Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

With Annabel Croft. Good weekend afternoon viewing back in the day.

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey Trailer out june 8th

Lucifer Season 1-6 (2021) Bored with being the Lord of Hell, the devil relocates to Los Angeles, where he opens a nightclub and forms a connection with a homicide detective.

Safe House Season 1 (2017) A couple planning to open a quiet B&B find themselves drawn into a web of danger and lies when they agree to use the property as a safe house instead.

quite a few older spanish releases too

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Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (2022) In his final comedy special, Norm Macdonald ponders casinos, cannibalism, living wills and why you have to be ready for whatever life throws your way.

A Nation of Broth Season 1 (2022) (Korean) A humble bowl of good soup sits at the heart of every Korean table. Take off on a journey that explores the history and evolution of Korean soup.

Mighty Little Bheem: I Love Taj Mahal (2022) On a trip to the beautiful Taj Mahal, Bheem gets distracted trying to return a little girl's lost teddy bear before someone steals it!

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Updated June list

1st June

Paddington 2 This flawless family comedy will make you laugh, cry and fall in love with Hugh Grant. What more could you want?

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa If Alan Partridge directed a movie about himself, this would be it.

The Ledge

The Crow

The Craigslist Killer

Run Fat Boy Run

Carriers

Escobar: Paradise Lost

Man of Tai Chi

Legend

The Ghost Writer

Tremors 5: The Bloodline

The Client List

Untraceable

Malverde, El Santo Patron

The Man With the Iron Fists 2

Deliver Us From Eva

Swallows and Amazons

100 Días con la Tata

Burning Love

2nd June

Borgen – Power & Glory: Season 1 “Is she a different person and politician to the prime minister we knew 12 years ago?” That’s the question at the heart of the new trailer for Netflix’s revival of the Danish political drama. It again stars Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg, now working as Minister for Foreign Affairs. She will deal with some of the biggest political issues of our time, including the relevance of the Danish Realm in the modern world, the superpowers’ battle for control of the Arctic and the climate crisis. The main story focuses on the struggle for power and what power does to people – both professionally and on a personal level. 

#ABTalks: Season 2

Detak (Heartbeat)

Change Days: Season 1, Episode 1

3rd June

As the Crow Flies: Season 1

The Perfect Mother: Season 1

Convinced of her daughter’s innocence in a homicide, a devoted mother soon uncovers unsettling truths as the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.

Floor is Lava: Season 2 Netflix’s unlikely competition series is back with bigger obstacles, higher stakes and hotter lava.Interceptor Meet the world’s last defense. One Army captain must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attack threatens the remote missile interceptor station she is in command of. Elsa Pataky and Luke Bracey star in this thriller directed by Matthew Reilly.

Mr. Good: Cop or Crook?: Season 1 In this docuseries, when Norway’s top cop is suspected of drug trafficking, investigators must ask: Is he a good officer or a major criminal?

Surviving Summer: Season 1 Expelled from school and exiled to Australia, a rebel New York teen makes waves among a young surfer’s inner circle — and leaves a mess in her wake.

Two Summers: Season 1 A close circle of friends reunites for a lavish holiday — decades after one of them was the victim of a sexual assault.

4th June

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire

The Extraordinary Tale of the Times Table

Twilight of The Yakuza

The Coming War on China

The Invocation of Enver Simaku

Un Nuevo Comienza

La Rusa

The Waiter

No nos gusta Capitán Morcilla! La Edad de Oro del Software Español

6th June

Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

The first of many stand-up specials straight from the “Netflix is a joke” comedy festival, filmed in May.

Spaced Out

My Spy

The Lancaster at War

Long March to Freedom

50 Liters life

The Intelligent Hand

Au Voleur

Action Pack: Season 2

Cuatro Puntas: Música desde Abajo

7th June

Endangered Species

Over Her Dead Body

8th June

Hustle Adam Sandler stars in this sporting drama about a down-on-his-luck basketball scout who finds a potential superstar in Spain and sets out to prove they both have what it takes.

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey: Season 1 This docuseries examines the rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Baby Fever: Season 1 When a fertility doctor drunkenly inseminates herself with her ex-boyfriend’s sperm, she scrambles to explain her pregnancy.

Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis

9th June

Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration Eddie Izzard, Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Tig Notaro and more take part in a Netflix comedy special.

Rhythm + Flow France: Season 1

10th June

First Kill: Season 1 Based on series creator V.E. Schwab’s short story, this romance drama with bite stars Sarah Catherine Hook and Imani Lewis

Intimacy: Season 1

Trees of Peace

Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness

Breaded Life

11th June

Amy Schumer’s Parental Advisory

Hugo

Brilliant Corners Barbados

Brilliant Corners Hainan

Brilliant Corners Haiti

Brilliant Corners Jamaica

Brilliant Corners Liberia

Behind the Tide

Dreams of a Clown

13th June

Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton brings old-school appeal to this nostalgic neo-noir.

Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends

14th June

Halftime This documentary l offers an intimate peek behind the curtain revealing the grit and determination that makes Jennifer Lopez. The film serves as the kickoff to the second half of her life, as she lays bare her evolution as a Latina, a mother, and an artist, taking agency in her career and using her voice for a greater purpose.

Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live

15th June

God’s Favorite Idiot: Season 1 Sweet Clark seems like the last person God would tap to fight evil. He’ll need his office crush and good pals to help spread the word and save the world

Centauro To clear his son’s mother’s debt to a cartel, a superbike racer becomes a drug courier.

Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend: Season 1 In this next-level cooking competition, culinary stars compete to enter an epic finale and vie for the title of Iron Legend.

Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet: Season 1

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Midnight in the Switchgrass

The Wrath of God

Heart Parade

Maldivas: Season 1

16th June

Bohemian Rhapsody

Dead End: Paranormal Park: Season 1

Collision

Karma’s World Music Videos: Volume 2

Love & Anarchy: Season 2

Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma Ikuta

Snoop Dogg’s F*cn Around Comedy Special

17th June

Spiderhead Joseph Kosinski’s latest mind-bending film follows two inmates (Miles Teller & Jurnee Smollett) who form a connection while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary (Chris Hemsworth) who experiments on his subjects with mind-altering drugs. Adapted from the New Yorker short story, Escape From Spiderhead, by Deadpool and 6 Underground duo Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

You Don’t Know Me: Season 1

She: Season 2

The Martha Mitchell Effect

The War Next Door: Season 2

18th June

Spriggan: Season 1

19th June

Civil: Ben Crump

20th June

The Craft: Legacy Blumhouse’s horror reboot follows Frankie, Tabby and Lourdes who are on the lookout for a fourth member to complete their coven of witches. When they befriend Lily and accept her into their coven, they realise the dangers of their powers.

Doom of Love

21st June

The Future Of: Season 1

Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual

22nd June

The Umbrella Academy: Season 3 Based on the comic book series created and written by Gerard Way, illustrated by Gabriel Bá, and published by Dark Horse Comics, Netflix’s series follows the seven children who were adopted by the billionaire Reginald, who created The Umbrella Academy and prepared them to save the world. After Season 2’s timey-wimey hijinks, Season 3 finds the siblings face to face with another Reginald academy from a different timeline: The Sparrow Academy.

Snowflake Mountain: Season 1 Hopelessly entitled or simply in need of tough love? Ten spoiled young adults experience nature without a parental safety net in this reality series.

Love & Gelato Based on the bestselling novel by Jenna Evans Welch, this rom-com set amid stunning Italian scenery stars Susanna Skaggs. Videos. Love & Gelato

Bruna Louise: Demolition

23rd June

Queen: Season 1

First Class: Season 1

24th June

Man Vs Bee: Season 1 Like a winged answer to 1997’s Mouse Hunt, this comedy series stars Rowan Atkinson as Trevor, who gets a job as a house-sitter at a mansion, but soon finds his stay disrupted by a buzzy intruder. The more he tries to catch the bee, the more he bumbles his way through chaos and unwitting destruction. From hitting his knee with a hammer to damaging priceless figurines, expect carnage served up with Atkinson’s signature deadpan across bite-sized episodes.

Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area: Season 1 Netflix gives its hit franchise a new spin in this thriller that sees thieves overtake the mint of a unified Korea. With hostages trapped inside, the police must stop them — as well as the shadowy mastermind behind it all.

Glamour Girls

26th June

Irresistible

28th June

Spiral: From the Book of Saw Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson bring a fresh slice of detective drama to the Saw franchise with this uneven but promising sequel.

Blasted

29th June

The Upshaws: Season 2

Bros: After the Screaming Stops ( massive recommendation )Decades after their last performance as the '80s band Bros, two estranged twins try to put their differences aside and reunite for a one-night-only show

Liam Gallagher as it was Amid backlash, fallouts and bitter legal battles, former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher sets out to make a solo comeback in this intimate rockumentary....

The Ghost Writer (2010)

Paddington 2 (2018)

The Man With the Iron Fists 2 (2015)

The Crow (1994)

Killing Eve Season 1 (2018)

Tremors (1990)

Tremors 5: Bloodline (2015)

The Client List (2010)

Escabor Paradise Lost (2014)

Legend (2015)

Alan Partridge Alpha Papa(2013)

Man of Tai Chi (2013)

Four Brothers (2005)

S.W.A.T. (2003)

S.W.A.T.: Firefight (2011)

Baptiste Season 1(2019)

Child's Play 3 (1991)

The Woman in Black (2012)

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

The Craft (1996)

American Pie 2 (2001)

American Wedding (2003)

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)

American Reunion (2012)

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

How High (2001)

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

Pride (2014)

Cuban Fury (2014)

Airplane! (1980)

Robin Hood (2010)

Waterworld (1995)

Oblivion (2013)

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

Ronaldo (2015)

Coach Carter (2005)

Concussion (2015)

Changeling (2008)

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Amistad (1997)

The Hatton Garden Job (2018)

In Bruges (2008)

Man Up (2015)

The Danish Girl (2015)

The Great Outdoors (1988)

Far and Away (1992)

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Seen the Bros one a couple of years back, it really is worth a watch, and I'll be doing a 2nd viewing.

It is very funny, although not intentionally. It's like a David Brent type show at times, you think to yourself "they really must be putting this on". But all genuine.