Need NetFlix Instant Watch Recommendations

[EllenFrasier]

We recently signed up for a 30 day free trial of Netflix and our blueray player allows us to stream movies off Netflix. Trouble is, every movie that I think of to watch is not on instant watch! I don't want to wait for a DVD to be mailed to me - that's the point of having them available instantly!

Anybody have instant Netflix and watch a good movie lately?

 

[lovemygoofy]

Here's my current que with a mixture of myself and my husband.

Psych Season 1-3
Law Abiding Citizen
Saw 6
30 Rock Season 1 and 2
The Christmas Cottage
The Messenger
Dear John
Shutter Island
Clambake
The Last Song
Brothers
Hot Tub Time Machine
Death at a Funeral


A couple ways to find things you want to watch on instant down load is to check out the Starz lineup website as well as the Epix channel lineup. I understand all those movies are on instant download.

 

[JaymeC]

What do you like watching? Sometimes I just browse the instant categories til I find something I enjoy.

Things I've enjoyed: Dr. Who, Documentaries (Disney, yellowstone, etc), Karate Kid, Alfred Hitchcock, 30 Rock and lots more... it really depends on your taste. If you tell us what you like people may be able to suggest something more easily If worst comes to worst, like I said browsing and an open mind has worked well for me

 

[vicki_c]

We just watched The Boys last night - it's the story of the Sherman Brothers - the songwriters who wrote a huge amount of music for Disney movies and parks. It was really great - I learned a ton and it was very touching as well.

I think there's a ton of decent things to watch - quite a few "new to us" movies (we never go to the movies), a lot of kid things, tons of documentaries - I am a Nova / Frontline / crime investigation junkie, and so many current TV shows.

I had heard others say there wasn't much selection, so we also just signed up this week and I think there's quite a bit.

I also watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Very interesting if you like that kind of business story.

A few from our queue:
Precious
The Bounty Hunter
Sweet Home Alabama
When in Rome
Old Dogs
The Girl Who Played with Fire
(The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is showing as available for streaming next week, so I have that saved as well - already saw the Dragon Tattoo on PPV.)

Spend some time rating the movies on the website as well and it should give you some decent suggestions.

 

[hulagirl87]

Here's a few of the ones that we have on our streaming list. We have a very long list and a wide range of tastes!

Dear John
Alice in Wonderland (the one with Johnny Depp)
The Taking of Pelham 123
Julie and Julia
The Proposal
The Last Song
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Royal Wedding
Meet Me in St. Louis

and we have a bunch of the National Geographic documentaries and a lot of t.v. series too (Lie to Me, 10 Items or Less, Man vs. Food)

 

[w0rM]

Lost! The entire series is up right now... it's the greatest show of all time!!

 

[candyfloss]

ponyo!

 

[dfchelbay]

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

Highly recommend this documentary.

 

[Experiment #626]

The IT Crowd. Great BBC comedy!

Blood in the Wire. Great BBC drama.

 

[PurpleNurple]

Lost! The entire series is up right now... it's the greatest show of all time!!

Totally agreed!

 

[ssawka]

We use the NFWI for mostly TV shows, and lately its been a lot of reality shows:

• American Pickers
• Man vs. Food
• Pawn Stars
• Firefly
• Lockdown

DD also uses it for her shows, such as Barney.

One that I have in my queue, but haven't watched yet that might be of interest to Disney fans is Walt & El Grupo. Also under Starz Play are Up and The Princess and the Frog
.

 

[NiftyJ88]

Zombieland was actually pretty good if you're into that sort of thing. The beginning was a little rough, but I found it to be entertaining.

 

[Kies99]

This is what is currently in my queue:

