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We are back with another Sunday movie marathon on Netflix, and all we can hope is that, like every other Monday precursor, you’ll be seated with a bag of snacks, the best of friends and family, and of course, your TV remote.

While the Sunday marathons have revived a childhood tradition we abruptly stopped continuing, keeping up with them is a challenge of its own.

After all, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of selection, especially when making a choice becomes the first step to ensure routine enjoyment. Not to forget the fatigue of scrolling, which puts you to sleep faster than a teenage rave would.

Let us do the heavy lifting this time and help you curate the five best movies to watch on Netflix this Sunday that make spending weekends at home worth it.

The five best movies to binge on Netflix this Sunday

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Macon Blair, 2017)

Directed by Macon Blair in his directorial debut, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a neo-noir comedy that won the Grand Jury Prize in the US Dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, where it had its world premiere before its streaming debut on Netflix. The dark comedy thriller follows a depressed nursing assistant, Ruth, who, following the theft of her laptop and antidepressants, decides to track down the thieves herself.

Well, technically, she does go to the police first. But their apathy forces Ruth to take matters into her own hands. She joins forces with her socially awkward neighbour, Tony, to locate the burglars. However, the adrenaline-fueled investigation soon turns out to be a reckless decision, as the search escalates from minor confrontations into a dangerous, violent showdown, leaving them with no choice but to deal with far more sinister rivals than they started the fight against.  

Strangers in the Park (Juan José Campanella, 2026)

For those seeking movies with a heart to reflect on their Sundays, Netflix has just the pick for you: Strangers in the Park. The nostalgic drama, adapted from the stage play Parque Lezama, focuses on two elderly men who start meeting regularly on a bench in a Buenos Aires park. The movie is built primarily around their conversations, but what begins as just a passing one becomes a life-altering experience.

Strangers in the Park highlights how friendship comes your way in the most unexpected places at the most unexpected of times, even late in life. And when it does come, it opens an unprecedented portal for a trip down memory lane, which, of course, comes with its fair share of ponderings and regrets. Plus, since most of the story unfolds in one place, it lets you appreciate the slowness in a fast-forward world, breaking free from the hullabaloo.

Windfall (Charlie McDowell, 2022)

If you like your Sunday movies to come with wild, wild twists, Windfall is surely your cup of tea. The crime thriller follows a man who breaks into a tech mogul’s vacation home, only to be caught off guard by the CEO and his wife, who arrived for a last-minute getaway, unaware that an unlikely surprise awaits them at home. Instead of making a run for it, the intruder decides to hold the pair hostage, demanding a lump-sum ransom.

Windfall is a character-driven drama largely spotlighting the psychological interaction constantly happening between the three main characters, underscoring the friction fueled by class, power, and relationship dynamics. While, of course, it isn’t too tough a call for a tech billionaire to settle a petty ransom, whether they really make it out alive is something you would like to find out without spoilers playing out in your minds. So, don’t skip on it this Sunday.

Lost in the Stars (Cui Rui and Liu Xiang, 2022)

Based on Aleksey Korenev’s 1990 Soviet movie, Trap for a Lonely Man and Robert Thomas’ 1960 play of the same name, Lost in the Stars is a Chinese mystery-thriller film currently streaming on Netflix. Packed with pulse-pounding suspense at every turn, the movie is about He Fei and his wife Li Muzi, who disappears during their anniversary trip. Although a woman appears claiming to be his wife days later, He Fei insists she’s a stranger.

To prove that the woman is nothing but an imposter, he even hires a top lawyer. But the more He Fei finds himself digging deeper for answers to support his case, the more he is caught up in a trap he didn’t know existed in the first place. Lost in the Stars explores the laws of deception and paranoia to create a spine-chilling story that makes you feel like someone’s around the entire time with you. So, if you thrive on thrills, go for it.

Fractured (Brad Anderson, 2019)

Lastly, to complete the Sunday marathon, we have a psychological thriller to pull the curtains with: Fractured on Netflix. The movie is framed through the perspective of an unreliable narrator, Ray, who, while on a road trip, gets entangled in an unlikely accident. His daughter, Peri, falls into a construction pit, injuring her arm, and in the process of saving her, he falls inside as well, sustaining injuries.

After getting treated at a nearby hospital, Ray wakes up in the waiting room only to find no record of his wife or daughter. Initially, he’s convinced that the hospital is a murky place actually harvesting organs, leading him to break into it and try to rescue a patient, believing it is his family. However, the truth isn’t so black and white, so don’t expect Fractured to give you a straightforward answer before its time.