This month’s selection of movies includes an underseen rock opera, one of the best movies of the 2000s, a paranoid thriller about American misdeeds abroad, and a nice pre-Oscars catch-up on one of Timothée Chalamet’s best performances.

The best movies on Netflix include Scream 6, Saturday Night, Back in Action, Hereditary, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, In the Heart of the Sea, and more.

By its standards, the streamer's lineup of film originals in January is surprisingly slight. There are still a few Netflix-exclusive movies worth recommending this month, though, and the service is making up for its slim pickings of originals with a batch of exciting streaming acquisitions that is practically bursting at the seams with modern classics from the past 30 years.

"Zero Dark Thirty" is one of the best war movies of the past two decades and should definitely be on your list of movies to watch before it leaves Netflix. Yes, unfortunately not all the movies on the best streaming services stay there forever.

February 2 2025 include The Recruit Season 2 and The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Season 2. January 30 will see the arrival of both The Recruit Season 2 and The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Season 2 on

Fast Five is when the franchise took a left turn and never looked back, leaving the quaint street racing drama behind for reality-bending action thrillers. It’s also the second highest-rated Fast & Furious movie, behind only Furious 7, Paul Walker’s final film role.