New Netflix Releases for May 20, 2014
No Country for Old Men
While hunting, Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad and takes off with $2 million in cash, but a psychotic hit man is hot on his trail. A hard-luck dude finds enough money to start over. But a certain individual with a weird haircut has other plans.
2007
| Police Movies | Film Noir | Crime Thrillers | 20th Century Period Pieces | Thrillers | Police Thrillers |
Fireplace for Your Home - Season 1
Replicate the peacefulness of an old-fashioned, wood-burning fireplace, as well as a crackling yule log fireplace, all set to holiday tunes. Nothing like a little festive music and nice crackling fire without all the smoke. No overheating here!
2010
| Special Interest | Home & Garden |
Eye for an Eye
Grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when the man who raped and murdered her daughter is freed on a technicality. When a deranged killer fails to pay the price for his brutal crimes, a mother's rage leads to justice -- at any cost.
1996
| Dramas | Dramas based on contemporary literature | Thrillers | Crime Dramas | Crime Thrillers | Psychological Thrillers | Dramas based on Books |
Waiting for Forever
A contentedly jobless wanderer decides to focus his energies on reconnecting with the girl he loved as a child, who is now a Hollywood actress. For the one that got away, true love never fades. But it will follow you obsessively around the country.
2010
| Independent Dramas | Dramas | Romantic Movies | Romantic Dramas | Independent Movies | Romantic Independent Movies |
Everything Must Go
Hoping to let go of his baggage and make a new start after losing his wife and his job, a sad-sack alcoholic sells all his belongings in a yard sale. He's a relapsed alcoholic. His wife and job are history. Sometimes when you hit rock bottom you hold a yard sale?
2010
| Independent Movies | Dramas | Comedies |
Mr. Bean's Holiday
The hapless Mr. Bean takes a vacation on the French Riviera, where he becomes ensnared in an accidental kidnapping and a case of mistaken identity. He accidentally kidnaps a young boy, finds true love, and disrupts a commercial shoot. France doesn't stand a chance.
2007
| Slapstick Comedies | Comedies |
The Best Intentions
Theology student Henrik and upper-class Anna marry despite their families' disapproval, and Anna struggles to cope without her accustomed luxuries.
1992
| Romantic Dramas | Romantic Movies | Foreign Dramas | Foreign Movies | Dramas based on real life | Dramas | 20th Century Period Pieces | Biographical Dramas | Romantic Foreign Movies | Scandinavian Movies | Swedish Movies |
Trading Places
A streetwise hustler trades places with a wealthy investment executive as part of a bet cooked up by the rich, greedy Duke brothers. Take one snooty investor. Replace with one streetwise hustler. Can they survive life in each other's shoes?
1983
| Comedies |
The Spiderwick Chronicles
When city-raised twins move to a tumbledown country mansion, it's quite an adjustment -- especially after they uncover a magical fantasy world. The wall that separates worlds tumbles to the ground. Life on Earth just became a little more fantastic.
2008
| Movies based on children's books | Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Family Features | Children & Family Movies | Movies for ages 8 to 10 | Movies for ages 11 to 12 | Family Adventures |
Never Back Down
When a quick-tempered teen moves to a new town and faces the challenges of attending a new high school, he seeks solace in an underground fight club. After a humiliating public beat-down, a hotheaded teen finds his fists and his feet. But mostly, he finds himself.
2008
| Dramas | Sports Movies | Martial Arts Movies | Action & Adventure | Action Thrillers |
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
The forest-dwelling Lorax has to stop the short-sighted Once-ler from ruining the environment for profit in this adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. A town with no trees. A spunky boy on a mission. Will he uncover the truth about what happened to nature?
2012
| Children & Family Movies | Movies for ages 8 to 10 | Movies for ages 11 to 12 | Family Features | Family Feature Animation | Movies based on children's books | Movies for ages 5 to 7 | Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
The Next Three Days
When his wife is sent to jail on murder charges she fervently denies, a college professor hatches a meticulous plan for the ultimate prison escape. His wife's in prison, and he wants her out. There's nothing more dangerous than a man in love with nothing left to lose.
2010
| Dramas | Thrillers | Crime Dramas | Crime Thrillers |
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
A teen endowed with supernatural vision recruits a band of youthful human-angel hybrids to help rescue her kidnapped mother from a sinister stranger. She's celebrating her 16th birthday in a pretty unusual way: using her newfound powers to rescue Mom from demons.
2013
| Comic Book and Superhero Movies | Sci-Fi Thrillers | Sci-Fi Adventure | Supernatural Thrillers | Fantasy Movies | Adventures | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Action & Adventure | Romantic Movies | Thrillers |
The Notebook
Two young lovers are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel. An ill-fated 1940s love affair is retold through the pages of an elderly woman's diary. Hankies required.
2004
| Romantic Dramas | 20th Century Period Pieces | Dramas based on Books | Romantic Favorites | Dramas | Tearjerkers | Dramas based on contemporary literature | Romantic Movies |
The Vow
When a recently married young woman awakens with amnesia following a car accident, her devoted husband must help her recover and win back her love. She doesn't remember him, but she's still his wife. He'll spend the rest of his life reminding her if he has to.
2012
| Dramas | Dramas based on real life | Romantic Movies | Romantic Dramas | Romantic Favorites |
Lee Daniels' The Butler
The life of a White House butler who served under eight presidents unfolds against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.
2013
| 20th Century Period Pieces | Biographical Dramas | Dramas based on real life | Tearjerkers | Political Dramas | Dramas |