One thing is certain about this month’s selection of original movies on Netflix: They aren’t Oscar bait. Back in Action is an action comedy that’s purely a crowd-pleaser, but Netflix thrives on films like that. It’s the equivalent of having a modest box office hit that suddenly shows up in your Netflix feed.
Our other pick for the month, Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, is a documentary about Bryan Johnson, a man who has taken some very aggressive steps to lengthen his life. What Johnson —and by extension, the viewers and the filmmakers — probably didn’t expect is that the movie underlines the personal cost of his quest beyond the money that he invested in himself.
You can find these films and the rest of the best Netflix original movies below.
If you don’t find what you’re looking for here, try our other lists of the best movies to stream this week, the best Netflix movies, the best Hulu original series, and the best Amazon Prime original movies.
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