The best movies on Netflix UK

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Netflix’s catalog can be overwhelming, and browsing it isn’t easy — at least if you want to penetrate deeper than the latest aggressively mid Netflix Originals and nostalgic 1990s studio comedies that tend to dominate the top 10. It’s also constantly refreshed as licensing deals expire and are signed, making it difficult to keep tabs on. But the U.K. version of the service has a much better film library than you might think, with deep reservoirs of international cinema, anime, documentary, and thrillers, particularly from the 21st century.

This guide’s here to help you get straight to some of the very best movies on the service; we’ve tried to keep the selection short and focused enough to be useful, and diverse enough to surprise you. Every month we’ll also pick one movie that stands out to us in the current moment. If you’re looking for the best movies on Netflix in the U.S., we have you covered there, too.

Genre: Fantasy adventure animeRun time: 2h 4mDirector: Hayao MiyazakiCast: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui

Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky opened in Japan in 1986, the same year that Nintendo released the first Legend of Zelda game — and in the month that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom comes out, there’s no better film to pair with it than the Studio Ghibli anime classic. The Zelda series has always been strongly influenced by Miyazaki in its elegiac tone and some of its character designs (think of the cute, rattling little Koroks), but Castle in the Sky is a particularly clear blueprint for Tears of the Kingdom especially, with its city populated by ancient robots floating in the clouds, high above grassy plains.

On its own merits, this steampunk tale of a young miner and a mysterious