Released on Netflix to very little fanfare – read our review here – this is a terrific animated adventure that deserves to be much more widely seen. With spectacular animation, a witty script and strong comic performances from the likes of Kevin James, Jason Lee and Steve Buscemi (as cranky old Mr Nebbercracker), this is a thoroughly entertaining adventure, heightened by believable, three-dimensional detail in the backgrounds and a handful of exciting, frequently scary set-pieces. Impressively directed and superbly acted, this is complex, consistently fascinating and powerfully emotional.Įxpertly mixing horror and comedy throughout, director Gil Kenan’s spooky animated tale centres on three teenagers who discover that their neighbour’s house is actually a living, breathing monster. However, when she wakes up, all traces of her previous life (including her daughter) have disappeared. Adriana Ugarte (Julieta) stars as a woman who saves the life of a boy 25 years in the past when a freak storm allows her to communicate with the previous occupant of her house through a video camera. Szewczyk puts in a star-making turn as the lead and there’s terrific support from Dobromir Dymecki as Tosiek’s widowed father, who undergoes his own emotional journey in a moving subplot.Ĭo-written and directed by Oriol Paulo, this superb Spanish mystery-thriller explores one of the key staples of time travel movies – the consequences of messing with the timeline. Director Marta Karwowska gets the tone exactly right, infusing the film with warmth and sensitivity throughout, while the touching script explores compelling LBGTQ+ themes of self-expression and acceptance.
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Bump it right to the top of your Netflix queue.īased on the novel by Natalia Osinska, this engaging Polish teen movie centres on 17-year-old Toska (trans actor Alin Szewczyk), a fan fiction-obsessed high schooler, whose friendship with charming, secretly gay new student Leon (Jan Cieciara) convinces her to come out as trans and be known as Tosiek. Skilfully structured and superbly directed by British film-maker Bart Layton – who allows Bourdin to narrate his own story – the film exerts a powerfully hypnotic grip and is by turns chilling, shocking and disturbing. However, when dogged private investigator Charlie Parker (a true hero who deserves his own series) looks into the case and proves Frederic can’t possibly be Nicholas, events take a much darker turn. This utterly riveting true crime documentary tells the story of Fredericīourdin, a 23 year-old French-Algerian man who passed himself off as missing blond blue-eyed Texan teenager Nicholas Barclay and was accepted by the boy’s family, despite the fact that he had dark stubble, different coloured eyes and a pronounced French accent. Bloody terrifying, even if you’re not afraid of heights. The gripping script maintains a nail-biting sense of pace and manages to serve up both dark humour and strong emotion alongside genuine terror, while the superb effects work and cinematography ensure an all-too-palpable sense of location and perspective. Director Scott Mann’s vertiginous thriller stars Grace Carloline Currey and Virginia Gardner (both superb) as two daredevil friends who climb to the top of a 2,000ft tower in the middle of the California desert, only to get stranded there when the flimsy ladder falls away. If you think watching a film on a TV, tablet, or some other Netflix-equipped device can’t give you serious dizzy spells, think again. This list will be updated regularly to reflect new releases and removals. Here then, are Netflix UK’s best hidden gems. Fortunately, help is at hand, as there’s nothing we love more at than throwing some great film recommendations your way. Stuck with that tricky “What should I watch next on Netflix?” decision? With the streaming service adding new titles all the time, it’s increasingly difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.
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