Do you feel like watching something understated? This overview contains all Netflix movies and series in the understated genre and is updated with new releases daily. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 4.45, is Freaks and Geeks.
While seeking an elusive bird, an ornithologist is swept away by rapids and has to contend with numerous -- and surreal -- perils in the woods.
5 October 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 113 minutes
Following the accidental discovery of a gun, a depressed fisherman experiences a new confidence that soon threatens to balloon into arrogance.
5 October 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 70 minutes
A girl born with a condition that causes abnormal hair growth across her body tries to cope with the challenges of being different.
5 October 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 117 minutes
Actors:
Rolf Lassgård,
Connie Nielsen,
Karen-Lise Mynster,
Henrik Mestad,
Rolf Kristian Larsen,
Vibeke Idsøe,
Ole Johan Skjelbred-Knutsen,
Kjersti Tveterås,
Kåre Conradi,
Lisa Loven Kongsli,
Ida Ursin-Holm
A dancer on the brink of success must put her life on hold to return home and care for her cantankerous, eccentric father, who is battling cancer.
5 October 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 95 minutes
Based on a true story, this inspiring drama depicts the Korean women's handball team and their rough-and-tumble journey to the 2004 Summer Olympics.
5 October 2017 | Movie | 2008 | 124 minutes
Four friends who make their living as prostitutes in Morocco deal with both the dangers and stigma that come with their profession.
28 September 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 104 minutes
Banished to a wasteland of undesirables, a young woman struggles to find her feet among a drug-soaked desert society and an enclave of cannibals.
28 September 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 119 minutes
Three high school dropouts face a host of challenges when they come back to earn their diplomas at a school with low graduation rates.
28 September 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 81 minutes
When a colleague's mother dies, a man who has been avoiding his own intrusive mother travels home for a visit that changes their relationship forever.
21 September 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 101 minutes
3.45
An improbable friendship between drug-addicted educator Dan Dunne and streetwise kid Drey may lead them to deliverance -- or destruction.
21 September 2017 | Movie | 2006 | 102 minutes
Actors:
Jay O. Sanders,
Tina Holmes,
Ryan Gosling,
Deborah Rush,
Denis O'Hare,
Anthony Mackie,
Ryan Fleck,
Nicole Vicius,
Shareeka Epps,
Starla Benford,
Monique Gabriela Curnen
A morally conflicted father wrestles with what’s best for his college-bound daughter when she’s brutally attacked right before an important exam.
7 September 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 127 minutes
3.50
This drama details the passionate three-year romance between Romantic poet John Keats -- who died tragically at age 25 -- and his great love and muse.
7 September 2017 | Movie | 2009 | 119 minutes
Actors:
Jane Campion,
Kerry Fox,
Abbie Cornish,
Thomas Brodie-Sangster,
Paul Schneider,
Edie Martin,
Claudie Blakley,
Ben Whishaw,
Antonia Campbell-Hughes,
Samuel Roukin,
Gerard Monaco
While settling the affairs of his murdered mother and brother, a man partners with a local thug in a life insurance scam, putting him on a dark path.
7 September 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 112 minutes
A hedonistic soccer mom takes a voyage of self-discovery when she tries to reconnect with her son by returning his pet rock to a Mediterranean island.
7 September 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 81 minutes
A young woman about to join the military meets a married woman with two kids and falls deeply in love, upending their entire lives.
24 August 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 82 minutes
Actors:
Bill Sage,
Libby George,
Breeda Wool,
Britne Oldford,
Lola Kirke,
Ted Welch,
Deb Shoval,
Dale Soules,
Charlotte Maltby,
Sadie Butler,
Hannah Dillon
An escaped death row convict ends up taking a road trip with an old man on a personal mission and a young couple trying to elope.
17 August 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 112 minutes
Actors:
Sridhar,
Nataraj S. Bhat,
Kadur Dharmanna,
Mk Mutt,
Prakash Chand,
Bhaskar dev,
D. Satya Prakash,
K. Jayaram,
Bimbashri Neenasam,
Radha Ramachandra,
Priya
This documentary follows three women -- a fire chief, a judge and a street missionary -- as they battle West Virginia's devastating opioid epidemic.
17 August 2017 | Documentaries | 2017 | 39 minutes
Following a devastating flood in the Himalayas, a man goes on a search -- both for his girlfriend and for a greater understanding of life.
17 August 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 112 minutes
Hoping to find her long-lost mother, a gifted tollbooth worker becomes a traveling vendor of an encyclopedia said to answer life’s burning questions.
2 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 95 minutes
The narratives of six strangers come into focus before their lives are forever changed by a mass shooting at a movie theater.
2 August 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 85 minutes
Actors:
Tim Sutton,
Anna Rose Hopkins,
Rosie Rodriguez,
Karina Macias,
Aaron Purvis,
Eddie Cacciola,
Robert Jumper,
Ciara Hampton,
Bryce Hampton,
Marilyn Purvis,
Andres Vega
At his country estate, a rich businessman who wants to be president is groomed by a campaign team to create an image palatable to middle-class voters.
20 July 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 83 minutes
Frustrated by his meager career, an Argentinian actor goes all out to land a plum role in an American Western that's being filmed in his country.
13 July 2017 | Movie | 2011 | 80 minutes
A teen who's exploring his sexual identity finds his life upended when he learns the mother who raised him kidnapped him from his biological parents.
22 June 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 82 minutes
A murder rocks a small South Korean town and suspicion quickly falls on a reclusive, mentally challenged -- and alibi-free -- young man.
15 June 2017 | Movie | 2009 | 128 minutes
Actors:
Mun-hee Na,
Bin Won,
Yoon Jae-Moon,
Bong Joon Ho,
Hye-ja Kim,
Young-Suck Lee,
Woo-hee Chun,
Byoung-Soon Kim,
Sae-byeok Song,
Mi-seon Jeon,
Won Bin,
Goo Jin
When the king of Brittania dies, the dragon who shares his heart must find a new ruler, but the monarch's grandchildren go to war over the throne.
15 June 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 97 minutes
After learning the identity of the father who abandoned his family, an angry and resourceful teen plans a revenge that takes him to unexpected places.
15 June 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 113 minutes
Actors:
Maria de Medeiros,
Natacha Régnier,
Jacques Bonnaffé,
Fabrizio Rongione,
Mathieu Amalric,
Vincent Dumestre,
Eugène Green,
Adrien Michaux,
Christelle Prot,
Louise Moaty,
Victor Ezenfis,
Julia Gros de Gasquet,
Claire Lefilliâtre
After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
15 June 2017 | Movie | 2013 | 84 minutes
Wisecracking Dr. Situ Li clashes with his more serious-minded colleague Dr. Su Xi when he takes over his father's medical clinic.
8 June 2017 | Show | 2014
A filmmaker unexpectedly becomes a father after sleeping with a shepherdess. When she leaves, he takes the baby with him on a journey of inspiration.
2 June 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 101 minutes
Actors:
Alain Guiraudie,
Laure Calamy,
India Hair,
Christian Bouillette,
Damien Bonnard,
Basile Meilleurat,
Raphaël Thiéry,
Adrien Marsal,
Sébastien Novac,
Baptiste Roques,
Tangi Belbeoc'h
3.70
After Princess Diana's death, Queen Elizabeth II and Tony Blair face public demands that she be memorialized in a manner beyond standard protocol.
2 June 2017 | Movie | 2006 | 103 minutes