The five best movies to watch on Netflix on a Sunday
The weekend fever is currently breathing down the neck of every Netflix subscriber, with everyone hopping on the anxiety train.
But since Netflix has an inexhaustible supply of content to make them excuse their good night’s sleep more often than they think, needless to say, this Sunday is easily going to be another all-nighter.
While the streamer has been consistently upping their content flow with every passing week, this one has been particularly heavy on movies.
So, if you’re anywhere around, join us and tune into the five best movies to watch on Netflix this Sunday.
The five best movies to binge on Netflix on a Sunday
The Truthers (Roger Gual, 2026)
Sunday is going to be a little intense, thanks to our marathon’s starter pack, The Truthers. The Spanish psychological thriller follows Berlin-based DJ Ruth who returns to her childhood hometown after the sudden, mysterious death of her mother, reuniting with her estranged father, Martin. There, she realises that Martin has become extremely aggressive and reclusive, consumed by a disturbing conspiracy theory.
As a result, Ruth’s childhood home has unexpectedly evolved into a control room with security cameras fitted in every nook and corner. Needless to say, what started as anxiousness has now transformed into deep-seated fear. The more the erratic behaviour mounts, Ruth finds herself calling her memory into question, forcing herself to grow more and more suspicious about whether her father has something to do with her mother’s death.
72 Hours (Tim Story, 2026)
To balance the seriousness, we have a Kevin Hart comedy on the Sunday lineup, 72 Hours. The Netflix Original movie stars Hart as Joe, a 40-year-old marketing executive struggling with a reckoning that his professional Midas touch is probably fading. At a time such as this, he finds himself accidentally added to a text thread for a twentysomething’s bachelor party in Miami, and without thinking twice, he seizes it as an opportunity for revival and reclamation.
Desperately seeking a career boost, he sees it as a way to connect with youth culture, ultimately deciding to crash the three-day trip in Miami. 72 Hours follows Joe’s 72-hour-long rollercoaster ride packed with misadventures, chaos, and run-ins with danger – a trip originally driven by a determination to prove he’s still culturally relevant that turns into a comedic survival of the fittest challenge.
Elize: Shadows of a Woman (Felipe Vellas, 2026)
Inspired by a shocking real-life story retold from a fictionalised lens, Elize: Shadows of a Woman revolves around Elize Matsunaga, the Brazilian woman who allegedly murdered and dismembered her renowned businessman husband Marcos Matsunaga in 2012 at their São Paulo apartment. The movie doesn’t exactly lead up to the crime; it starts with it.
But instead of pigeonholing the focus on the crime itself, Elize: Shadows of a Woman dives deep into Elize’s past to explain what could have led her to resort to such extreme lengths. The crime drama sheds light on her difficult, broken childhood, life as a former escort, eventual marriage to Marcos, her wealthy husband’s infidelity, the power struggle, and the fear of losing her daughter to offer viewers an insight into how betrayal, trauma, and vengeance ultimately collided, upending her life in more ways.
A Toxic Love Story (Alexandra Lacey, 2026)
Another equally gripping title on the Sunday watchlist is A Toxic Love Story, a chilling true-crime documentary that sheds light on one of the most alarming miscarriages of justice. The 90-minute documentary recounts the story of former US Deputy Marshal Ian Diaz and Angela Diaz, who start receiving dangerous, life-threatening emails from an anonymous email address in 2016 when the latter is supposedly pregnant.
As the emails and the cyberstalking get more and more intense, the suspicion falls on Ian’s ex-fiancée, Michelle Hadley, resulting in an awful 88 days behind bars. However, as digital investigators dig deeper into the paper trail, the IP addresses of the fake identities and burner accounts are traced back to devices that simply don’t belong to her.
The Debt Collector (Surapong Ploensang, 2026)
Finally, to wrap up our Sunday session, we have a fresh action crime thriller, The Debt Collector, on the shelf. Directed by Surapong Ploensang, the gripping movie follows Num, a former underground loan shark enforcer, who, after being released from prison and receiving a terminal diagnosis, intends to spend his final days atoning for a brutal past where he has shed a lot of blood for money.
After witnessing brutal debt collectors harass vulnerable elderly people, he decides to step in, only to see the situation spiral out of control and result in the ruthless murder of those innocent people. The Debt Collector revolves around Num’s arc of revenge, who returns to a life of violence to seek justice and protect desperate victims, turning against his former boss while plunging back into the dangerous world of illegal lending.