De 250 beste films op Netflix

Ben Van Alboom
Strictly Personal (NL)
22 min readDec 29, 2021

Omdat er meer goede films op Netflix staan dan je denkt, en omdat je zonet weer jouw algoritme hebt verknald door het tweede seizoen van Emily in Paris te bingen, heb ik ze hieronder allemaal netjes opgelijst. Goed voor zeker een halfjaar cinefiel jolijt!

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001) ★★★★★

2. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973) ★★★★★

3. The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 1999) ★★★★★

4. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) ★★★★★

5. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ★★★★★

6. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018) ★★★★★

7. The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) ★★★★★

8. La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016) ★★★★★

9. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) ★★★★★

10. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1969) ★★★★★

11. Uncut Gems (Benny & Josh Safdie, 2019) ★★★★★

12. Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983) ★★★★★

13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1973) ★★★★★

14. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) ★★★★★

15. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) ★★★★★

16. Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) ★★★★★

17. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984) ★★★★★

18. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) ★★★★★

19. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) ★★★★★

20. Jackie Brown (Quentin Taratino, 1997) ★★★★★

21. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019) ★★★★★

22. Mank (David Fincher, 2020) ★★★★★

23. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007) ★★★★☆

24. The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino, 2021) ★★★★☆

25. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) ★★★★☆

26. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) ★★★★☆

27. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) ★★★★☆

28. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986) ★★★★☆

29. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019) ★★★★☆

30. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron, 1991) ★★★★☆

31. The Revenant (Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, 2015) ★★★★☆

32. Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) ★★★★☆

33. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) ★★★★☆

34. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) ★★★★☆

35. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) ★★★★☆

36. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982) ★★★★☆

37. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994) ★★★★☆

38. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013) ★★★★☆

39. Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) ★★★★☆

40. Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon, 2003) ★★★★☆

41. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957) ★★★★☆

42. Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989) ★★★★☆

43. Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995) ★★★★☆

44. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) ★★★★☆

45. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) ★★★★☆

46. The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015) ★★★★☆

47. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003) ★★★★☆

48. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) ★★★★☆

49. Un flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972) ★★★★☆

50. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) ★★★★☆

51. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016) ★★★★☆

52. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009) ★★★★☆

53. Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986) ★★★★☆

54. Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (Quentin Taratino, 2019) ★★★★☆

