Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have released their respective lists of movies to begin streaming in October 2018. This list includes Best Picture winner Platoon and other favorites like Raging Bull, Mystic River, Blazing Saddles, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Mulholland Drive, Gods and Monsters, Carrie, Full Metal Jacket, RoboCop and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
All of the movies listed below are available starting October 1, unless indicated otherwise. Happy watching!
Mystic River (2003)
“The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.”
-Won Best Actor for Sean Penn and Supporting Actor for Tim Robbins, Nominated for Picture, Director for Clint Eastwood, Supporting Actress for Marcia Gay Harden and Adapted Screenplay
Blazing Saddles (1974)
“In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Madeline Kahn, Film Editing, and Original Song (for “Blazing Saddles”)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
“When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song (for “[Everything I Do] I Do It for You”)
Raging Bull (1980)
“The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside of it.”
-Won Best Actor for Robert De Niro and Film Editing, Nominated for Best Picture, Director for Martin Scorsese, Supporting Actor for Joe Pesci, Supporting Actress for Cathy Moriarty, Cinematography and Sound
Gods and Monsters (1998)
“The last days of Frankenstein director James Whale are explored.”
-Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Nominated for Best Actor for Ian McKellen and Supporting Actress for Lynn Redgrave
Monster’s Ball (2001)
“After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.”
-Won Best Actress for Halle Berry, Nominated for Best Original Screenplay –available Oct. 11
Mulholland Drive (2001)
“After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.”
-Nominated for Best Director for David Lynch
Carrie (1976)
“Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.”
-Nominated for Best Actress for Sissy Spacek and Supporting Actress for Piper Laurie
Pieces of April (2003)
“A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Clarkson
Election (1999)
“A high school teacher’s personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.”
-Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
“A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.”
-Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
The Illusionist (2006)
“In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.”
-Nominated for Best Cinematography
RoboCop (1987)
“In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.”
-Nominated for Best Film Editing and Sound
The Cell (2000)
“An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.”
-Nominated for Best Makeup
Platoon (1986)
“A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.”
-Won Best Picture, Director for Oliver Stone, Film Editing and Sound, Nominated for Supporting Actor for Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe, Original Screenplay and Cinematography
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
“A couple’s attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.”
-Won Best Actress for Barbra Streisand and Original Screenplay, Nominated for Picture, Director for Stanley Kramer, Actor for Spencer Tracy, Supporting Actor for Cecil Kellaway, Supporting Actress for Beah Richards, Art Direction, Film Editing and Original Song or Adaptation Score
Raging Bull (1980)
“The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside of it.”
-Won Best Actor for Robert De Niro and Film Editing, Nominated for Best Picture, Director for Martin Scorsese, Supporting Actor for Joe Pesci, Supporting Actress for Cathy Moriarty, Cinematography and Sound
Gods and Monsters (1998)
“The last days of Frankenstein director James Whale are explored.”
-Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Nominated for Best Actor for Ian McKellen and Supporting Actress for Lynn Redgrave
Frida (2002)
“A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.”
-Won Best Makeup and Original Score, Nominated for Actress for Salma Hayek, Art Direction, Cinematography and Original Song (for “Burn It Blue”)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
“After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.”
-Nominated for Best Director for David Lynch
Cinderella Man (2005)
“The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Paul Giamatti, Film Editing and Makeup
Closer (2004)
“The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Clive Owen and Best Supporting Actress for Natalie Portman
Pieces of April (2003)
“A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Clarkson
Election (1999)
“A high school teacher’s personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.”
-Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
RoboCop (1987)
“In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.”
-Nominated for Best Film Editing and Sound
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
“Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.” –available Oct. 2
-Nominated for Best Visual Effects
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
“Film version of Jacqueline Susann’s best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song or Adaptation Score
I can only imagine what Valley Of The Dolls would have been like if Judy Garland hadn’t been fired from the film.