The best 2019 movies you can watch on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and more

2019 was a surprisingly good year for movies, with the most deserving awards from major studios, indie producers, foreign markets, and streaming services alike. Marvel Studios combined moviegoers with arc-powered effects Avengers: Endgame, and smaller films such as The Great Lulu of Stories Farewell I still have tons of word of mouth and found enthusiastic audiences around the world. You can also watch most of them right now, whether at theaters near you, at streaming sites like Netflix, or with rental services as well.

Below, we’ve put together 15 of the best movies, most of them numerous ideas from the most independent directors. The year when Disney dominated the market with a record breaking $ 10 billion, in 2019 and it was the year when the first real stories than ever focused on the unique experiences of color characters and words on the march. Here are a selection of the best movies of the year.

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In reaching the far reaches of the cosmos, where many fictional odysseys find foreign life, writer-director-James Gray regains his humanity. Roy McBride, Brad Pitt, a veteran who was sent to Neptune to save his father who left him 26 years ago, is a holder of curiosity and fear. His journey takes on all manner of genres – car chases that have a huge impact on what they do Ad Astra the best action movie of the year; Roy's wedding sightings failed to be romanticized; the details of the process of life in Mars look at the box of pulpy science fiction – and from explosion to death, the product is a rare sight. But even though I'm a descendant of 2001 and Gravity, Gray maintains his own thought before: The "answers" to the smallest questions in life will not be able to hide what we already have here on earth. By bringing Pitt back to thinking The Tree of Life location, the simple point of the film is revelation. –Math Patches

Apollo 11

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It's all about the writings of Todd Douglas Miller Apollo 11 it is amazing. The title – the motto of Apollo 11 of 1969, the first light bulb to mark a man on the moon – is intriguing. And this film – which is almost entirely compiled from archival footage, widely shown by the public for the first time – is also amazing. There are no talking heads or CG preparation to beat it all together. Miller knows that the universe is powerful enough to stand on its own, until Apollo 11's history is well known, there is still a strong argument to watch the spaceflight game come out, as if everything is happening now, rather than half a century ago. –Karen Han

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It may be hard to believe that a movie diagnosed with familial cancer screening is hilarious and life-enhancing, but Lulu Welanis is a film star Farewell it is a humorous experience. The rap star Awkwafina takes on her first starring role in the film, as the first Chinese American immigrant whose family returns to China to visit her grandmother Nai Nai when they learn that she has cancer. At the same time, they decided to hide the disease from Nai Nai, in order to keep themselves in control. The following story, is based on the life of Windows and previously mentioned on NPR This is American Life, amidst tears and near comics levels, but the insecure, beautiful performance as a woman trapped between cultures makes the film so damn scary. – Tasha Robinson

Hidden Life

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Lost Waititi & # 39; s Jojo Rabbit sparked a heated debate earlier this year about exactly how disrespectful or wrong it is to turn Hitler into a wacky player. Meanwhile, Terrence Malick's fantastic drama Hidden Life remind viewers why it would feel appropriate to cover up the time limit and to make fun of the person who brought so much pain to the world. August Diehl gives good work as Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to go to war for Austrian conscience, when enlisted in World War II, refused to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler, and was imprisoned for that decision. Malick draws on the following in Jägerstätter's writings, and as usual in his films, he recounts the long story, scenes of intense critical thinking and emotion, shot with an emphasis on the infinite beauty of nature rather than the evil people bring to it. It is a powerful motivational film that gives the life of one man a great balance, while staying close to his own vision. —TR

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Martin Scorsese's paintings of Frank Sheeran, the chief of the truck drivers' union that doubles as a mobster, runs for about three and a half hours. That is not a sign of indulgence. By text by Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List) and the eyes of long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker, An Irishman it brings together Frank's stance in World War II, his early days under mafioso Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci), his rise to the working class as a loyal friend and friend of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), his excellent stages as a man in "Houses in paint," and family acclaim time to swear to protect it. In the end, when life is completely visible to the audience and Frank himself, the film rebukes everyone who worships gangster images Goodfellas poster on their wall. Robert De Niro & # 39; s Frank is responsible for the error, and his eyes open for the vacant, he takes long stretches of erosion of rocks, giving an impression of the poisonous effect of moral failure. Not all areas "speak" to the building, but each Scorsese designates memory-like sticks, continuing with more meaning in the runtime. The same effect will go deeper An Irishman as we all grow up in it. –MP

