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If your summertime Sunday escapades are all about staying indoors, you cannot really negotiate with hydration or entertainment. While that seven-step skincare routine, water, and consistency may guarantee the first, for the second, you must take a trip down the Netflix corridors.

Suppose you plan to start the day with a fruit salad, but need a hint of sweetness. Just hit play on that Netflix comedy you were waiting for all along and let it balance the palate.

Similarly, if you want something to engage you visually while you commit to that 30-minute sheet mask, you can always put on a gritty crime thriller to keep you hooked.

Although you may very well have equally valid and entirely different reasons, here are the five best movies to stream on Netflix this Sunday to make the search easy for each and every one of you.

The five best movies to binge on Netflix on a Sunday

Little Brother (Matt Spicer, 2026)

For a change of pace, we begin with the laughs this Sunday, and to commence the marathon, we recommend Matt Spicer’s latest comedy, Little Brother. The Netflix comedy stars John Cena as an uptight, meticulous real estate agent, Rudd, whose perfectly curated life unravels in a matter of seconds when his chaotic little brother, Marcus, portrayed by Eric André, reappears from a childhood mentorship program.

Little Brother kicks off as Rudd lands the biggest break of his professional life. However, the celebration doesn’t last long when Marcus enters the picture, inadvertently throwing his brother’s existence into pure chaos. While sibling dynamics are eccentric by default, Marcus and Rudd’s reunion brings a different kind of family drama, complicating matters, of course, not just professionally, but also personally.

In the Hand of Dante (Julian Schnabel, 2025)

If you’re longing for a star-studded drama this weekend, In the Hand of Dante, based on Nick Tosches’ 2002 novel, could be the second pit stop. While the movie had a world premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, it had a theatrical release, followed by its Netflix premiere quite recently. The story weaves together two distinct timelines separated by several centuries.

Firstly, it follows modern-day author Nick Tosches, who’s approached by a mob boss to authenticate a manuscript of The Divine Comedy and steal it, forcing him to embark on a dark, murderous, violent journey to Italy. Secondly, In the Hand of Dante flashes back in time to follow 14th-century poet Dante Alighieri after his exile from Florence, as he navigates existential and spiritual crisis.

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (Katt Shea, 2019)

Based on Carolyn Keene’s The Hidden Staircase, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase is a teen mystery comedy that will serve as the perfect companion if you have a teen sibling joining the Sunday routine. The movie follows 16-year-old Nancy and her lawyer father, Carson, who relocate from Chicago to the rural town of River Heights, following the death of her mother and his wife. Not long after, Carson is found squaring off in a political battle against a greedy corporate company.

Meanwhile, Nancy finds herself dealing with school bullies and punishment until she uncovers a real estate conspiracy in the isolated Victorian mansion called Twin Elms. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase revolves around her investigation into the supposedly haunted buildings, which, unbeknownst to Nancy, also have deep-seated, secret links with what her father is up against.

Fractured (Brad Anderson, 2019)

If you’re still caught up in the mysteries of I Will Find You, the mystery thriller, Fractured, starring Sam Worthington and directed by Brad Anderson, will hit home. The movie begins with Ray, his wife, and his six-year-old daughter returning home from a tense Thanksgiving dinner with the in-laws, when they stop at an isolated gas station. After being caught off guard by a stray, his daughter falls into the pit, and Ray jumps right in, but she unfortunately fractures her arm.

Ray doesn’t waste time rushing his family to a nearby hospital, where the doctor takes his daughter and wife for medical imaging in the basement. Ray is told to wait in the lobby, and hours pass with no signs of his family’s return. Upon confronting the hospital staff, what he learns completely blows minds: there’s no record of his daughter or wife ever being admitted, and Ray arrived all alone at the hospital.

Flowers in the Attic (Deborah Chow, 2014)

The final recommendation for the Sunday marathon is something we plucked from the list of Netflix’s weekly top 10 movies: Flowers in the Attic. The 2014 Lifetime movie was recently added to the Netflix library, and if you’re still unaware of its existence, you’re in for a show. The thriller follows the Dollanganger family, whose idyllic life in Pennsylvania is shattered when the patriarch tragically passes away in a car accident, leaving his wife, Corrine, and their four children to fend for themselves.

As the debts rise, Corrine decides to take her children to her wealthy, estranged parents’ massive estate, Foxworth Hall in Virginia, promising to turn everyone’s lives around for the better, despite placing them in an attic on arrival. But driven by the greed of reclaiming the family fortune, Corrine eventually abandons the children to abuse, sparking a forbidden bond between the older siblings.