The Top 10 Netflix Original Movies In 2022

 

Following the release of its first original movie in 2015, Netflix has grown into a producer of original movies that can compete with any major studio. Here are the top Netflix original movies, including comedy, dramas, action flicks, and more.

American Factory

The Oscar-winning documentary American Factory, one of the greatest on Netflix, follows the efforts of the Chinese auto-glass business Fuyao to revive the economy of a struggling Ohio town. Culture clashes and labor issues stymie what begins as an example of mutual benefit between the firm and the locals.

The filmmakers present a detached view of the intricate dynamics at play without passing judgment on either side and just provide a glimpse of the functioning of the contemporary, global corporate machine.

Dolemite Is My Name

In the film Dolemite Is My Name, Eddie Murphy portrays Rudy Ray Moore, a legendary figure in 1970s blaxploitation. Murphy is terrific as the flamboyant, self-assured Moore who, with no prior filmmaking experience or education and only a dream and a determination to succeed, produced and starred in his groundbreaking indie film Dolemite. The film is a warmhearted comedy about a bunch of outcasts who joined together to make an unlikely B-movie masterpiece as well as a love ode to low-budget filmmaking.

Enola Holmes

The titular role in the novel Enola Holmes, which follows the exploits of Sherlock Holmes' younger sister, is played by Millie Bobby Brown of the popular Netflix series Stranger Things. Enola, who is as bit as skilled a sleuth as her brother is, departs from home in order to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her mother.

Enola develops into a competent action heroine who stays independent, opinionated, and more than a little bit snarky despite the displeasure of her famous brother (played by Henry Cavill) and the limitations imposed on women of her time.

High Flying Bird

With High Flying Bird, prolific and lauded director Steven Soderbergh creates one of his most enjoyable films. High Flying Bird is a basketball movie, although there is hardly any basketball onscreen; instead, it is more like a fast-paced robbery thriller.

While the NBA is on the eve of a lockout, sports agent Ray Burke (Andre Holland) puts in extra hours negotiating complicated arrangements for his clients and his agency. In a clever and unexpected way, Ray's negotiations come together, and Soderbergh and Holland keep the audience guessing right up to the very end.

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, portrays Melanie Lynskey as a lonesome lady who takes action after her home is broken into. In an effort to find the burglars, she partners up with her strange, obsessive neighbor (Elijah Wood), landing herself into a lot more trouble than she bargained for.

Writer-director Macon Blair tells a darkly humorous tale of disgruntled burnouts who, despite their lack of knowledge, attempt to fight back against the cruelties of the world.

Marriage Story

Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story is one of the most moving and insightful films about divorce ever made, from the perspectives of both sides of a couple, even though it can be challenging to watch at times. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver play the couples who first believe their divorce will be amicable despite disagreements over child custody and their disparate professional and residential interests.

Driver and Johansson effectively portray the pain and aggravation of the situation as both characters make self-centered decisions. Baumbach also manages to make the film unexpectedly cathartic even in its most depressing scenes.

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Animated humor Although The Mitchells vs. the Machines features a robot apocalypse, the film is really about how one family comes to value one another. While driving to drop off Katie (Abbi Jacobson) at college, the Mitchell family is stopped by an uprising of super-intelligent computers.

This dysfunctional family manages to fend off the takeover by taking advantage of their special abilities and connections. The characters are lovable, the animation is vibrant, chaotic, and continually imaginative, and the narrative deftly strikes a balance between silly fun and meaningful life lessons.

Oxygen

Director Alexandre Aja's film Oxygen manages to maintain tension and mystery for the whole of its running length with practically only one actor and one location. As a woman who wakes up confined in a futuristic medical pod with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Mélanie Laurent provides a compelling performance.

Aja comes up with inventive ways to photograph the one little space as she puts the pieces of her life and her predicament together. The primary character is left in the same physical location as the story provides twists and emotional breakthroughs.

Passing

With this stunning and emotional adaptation of Nella Larson's 1929 novel Passing, actress Rebecca Hall makes her writing and directorial debut. Both Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga do a fantastic job portraying Black women who must negotiate complicated racial and sexual identities. The old buddies reunite in adulthood and upend one other's lives because they can both "pass" as white.

With dazzling black-and-white pictures and a stirring piano accompaniment, Hall effectively depicts the narrative. Passing has a vintage drama appearance and music, but it has a deep current relevance.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

To All the Boys I've Loved Before is a welcome exception to the generally forgettable original romantic comedy that Netflix regularly produces. The charming and endearing Lana Condor as awkward girl Lara Jean Covey serves as the star of this charming rom-com and intelligent coming-of-age film.

Lara Jean is shocked to learn that the private letters she wrote to the boys she had feelings on have somehow found their way to them. She suggests a phony relationship with well-known athlete Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) to hide her tracks, and of course, they fall in love in real life.