The streamer has a large library of timeless treasures from decades past.
Join EW as we highlight the 15 best classic movies on Netflix right now.
Be sure to have tissues handy.
Tracy Camilla Johns in ‘She’s Gotta Have It’; Al Pacino in ‘Heat’; Molly Ringwald in ‘The Breakfast Club’.Credit:Island Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection; Mary Evans/Warner Bros./Regency Enterprises/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection; Universal Pictures/Getty Images
It’s a tough watch, but devastatingly effective as an antiwar statement.
The depiction of the messy complications of polyamorous love was refreshing at the time and remains so today.
Lee also adapted the story into aTV series for Netflixin the late-2010s.
Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘The Age of Innocence’.Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Through reenactments and interview testimony, Morris tells a gripping story about the miscarriage of justice.
King, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton,Spike Lee
Bill Paxton, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Bacon in ‘Apollo 13’.Ron Batzdorff/Universal
Harrison Ford in ‘Blade Runner’.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty
(From left to right) Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall in ‘The Breakfast Club’.Universal Pictures/Everett Collection
(From left to right) Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Richard Edson, and John Turturro in ‘Do the Right Thing’.Everett Collection
(From left to right) Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner, and Amy Madigan in ‘Field of Dreams’.Everett Collection
Aunt (voice: Akemi Yamaguchi), Seita (voice: Tsutomu Tatsumi), and Setsuko (voice: Ayano Shiraishi) in ‘Grave of the Fireflies’.Studio Ghibli/Kobal/Shutterstock
(From left to right) Gia Scala, James Darren, Anthony Quinn, David Niven, Stanley Baker, and Gregory Peck in ‘The Guns of Navarone’.Everett Collection
Al Pacino in ‘Heat’.Everett Collection
Anthony Perkins in ‘Psycho’.Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection
Ralph Fiennes (center left) and Liam Neeson (center) in ‘Schindler’s List’.Mary Evans/Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures/Ronald Grant/Courtesy Everett
Tracy Camilla Johns and Spike Lee in ‘She’s Gotta Have It’.Everett Collection
(From left to right) Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn, and Kevin Kline in ‘Silverado’.Columbia/Courtesy Everett
Randall Dale Adams in ‘The Thin Blue Line’.Everett
Muhammad Ali (center) in ‘When We Were Kings’.Howard L. Bingham/Gramercy
