The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In February 2018
As the Sundance Festival winds down and the Oscar race winds up, there's no better time to be a cinephile. But as you wait for the acclaimed films from the festival and awards circuit to be made available to you, you can bide your time watching the best that Netflix has to offer in the mean time.
February brings a slew of Netflix original series and films, as well as cinematic classics that range from brutal crime thrillers to quiet historical dramas. So check out the full list of TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in January 2018 below, starting with our personal favorites.
GoodFellas
With Martin Scorsese's The Irishman soon on its way to Netflix, it should be required viewing to catch up on the director's definitive mob movie. More than 20 years after its release, Goodfellas remains a brutal, bloody masterpiece with career-defining performances from Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, and Joe Pesci. Goodfellas is a mad dash through the turbulent life of Liotta's Henry Hill, who earnestly declares that he "always wanted to be a gangster," living of his dream through a rapid rise to the top and an even more rapid plummet. It's chock full of famous lines ("funny like a clown?") and the breathless interplay of hedonism and violence, which makes it a must-rewatch for Scorsese fans who are itching to see the on-screen reunion of de Niro and Pesci in The Irishman.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Quentin Tarantino film that decorates the walls of every college dorm room is finally available on Netflix. Tarantino's ode to grindhouse cinema, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is a cartoonishly violent, visually striking movie that established the director as a critical and commercial force to be reckoned, becoming Tarantino's highest-grossing film up to that point, with a $180 million box office haul. Uma Thurman is instantly iconic as the vengeful Bride seeking to kill the assassins who murdered her groom and left her for dead at her wedding. It's stylish, weird, and boasts some of the best action sequences of this century. Vol. 2, which is also coming to Netflix, ups the ante even further.
Ocean's Eleven
Steven Soderbergh's sleek heist film brings back the plain old entertainment that we've been missing for so long. George Clooney charms everyone's socks off as Danny Ocean in Ocean's Eleven, the criminal extraordinaire who decides to orchestrate an elaborate heist against a Las Vegas casino, maybe for the money, and maybe for the lady (Julia Roberts). What follows is the most delightful, meticulously made piece of entertainment that essentially relies on the star power of its actors — of which there is plenty to go around — to carry off a somewhat convoluted plot. Clooney smirks, Brad Pitt chews (food and the scenery), and Don Cheadle pulls off a terrible Cockney accent — really, what else could you ask for?
Men in Black
Men in Black is popcorn entertainment at its finest. Will Smith is brimming with charisma in a blockbuster tailor-made for the actor like a perfect suit. Smith was in the middle of one of the best blockbuster streaks ever, following up Bad Boys with Independence Day and Men in Black, and Men in Black is a Hollywood star at the top of his game. That's not to say the movie relies solely on Smith's star power either — Smith and Tommy Lee Jones make a formidable duo, throwing the buddy-comedy trope for a loop with unexpected wisecracks and bits of pathos from Jones. And lots of aliens.
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg's quiet, subdued historical drama is given huge weight with a career-defining performance by Daniel Day-Lewis (who, to be fair, gives almost exclusively career-defining performances). Not a stodgy biopic as it first appears, Lincoln follows the 16th President at one of his most troubled times — at the tail end of the Civil War, as he wages a political battle with Congress over the passage of the 13th Amendment. It's a potent character drama, driven by the verisimilitude of Day-Lewis' weary performance, and a vastly underrated supporting turn by Sally Hawkins as Mary Todd Lincoln.
February 1
3000 Miles to Graceland
42 Grams
Aeon Flux
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Pie Presents: Band Camp
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile
Ella Enchanted
Extract
GoodFellas
How the Beatles Changed the World
John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution
Lovesick
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Parents
Men in Black
National Parks Adventure
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Thirteen
Ocean's Twelve
Paint It Black
Scream 3
The Hurt Locker
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Z Nation: Season 4
February 2
Altered Carbon: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Cabin Fever
Coach Snoop: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Kavin Jay: Everybody Calm Down! — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Luna Petunia: Return to Amazia: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
On Body and Soul — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 6
Fred Armisen: Standup For Drummers — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Valor: Season 1
February 7
Imposters: Season 1
Queer Eye: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 8
6 Days
The Emoji Movie
February 9
Fate/Apocrypha: Part 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: George Clooney — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Seeing Allred — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Ritual — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Trader (Sovdagari) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
When We First Met — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 14
Greenhouse Academy: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Love Per Square Foot — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 15
Deep Undercover Collection: Collection 2
Re:Mind: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 16
DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge: Season 6 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Evan Almighty
Everything Sucks!: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Irreplaceable You — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
First Team: Juventus: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 17
Blood Money
February 18
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 19
Dismissed
FullMetal Alchemist — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 20
Bates Motel: Season 5
The Frankenstein Chronicles: Season 1 and Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 21
Forgotten — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Lincoln
The Bachelors
February 22
Atomic Puppet: Season 1
February 23
Marseille: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Mute — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Seven Seconds: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Ugly Delicious: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
February 24
Jeepers Creepers 3
February 26
El Vato: Season 2
Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
People You May Know
Sin Senos sí Hay Paraíso: Season 2
Winnie
February 27
Derren Brown: The Push — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish — NETFLIX ORIGINAL