching and frightening story of a person with questionable coldness. The film follows the story of the nurse Charles Cullen who confessed to having killed more than 40 people, and the number of victims could be much higher, around 400 people. Night Nurse begins by following the life of nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica) in her tiring routine in a hospital, on her night shifts in the ICU. Amy also suffers from health problems, due to a serious heart condition. Everything gets brighter in her life with the arrival of a new nurse, and that’s when Charlie Cullen, played by Eddie Redmayne, enters. But it’s pure mistake, her problems increase even more, that’s because she begins to realize that her new colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths of patients. She then begins the search for the truth, risking her own life. A real story.
Watch > The Night Nurse
6. All New on 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.
Watch > Nothing New on the Front
5. Hidden Agent (2022), Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
The Ryan Gosling action-adventure film follows a CIA undercover agent (Gentry) who discovers compromising agency secrets during his mission across Europe to rescue his contractor, Sir Donald Fitzroy, and his family. Since then he has been hunted across the world by a sociopathic dissident who has a price on his head. The production is based on the novel of the same name by Mark Greaney.
Watch > Hidden Agent
4. Beast of the Sea (2022), Chris Williams
Jacob Holland was best known at the time when monster hunters were treated like true heroes, as they killed the beasts that terrorized the seas. In this new sea hunt, the captain did not have a new crew member, Maisie Brumble. The girl has claw and will teach all these hunters a lesson, in addition to finding a new way to deal with the beasts of the sea.
Watch > The Beast of the Sea
3. Cage (2022), Ignacio Taty
A Spanish mystery film with psychological horror that brings the story of a couple, Paula (Elena Anaya) and her husband (Pablo Molinero) who are going through a marital crisis and as soon as they return from dinner they end up facing a traumatized child, alone, wandering through the properties of the condominium where they live. They decide to temporarily adopt the girl. Now, they need to find out who she is and unravel her dark past. The girl suffers from the imagination of a monster that will come to punish her if she leaves a chalk square on the floor.
Watch > Cage
2. The Unknown (2022), Thomas M. Wright
The Unknown has just arrived on Netflix. It’s an Australian suspense and drama film that will grip you from start to finish and is based on true events. The story is inspired by the book “The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe’s Killer”, by Kate Kyriacou. Based on the investigation into the murder of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe. In December 2003 he was kidnapped and only in 2011 were his remains found in Queensland. The killer in the case is Brett Peter Cowan, as he confessed to killing the boy. A fictional production of the case, but that does not represent the victim, nor does it bring violence. The focus is on the operation of the case and the impact it had on people.
Watch > The Unknown
1. The Miracle (2022), Sebastián Lelio
“The Miracle” is a mystery film starring Florence Pugh and based on the work of Emma Donoghue, author of the bestseller “Room”. The film takes place in 1862, with the English nurse Lib Wright, who, haunted by her past, ends up going to a remote Irish village to investigate the supposedly miraculous fast of a young woman. The young woman is Anna O’Donnell, just 11 years old, who would have survived without food for months. According to her Catholic family, she hasn’t eaten since her 11th birthday, which was 4 months ago. The miracle brings together pilgrims and tourists. What is the mystery behind this miracle?
Watch > The Miracle
