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Updated October 2026
The top-rated films you can stream on Netflix this month, from Christopher Nolan thrillers to Studio Ghibli classics, with whether each one is on Netflix in the US, the UK or both.
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Netflix’s film library is huge and changes every month, which makes finding something great to watch harder than it should be. This list cuts it down to the best: well-known, highly rated films that are on Netflix right now, ranked by how audiences rate them.
Netflix’s catalogue isn’t the same everywhere, so every film is marked US, UK or US & UK. Availability was checked on 2 October 2026. Want more? See our lists of the best horror, family, comedy and action movies on Netflix.
| # | Film | Year | Rating | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swapped | 2026 | ★ 8.9 | US & UK |
| 2 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle | 2025 | ★ 8.8 | US & UK |
| 3 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | ★ 8.5 | UK |
| 4 | Spirited Away | 2001 | ★ 8.5 | UK |
| 5 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | ★ 8.5 | UK |
| 6 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | ★ 8.5 | US & UK |
| 7 | Fight Club | 1999 | ★ 8.4 | UK |
| 8 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | ★ 8.4 | US |
| 9 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | ★ 8.4 | UK |
| 10 | The Wild Robot | 2024 | ★ 8.3 | UK |
★ 8.9/10 from 2,218 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, natural enemies, magically swap bodies and have to work together to switch back, uncovering a threat to their whole valley on the way. A 2026 animated adventure from Nathan Greno, voiced by Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple.
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan
★ 8.8/10 from 2,221 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
The Demon Slayer Corps are pulled into Muzan Kibutsuji’s shifting Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko and the Hashira face the Upper Rank demons as the final battle begins. The first film in the anime’s finale trilogy, directed by Haruo Sotozaki.
Starring Natsuki Hanae, Takahiro Sakurai, Akira Ishida
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★ 8.5/10 from 36,860 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel plays like a crime epic, with Heath Ledger’s Joker turning Gotham into a test of everyone’s principles. It’s the superhero film other superhero films are still measured against.
Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
★ 8.5/10 from 18,971 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
A girl wanders into a world of spirits and has to work in a bathhouse for the gods to save her parents. Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and is packed with images you won’t forget.
Starring Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki
★ 8.5/10 from 30,564 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
Tom Hanks plays a kind man with a low IQ who drifts through decades of American history, always in the right place at the right time. Funny, sentimental and hugely popular, it won six Oscars including Best Picture.
Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
★ 8.5/10 from 6,844 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
Two orphaned siblings try to survive on their own in Japan during the final months of the Second World War. Isao Takahata’s Studio Ghibli film is one of the most powerful anti-war films ever made, animated or not. Have tissues ready.
Starring Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
★ 8.4/10 from 32,956 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
An insomniac office worker and a reckless soap salesman start an underground fight club that grows into something much bigger. David Fincher’s satire is dark, funny and packed with a twist that rewards a second watch.
Starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
★ 8.4/10 from 17,946 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US
Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man just as other Spider-People from parallel universes crash into his world. Its comic-book animation style changed the look of animated films, and it won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld
★ 8.4/10 from 11,501 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
A young hatmaker cursed into the body of an old woman finds shelter in the walking castle of a vain, unpredictable wizard. Hayao Miyazaki’s fantasy romance is gorgeous, strange and full of heart.
Starring Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa
★ 8.3/10 from 6,667 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
A robot washes up on a wild island and learns to survive by adopting an orphaned gosling. DreamWorks’ adaptation of Peter Brown’s book, voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, looks like a painting and will make adults cry as much as kids.
Starring Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor
★ 8.3/10 from 9,335 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
A cursed prince travels west and is caught in a war between the forest gods and a town that’s cutting the forest down. Miyazaki’s darkest, most epic film refuses easy heroes and villains.
Starring Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yuko Tanaka
★ 8.2/10 from 13,308 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
A tough New York bouncer is hired to drive a celebrated Black pianist on a concert tour through the segregated American South in 1962. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali make a great double act, and it won Best Picture.
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
★ 8.2/10 from 9,264 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US
Puss in Boots discovers he’s used up eight of his nine lives and sets out to find a wishing star to get them back, pursued by a bounty hunter who is more than he seems. Funny, beautifully animated and surprisingly deep.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Harvey Guillén
★ 8.2/10 from 4,850 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
A spoiled postman is sent to a frozen island town where he befriends a reclusive toymaker, starting a chain of events that becomes a legend. Netflix’s hand-drawn-style animated film is a modern Christmas classic.
