The five best movies to watch on Netflix on a Sunday
Sunday is inching closer by the minute, and so are Netflix subscribers to their weekend watchlist.
In one way or another, November has been good for cinephiles because Netflix hasn’t gone a day without a new release. Of course, they come in all shapes and sizes, sometimes to fulfil the holiday fervour and other times to make every movie geek’s dream come true.
This week is no exception, with Netflix paying special attention to the festive lineup. From Christmassy rom-coms to holiday dramas that restore faith, the streaming giant has already summoned December feels halfway through November. So, if you want to feel the holiday jitters already, join in.
But in case you’re still wondering whether that’s really all you’ve to do, the answer is no. You still have to open your devices and tune in to the five best movies to watch on Netflix this Sunday in the queue before doomsday.
The five best movies to stream on Netflix this Sunday
The Gospel of Christmas (Tyler Perry, 2026)
Written and directed by Tyler Perry, The Gospel of Christmas is the only pre-holiday watch you need if you’re suffering from a crisis of faith and belief. The musical holiday movie follows Isaac Jefferson, a former R&B singer now a pastor, as he inherits his family’s dilapidated church in a broken New York City neighbourhood and eventually relocates with his wife Rebecca and their sons, hoping to rebuild it.
Upon arrival, Isaac discovers the church is drowning under massive debts. To make everything worse, it has a dwindling, disheartened congregation. At a time when Isaac faces a deep inner crisis of faith and wrestles with his inner demons, old temptations, and reminders of his past life as a secular music artist, he must also confront a sinister adversary hellbent on the ministry’s downfall while leaning on the power of prayer, community, and gospel music.
The Christmas Switch (Adam Pålsson, 2026)
Up next on our Sunday watchlist is the Swedish festive rom-com, The Christmas Switch, directed by Adam Pålsson. The Christmassy romantic comedy follows sisters Mathilda and Freddie, who are anything but like each other. Mathilda is a small-town homebody set to inherit her family’s local general store and settle down with her long-term partner Jonas, even though she secretly feels stuck and dreams of becoming a florist.
Meanwhile, Freddie is a high-powered, workaholic city girl living a fast-paced life in Stockholm. After driving herself to exhaustion and collapsing from work stress, Freddie returns to her hometown to recover. But the sisters’ reunion opens the floodgates of new opportunities for Mathilda as they decide to swap lives, seeking a temporary change of pace from their respective routines in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and finding unexpected romance.
Heartland (Shana Feste, 2026)
Heartland, starring Jessica Chastain, is a neo-noir mystery thriller about former country music superstar Misty Jones. Directed by Shana Feste, the Netflix Original crime thriller follows the former “Queen of Mean/Queen of Country” as she breaks her 20-year seclusion to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her 22-year-old rising country-star niece, Charlie Heart.
As she returns to her hometown to track down her missing niece, Misty is thrust into a situation where she must confront her own troubled past and the dark side of Nashville’s country music industry. Heartland centres on Misty as her missing-persons investigation becomes a full-scale murder investigation, uncovering local corruption, dark personal secrets, and the city’s music industry that hides a gritty underbelly.
The Good Lawyer (Tristan Séguéla, 2026)
Everybody loves a good legal thriller, especially when it is packed into a fast-paced movie like The Good Lawyer. The French Netflix Original drama follows high-profile defence lawyer Leonard Landry as he collapses publicly and overdoses in the middle of the courtroom after a bag of cocaine falls out of his pocket. After a rehabilitation retreat, he returns clean to discover he has just a week left to save his career and prepare for his own criminal trial.
Desperate to make his way back to the good books of the legal establishment, Leonard entangles with an explosive, controversial corporate case involving multinational French energy mining corporation Varenne Group and an NGO attack on dirty practices and a massacre in the Congo. The Good Lawyer centres on Leonard’s high-stakes legal battle as he finds an unlikely alliance in his reluctant aide, down-on-his-luck 30-something legal intern Noe.
The Unthinkable Daughter (Lygia M Barbosa and Paulo Gambale, 2026)
The final entry on our Sunday watchlist is a gritty true-crime documentary, The Unthinkable Daughter, which examines the notorious 2002 murder case of Manfred and Marisia von Richthofen in São Paulo, Brazil. That year, 18-year-old Suzane von Richthofen helped orchestrate the cold-blooded murder of her own parents inside their home with the help of her boyfriend, Daniel Cravinhos and his brother.
Directed by Lygia M Barbosa and Paulo Gambale, The Unthinkable Daughter features never-before-seen interviews with Suzane conducted over two decades after the shocking crime and a decade since her last major media appearance. The documentary faces Suzane with the original forensic evidence, police investigations, archival footage, and perspectives from legal experts to see who she has become after serving part of her sentence.