3 bizarre Netflix movies that are too weird not to watch

Netflix is full of comfort-viewing shows and movies. From rom-coms that make you swoon to crime thrillers that keep your heart racing. But sometimes, you find yourself craving something different. Something that defies expectations and refuses to be predictable. That’s where these three bizarre Netflix movies come in.

They might be peculiar and audacious, but they're also impossible to ignore. For anyone willing to embrace the strange and revel in the unconventional, you should definitely add these movies to your watchlist. We've shared each below, along with a breakdown of what they're about.

They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

They Cloned Tyrone operates on multiple levels of weirdness. On the surface, it’s a comedic, detective-style mystery with an absurd premise. You have the government, which has allegedly cloned people for a secret experiment. But dig deeper, and the film becomes a satirical commentary on systemic racism, exploitation, and societal manipulation. The genius of the movie lies in how it mixes social critique with surreal visual and narrative choices.

The story follows Fontaine, a weary drug dealer, Yo-Yo, a savvy sex worker, and Slick, a skeptical but streetwise pimp, who are all residents of a run-down urban neighborhood. Their ordinary, gritty lives are turned upside down when a series of strange events hint that something sinister is going on.

A man dies under mysterious circumstances, and seemingly random occurrences begin piling up. It doesn’t take long for the trio to suspect a deeper conspiracy that the government is experimenting on citizens by cloning them, essentially replacing people with controllable doubles for some shadowy social experiment.

The Platform (2019)

The Platform earns its spot as one of Netflix’s weirdest originals because it takes a simple dystopian concept and escalates it into an allegorical nightmare. Its social commentary is heavy-handed, but the visuals and narrative execution are what make it truly bizarre. Watching humans scramble for survival in a tower that forces them into starvation, violence, and moral compromise creates a claustrophobic, surreal horror experience unlike anything else on Netflix.

The weirdness isn’t just in the premise either. It’s in how the story unfolds. The film constantly shifts perspective, forcing viewers to empathize with prisoners at different levels of the tower and revealing human nature under extreme conditions.

The dystopian thriller centers on a man named Goreng, who voluntarily enters a mysterious vertical prison known as the Pit. Inside the tower, prisoners are housed two per level, and once a day a massive platform filled with food descends from the top floor to the bottom.

Those on the upper levels get to eat first, leaving little for the prisoners below. To make matters worse, every month the inmates are randomly reassigned to a different level. One month you might wake up near the top with more food than you could ever finish, and the next month you could find yourself hundreds of floors down with nothing left but scraps. As Goreng adjusts to life in the Pit, he quickly learns how brutal the system really is and makes it his mission to to challenge the ruthless hierarchy.

Wendell & Wild (2022)

Wendell & Wild easily qualifies as one of Netflix’s strangest originals because it embraces a kind of controlled chaos in both its story and its themes. At first glance, it looks like a quirky animated movie about two mischievous demons trying to escape the underworld. But the deeper the story goes, the more it reveals itself to be a dark, layered tale about grief, guilt, systemic corruption, and resurrection.

It’s the kind of film where a heartfelt story about a traumatized teenager exists side-by-side with zombie uprisings, hellish landscapes, and two incompetent demon brothers scheming their way to the surface world.

The story centers on Kat Elliot, a rebellious teenager who has struggled with guilt ever since a car accident led to the death of her parents. She ends up at a Catholic boarding school where her anger and isolation only deepen. Her life then takes a bizarre turn when she discovers she can communicate with two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, who live in the underworld and dream of escaping their miserable existence.

Realizing Kat has the rare ability to summon them, the demons strike a deal with her. If she brings them to the land of the living, they’ll use their powers to resurrect her parents. But their plan quickly spirals into supernatural chaos once they reach the surface. Their attempts to manipulate the living world unleash undead corpses and expose a much larger conspiracy tied to corrupt local leaders who plan to profit from the destruction of Kat’s hometown.