The Best Netflix Streaming Movies To Watch Right Now

*Updated November 2025

How many times have you decided to stay at home and watch a movie with your other half or your buddies, and have had no clue what to pick? With thousands of options, 5008 as of today, the “Netflix scroll of death” is real. If you’re not a regular movie watcher, picking a movie is risky, your favorite art-house flick might put your friends to sleep. Trust us, we know. That’s why we’ve done the hard work for you.

We’ve plowed through the vast archives (so you don’t have to) to find the absolute best curated streaming movies on Netflix per our SBC film critic staff. We’ve categorized them by genre and mood so you can find the perfect winning option, with a spotlight on Latino stories, filmmakers, and performers making their mark.

HORROR

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025, 2hr 29m, Director Guillermo del Toro / Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth)

The Latino Frankenstein is here and we think it is already the definitive monster movie of the decade. Mexican master Guillermo del Toro returns to his gothic roots with a visually stunning and heartbreaking adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, shot on real sets, not digital, not AI. Oscar Isaac plays the obsessive Victor and Jacob Elordi is a haunting Creature, and it is our absolute must-watch title of the year.

ACTION

The Marksman (2021, 1hr 48m, Director Robert Lorenz / Liam Neeson, Jacob Perez, Teresa Ruiz)

This Liam Neeson movie feels like a Latino movie. THis action thriller with a heart, shot to #1 on Netflix’s US charts when it dropped in mid-November 2025. Neeson plays a down-on-his-luck Arizona rancher and former Marine sniper who ends up protecting a young Mexican boy (Jacob Perez) from a cartel assassin (played brilliantly by Juan Pablo Raba). The surrogate father-son dynamic gives this border movie more heart than most Neeson movies.

SCIENCE FICTION / ADVENTURE

Blue Beetle (2023, 2hr 7m, Director Ángel Manuel Soto / Xolo Maridueña, Bruna Marquezine, George Lopez)

This is the one. Blue Beetle is the first major superhero film headlined by a Latino character, and Puerto Rican director Ángel Manuel Soto makes the most of that historic moment. Cobra Kai star Xolo Maridueña plays Jaime Reyes, a Mexican American college grad from El Paso who becomes host to an alien scarab that gives him a powerful suit of armor, and the film puts familia front and center, including legend George Lopez as his conspiracy theorist uncle. DC has announced Jaime Reyes will continue in James Gunn’s new DC Universe, and we’ll have those details here.

COMEDY

John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons (2018, 1hr 36m, Director Aram Rappaport / John Leguizamo)

John Leguizamo is an American national treasure, and this filmed version of his Tony-nominated Broadway one-man show is essential viewing. When he found out his son was being bullied at school for being Latino, he turned his anger into a crash course on 3,000 years of Latino history, creating a hilarious, irreverent classroom on Broadway. In it, he cycles through characters in Latino and Spanish history and drops some real historical knowledge that your teachers never taught you.

MUSICAL

In the Heights (2021, 2hr 23m, Director Jon M. Chu / Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera, Leslie Grace)

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first Broadway musical, which made history in 2008 as the first Latino story to win the Tony for Best Musical, finally gets the big screen treatment it deserves. Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) directs Washington Heights like a classic Hollywood musical, with Anthony Ramos as bodega owner Usnavi, Melissa Barrera and Leslie Grace in an ensemble cast. For Latino moviegoers who rarely see their neighborhoods centered in studio spectacles, the film lands as a hopeful story about family, migration, and chasing a better life in uptown Manhattan.

*Other Musical suggestions: Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story

DRAMA

Hands of Stone (2016, 1hr 51m, Director Jonathan Jakubowicz / Edgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro, Usher)

Venezuelan star Edgar Ramírez commands the screen as legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, one of the greatest fighters to ever step into the ring, with Robert De Niro as his Hall of Fame trainer Ray Arcel. The film tracks Durán’s epic rivalry with Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher), including the infamous “No Más” rematch from November 1980 that lives in boxing infamy, and with Rubén Blades and a young Ana de Armas in the mix it is a showcase for Latinos on all fronts. It’s also good.

*Other Drama suggestions: The Long Game, The Two Popes

DOCUMENTARIES

Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy (2025, 1hr 45m, Director Isabel Castro)

If you’ve been waiting for the definitive Selena documentary, your prayers may have been answered. Isabel Castro‘s film, which won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling at Sundance 2025, draws from the Quintanilla family’s personal archive to reveal intimate footage of Selena as a kid, on tour, and at home with her siblings. Executive produced by Suzette and A.B. Quintanilla III, this will satisfy your Selena addiction.

*Other Documentary suggestions: Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, Jennifer Lopez: Halftime

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For Spanish-language movies on Netflix, check out our curated selection of The Best Spanish-Language Movies Streaming on Netflix.