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The Saint

Year: 1997

Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance

Starring: Val Kilmer (Top Gun), Elizabeth Shue (Back to the Future)

Rating on Netflix: 4 Stars

Summary: Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar is a fictitious name he invented for himself in a Hong Kong orphanage years ago. Now, he is a suave, debonair, international thief. Simon manages to outwit the police again and again, and on his final job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from Emma Russell. However,  the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. (IMDb)

 

Serendipity

Year: 2001

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, John Cusack

Rating on Netflix: 4 Stars

Summary: A couple reunites years after their first meeting, when they fell in love at first sight.  Throughout their separation, they remain convinced that one day they'd end up together.

 

Kate and Leopold

Year: 2001

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Starring: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman

Rating on Netflix: 4 Stars

Summary: Leopold is an English Baron living in New York in the end of the 19th century. He needs to get married to his rich fiancée to recover his family position from ruin. Kate is a successful businesswoman living in modern day New York City. Due to an incident involving time-travel, they meet each other in present day and fall in love.(IMDb)

 

Good Will Hunting

Year: 1997

Genre: Drama

Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

Rating on Netflix: 4.5 Stars

Summary: Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.(IMDb)

Won two Oscars: Best Writing and Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams)

 

Mona Lisa Smile

Year: 2003

Genre: Drama

Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst (Spiderman), Julia Stiles (the Bourne trilogy)

Rating on Netflix: 3.5 Stars

Summary: An independent art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.(IMDb)

 

About a Boy

Year: 2002

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past)

Rating on Netflix: 3 Stars

Summary: A cynical, immature, young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a young boy. (IMDb)

 

Witness

Year: 1985

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis (Top Gun)

Rating on Netflix: 4.5 Stars

Summary: A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.(IMDb)

Won two Oscars: Best writing and Best Film Editing

7 Movies on Netflix You Probably Haven’t Seen but Should

By Kelley Sorenson
3.15.16

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