Thinking of catching up with your movie-viewing over the next seven days of lockdown? Glam Adelaide’s film team have curated a selection of movies available to stream, from kids animated features, to dark thrillers.
COMEDY
Knives Out: A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. Available on Binge. Read our review here.
Top End Wedding: Miranda Tapsell’s joyous Australian wedding comedy. Read our review here. Read our interview with Miranda and co-star Gwilym Lee here. Available on Binge.
I,Tonya Binge. The dark but hilarious story of ice-skater, Tonya Harding’s fall from grace.
Shaun of the Dead Binge. The cult-classic zombie comedy. Stan.
Burn After Reading Binge
The Big Lebowski Netflix
The Wedding Singer Stan. An old and much-loved feel-good favourite.
DRAMA
Sorry We Missed You Binge Mike Leigh’s exploration of modern-day form of labour exploitation. Read our review here.
V For Vendetta Binge; In a future Britain, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only as “V”, plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.
Two of Us Binge. Two older women try to carve out a relationship amidst family disapproval. Read our review here ;
20th Century Women Binge. A young man is raised by a group of modern women in the 70s. Read our review here.
The Woman in the Window Netflix. Based on the best-selling novel, a woman stuck at home with agoraphobia witnesses a murder in the apartment across the street.
Marriage Story Netflix. Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up.
Roma Netflix. A year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Lion SBS on Demand. The amazing true story of an Indian-Australian man trying to find his lost birth-family. Read our review here.
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem SBS on Demand. The affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension. Read our review here.
The Bookshop SBS on Demand. In 1959 in a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Read our review here.
THRILLS AND SPILLS
Argo Stan. Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Double Indemnity Binge. The noir-classic about two lovers planning to murder the woman’s husband, and get his insurance pay-out. From the novel by James M. Cain.
No Country for Old Men Netflix. The Coen’s masterful take on the Cormac McCarthy novel.
Das Boot The Director’s Cut Netflix. Check out the director’s cut of this classic.
Backdraft Netflix. The film that spawned the series. A classic action movie about fire-fighters.
ROMANCE
Hope Springs Stan An older couple seek to spice up their relationship. Read our review here.
Notting Hill Netflix. Julia Roberts is just a girl, standing in front of Hugh Grant.
You’ve Got Mail Netflix, Stan. Revisit this classic.
Fifty Shades of Grey Stan. Perfect for a lockdown date-night!
Cold War SBS on Demand. In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. Read our review here.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding Binge. Another comforting classic.
KIDS/FAMILY
Paddington and Paddington 2, both on Binge. Read our review of Paddington here.
Harry Potter Netflix, Stan and Binge all offer most, if not all, of the Potter movies.
Spirited Away Neflix. The classic Studio Ghibli movie.
Minions Stan. Read our review here.
Other classic animated movies include Shrek, Chicken Run, and Kung Fu Panda, all available on Stan.
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