Netflix is not just regarding original creations and series. Classic or more recent, these ten films will be released from the platform’s catalog at the end of the month. If you’ve never seen them, don’t panic, you still have a chance to discover them.
Vincent Cassel and Hubert Koundé in “La Haine”, by Mathieu Kassovitz. Lazennec
Published on April 08, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.
Netflix offers no less than five thousand six hundred contents, all categories combined. Each month, new titles arrive but, inevitably, others leave the platform. In this cinematic jungle that comes and goes, Telerama selects every month ten good films to watch or see once more urgently on his sofa.
“But you are crazy”, by Audrey Diwan (until April 23)
Pio Marmaï and Céline Sallette in “But you are crazy”, by Audrey Diwan. Photo Manuel Moutier/Rectangle Productions
Genre: salty addiction
In the intimacy of a couple confronted with cocaine addiction. For her first film, screenwriter and writer Audrey Diwan hits hard. Céline Sallette is once once more magnificent, facing Pio Marmaï, all in inner chaos and regrets.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (1h35)
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r But you are crazy Film by Audrey Diwan (France, 2019)
“Forrest Gump”, de Robert Zemeckis
Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump” by Robert Zemeckis. Paramount
Genre : running man
Rewarded by the Oscar for best film in 1995 and that of best actor for Tom Hanks, the film by Robert Zemeckis is still debated… Too sweet? Certainly, but most of the moving sequences concern the ultra-candid Forrest’s way of being a man ready to beat another’s face if he raises his hand on a woman or humiliates him.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (2h22)
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q “Forrest Gump” on TF1: the little story of America
“Hippocrates”, by Thomas Lilti
Vincent Lacoste in “Hippocrates”, by Thomas Lilti. Photo Jair Sfez/31 June Films/France 2 Cinema
Genre: hospital blues
Thomas Lilti, a rare case of a filmmaker who is also a doctor, has taken from his memories the flesh of his second feature film, where an ambitious young intern discovers the trying priesthood of hospital practitioners in the near-bankrupt France of the 2010s. seductive counterpoint to the spectacular Dr House et Grey’s Anatomy.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (1h42)
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r Hippocrates Film by Thomas Lilti (France, 2014)
“La Haine”, by Mathieu Kassovitz
Vincent Cassel in “La Haine”, by Mathieu Kassovitz. Lazennec
Genre: so far so good
A cult film on the evil of the suburbs, in balance between realism and punch style, camera on the shoulder. Kassovitz is not a documentary filmmaker, but a filmmaker who masters his art and takes care of surprise effects and breaks in tone.
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r Hatred
“Le Guépard”, by Luchino Visconti
Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster in “Le Guépard”, by Luchino Visconti. Pathe/Titanus/Gaumont
Genre: fierce masterpiece
Palme d’or in 1963, adaptation of the novel by Lampedusa, Cheetah tells of the end of one world and the beginning of another. By choosing an icy and contemplative realism, Luchino Visconti only makes this world that is doomed all the more pathetic. With Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, fascinatingly beautiful, and Burt Lancaster, a tired royal feline.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (3h06)
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“The Past”, by Asghar Farhadi
Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim in “Le Passé”, by Asghar Farhadi. Photo Carole Bethuel/Memento Films
Genre: suspended time
An Iranian arrives in Sevran to sign divorce papers… From there, Asghar Farhadi (A separation) signs a “moral tale” regarding doubt and guilt. Is Ahmad righteous, or, as his wife yells at him, a self-satisfied hypocrite, enjoying humiliating anyone he deems unworthy of his philosophy?
Watch the movie on Netflix. (2h10)
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r The past
“Le Sel de la terre” by Wim Wenders
«Le Sel de la terre», documentary by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders. Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas images
Genre: photo shock
Many years ago, Wim Wenders discovers a photo of young Sebastião Salgado: it looks like an image taken fromAguirre, the wrath of God, Werner Herzog’s film. He will then meet his author, tame him and become his friend. He pays him a fraternal tribute in this documentary in which Sebastião Salgado seems to constantly oppose the beauty of nature to the incredible efforts of men to annihilate it.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (1h50)
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r The Salt of the Earth
“The Guardians”, by Xavier Beauvois
Iris Bry, Laura Smet and Nathalie Baye in “Les Gardiennes”, by Xavier Beauvois. Guy Ferrandis/Les Films du Worso/Pathe/France 3 Cinema
Genre : fields of honor
First World War, parenthesis out of time where the lives of women are suspended on a possible bad news, and where everything is postponed to a hypothetical ” following the war “, pronounced like a magic formula. When the men return for leave, they are ghostly and haunted by the barbarism of the fighting. The director of men and gods signs a beautiful timeless film and reveals an actress, the debutant Iris Bry.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (2h18)
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r The Guardians
“The Earth,” by John Antin
“The Earth,” by John Antin. Folivari/O2B Films/Doghouse
Genre : “Children of the Sun…”
Two adventurous children from the pre-Columbian era set out to recover a statuette stolen by their king, the Great Inca. The Argentinian Juan Antin signs a jewel of cinema where everything is out of the ordinary: its heroes, fashioned with care from an unknown mythology and history, far from the usual Western point of view. Pachamama, invisible entity, nurturing matrix at the root of all life, reigns over this bewitchingly beautiful film.
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r Pachamama Animated film by Juan Antin (France, 2018)
“A Better Life” by Cédric Kahn
Guillaume Canet and Leïla Bekhti in “A Better Life”, by Cédric Kahn. Jan Thijs/Films of the Aftermath/Maia Cinema
Genre: love in deficit
Yann (Guillaume Canet), a young cook who has the niaque but can’t find a job, and his companion Nadia (Leïla Bekhti), who is raising her little boy alone, decide to buy an abandoned shack on credit to turn it into a restaurant. . If Cédric Kahn’s film describes a social collapse, it also shows a struggling man, from Paris to Canada.
Watch the movie on Netflix. (1h46)
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r – A Better Life – Film by Cédric Kahn (France/Canada, 2011)
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