Jekyll
The Pillars of the Earth
Incendiary
Flame and Citron
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Priceless
Happenstance
Russian Dolls
Heroes: Season
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Pandorum
Spring 1941
La Vie en Rose
La France
The Ugly Truth
Gangster No. 1
Go for Broke!
The One That Got Away
The Rat Patrol: Season 1
Devil May Cry
Outsourced
Johnny Was
Cradle Will Rock Play
Fred: The Movie
The Office: Series 1
The IT Crowd: Series 1
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone
Spartan
Dexter: Season 1
Following
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Full Metal Jacket
Tous Les Matins Du Monde
Witchblade
Breathless
South Park Spook-Tacular!
Skins: Vol. 1
Gavin & Stacey: Season 1
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
Sherlock Holmes: Hound of the Baskervilles
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Set
The Tudors: Season 1
Riverworld
Curtain Call
The Lost Boys: The Tribe
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints II
Last Chance Harvey
Inglorious *******s (not the Brad Pitt version)
The Red Baron
The Train
Play Dirty
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Horseman
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Chocolate
Law Abiding Citizen
Wedding Daze
Young Sherlock Holmes
Von Ryan's Express
Midway
Full Contact
Brooklyn's Finest
A Christmas Carol
Black Adder's A Christmas Carol
The Karate Kid
The Assassin Next Door
Star Trek
Disney Parks: Ultimate Walt Disney World
Disney Parks: Undiscovered Disney Parks
Disney Parks: Disney Cruise Line
Disney Parks: Disney's Animal Kingdom
Sanctuary: Season 1
Moscow on the Hudson
Labyrinth
The Majestic
New in Town
Hope and Glory
Strategic Air Command
Resistance
Hearts of War
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
The Castle
Naked Among Wolves
Eureka: Season 2
The Keep
Hamburger Hill
Cronos
Eye of the Needle
California Dreamin'
Michael Palin: New Europe
The Bounty Hunter
Avalon High
Hyperdrive: Season 1
Stargate SG-1: Season 1
Sliders: Seasons 1
District 9
Valhalla Rising
Plunkett & Macleane
Legion
Donnie Darko
Fitzwilly
Surrogates
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Shutter Island
The Newton Boys
The Maiden Heist
Nomads
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Europa Europa
Ballad of a Soldier
I Was Nineteen
The Island on Bird Street
Attack!
Berlin Tunnel 21
Deathwatch
A Boy and His Dog
Borstal Boy
Ghostbusters 2

 

[TallyTutter]

The Tudors & Doc Martin are two BBC series that my family loves. We have also begun watching Eureka.

 

[ckoncurat]

I like to watch TV series on netflix streaming:
Avatar the last airbender
Lost
Say yes to the dress
Hoarders
30 Rock
Arrested Development
British version of the office
Buffy the vampire slayer
Better off Ted

I think if you start browsing you'll be amazed how much is there. I'm thinking of cancelling our regular netflix and just doing streaming.

 

[Soarin_04]

The Tudors & Doc Martin are two BBC series that my family loves.

YES!!!! And did you know the next series of Doc Martin is either going to be in production or released (can't recall offhand) in Spring of 2011?!

We watched all the Tudor episodes we could and now we're doing the DVD thing, and HATING it because it means we can't gobble them down in one sitting as we had been doing on snow days.

We're doing a lot of Brit / Showtime / HBO TV series as well. We did Doc Martin and Tudors plus...

Psych
The Office (both Brit and US versions)
Fawlty Towers
Rescue Me
Waiting for God
Intelligence
Eureka
Wire in the Blood
Bones
Rough Science
All Creatures Great and Small

The kids have been getting their fix of

Hey Arnold
Scooby Doo
Invader Zim

Movies in the queue or ones I've recently watched

Mary and Max
Beauty and the Beast (the original Jean Cocteau)
Up
El Bola
The Crucible
Jesus Camp
The Kite Runner

Just for giggles -- Bunny Shorts (but keep the kids away because some of them aren't too appropriate for wee ones).

Plus, since I decided to start working out, I found a pilates stream -- Crunch. Ooof. Makes me rethink all the bad-for-me food I inhaled at Disney in November.

 

[ntink]

receiving the DVDs in the mail is surprisingly quick. We can usually get 3-4 per week.

 

[solfan68]

Great thread. I've already snagged a few ideas, so thanks OP. To contribute:

On the TV front:
Coupling, S1-4
Pushing Daisies, S1-2
Sarah Connor Chronicles

Family possibilities:
Planet 51
Avalon High
Princess & the Frog

Animated Etcetera:
Appleseed
Final Yamato
Superman/Batman:Apocalypse

 

[Soarin_04]

Also, one of the AM news shows the other day mentioned that Netflix is actually thinking of phasing out their DVD mailing system in favor of all instant streaming.

 

[luckey-lasvegas]

Friday Night Lights seasons 1 - 3
Damages seasons 1 & 2
The Science of Dogs
Dogs Decoded
Lewis and Clark great journey west
When We Left the Earth