5 Underrated Movies on Netflix You Need to Watch in September 2024

Netflix is ​​reportedly declaring September “Crime Awareness Month,” as several murder-related stories appear on the service over the coming weeks. The perfect couplea murder mystery series starring Nicole Kidman, is now streaming. The other notable series, Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendezwill be released later this month and will focus on the murderous brothers from the 1990s.

The perfect couple And Monsters will dominate the Netflix Top 10. Many movies in Netflix’s library could lose viewers because of these shows. That doesn’t mean you should ignore them. Several films listed below are underrated gems, including an entertaining auteur heist, a standout performance from an A-list star, and a cute coming-of-age romance.

Logan Lucky (2017)

Don’t take Steven Soderbergh for granted. The Oscar-winning filmmaker could have easily given up after the Ocean’s trilogy and signed up for textbook jobs for a paycheck. That’s not in Soderbergh’s DNA. Instead, the filmmaker has made interesting genre pieces and experimented with different camera techniques (High flying bird on an iPhone) for over a decade. How many directors would make a heist movie after Ocean’s Eleven? Not much!

Because Soderbergh is of a different ilk, he made another heist film in 2017 called Logan Happy. Blue-collar Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) plans to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway with the help of his one-armed brother Clyde (Adam Driver), sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and imprisoned demolition expert Joe Bang (Daniel Craig). With a hard deadline on their hands, the group must pull off the heist during a busy NASCAR race weekend. True to form, Soderbergh delivers the goods with Logan Happya crime story you won’t soon forget.

Current Logan Happy on Netflix.

The overview (2003)

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a global megastar thanks to a popular wrestling persona and a successful transition to acting. Johnson has been acting since 2001, when he appeared as The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns. Since then, Johnson has made his bones in action, most notably Luke Hobbs in The Fast and the Furious franchise. Still, his best performance came early in his career. 2003, to be exact. That’s the year Johnson starred in Peter Berg’s The The overview.

Johnson plays Beck, a no-nonsense bounty hunter who specializes in recovering assets. Wanting to get out of the bounty business, Beck takes on one last job for his boss, Billy Walker (William Lucking). The mission: find Walker’s son, Travis (Seann William Scott), who was last seen in Brazil. Beck finds Travis, but the duo can’t escape the city’s tyrant treasure hunter (Christopher Walken). No film has made better use of Johnson’s physicality and comedic instincts than The overview.

Current The overview on Netflix.

First Man (2018)

To come off whiplash And La La LandDamien Chazelle could have made any film he wanted. whiplasha drama that will have you on the edge of your seat, and La La Landa romantic musical, are loud, stylish and fast. Yet Chazelle made a complete 180 for his next film, First mana biographical film about Neil Armstrong starring Ryan Gosling in the role of the famous astronaut.

First man shows Armstrong’s time with NASA during the Space Race of the 1960s. Armstrong earned his stripes as a test pilot, narrowly escaping death on several occasions. In 1969, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. While First manThe moon landing is breathtaking, but the film focuses more on Armstrong, the person who was full of grief and mourning. First man is quiet, stoic and enchantingly beautiful.

Current First man on Netflix.

My Girl 2 (1994)

My girl is a charming coming-of-age romance about Vada (Anna Chlumsky), a curious 11-year-old girl coming of age while learning about love, death, and grief. My girl 2 is both financially and critically inferior to My girl. That is not up for debate. However, upon closer inspection, My girl 2 still has enough enjoyable moments that make it worth rewatching.

In the sequel, Vada is now a 13-year-old teenager who is given a school assignment to write about someone she admires but has never met. Vada chooses her late mother, who died two days after giving birth. With her father’s (Dan Aykroyd) permission, Vada heads to Los Angeles for spring break to stay with her uncle Phil (Richard Masur) and learn more about her mother. As she yearns for answers, Vada’s love life gets an unexpected boost from Nick (Austin O’Brien), the son of Phil’s girlfriend.

Current My girl 2 on Netflix.

I care a lot about you (2020)

Rosamund Pike thrives as a villain. The Oscar nominee was nothing short of spectacular as the deceitful Amy Elliott Dunne in David Fincher’s Missing girl. Pike channeled her sadistic side again in I care about you a lot. Con artist Marla Grayson is despicable; there’s no way around it. She convinces the legal system to give her guardianship over elderly people after making them look like they can’t care for themselves.

Marla then forces the courts to place these elderly people in nursing homes, while she sells their homes for profit. When Marla sends the mother of a criminal to a nursing home, the mafia takes matters into their own hands and fights back. Truth be told, I care about you a lot will excite many viewers. Pike’s performance, however, is so over-the-top and magnetic that you can’t look away.

Current I care about you a lot on Netflix.