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There is a perfect harmony between music and movement in Joe Talbot & # 39; s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, which is a new Jimmie Fail as his version. Jimmie, who lives with his best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors) and Mont's grandmother (Danny Glover), is busy rediscovering his old family home, which his grandfather said was built in 1946. The rich colors and heavy marker of the pic is a picture as Jimmie looks at the history and the little make-up of San Francisco and loves the city that doesn't love her back. Fail, Major, and Glover all deliver excellent, warm performance, supporting Talbot's great sense of style. –KH

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It is impossible for a slot Lighting in one type; equal parts horror, comedy, written amalgam, and nautical thriller, but also 100% entertaining. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as two men with a four-week contract repairing a lighthouse on the island is the domain of madness. Strong violent storms keep them locked in their positions, and old beliefs about the sea seem to be starting to come true. Robert Eggers (Witch) shot the whole thing in black and white, using comparisons and shadows to enhance how this story didn't happen, especially when Patrins Veidt-esque remarks were made. –KH

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A story that has been around for over a hundred years and has been adapted too many times to count and feel good? According to director-director Greta Gerwig, yes. Louisa May Alcott & # 39; s Young Women Originally published in 1868 and adapted many times in film, TV, theater, and radio, and yet Gerwig's film adaptation sounds like a new venture. As Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) begins writing her family stories, her three sisters are given a shock despite all wanting different things and different meanings of feminism, and Jo's struggle as a woman makes her work published in the 1860s creating a larger narrative of female artists and writing. –KH

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Terry Gilliam has been pregnant for 30 years – and has been struggling with financial problems, natural disasters and legal disputes – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote made its North American launch in 2019. Surprisingly, this story, which was a direct result of Miguel de Cervantes' work & # 39 ;, became personal in time. In its final form, it's almost as autobiographical as reflecting on how painful it is – and how divine art can be. When filmmaker Tony Grisoni (Adam Driver) returns to the city where he has shot his student thesis film, a black-and-white genre Don Quixote, you find that locals have never been able to escape. His Quixote, a footballer named Javier (Jonathan Pryce), genuinely believes himself to be a knight, and replaces Grisoni as his Sancho Panza. –KH

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There are times when the writer-director of the book Noah Baumbach felt love Agreement. Lawyered up, Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) crawl through the mud of their marriage, with unbreakable love being their biggest obstacle. Baumbach evolved from the caustic tone of his other divorce drama, Square and the Whale, to find humor in the news. There are a number of Wisdomecracks and Sondheim numbers, climactic descriptions and other tears behind closed doors, explosions that leave holes in the walls. The pain of partying comes in all directions, and Baumbach turns his camera to capture everything. The calculations performed by Team Designer Randy Newman keep the days going, and injuries flow with each legal intervention. There are some amazing calculations involved with Baumbach characters in shaping the nuanced. But for now, there are only heartbreaking things for Johansson and Driver. –MP

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Ari Aster's follow-up to the horror film Independent it's not nearly as scary, and Aster's persistent insistence on packing a dozen great story threads in his films remains a frustrating distraction to the pure emotional power he created. But there were few 2019 films as well-shot and action-packed Midsommar, with its breathtaking flowers and hairy ideas, and its bold sense. A sense of inadequacy permeates the entire film, as a young woman (Florence Pugh) attempts to cope with the death of her family on an unspecified journey with her boyfriend and her friends, where they become embroiled in religious traditions. The first moment in the film where the camera falls, turning the road into a depressing sky and sky into an uncertain and seemingly endless voyage, is one of the most memorable and terrifying moments of the year. —TR

