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If you feel like your Sundays are not Sunday-ing anymore, you’ve possibly got it all wrong. Instead of taking it seriously, labelling it Monday 2.0, and missing out on all the fun, shed the assumptions and make it a day of Netflix & Chill.

Since it’s not exactly easy to distract the audience from the impending Monday upset, an ordinary Sunday watchlist may not hit home.

So, to ensure that the movie marathon actually leaves you seated like your life depends on it, it’s only fair to offer a Sunday of thrills.

While we understand that the curation process seems like a trial by fire every single time, unsure of what the content might bring to the table, here are the five best movies to binge on Netflix this Sunday, where there’s no room for mediocrity, let alone doubts.

The five best movies to stream on Netflix this Sunday

Enola Holmes 3 (Philip Barantini, 2026)

If you’re hoping to kick off the Sunday marathon on a high note, nothing is topping Enola Holmes 3. In the third part of the hit mystery movie series, Enola travels to Malta to marry Lord Tewkesbury. But before she can even reach the destination, Dr Watson comes bearing a concerning piece of news about her elder brother, Sherlock, who was originally supposed to walk her down the aisle. It happens to be so that Sherlock has been kidnapped.

Forced to delay the wedding and embark on an increasingly unexpected investigation, Enola joins forces with Dr Watson to uncover clues and cyphers, discovering soon that the entire destination is a well-thought-out conspiracy. And to actually locate Sherlock, you might have to give the not-so-little sleuth a hand or two this Sunday when you tune into Enola Holmes 3.

Companion (Drew Hancock, 2025)

Since we’re strictly looking for thrills this Sunday, don’t forget to make Companion one of your pit stops. Directed by Drew Hancock, the sci-fi thriller movie opens with a young woman, Iris, recounting how she met her boyfriend, Josh, for the first time, and hit it off soon after. In fact, they even go on a weekend getaway sometime later with friends, only for the vacation to evolve into a pool of blood and chaos.

It turns out that the seemingly sweet boyfriend, Josh, actually paid for a rental of Iris, an advanced companion robot. And he went ahead to tamper with the robot’s factory programming to remove her built-in inability to harm humans, hoping to use her as a weapon to murder and rob a wealthy friend, forgetting that humans can only weaponise and manipulate technology so far until technology gets the best of them.

September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum, 2024)

Another equally gripping pick for this Sunday is the historical thriller, September 5, based on the Munich massacre of 1972. The film doesn’t directly chronicle the hostage crisis. But instead, the film is told from the perspective of the ABC Sports crew, who transformed overnight from broadcasting athletic events to covering a tragic terrorist act live to a global audience of hundreds of millions of people.

September 5 essentially pulls back the curtain on the ABC broadcast team as they struggle to navigate the coverage of a crisis unfolding live from their newsroom. The movie pulls back the curtain on the enormous ethical dilemmas, immense technical challenges, and the heavy emotional and psychological toll of conveying raw, unfolding violence to the world.

Talk to Me (Danny and Michael B Philippou, 2022)

Directed by Danny and Michael Philippou in their feature directorial debuts, Talk to Me is a supernatural horror film that will have you reaching for the lights and giving up on ambience. The unsettling story follows Mia, a teenager deeply grieving the recent death of her mother, who, in an attempt to seek connection and a way to escape her reality, joins her friends to play a dangerous game.

Using a mysterious, embalmed hand, which supposedly acts as a portal, the group of teens try to summon spirits to temporarily possess one of the participants. But the catch is: members have to let go of the hand within 90 seconds to break the connection. However, Mia breaks the 90-second rule of possession, inadvertently unleashing terrifying supernatural forces that blur the line between paranormal and reality.

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)

Lastly, to wrap up the Sunday marathon, we suggest taking a trip down memory lane in the wake of the recent arrival of Gone Girl. The cult thriller follows Nick Dunne, who becomes the prime suspect when his wife, Amy, mysteriously disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary. As the media frenzy intensifies, the plot thickens with the discovery of a diary and evidence that suggests Nick murdered Amy.

While it’s only obvious that a David Fincher thriller cannot be so black and white, Gone Girl revolves around the twists and turns of the investigation that culminates in a dramatic twist that makes the spectator question everyone and everything. The narrative is told through alternating perspectives, which are bound to play mind games. So, while you’re at it, buckle up to be shaken.