The five best movies to watch on Netflix on a Sunday
Sundays are fun days if you know where to pull up. While children might park their cycles near the Netflix playground, adults will probably roll up at the adjacent cinema hall.
The lineup is honestly as intriguing as it gets, and the best part? Viewers can literally enter any hall and start anywhere.
But before you straighten up your Sunday plans and lock it, it’s best to familiarise yourself with everything waiting in the wings.
So, for those already joining the popcorn queue, here are the five best movies to watch on Netflix this Sunday.
The five best movies to binge on Netflix this Sunday
Best of the Best (Lena Khan, 2026)
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan just made her Netflix comeback with Best of the Best. So, how can we start our Sunday marathon with anything else? In the coming-of-age story, the Never Have I Ever actor and Priyanka Kedia star as two lifelong best friends, Maya and Anjali, who sign up to compete in UCLA’s Bollywood fusion dance team, unaware that the road to winning the US championship is far more cutthroat and unforgiving than they realise.
Although Best of the Best celebrates sisterhood and, of course, the liveliness of Bollywood dance fusion, it also tests their friendship as Maya and Anjali are thrown into the chaos of young adulthood. While the dance-comedy drama already hit Netflix shelves during the workweek, for those saving it for the highly anticipated Sunday marathon, we hope the Netflix starter-pack hits home already.
Go Team! (Diego Núñez Irigoyen, 2026)
Up next on the Sunday binge session, we recommend a Spanish dark comedy film, Go Team!. The movie follows a struggling cheese company whose mandatory rural team-bonding retreat spirals into a tense battle when employees realise major downsizing is due soon. At the centre of the film is Tio Mochales, once a famous Spanish cheese producer, now in decline, just keeping up appearances.
Go Team! follows Olga, who returns to work after maternity leave when she’s forced to attend the retreat with her coworkers in the very village where the company was founded. Although the trip is framed as a way to reconnect with employees and reflect on traditional company values, it evolves into chaos when employees notice the elephant in the room and unmask the real reason, prompting everyone to turn against each other.
Stop! That! Train! (Adam Shankman, 2026)
This Sunday, we’re hopping on the comedy train with three back-to-back laugh-out-loud movies. And the third one is literally called Stop! That! Train!. The disaster comedy follows two best friends and budget-railway stewardess, Tess and DeeDee, who end up jobless when Stank Rail goes out of business. But instead of looking the other way around, they try to sneak onto the ultra-glamorous Glamazonian Express, posing as new staff.
Although the plan seems to go well, at least initially, their train-school bullies, who work in first class, soon get a hunch and banish them to coach. But if you think that’s the disaster that takes centre stage in the comedy, you’re wildly mistaken. From a rogue scorpion to a lightning strike, everything that follows leaves the high-speed train with no one to control. Now it’s up to the former budget-railway stewardesses to fast-track disaster management to save everyone onboard.
Opus (Mark Anthony Green, 2025)
While we may have opted for a light-hearted start to the Sunday watchlist, we haven’t forgotten that the spooky season is fast approaching. So, expect the final laps to come with their fair share of jump scares, starting with Opus, currently streaming on Netflix. The pop-horror movie centres on an underappreciated journalist-writer, Ariel, working at a leading music magazine, who receives a VIP invite to a reclusive musician’s listening party.
The musician, Alfred Moretti, resurfaced after three decades to debut a new album, and the listening party is set in a desert. While Ariel is not the only person to receive the invite, once there, the gathering takes everyone back as they realise the compound is run by the Levelists, a cult that worships Moretti and his artistic beauty. But the agenda behind the gathering is far more sinister than this discovery, to say the least.
Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)
Netflix has a way of taking Sunday binge sessions a level above with its licensed titles. So, to wrap up the marathon, we summoned Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, starring Michael B Jordan. The horror movie follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack, who return to Mississippi with a massive stolen fortune from Chicago to buy an old sawmill and turn it into a juke joint, a rural bar for music and dancing, and hire locals, including their young cousin, a talented blues guitarist.
While the business takes shape, an enigmatic Irish immigrant, Remick, arrives in town, bringing chaos and bloodshed in his wake. It turns out the immigrant is a vampire whose tribe is immediately drawn to the blues club due to the brothers’ cousin’s powerful music. But right during the opening night, tragedy strikes when local people and bar employees confront a horde of vampires, ready to attack and suck their blood.