dws, a list by Daniel Switzer

7.2

/130110/

70

/4581/

69

/1483/

3.9

/719787/

93

/337/

79

/519/

90

/57/

4.0

age 17+

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

80

6.9

/23224/

67

/1134/

66

/307/

4.0

/216463/

92

/213/

75

/123/

91

/49/

4.0

age 14+

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

80

7.0

/136327/

69

/5701/

67

/1266/

3.7

/1047319/

96

/278/

82

/242/

85

/55/

4.0

age 16+

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

77

7.1

/254848/

69

/12554/

67

/3357/

3.7

/2408748/

85

/381/

73

/2959/

78

/59/

4.0

age 16+

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

76

7.1

/34320/

71

/2189/

70

/485/

3.4

/140129/

92

/212/

89

/116/

76

/38/

3.0

age 15+

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

76

6.8

/59072/

68

/4780/

65

/792/

3.5

/135683/

93

/162/

89

/101/

75

/37/

3.5

age 15+

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

75

6.8

/8284/

71

/1121/

68

/112/

3.1

/17678/

92

/64/

97

/1827/

60

/12/

3.5

age 8+

The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.

75

73

7.1

/4303/

72

/847/

73

/154/

3.5

/11775/

92

/12/

76

/35/

Suspicious of the events ensnaring their former colleagues, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are spurred out of retirement to investigate. As they grapple with personal ethics, inner demons and a society turned against them, they race the clock to uncover a deepening plot that might trigger global nuclear war.

73

7.3

/174/

70

/1/

60

/2/

3.7

/777/

100

/17/

2.5

Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry’s family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream. A Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience Award winner.

73

6.9

/76078/

73

/7764/

76

/3092/

3.5

/473247/

86

/152/

95

/3285/

56

/28/

2.5

age 9+

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

72

6.5

/2032/

67

/227/

60

/28/

3.3

/2781/

96

/27/

79

/18/

71

/6/

3.0

Newly released from prison, a white-collar criminal, used to dealing with numbers, is tasked with one last job by his boss: kill the boss’ girlfriend before she talks.

70

6.4

/28037/

63

/1128/

66

/466/

3.4

/425515/

77

/245/

65

/107/

72

/50/

3.5

age 17+

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

70

6.8

/51936/

70

/4771/

72

/406/

3.4

/159342/

77

/44/

78

/358/

55

/7/

3.0

age 13+

When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

69

6.5

/19911/

63

/915/

64

/240/

3.3

/169374/

83

/238/

72

/274/

66

/44/

3.0

age 15+

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

69

6.2

/18204/

64

/1219/

59

/230/

3.0

/58617/

81

/185/

81

/20/

71

/53/

3.0

age 13+

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

69

6.6

/79838/

72

/7281/

73

/2492/

2.9

/408536/

56

/222/

88

/2749/

56

/51/

3.5

age 8+

Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny.

68

5.6

/2872/

55

/193/

57

/97/

3.0

/23645/

66

/105/

87

/22/

65

/25/

4.0

age 15+

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

68

6.5

/188388/

69

/13975/

68

/2562/

3.0

/942824/

88

/107/

52

/1833/

69

/25/

3.0

age 14+

An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

67

6.5

/285295/

68

/18714/

66

/4110/

3.2

/1282170/

70

/406/

81

/4406/

64

/62/

2.5

age 16+

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.

66

6.3

/765/

68

/178/

63

/22/

3.1

/1189/

3.0

Uncover the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In a gripping chase, Ronan Farrow travels across the world following breadcrumbs and finally exposing a dark world of spywares, hacking, and peddling of private information, where activists and journalists are persecuted, and no one is protected from the watchful and vicious eyes of authoritarianism.

64

6.3

/121089/

70

/8455/

70

/2874/

2.8

/623382/

60

/245/

85

/3781/

58

/50/

2.0

age 6+

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys alongside Maui and a new crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.

64

5.8

/77449/

56

/3787/

57

/1073/

2.7

/832377/

76

/276/

48

/717/

79

/55/

3.5

age 17+

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

64

6.7

/30803/

76

/3252/

75

/615/

3.3

/89804/

56

/57/

72

/406/

51

/14/

2.0

age 13+

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

70

63

5.8

/2167/

77

/585/

65

/24/

3.0

/2693/

100

/7/

65

/121/

Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning actor. Grammy-winning singer. Beloved comedian. Jamie Foxx returns to the stage to set the record straight.

80

62

7.4

/2471/

77

/479/

68

/30/

3.6

/5525/

100

/5/

90

/7/

Anthony Jeselnik celebrates 20 years of delivering boundary-pushing comedy to the masses in this razor-sharp stand-up special.

61

5.4

/699/

61

/83/

46

/6/

3.1

/2776/

75

/28/

59

/8/

3.0

age 15+

Walt (lover of threesomes, hater of shirts) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a former Pro Bowler as they discover he might be THE GOAT of the lanes. The only things standing in their way are racism, alcoholism and Linda "The Crusher" Curson.

64

61

6.1

/2616/

67

/376/

70

/106/

2.8

/7266/

53

/15/

82

/59/

age 10+

When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness.

