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If you are here for some Oscar-worthy recommendations, you’d better scroll because this is not a list of critically acclaimed masterpieces. These are five movies you probably forgot about until Netflix shoved them in your face again, and now you can’t stop thinking about them.

These are the movies that made you feel things before you had the language to explain them. Yes, we are talking about the early-late 80s and early 2000s era when the movies used to do something else. The ones you watched way too young. The ones that made you want a broken staircase or a long-distance soulmate or a breakdown in Tokyo or just plugging in the headphones, playing sad music and crying.

So no, you are not watching something new this weekend. Instead, you are going back. When comedies used to rule the charts. When romantic movies were actually sad. For some, these might be nostalgia, and for some, these movies are part of their comfort watchlist.

Be it whatever, this weekend, try to unwind with these five classics on Netflix that will take you back in time.

The five best movies to watch on Netflix this weekend

The House Bunny (Fred Wolf, 2008)

We all remember watching this way too young and thinking, Wait… is this what college is like? A girl gets kicked out of the Playboy Mansion and ends up becoming the housemother of the nerdiest sorority on campus. That is literally the plot of The House Bunny. She teaches them how to walk, talk, flirt… basically survive. In return, they teach her how to spell. Somewhere in the middle of the fake lashes and awkward dancing, it becomes weirdly moving.

And not in any forced way, but in that very specific 2000s way where the absurdity is the emotion. Anna Faris in bunny ears, crying about being alone, hits harder than it should. And if you have ever felt like you didn’t fit the script of who you are supposed to be, this movie just gets it. It is just vibes and lots of stilettos.

Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

And then, there is that one. The one you didn’t fully understand when you first saw it. The one that felt like it left something heavy in your chest. The one that will remain relevant for generations and will be recommended every time a heartbreak happens. Lost in Translation is not a plot-heavy movie. It’s better to call it a mood. Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray meet in a Tokyo hotel and just… get each other. Not romantically, not completely platonically either.

They are strangers, lost in a city, and it’s the only place where anything makes sense. The neon lights, the silence in the elevator, that whisper at the end… it has all been tattooed into cinema history. If you have ever sat in a room full of people and still felt lonely, this movie knows.

The Money Pit (Richard Benjamin, 1986)

Okay, time to switch gears because this is the messiest rom-com disaster you didn’t know you needed. The Money Pit is about Tom Hanks and Shelley Long trying to renovate a mansion that is actively falling apart. You have your floors collapsing and the walls catching fire type of situation. Basically, it looks like a proper definition of chaos. And yet, it mirrors exactly what it is like to be in a relationship.

One fight turns into another and then another. Promises start cracking. And every time they try to fix it, things get worse. Kind of like when we try to DIY something. But get this: underneath all the dust and screaming, it is a movie about sticking it out. It is about staying when the roof’s caving in, literally and metaphorically. Plus, watching baby Tom Hanks go from calm to hysterical in a few seconds will not be funny.

Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)

Okay, we have to admit, this is not your usual weekend rewatch. But Glengarry Glen Ross hits different when you are older. When you have, in fact, worked a terrible job. When you have had a boss who yells for sport. It is a bunch of men in suits, lying, begging and panicking over real estate leads. That is it. That’s all. But when you watch it, it feels like war.

Every scene is so tense you forget to blink. And the cast is the real treat here. You’ve got Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, and Alec Baldwin. It’s cynical and exhausting, but all in good ways. If you have ever had to perform happiness at work or sell something you don’t believe in just to survive, this movie cuts deep. And the dialogue? All we can say is, don’t wait, just watch.

Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993)

Finally, the one that ruined all long-distance expectations for everyone forever. Sleepless in Seattle is Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks at their most unfairly charming. They don’t even meet until the very end. And still, you believe in it. All of it. Sounds crazy, right? What a film can do… the power of it? The late-night radio call. The Empire State Building. The weird coincidences. It is a movie built entirely on possibility. But that was the charm of the 90s.

You can tell it is from a time when people wanted to believe in soulmates. Not just them, but also in fate and signs. And even if you are way too jaded now, even if you have been ghosted twelve times this year, this movie still makes you pause for a while and assures you that there is still hope. Even if just for a minute.