6 best movies currently streaming on Netflix (March 2025)

Films are fantastic, right? They help take your mind off of the sadder parts of life. Or, more positively, maybe they allow you to sit with family and friends and be entertained for two hours or more. Thankfully, Netflix has a lot of options.

The films below are simply streaming on your favorite, well...streamer in March 2025. They were not all created by Netflix studios. But don't worry. One was.

Some have some brutal scenes, but one is reflective of life in general. And one has God as a character.

Six best movies to stream on Netflix in March 2025

The Irishman

A Martin Scorsese film that features Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel? How could things go wrong? Well, we do not know the answer to that because nothing goes wrong artistically in this movie. It's pure brilliance from the director to the cast to the writing.

The story takes place over many decades, and we get a good look at what makes organized crime work (and not work). At its essence is who killed Jimmy Hoffa. Is there an answer? You will just have to watch and find out, and it will be worth three hours and 29 minutes of your time.

Spaceman

Adam Sandler has always been more versatile than those who only saw him as a good actor in films like Billy Madison. That kind of humor might be his greatest strength, but he has many. When he wants to try a tinge of drama, Sandler can pull it off fairly masterfully.

In this film, he plays a...you guessed it...spaceman, but he is on a long trip, and while he is gone, his marriage is falling apart. He wants to fix it and tries to do so with a creature found in the bowels of his spaceship. Sounds silly, right? It isn't.

Whiplash

Emotionally brutal, and there is a reason J.K. Simmons won the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He is fiercely, and fiercely unlikeable, but his job is to help musicians improve. They do, but they don't have much fun doing so.

The film also won an Oscar for Editing, which might be among the best of any movie in history. It had to be great to capture the strength and speed of the musicians, especially Miles Teller's Andrew's drumming. This is a film about music, sure, but one can also see this as a war film as well.

The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino films can tend to be a bit sprawling, at least as far as locations in scenes. The director also knows how to make us feel the tension in a claustrophobic setting. In the late 1800s, a collection of eight people find themselves at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stop-over. They each are excellently written characters with nuance and mystery.

Is there a lot of violence? Of course. This is a Tarantino film, but just like every other film the director writes, the dialogue is fantastic, and the story takes us to unexpected places. If you loved the original, Netflix also has the extended version of the flick.

Barbie

A movie that had no business being as good as it became, Barbie was nominated for many Academy Awards, including Best Picture. How Margot Robbie, an actress who is normally an Oscar darling, did not get nominated for Best Actress is still a mystery and one that will never have a chance to be remedied.

Or will it? You could simply watch this film about Barbie becoming somewhat self-aware, while the film never gives a wink, many times. There is a lot to see, and things are easily missed. But even if you know the movie line by line, it's a fantastic project to view multiple times.

Bruce Almighty

This film is a good example of how a movie can be fairly criticized by professional pundits and still become iconic cinema. If the reviewers missed the humor, that is their fault. This Jim Carrey-led flick is very funny.

But it has a weight to it as well. Carrey's Bruce Nolan complains constantly about life until God, played by Morgan Freeman, puts him to a real test and gives Nolan all his powers. The scene where Carrey is trying to answer emails is worth watching the film for, but the rest is worth your time, too.