A lot of new movies and TV shows are headed on Netflix every week. I won’t list all of them here in case that you have to struggle with which to see again. Instead, what I’m going to recommend today are several movies on Netflix in June 2020 that worth watching.
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Without further ado, here come the best movies on Netflix in June 2020.
13th (2016)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker | See full cast & crew
It’s not a new movie, but it can bring new thoughts since the recent events in America. This excellent documentary inquires into the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the history of racial inequality in the country, which sadly still exists today.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton
It’s a great choice to begin with a nostalgia movie. ET is classical for its tenderness. It tells a beautiful touching fairy tale and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. You might as well play it at a family party.
The Night Clerk（2020）
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: Michael Cristofer
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt, John Leguizamo
It’s a new release of 2020. To improve social skills, a night shift attendant in a hotel with autism uses monitors to record every move of guests. One day after a female guest was killed, he becomes the suspect of the police. In order to protect himself, he has to face the pressure of the police and find the real murderer at the same time.
The Guest (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Adam Wingard
Cast: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley
A retired soldier becomes friends with a family who have just lost their eldest son on the battlefield. The same experience brings them together and the soldier becomes a guest of the family. However, the family soon find that the soldier's real identity is not as simple as what he said before.
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Genre: War, Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Jean Reno, Paul Walter Hauser
Academy Award winner Spike Lee’s new movie, Da 5 Bloods tells the story of four African American veterans returning to Vietnam. They go to look for the dead captain's body and buried treasure. At the same time of fighting against the forces of man and nature, the veterans have to face the lasting damage caused by the brutal acts in the Vietnam War.
The Last Days of American Crime (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Olivier Megaton
Stars: Neels Clasen, Edgar Ramírez, Tony Caprari
The film has been adapted from a comic of the same name. The story is set in the near future, and the world is in chaos. In order to solve the crime problem, the government plans to broadcast a kind of radio signal secretly, so that no one can commit a crime. The trio decide to bust out and complete the robbery plan before the government begins broadcasting, and their action will become the last criminal activity in the history of the United States.
The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Director: Tate Taylor
Stars: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
In Mississippi in the 1960s, two black maids were treated unfairly or even humiliated. At the same time, the equal rights movement led by Martin Luther King was in full swing, and Mississippi, where the heroine was located, was at the forefront of the struggle. Because of shootings of black people, apartheid began, and a battle of color was triggered.
Lady Bird (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Greta Gerwig
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts
The plot is familiar and trivial. The whole movie revolves around the main line that the high school girl wants to leave the small city of California to go to school in New York, interspersed with the ups and downs of family, friendship and love on her way of growth. There are many plots that are commonly seen such as community, boyfriend, failure in love, first sex, college entrance examination, and the most old-school one, breaking up with best friends and then making up. But Lady Bird is refreshing because it captures the essence of youth.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Cast: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg
A boy has been keen on all kinds of scientific inventions since childhood. His inventions usually end in failure and disaster, but he never gives up. In order to solve the problem of local food shortage, the boy secretly carries out the research of a super food machine, and the sky begins to rain incredible hamburgers! Everything becomes interesting, but then comes the crisis.
A Whisker Away (2020)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Directors: Jun'ichi Satô, Tomotaka Shibayama
Stars: Mirai Shida, Natsuki Hanae, Susumu Chiba
There are one boy and one girl in the same sophomore class at a middle school. They both have an open personality and often act audaciously when having fun with each other. The girl have a crush on the boy, but the boy doesn’t know. She deliberately plays tricks on him every day but doesn’t get much response until she gets a cat-shaped magical mask, wearing which she can turn into a cute little cat. The mask becomes her passport to get closer to him. They spend more and more time with each other since then. However, she finds it difficult to manage the fine line between being a human or an animal.
Life is filled with ups and downs, but nothing can stop us from thinking about life and equality. Film is an expression of human nature. It causes resonance, arouses emotions, makes us self-examine and leads us to think. One director used to say, "After the invention of the film, human life has been extended at least three times."