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Bong Joon-ho & # 39; s The lungs it links the lives of two families and mixes many genres – comedy, comedy, social commentary – without showing a single seam. Kim's family is struggling to find work, tossing pizza boxes temporarily to a neighboring restaurant and desperately trying to take Wi-Fi to local cafes inside the basement of their apartment. When Ki-woo's eldest son (Choi Woo-sik) is hired as an English teacher of the Park's wealthy family, it looks like it might be possible for Kims & # 39; What starts out as a domestic comedy / drama, however, blossoms quickly into a major one as the financial union of late is beginning to work. With heartfelt apostasy and clarity of heart, leaving one rod for the ladder means leaving someone else behind. –KH

Do not remove Stones

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Clock watches, bouts of bored, glittering diamonds, and chaos dominate all levels of Josh and Benny Safdie & # 39; s Wheel-and-handle & # 39; s thriller. The "Adam Sandler" movies have traditionally created the power of hot actor's goofball Love Punch-Drunk), but Do not remove Stones, Sandler meets the dreaded diamond trader Howard as a pedestrian, talking to Tilt-a-Whirl. Running back and forth across New York, Howard has 800 jobs to do – Return African jewelery to Kevin Garnett's New Age look-alike! Take out the weight of the loan shark before you apply his nose! Reach her child's school play in time! – again it is possible enough fuel to cross the finish line. Issues come from planning and art. The Swedes put an end to their antihero in the surrounding areas; harmonious sounds from Oneohtrix Point Never keep low boils; and Sandler tackles life's complexities, delivering the Joker's best performance of the year. Grime has never heard this good. –MP

Under Silver Lake

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David Robert Mitchell's third feature, followed by a very scary film Following and the drama-com American Sleepover Fiction, is a tale of a lonely dog ​​who feels like a paranoiac offspring of mental illness. Andrew Garfield stars as Sam, a young Los Angeles citizen who has no real purpose or purpose until he falls in love with a woman (Riley Keough) who disappears shortly after meeting him. He chases clues and directions across the city, with a fun nightly version of the L.A. mystery theorist. classic. It's something along the lines of Chinatown either Big Sleep, but with the extra drugs, the hypocrites, the spectators, and the hypocritical artists, and the hero of yours who tries to get it all down is sometimes boring, sometimes sad. —TR

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Logic doesn't always work Us, Jorde Peele's follow-up to his superhero documentary, Come out. When the eerie doppelgänger comes after the middle-aged mother Adelaide (Lupita Nyongokuona) and her family, intending to kill them and take their places, faces turn into a vicious movie battle, with mysterious deaths all around. But the set-up and payment ultimately seem designed to leave the audience with it many open-ended questions. Secrets and closed twists are not what they do Us be remembered, however. Prime Minister's double performance as Adelaide and double, double, is one of the most shocking and committed of the year. And the larger metaphor about America's wealthiest and poorest members feels right, due in 2019, and all the more so you're caught on such a powerful news page. –TR

Our list individually

Karen Han

1. The lungs
2. Apollo 11
3. Farewell
4. An Irishman
5. Hustlers
6. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
7. Ad Astra
8. Midsommar
9. Lighting
10. Lonely Island Presents: An Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
11. Beach Bum
12. Ash Is Clean
13. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
14. Young Women
15. Do not remove Stones

Math Patches

1. Do not remove Stones
2. Farewell
3. The Story of Marriage
4. The lungs
5. American factory
6. Ad Astra
7. Under Silver Lake
8. An Irishman
9. Monos
10. She smiles
11. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
12. Young Women
13. Lighting
14. Report
15. Us

Tasha Robinson

1. The lungs
2. Farewell
3. Hidden Life
4. The Nightingale
5. Human Boyfriend
6. Praise Satan?
7. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. I've lost my body
9. The Wild Rose
10. The knives
11. The Story of Marriage
12. Midsommar
13. Us
14. Under Silver Lake
15. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote