You will find a complete overview of the best rated Netflix movies, series, and documentaries below. Netflix's content is updated with many new movies and series every week. Therefore, you should check this list regularly.
4.70
This landmark series transports nature lovers from the Himalayan Mountains to the depths of the ocean and everywhere in between.
23 April 2015 | Documentaries | 2006
4.60
This Emmy-nominated prequel to "Breaking Bad" follows small-time attorney Jimmy McGill as he transforms into morally challenged lawyer Saul Goodman.
1 February 2016 | Show | 2015
4.60
Learn how factory farming is decimating the planet's natural resources -- and why this crisis has been largely ignored by major environmental groups.
16 September 2015 | Documentaries | 2014 | 90 minutes
4.57
Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made.
10 August 2015 | Documentaries | 2015 | 25 minutes
4.52
Sketches, short films and cameos from TV personalities and comics punctuate stand-up comedian Stewart Lee's BAFTA-winning series.
1 January 2016 | Show | 2014
4.50
Earth's most sublime landscapes can also be the most forbidding. Discover how inhabitants survive and flourish in our planet's harshest environments.
2 March 2017 | Show | 2015
4.50
Thirty years after a classic documentary profiled the class of 1984, this epilogue revisits the film's subjects to reflect on their lives since.
16 October 2015 | Documentaries | 2014 | 82 minutes
4.50
Inspired by his ranking on a TV countdown, a wry Lee riffs on the absurdities of fame, from reality TV wars to a gig he performed in an insect suit.
1 November 2015 | Movie | 2008 | 79 minutes
4.50
Adopting a child's perspective, this show takes a humorous look at what happens during those action-packed 15 minutes of snack time each day.
6 November 2015 | Show | 2015
4.50
Award-winning documentarian Burns profiles three members of one of America's premier political families: Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
11 November 2015 | Show | 2014
4.50
Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is the charismatic leader of a Birmingham, England crime organization known for its distinctive and lethal razor-brimmed caps. As the ambitious, deadly Tommy leads his crew to ever-greater success after World War I, they come to the attention of a chief inspector (Sam Neill) who is sent from Belfast to rid the city of its criminals. Annabelle Wallis costars in this period thriller from the writer-director of Locke.
14 December 2014 | Show | 2013
Actors:
Cillian Murphy,
Sam Neill,
Helen McCrory,
Paul Anderson,
Iddo Goldberg,
Annabelle Wallis,
Sophie Rundle,
Tom Hardy,
Joe Cole,
Ned Dennehy,
Andy Nyman,
Charlie Creed-Miles,
Charlotte Riley,
David Dawson,
Jeffrey Postlethwaite,
Matthew Postlethwaite,
Ian Peck,
Tony Pitts
4.50
A group of surfers travels to an isolated region of New Guinea in search of adventure, but they encounter human rights abuses and political strife.
2 February 2015 | Documentaries | 2013 | 94 minutes
4.50
With his hometown in ruins, young Eren Yeager becomes determined to fight back against the giant Titans that threaten to destroy the human race.
7 December 2014 | Show | 2013
4.50
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson presents new revelations about time and space in this reboot of the original "Cosmos" documentary series.
7 December 2014 | Documentaries | 2014
4.50
This Emmy-winning original thriller series stars Kevin Spacey as ruthless, cunning Congressman Francis Underwood, who will stop at nothing to conquer the halls of power in Washington D.C. His secret weapon: his gorgeous, ambitious, and equally conniving wife Claire (Golden Globe winner Robin Wright).
7 December 2014 | Show | 2016
Actors:
Kevin Spacey,
Molly Parker,
Robin Wright,
Sakina Jaffrey,
Sandrine Holt,
Reg E. Cathey,
Constance Zimmer,
Kate Mara,
Michael Kelly,
Sebastian Arcelus,
Mahershala Ali,
Elizabeth Norment,
Derek Cecil,
Nathan Darrow,
Kristen Connolly,
Corey Stoll,
Michel Gill,
Kim Dickens,
Lars Mikkelsen,
Elizabeth Marvel
4.50
A nomadic swordsman arrives at a martial arts school in Meiji-era Japan, where he lands in the middle of a conflict involving the opium trade.
8 January 2016 | Show | 1998
Actors:
Yuji Ueda,
Masashi Ikeda,
Lex Lang,
Mayo Suzukaze,
Miki Fujitani,
Mika Doi,
Hirotaka Suzuoki,
Yoshito Yasuhara,
Dorothy Melendrez,
Richard Hayworth,
Jane Alan,
Elyse Floyd,
Mina Tominaga,
Terrence Stone,
Debra Cunningham,
Miina Tominaga
4.48
The Mikaelsons move to New Orleans and form an alliance with local witches in an effort to rule the city once again in this "Vampire Diaries" spinoff.
14 December 2014 | Show | 2013
4.45
Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
4 April 2017 | Movie | 1993 | 195 minutes
Actors:
Embeth Davidtz,
Ralph Fiennes,
Caroline Goodall,
Ben Kingsley,
Liam Neeson,
Steven Spielberg,
Andrzej Seweryn,
Jonathan Sagall,
Malgoscha Gebel,
Shmulik Levy,
Mark Ivanir,
Beatrice Macola,
Friedrich von Thun,
Jonathan Sagalle
4.45
Go on a journey through the Arctic and Antarctic with this visually stunning program that explores these wildernesses and their inhabitants.
29 January 2016 | Show | 2011
4.45
A group of high school students in 1980 faces various social struggles. Lindsay rebels and hangs out with a crowd of burnouts for starters.
7 December 2014 | Show | 1999
4.45
This series travels the globe to explore the connection between humans and the natural world, in myriad climates and environments.
15 July 2015 | Show | 2011
4.45
In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain gorillas. Here, an embattled team of park rangers that includes an ex-child soldier and a Belgian prince, risk their lives to protect this UNESCO World Heritage Site from armed rebels, poachers, and even corporations trying to wrest control of Congo's rich natural resources.
7 December 2014 | Documentaries | 2014 | 100 minutes
4.45
When a Japanese high schooler comes into possession of a mystical notebook, he finds he has the power to kill anybody whose name he enters in it.
7 December 2014 | Show | 2006
4.45
This documentary series follows wild creatures in their native habitats as they navigate the perilous journey from birth to adulthood and beyond.
29 June 2016 | Show | 2014
4.40
\"Marco Polo\" is an epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a trusted companion to the Khan in his violent quest to become the Emperor of the World.
7 December 2014 | Show | 2014
4.40
After seizing control of its town, gun-running motorcycle club the Sons of Anarchy soon butts heads with rival biker gangs, racist groups and the law.
14 December 2014 | Show | 2014
4.40
Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive.
23 April 2015 | Documentaries | 2009