Starring Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones
★ 8.2/10 from 18,200 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
Two rival stage magicians in Victorian London become obsessed with outdoing each other, whatever the cost. Christopher Nolan’s puzzle box with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale is built entirely around its final reveal.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
★ 8.2/10 from 16,907 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US
The crew of a cargo ship answers a distress call and brings something deadly on board. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror is a masterclass in slow-building dread, with Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley becoming one of cinema’s great heroes.
Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
★ 8.2/10 from 16,826 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US
A man who can’t form new memories hunts his wife’s killer using notes, photographs and tattoos. Christopher Nolan tells the story backwards, so you’re as lost as the hero, and it’s a thrill to piece together.
Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
★ 8.2/10 from 14,367 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
A brilliant but troubled janitor at MIT is pushed to see a therapist who finally gets through to him. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for the script, and Robin Williams won for his gentle, unforgettable performance.
Starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
★ 8.2/10 from 11,631 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US
After decades dodging promotion, Maverick returns to train a new class of Top Gun pilots for a near-impossible mission. Real jets, real g-forces and huge crowd-pleasing moments make it one of the best blockbusters of the 2020s.
Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly
★ 8.2/10 from 13,497 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
Cuban refugee Tony Montana claws his way to the top of the Miami drug trade and loses everything on the way. Al Pacino’s explosive performance turned Brian De Palma’s crime epic into one of the most quoted films ever.
Starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
★ 8.1/10 from 28,412 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
A struggling comedian in a crumbling Gotham City is pushed over the edge and becomes the Joker. Joaquin Phoenix won the Oscar for his unsettling performance in this dark character study.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
★ 8.1/10 from 15,867 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
After a jewellery heist goes wrong, the surviving robbers regroup in a warehouse and try to work out who betrayed them. Quentin Tarantino’s debut is tense, talky and still one of his best.
Starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
★ 8.1/10 from 13,560 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
When his young daughter goes missing, a desperate father takes the law into his own hands while a detective searches for the truth. Denis Villeneuve’s thriller, with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, is gripping from start to finish.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
★ 8.1/10 from 8,659 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: UK
Paul Atreides joins the Fremen on the desert planet Arrakis and wages war against the empire that destroyed his family. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is enormous science fiction on the grandest scale, and it won Oscars for its sound and visual effects.
Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
★ 8.0/10 from 7,082 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US
A five-year-old boy gets lost on a train and ends up thousands of miles from home in India, is adopted by an Australian couple, and decades later uses Google Earth to search for his family. A true story that’s impossible not to be moved by.
Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham
★ 8.0/10 from 3,478 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
Guillermo del Toro retells Pinocchio as a stop-motion fable set in Mussolini’s Italy, about a grieving carpenter and the wooden boy he carves. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and is as moving as it is beautiful.
Starring Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
★ 8.0/10 from 3,243 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
A K-pop girl group secretly protects their fans from demons, until a rival boy band turns out to be demons in disguise. Bright, funny and full of genuinely catchy songs, it became one of Netflix’s biggest hits ever.
Starring Arden Cho, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo
★ 8.0/10 from 13,960 ratings on TMDB
Netflix: US & UK
Two young British soldiers must cross no man’s land to deliver a message that could save 1,600 men. Sam Mendes’s First World War drama is filmed to look like one continuous shot, and it won three Oscars.
Starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong
We looked at every film on Netflix in the US and UK with a large number of ratings on TMDB, kept the best rated, and left out obscure titles most people won’t have heard of. Streaming availability comes from JustWatch via TMDB and was checked on 2 October 2026. Films leave Netflix often, so we update this list every month.
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Start your watchlistBased on audience ratings, the top films on Netflix this month include Swapped, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle and The Dark Knight. Check the region next to each film: some are only on Netflix in the US or the UK.
Our top 10 for October 2026 is in the table at the top of this page, ranked by audience rating.
Netflix’s library is different in each country. Each film here is marked US, UK or both. Films also leave Netflix when licences end, so a film may have gone since we last checked.
Every month. Availability was last checked on 2 October 2026.
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