The five best movies to watch on Netflix on a Sunday
Remember when Sunday movie nights were a thing? Those evenings where the whole family huddled up under a single quilt, the house went pitch black, and the living room suddenly felt like a grand cinema. It feels like a lifetime ago, but who says we can’t bring it back? With a quick tap on the Netflix play button, you can literally summon the world at your fingertips.
So, do you really think bringing back a sacred Sunday tradition would be a challenge? Doesn’t really look like it.
If you’re a sucker for nostalgia and someone who refuses to outgrow the joy of a Sunday night marathon, you’re actually at the right spot.
With the five best movies to watch on Netflix on a Sunday, it’s about time to bring those shenanigans back.
The five best movies to binge on Netflix on a Sunday
Apex (Baltasar Kormákur, 2026)
With all that energy saved since Friday night, it only makes sense to kick off the Sunday marathon on a high note, and what would be a better pick than Baltasar Kormákur’s survival thriller, Apex? Released on April 24th, the Netflix thriller stars Charlize Theron as Sasha, a grieving climber who turns to the untamed Australian wilderness to seek solace and try to conquer the Australian Blue Mountains.
But what begins as an escape turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase between Sasha and a ruthless hunter called Ben, who callously toys with his victims in a twisted game. The brutal, rocky terrain of New South Wales is the main character of Apex, which follows the tight, claustrophobic confrontation between these two, culminating in intense sequences of pursuit and combat.
Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time (Alejandro Hartmann, 2026)
The next entry on our Sunday watchlist is a gripping docu-film, Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time, which investigates and recounts the notorious 1979 Argentine case of housewife and socialite Maria Bernardina de Las Mercedes Bolla Aponte de Murano AKA Yiya. The Netflix documentary recounts Murano’s impossible trail of crimes, who unsuspectingly poisoned three friends with cyanide during tea parties.
Murano had reportedly borrowed money from her friends to run a Ponzi scheme, which she unfortunately couldn’t pay back. So, instead of finding ways to clear the mounting debt, she turned to cold-blooded murder. Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time revisits the long trail of investigation and the first breakthrough while examining the societal fascination with this particular case that put the entire country on alert.
180 (Alex Yazbek, 2026)
Once you’re done with that, you might want to return to the world of fictional thrillers with 180 on Netflix. The gritty revenge thriller follows Zak, who has meticulously reshaped his life around his son, Mandla, distancing himself from the world of crime. But one fine day, when a road rage incident leaves Mandla severely injured and in a critical condition, it brings back every ghost of Zak’s past.
As justice hangs in the balance, Zak finds himself right back into the dangerous underbelly he once abandoned to make room for stability and peace. 180 revolves around Zak’s desperate attempts at confronting a criminal gang led by notorious Warren Masemola as he draws in favours from his old alliances, all while trying to keep himself within the line, lest he makes a move irreversible.
Thrash (Tommy Wirkola, 2026)
If you’ve grown up with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, it’s time we turn back time this Sunday with Thrash, Tommy Wirkola’s suspenseful shark-infested thriller. The survival thriller is set amidst a Category 5 hurricane at a South Carolina coastal town, Annieville, that not only destroys the sea walls, raising water at alarming levels, but also unleashes ravenous sharks into the main streets and people’s homes.
Thrash primarily follows four sets of characters – a heavily pregnant Lisa stranded in her car, an agoraphobic Dakota trapped in her home, a marine biologist, Dale, trying to launch a rescue mission, and three foster kids, who are navigating the flooded streets all on their own. While the Netflix thriller brings a natural disaster and predators to the forefront, it culminates in a bloody showdown which you cannot miss for the world.
Night Always Comes (Benjamin Caron, 2025)
And since Sunday night has to end somewhere, how about settling down on Night Always Comes for the final pick? The crime thriller adapts Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel of the same name, telling the story of Lynette, who has just one night to raise $25,000 to buy her Portland house and secure a future for her brother with Down syndrome while dealing with a neglectful mother.
Ironically, when her mother blows up the savings on a car, Lynette is left with no option but to fall back on her past contacts, from former lovers to addicts to criminal contacts from her past as an escort, to get the money. Although her desperation has no bounds, it’s important to note that the threat actually resides too close to home. So, will she be able to achieve what she’s set out for? Find out for yourself in Night Always Comes.