72

60

7.3

/2295/

76

/459/

69

/27/

3.5

/7048/

In his third Netflix special, Nate Bargatze tackles pizza-ordering strategies for guys' night, wanting a second dog and relying on his responsible wife.

60

4.9

/428/

52

/33/

52

/15/

3.1

/985/

84

/25/

2.5

On the night of first harvest, three brothers in the American West set out to see a dead witch buried by their friend. When they accidentally desecrate the body, they learn the only way to stop a curse on their family is to burn it before sunrise.

60

6.3

/38142/

64

/3073/

66

/761/

3.0

/122703/

49

/150/

81

/457/

54

/32/

2.0

age 11+

A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.

59

5.5

/2750/

50

/147/

51

/26/

3.1

/13604/

80

/79/

28

/88/

72

/20/

3.0

age 13+

A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.

60

59

6.1

/5517/

66

/360/

73

/220/

2.9

/35585/

31

/16/

73

/62/

age 15+

Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.

59

5.6

/28954/

65

/4869/

64

/861/

2.2

/41091/

55

/56/

80

/180/

50

/9/

2.5

age 14+

Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to venture into the danger zone.

57

5.7

/9421/

68

/985/

63

/257/

2.4

/45068/

69

/13/

42

/70/

age 10+

On a quest to reconnect with the man of her dreams, Layla races across New York City to find a ticket to a sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve concert.

76

55

7.6

/1820/

72

/119/

70

/27/

3.5

/2608/

95

/19/

80

/11/

73

/7/

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. Petty vanity and a sense of entitlement lead to corruption and the Netanyahus' unwillingness to give up power. The extreme right senses opportunity in Bibi's weakness, and the dominos fall.

54

5.7

/26468/

63

/2285/

62

/556/

2.3

/178047/

37

/35/

51

/178/

41

/8/

3.0

age 13+

After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof — while hiding their romantic history.

53

5.2

/5022/

63

/960/

65

/96/

1.8

/5913/

45

/22/

71

/1014/

44

/5/

age 13+

A nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles, and the nation devolves into unprecedented chaos. Ex-Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family escape to The Homestead, an eccentric prepper’s fortress nestled in the mountains. As violent threats and apocalyptic conditions creep toward their borders, the residents of The Homestead are left to wonder: how long can a group of people resist both the dangers of human nature and the bloodshed at their doorstep?

53

5.5

/23306/

56

/1756/

57

/331/

2.8

/128919/

60

/220/

40

/306/

56

/53/

2.0

age 15+

A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.

53

5.5

/8708/

65

/1174/

66

/290/

2.7

/19396/

48

/42/

47

/191/

54

/12/

1.5

age 8+

When a powerful spell turns her parents into giant monsters, a teenage princess must journey into the wild to reverse the curse before it's too late.

50

5.3

/5373/

60

/997/

55

/197/

2.3

/6833/

26

/38/

94

/49/

33

/11/

1.5

age 15+

Stuck at a dead end but vying for the love of spunky club manager Anata, aging contract killer Danny Dolinski is thrilled when The Company pulls him back in the field, but only to train Gen Z newcomer Wihlborg, a prodigy assassin with an attitude.

58

50

5.4

/2093/

62

/270/

57

/31/

2.5

/3536/

55

/20/

74

/173/

age 14+

In early 1970s Florida, an ominous white van stalks young women. A teenage girl is the latest victim, but this one won't stay a victim.

48

5.1

/1423/

52

/151/

52

/32/

2.7

/5434/

29

/17/

53

/17/

2.0

age 16+

Abbie Bladecut is a teenager torn between the macabre traditions of her family’s bloody trade and the tender stirrings of her first crush. In the small town of Clover Falls, Abbie’s father Roger has built an infamous legacy by capturing real-life killings on tape and selling them to eager customers, but as Abbie delves deeper into the grisly family business, she begins to wonder if it’s time to take the family tradition in a new direction.

73

48

7.2

/1782/

72

/88/

57

/17/

3.0

/676/

84

/451/

93

/7104/

When a scandal upends a famous TV mother’s life ahead of the holidays, she heads to a luxury Vermont resort for Christmas. Upon arriving, a booking error leads her to a quaint B&B owned by an astronomy teacher.

70

47

7.1

/1366/

73

/272/

66

/19/

3.5

/2535/

Ronny Chieng unpacks fertility treatment fiascoes, the dark side of men's self-help and scam-sensitive parents.

47

4.7

/19576/

52

/1681/

51

/249/

2.5

/206978/

42

/113/

52

/104/

49

/29/

1.5

age 17+

Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.

47

4.4

/9479/

53

/2211/

58

/464/

2.0

/22019/

49

/47/

42

/127/

46

/5/

age 16+

A year after a supermoon’s light activated a dormant gene, transforming humans into bloodthirsty werewolves and causing nearly a billion deaths, the nightmare resurfaces as the supermoon rises again. Two scientists attempt to stop the mutation but fail and must now struggle to reach one of their family homes.

61

46

6.1

/1787/

67

/313/

60

/26/

2.8

/2864/

age 14+

Their crimes earned them the nickname Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde — and the story only gets weirder in this documentary about the most lucrative heist ever.

60

46

6.4

/2805/

69

/204/

67

/30/