Four Ben Affleck movies to stream on Netflix right now
The Hollywood career of Ben Affleck stretches back more than three decades, and acting has only ever been part of the story, a multi-hyphenate. He co-wrote Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon and won an Oscar for the screenplay. Years later, he directed Argo, which went on to win Best Picture. Oh, and he starred in it as well. It’s only natural.
Then there is The Town, another film he directed while also taking the lead role, and Gone Girl, where David Fincher gave him one of the most scrutinised performances of his career. More recently, the 2023 sports drama Air reunited him with Damon and doubled as an early showcase for Artists Equity, the production company the duo founded together.
And now? Netflix has become part of the equation. In March 2026, Artists Equity signed a multi-year first-look deal with the OTT. Netflix also acquired Affleck’s filmmaking technology company, InterPositive, and brought him on as a senior adviser. At this point, really, what’s left?
Which brings us to the four films. Netflix currently has four Affleck titles, all worth watching in one sitting. So, if you are in the mood for an Affleck binge, this is a very good place to start.
Four Ben Affleck movies to stream on Netflix right now
The Rip (Joe Carnahan, 2026)
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have enough shared history to make The Rip interesting before it even starts. Here, they are part of a Miami police unit that finds millions of dollars hidden in a stash house. Sounds like a result, doesn’t it? Well, not quite. The cash immediately throws the whole team off balance, because once that sort of money is in front of you, trust starts shaking. Suddenly, everyone is watching everyone else, and motives look dodgy.
Affleck plays Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne opposite Damon’s Dane Dumars, and he keeps Byrne wonderfully hard to read. That works a treat here, because you are never sure whether he is suspicious or just fed up with the mess around him. Affleck and Damon also produced the film through Artists Equity, so this is not just another reunion for old times’ sake. They are steering the ship as well.
Triple Frontier (J.C. Chandor, 2019)
Triple Frontier gave Ben Affleck something rather different to play with, and he nailed it. His character, Tom “Redfly” Davis, is a former Special Forces captain who has left the military behind and is now trying to make civilian life work. Then an old teammate comes up with a plan to rob a drug lord who is sitting on an enormous pile of cash. There you go, cash again! What’s with Mr Affleck and money? But you can see the temptation, can’t you? The men have the training, and they know how to pull off an operation. Piece of cake, surely. Except this is where greed comes in and starts making a complete mess of things.
Affleck’s Redfly is someone who knows exactly how dangerous the job is but still cannot walk away from it. That makes him interesting, because he is not just chasing excitement. He needs the money, and you can feel that desperation in his decisions. Once the plan begins to fall apart, Redfly starts losing the cool-headed authority that made the others trust him in the first place. And, well, that is when things really go south.
The Last Thing He Wanted (Dee Rees, 2020)
Now, Anne Hathaway may be at the centre of The Last Thing He Wanted, but Ben Affleck turns up at exactly the point when he’s needed the most. Hathaway plays Elena McMahon, a journalist investigating US involvement in Central America during the 1980s. Then her father asks her to take over an arms deal for him. Not ideal. She agrees, and before long, she has gone from reporting on secretive political dealings to being dragged right into the middle of them herself.
Affleck plays Treat Morrison, a government official who is never as straightforward as Elena would like him to be. He is not the centre of the attraction in the film, but that actually works in his favour. Morrison drifts in and out of the story just enough to keep you suspicious. Affleck gives him that unreadable manner he does so well that makes even an ordinary conversation feel as though something is being left unsaid. You keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Hypnotic (Robert Rodriguez, 2023)
The last one on the list is Hypnotic, where Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a detective still dealing with the disappearance of his daughter, when a bank robbery puts him on the trail of a man who appears able to control what people see and influence what they do. Man, what is with Affleck and money? At this point, it’s getting a little sus. Anyway, then Danny finds a clue connected to his daughter inside the bank, and before you know it, the case becomes personal. Looks like he’s got another “Gone Girls” on his hands.
But kudos to Affleck for keeping Danny like a composed man even while everything around him goes off the rails. He plays him as a father first and detective second, which gives you something solid, more emotional, to hang on to. And that restraint helps. If Affleck went as wild as the story does, the whole thing would probably become an absolute mess. Instead, he lets the film do the shouting.