5 Best Netflix Movies With High Rotten Tomatoes Score You Can Watch Right Now

Best known for its TV series, Netflix has a fair share of feature-length digital content that's just as likely to be nominated for an Oscar as it is to be seen at international film festivals.

Here are five undeniably successful films made possible by Netflix's creative freedom and incredible budgets.

1. Roma, 2018

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%

Alfonso Cuarón's black-and-white drama Roma is perhaps the first Netflix original film to garner a lot of attention from critics and cinephiles. Roma is also the first streaming project to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

Set in Mexico City in the 1970s, the film follows a young woman named Cleo who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy family.

For Cuarón himself, Roma is not only a dream project, but also the most personal film of his career: complex in structure, light in plot, and incredibly atmospheric.

2. The Hand of God, 2021

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%

Paolo Sorrentino's Italian coming-of-age film The Hand of God is one of the main highlights of the streaming service.

The events of the movie take place in Naples in the 1980s. The main character, young Fabietto, meets a smuggler, loses his virginity, falls in love with an aspiring actress, rides a bike through the city at night, plays football in the schoolyard, and goes with his older brother to an audition for Federico Fellini.

His simple, youthful problems fade into the background when a family tragedy strikes. Now together with his older brother, Fabietto is forced to grow up and face the unpleasant reality.

3. The Power of the Dog, 2021

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%

Jane Campion's leisurely neo-Western The Power of the Dog is another interesting find. Based on Thomas Savage's book of the same name, the movie tells the story of the relationship between unsociable cowboy Phil and his brother's new family, who move to the ranch.

The Power of the Dog garnered an astounding 12 Oscar nominations, one of which Campion herself took home.

4. Okja, 2017

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87%

A few years before Korean director Bong Joon-ho wowed the world with Parasite, Netflix persuaded him to make the sci-fi satire Okja.

The movie tells the story of a girl named Mija and her beloved pet pig, Okja. Like many pets, Okja's fate is not easy – the pig ends up in the hands of an agrochemical company that decides to send the animal to slaughter.

While Okja prepares for a quick death, Mija goes to New York, where she tries to expose the capitalists who are greedy for money.

A cross between sci-fi, drama, comedy and satire, Okja stands out from the crowd of streaming genre novelties and occupies a fairly high place in the Korean director's filmography.

5. All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

Based on the literary work of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, the film is the third adaptation of the grim tale of World War I. The recent Netflix version is the first adaptation of the novel to be filmed in German.

The plot follows Paul, a young German officer who serves on the front lines of the war for 18 months. The director focuses on the emotional transformation of his main character, who slowly but surely becomes a soldier traumatized by losses and broken by the horrors of war.