55. The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005) ★★★★☆

56. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati, 1953) ★★★★☆

57. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016) ★★★★☆

58. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) ★★★★☆

59. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008) ★★★★☆

60. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013) ★★★★☆

61. Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011) ★★★★☆

62. The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2021) ★★★★☆

63. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004) ★★★★☆

64. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018) ★★★★☆

65. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2000) ★★★★☆

66. The Mitchells vs The Machines (Michael Rianda & Jeff Rowe, 2021) ★★★★☆

67. 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002) ★★★★☆

68. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) ★★★★☆

69. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002) ★★★★☆

70. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004) ★★★★☆

71. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) ★★★★☆

72. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) ★★★★☆

73. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019) ★★★★☆

74. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006) ★★★★☆

75. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007) ★★★★☆

76. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002) ★★★★☆

77. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) ★★★★☆

78. The Devil All the Time (Antonio Campos, 2020) ★★★★☆

79. Der Untergang (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004) ★★★★☆

80. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2013) ★★★★☆

81. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane, 2020) ★★★★☆

82. The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016) ★★★★☆

83. Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017) ★★★★☆

84. Paddington (Paul King, 2014) ★★★★☆

85. The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) ★★★★☆

86. Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay, 2021) ★★★★☆

87. Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 2018) ★★★★☆

88. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Sinofsky, 2004) ★★★★☆

89. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995) ★★★★☆

90. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989) ★★★★☆

91. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996) ★★★★☆

92. Passing (Rebecca Hall, 2021) ★★★★☆

93. Man On Fire (Tony Scott, 2004) ★★★★☆

94. A Sun (Mong-Hong Chung, 2019) ★★★★☆

95. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) ★★★★☆

96. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017) ★★★★☆

97. Wadjda (Haifaa Al Mansour, 2012) ★★★★☆

98. The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010) ★★★★☆

99. Honey Boy (Alma Har’el, 2019) ★★★★☆

100. My Happy Family (Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Groß, 2017) ★★★★☆

101. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) ★★★★☆

102. Delicatessen (Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991) ★★★★☆

103. The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach, 2017) ★★★★☆

104. Girl (Lukas Dhont, 2018) ★★★★☆

105. Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019) ★★★★☆

106. A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017) ★★★★☆

107. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 2001) ★★★★☆

108. Captain Philips (Paul Greengrass, 2013) ★★★★☆

109. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991) ★★★★☆

110. King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005) ★★★★☆

111. Rolling Thunder Revue (Martin Scorsese, 2019) ★★★★☆

112. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979) ★★★★☆

113. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) ★★★★☆

114. American Factory (Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert, 2019) ★★★★☆

115. Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) ★★★★☆

116. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015) ★★★★☆

117. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) ★★★★☆

118. Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) ★★★★☆

119. De rouille et d’os (Jacques Audiard, 2012) ★★★★☆

120. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001) ★★★★☆

121. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) ★★★★☆

122. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) ★★★★☆

123. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) ★★★★☆

124. The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997) ★★★★☆

125. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 2018) ★★★★☆

126. Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) ★★★★☆

127. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017) ★★★★☆

128. Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson, 1981) ★★★★☆

129. Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon, 2004) ★★★★☆

130. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011) ★★★★☆

131. Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007) ★★★★☆

132. A Prayer Before Dawn (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, 2018) ★★★★☆

133. The Lego Movie (Christopher Miller & Phil Lord, 2014) ★★★★☆

134. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018) ★★★★☆

135. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) ★★★★☆

136. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015) ★★★★☆

137. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016) ★★★★☆

138. Sully (Clint Eastwood, 2016) ★★★★☆

139. 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016) ★★★★☆

140. The Doors (Oliver Stone, 1991) ★★★★☆

141. Wild Things (John McNaughton, 1998) ★★★★☆

142. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008) ★★★★☆

143. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001) ★★★★☆

144. I Am Belmaya (Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali, 2021) ★★★★☆

145. Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh, 2017) ★★★★☆

146. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009) ★★★★☆

147. Sunday’s Illness (Ramón Salazar, 2019) ★★★★☆

148. Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukis, 2019) ★★★☆☆

149. Thoroughbreds (Corey Finley, 2017) ★★★☆☆

150. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017) ★★★☆☆

150. Zaman (Patrick Lebon, 1983) ★★★☆☆

151. Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016) ★★★☆☆

152. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) ★★★☆☆

153. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008) ★★★☆☆

154. Crip Camp (James Lebrecht & Nicole Newnham, 2020) ★★★☆☆

155. Une fille facile (Rebecca Zlotowski, 2019) ★★★☆☆

156. The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, 2012) ★★★☆☆

157. Mudbound (Dee Rees, 2017) ★★★☆☆

158. Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) ★★★☆☆

159. Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton, 1991) ★★★☆☆

160. Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) ★★★☆☆

161. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) ★★★☆☆

162. Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018) ★★★☆☆

163. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) ★★★☆☆

164. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000) ★★★☆☆

165. The Dig (Simon Stone, 2021) ★★★☆☆

166. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994) ★★★☆☆

167. Other People (Chris Kelly, 2016) ★★★☆☆

168. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007) ★★★☆☆

169. Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2002) ★★★☆☆

170. Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996) ★★★☆☆

171. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020) ★★★☆☆

172. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) ★★★☆☆

173. The 40-Year-Old-Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005) ★★★☆☆

174. Crazy, Stupid, Love (Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, 2011) ★★★☆☆

175. The Fundamentals of Caring (Rob Burnett, 2016) ★★★☆☆

176. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019) ★★★☆☆

177. Sweet Virginia (Jamie M. Dagg, 2017) ★★★☆☆

178. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) ★★★☆☆

179. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, 2014) ★★★☆☆

180. 8 femmes (François Ozon, 2002) ★★★☆☆

181. Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963) ★★★☆☆

182. Official Secrets (Gavin Hood, 2019) ★★★☆☆

183. The Iceman (Ariel Vromen, 2012) ★★★☆☆

184. Outside In (Lynn Shelton, 2017) ★★★☆☆

185. Blade Runner 2049 (Ridley Scott, 2017) ★★★☆☆

186. Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mondruczó, 2020) ★★★☆☆

187. Mosul (Matthew Michael Carnahan, 2019) ★★★☆☆

188. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) ★★★☆☆

189. How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders, 2010) ★★★☆☆

190. Meeuwen sterven in de haven (Rik Kuypers, Ivo Michiels & Roland Verhavert, 1955) ★★★☆☆

191. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007) ★★★☆☆

192. The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961) ★★★☆☆

193. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) ★★★☆☆

194. The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester, 2018) ★★★☆☆

195. News of the World (Paul Greengrass, 2020) ★★★☆☆

196. Dolemite Is My Name (Craig Brewer, 2019) ★★★☆☆

197. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller, 2019) ★★★☆☆

198. The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020) ★★★☆☆

199. Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013) ★★★☆☆

200. It’s Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2010) ★★★☆☆

201. The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, 2017) ★★★☆☆

202. She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986) ★★★☆☆

203. Dark Waters (Todd Haynes, 2019) ★★★☆☆

204. Klaus (Sergio Pablos & Carlos Martínez López, 2019) ★★★☆☆

205. My Octopus Teacher (Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed, 2020) ★★★☆☆

206. Brussels by Night (Marc Didden, 1983) ★★★☆☆

207. Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012) ★★★☆☆

208. World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013) ★★★☆☆

209. Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan, 2020) ★★★☆☆

210. Tick, Tick…BOOM! (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2021) ★★★☆☆

211. Fighting with My Family (Stephen Merchant, 2019) ★★★☆☆

212. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005) ★★★☆☆

213. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirst Johnson, 2020) ★★★☆☆

214. American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014) ★★★☆☆

215. When Marny Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014) ★★★☆☆

216. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002) ★★★☆☆

217. The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004) ★★★☆☆

218. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, 2020) ★★★☆☆

219. First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1982) ★★★☆☆

220. People Places Things (Jim Strouse, 2015) ★★★☆☆

221. Project X (Nima Nourizadeh, 2012) ★★★☆☆

222. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998) ★★★☆☆

223. The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani, 2021) ★★★☆☆

224. Ocean’s Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004) ★★★☆☆

225. Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992) ★★★☆☆

226. Daylight (Rob Cohen, 1996) ★★★☆☆

227. Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017) ★★★☆☆

228. Elysium (Neill Blomkamp, 2013) ★★★☆☆

229. Blue Jay (Alex Leihmann, 2016) ★★★☆☆

230. Blow (Ted Demme, 2001) ★★★☆☆

231. Reign Over Me (Mike Binder, 2007) ★★★☆☆

232. The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013) ★★★☆☆

233. Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, 2006) ★★★☆☆

234. Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, 1994) ★★★☆☆

235. Mr. Roosevelt (Noël Wells, 2017) ★★★☆☆

236. The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray, 2003) ★★★☆☆

237. Four Brothers (John Singleton, 2005) ★★★☆☆

238. Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017) ★★★☆☆

239. Lost Girls (Liz Garbus, 2020) ★★★☆☆

240. Isn’t It Romantic (Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2019) ★★★☆☆

241. Our Ladies (Michael Katon-Jones, 2019) ★★★☆☆

242. Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016) ★★★☆☆

243. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (Macon Blair, 2017) ★★★☆☆

244. Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018) ★★★☆☆

245. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997) ★★★☆☆

246. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondô, 1995) ★★★☆☆

247. 1917 (Sam Mendes, 2019) ★★★☆☆

248. Wild Rose (Tom Harper, 2018) ★★★☆☆

249. The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles, 2019) ★★★☆☆

250. Love and Monsters (Michael Matthews, 2020) ★★★☆☆

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Ben Van Alboom
Strictly Personal (NL)

Belgian journalist. Inspirational quote: “My favorite sport is cheerleading.” (Miley Cyrus) Twitter & Instagram: fakerholic Email: benvanalboom@me.com