Lots of titles showed up on Netflix Watch Instantly since last week: 201 by my count. Three of them are quintessential 1980s movies: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Trading Places, and Scrooged. If you haven’t seen any of these movies, you no longer have an excuse.
As for the other 198 titles, lots of variety. There’s the apparently addictive House of Cards, A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, The Raven, Nacho Libre, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Phat Beach starring Coolio.
For a retro geek like myself, I’m really excited to see the silent Fantomas serial from 1913 as well as The Man From Beyond starring the one and only Harry Houdini. There’s also the acclaimed 1962 samurai film Harakiri, the 1929 Russian silent documentary Man with a Movie Camera, and the nunsploitation movie The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine. (Full disclosure: I did at one time own a VHS copy of that movie. As a collector, okay — as a high-school-aged VHS collector.)
Everything else is a blur of red eye and carpal tunnel.
After the cut, all the new titles on Netflix Watch Instantly. Also: the worst thing to come out of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Dusty Rhodes may issue a challenge to Abe Froman (the sausage king of Chicago), and a nod to a Ferris Bueller knock-off.
- 101 Dalmatians
- 1428
- 4 Weeks of Sunshine
- 5 Dolls for an August Moon
- 8000 Miles
- Abraham Lincoln
- Adventure Scouts
- Africa
- L’Age D’Or
- Alice in Murderland
- Alonzo Bodden: Who’s Paying Attention?
- Amber Alert
- An American Crime
- Anna Boleyn
- Asphalt
- The Asphyx
- Assassin of the Tsar
- Au Pair Girls
- Baby and Me
- Bangkok Love Story
- Be Yourself
- Berserker: Hell’s Warrior
- The Best of Youth
- Bird Squad
- The Black Knight Returns
- Blood of Beasts
- Bob The Builder: Teamwork Time!
- Breakaway
- Breeders
- Bringing Rain
- Bringing Up Bobby
- Burke and Hare
- Camera Afrique
- The Castle
- Chase the Stars: The Cast of The Hunger Games
- The Comeback
- Crimson
- Demon Kiss
- Destination Vegas
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards
- Die Screaming, Marianne
- The Doll
- The Double Headed Eagle: Hitler’s Rise to Power 1918-1933
- Dr. Orloff’s Monster
- Dragon Fighter
- Dream Warrior
- Echelon 8
- Ed Gein
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- Endangered Species
- The Enemy
- The Escapees
- Fantômas I: In the Shadow of the Guillotine
- Fantômas II: Juve vs. Fantômas
- Fantômas III: The Murderous Corpse
- Fantômas IV: Fantômas vs. Fantômas
- Fantômas V: The False Magistrate
- Female Vampire
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- The Fifth Mind
- Four Times That Night
- Fred & Vinnie
- Get Bruce!
- Get The Girl
- The Getting Of Wisdom
- Ghost from the Machine
- Ghost Rock
- The Gift
- Girl on a Motorcycle
- Girl Scouts
- Girls of Summer
- God Said, “Ha!”
- A Good Day to Die
- Griefwalker
- Grim
- The Guard Post
- Guinevere
- Half-Caste
- Half Light
- The Hands of Orlac
- Happiness
- Happy Birthday
- Harakiri
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)
- Headin’ Home
- Hippie Masala
- Holes in My Shoes
- Hooded Angels
- Hoodlum & Son
- House of Cards
- House of Whipcord
- Howling V: The Rebirth
- Howling VI: The Freaks
- I Am the Ripper
- I Don’t Want To Be A Man
- I’m Not Scared
- In the Cut
- In the Land of the Deaf
- The Iron Rose
- Jacques Cousteau’s Ocean Tales
- Jet Lag
- Justine
- Keeping Up with the Steins
- Kidnapped
- Killer Barbys
- Killer’s Moon
- Killing Car
- Kingdom Of Shadows
- Korczak
- The Last Leprechaun
- Lethal
- A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
- Little Big Top
- Locked Up Abroad: Season 3
- Lon Chaney: Behind The Mask
- London in the Raw
- Lost in New York
- The Lucky Dragon
- The Magic Door
- The Man From Beyond
- Man With a Movie Camera
- Marlene
- Measure For Measure
- Meditate and Destroy
- The Memsahib
- Merlin: The Return
- Minotauro
- Musketeers Forever
- Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
- My Apocalypse
- Mythic Journeys
- Nacho Libre
- Night Train
- Nightmares Come at Night
- A Not So Silent Night
- The Nutty Professor
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico
- One Arabian Night
- Only the Strong Survive
- Orloff and the Invisible Man
- Perilous Journeys
- Pets
- Phat Beach
- Picture Claire
- Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File
- Priest of Love
- The Prophecy
- Prophet’s Game
- Punch Lady
- The Quare Fellow
- Radio Rebel
- The Raven
- The Reluctant Dragon
- Revenge in the House of Usher
- The Roe’s Room
- The Sacrifice
- The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
- Schizo
- Schoolgirl Hitchhikers
- Scrooged
- The Sex Thief
- Shadow People
- Siegfried
- Siberian Lady Macbeth
- The Sidewalks of Bangkok
- A Silent Britain
- The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine
- Skeletons
- Spies
- Spiritual Revolution
- Stories of Appearitions
- The Struggle
- Sunrise/Sunset
- The Survival Games
- Suspicion
- That’s the Way I Like It
- A Talking Cat!?!
- Tanked
- Taratabong: The World of the Meloditties
- The Tenant
- Terms of Endearment
- Tezz
- They Made Me a Fugitive
- Three Ages
- A Throw of Dice
- Trading Places
- Twin Sisters
- Valentin
- A Virgin Among the Living Dead
- Virgin Witch
- Warning Shadows
- The Warrior
- Where Truth Lies
- White Rush
- The Wildcat
- With One Voice
- The Woman in Red
- Wu Dang
- Yakari
- Year of the Fish
- Zeta One
- Zombie Lake
Weekly Netflix Now Awards
Most Likely to Be Watched First
All the Fantômas stuff
Honorable mention: The Man From Beyond, Harakiri
Movie I’ve Been Meaning to See That I’ll Finally See
The Man From Beyond
Honorable mention: Man With a Movie Camera
Most Likely to Be Watched Out of Perverse Curiosity
The Sex Thief
Most Likely to Be Watched Out of Perversity
The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine
Honorable mention: Zeta One, Schoolgirl Hitchhikers
Like Duh
Nightmares Come at Night
Ohh, That’s a Great Deal!
5 Dollars for an August Moon
Potential Buddy Cop Show
Orloff and the Invisible Man
Honorable mention: Hoodlum & Son
Rejected Wu-Tang Song Title
Killer Barbys
Possible Meal for Andres Bolivar if He Goes Cannibal
Hippie Masala
Wide-Release Movie Made to Be Seen via Netflix Instant
The Raven
Honorable mention: In the Cut
The One-Eared Man is King
In the Land of the Deaf
Sadly Not a Sequel to the Martin Lawrence Movie
The Black Knight Returns
Thing I’ll Get to Eventually
House of Cards
Best Title as Women’s Wrestling Name
The Iron Rose
Honorable mention: Siberian Lady Macbeth
Cumbersome Name for a Finishing Move in Pro Wrestling
The Double Headed Eagle: Hitler’s Rise to Power 1918-1933
Best Name for a Pet Minotaur
Minotauro
Best Title
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards
Honorable mention: A Talking Cat!?!
