The Best Netflix Original Movies of 2025 (So Far)
For all the live sports and games that Netflix has tacked on to its platform, film is still the streamer’s bread and butter. Tudum! So goes the now-iconic “ring” that makes sure you know you’re settling in for a Netflix original. Decades after it launched as a mail-in DVD rental service, Netflix is now one of the biggest entertainment brands on the planet. While competition is stiff for Netflix these days, the bold-red giant maintains its footing with a “more is everything” approach to keeping subscriptions—yours included. But for all the live sports and games that Netflix has tacked on to its platform, it’s still a way to conveniently watch movies. In 2025, Netflix continues to put up new movies, including out-there stuff from around the world. While we’ll openly admit that Netflix original films are rather slim at the moment—and all kind of look the same—there’s hope the rest of 2025 will offer subscribers more than just action rom-coms and true-crime documentaries. But a few of the aforementioned action rom-coms and true-crime docs ain’t half bad either. In addition to a new Tom Hardy movie and a compulsively watchable Charles Manson documentary by Errol Morris, there’s some good cinema being imported from South Korea, Japan, and Italy. (Thank heavens streaming content is immune to tariffs, right? Wait.) If you’ve finished watching all the best TV shows Netflix has to offer, move right along to some of the best Netflix original movies of 2025 so far.
2025-05-07T13:59:41Z