3 Finest Films To Stream On Netflix This Week (Dec 29-Jan 2)


Netflix stays a premier vacation spot for individuals on the lookout for motion pictures and reveals, and with everybody able to ring in 2026, there is a sense of wanting to seek out one thing good to observe this week. The excellent news is that Netflix has absolutely anything a film fan may need, from feel-good dramas to motion flicks to nice horror movies.

The one massive drawback with a streaming service like Netflix is that issues come and go constantly, and it is exhausting to maintain monitor of what is obtainable to observe. To assist make issues simpler as 2026 rolls in, here’s a have a look at three nice motion pictures to stream on the world’s greatest streaming service to ring within the New Yr.

Stand By Me (1986)


Wil Wheaton as Gordie crying subsequent to River Phoenix as Chris in Stand by Me

Film lovers lately misplaced one of many world’s best administrators with the dying of Rob Reiner. To have a good time his life and extraordinary profession, Netflix has certainly one of his finest movies obtainable to stream. Stand By Me is a coming-of-age story that Reiner launched again in 1986 that holds up as properly at this time as when it was launched.

The film relies on a Stephen King story, however it is not a horror. Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, and Jerry O’Connell star as 4 pre-teen buddies who got down to see a “lifeless physique” they heard about within the woods. Nevertheless, the story is about these youngsters coming of age and realizing life is not what they dreamed.

There won’t be a greater coming-of-age drama on Netflix. Between Rob Reiner’s masterful route and the surprisingly nice performing from these younger stars, Stand By Me must be on everybody’s watch lists, particularly for many who have not found this treasure but.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2025)


Wallace and Gromit with a gnome in Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace and Gromit with a gnome in Vengeance Most Fowl

If anybody missed it, a brand new Wallace & Gromit film got here out in 2025, and it was completely for Netflix. The movie can be celebrating its one-year anniversary on the streamer this upcoming weekend, and there’s no higher time to see what you missed than by streaming it this week.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a sequel to Aardman Studio’s The Flawed Trousers from 1993, however viewers need not know something about that film apart from that there’s a penguin villain named Feathers McGraw that Wallace and Gromit helped put away, who’s again for revenge.

The movie has nice British humor, plenty of splendidly damaging backyard gnomes, and all of the characters that followers of the franchise have grown to like. Better of all, the film maintains the love and quirky relationship between the scientist and his canine and stands up properly with Aardman’s previous Wallace & Gromit motion pictures.

Anaconda (1997)


An anaconda sneaking up behind Ice Cube.
An anaconda sneaking up behind Ice Dice

With the brand new Anaconda film in theaters, the unique movie remains to be obtainable to stream on Netflix. The brand new Anaconda stars Paul Rudd and Jack Black, and it’s being pushed as a straight comedy, which has turned away many followers of the unique movie. Nevertheless, that unique is able to be streamed proper now.

The factor concerning the 1997 model of Anaconda is that it’s a darkish comedy with some grotesque and bloody scenes, though typically proven ludicrously, particularly for the reason that large Anaconda by no means actually seems like an actual snake. The solid can be spectacular, with Jennifer Lopez, Ice Dice, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, and extra.

That is primarily a creature characteristic, and viewers should not anticipate it to take the horror critically; they need to simply buckle in for a wild trip. Whereas it acquired damaging opinions when launched, it’s now a cult traditional, and it’s properly price watching this week on Netflix.

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