The 30 best movies to stream on Binge right now

A great movie never gets old. The problem? Choice paralysis. Every streaming platform has thousands of films available. To cut through that, here are 30 great hand-picked movies on Binge right now.

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The stupidity is glorious and unchecked in this Will Ferrell comedy, where he plays a pompous 1970s newsreader who has an identity crisis when he falls in love with Christina Applegate’s capable new co-anchor.

Filmmaker Sean Baker brought his sharp, sardonic feel for the marginalised into the mainstream with this Academy Award best picture winner about a Brooklyn stripper (Mikey Madison) who marries the wayward son of an unimpressed Russian oligarch.

Fantastical, storybook sweet and a plea for kindness, this now beloved Australian family film celebrates an upstart piglet who yearns to do the farm work of a sheepdog. It’s a winning tale, tinged by a smidge of unavoidable reality.

One of the great enduring Hollywood pleasures, this witty, inclusive science-fiction comedy stars Michael J. Fox as the teen who finds himself in the past, upending his parents’ courtship. Inventive, funny and family-friendly.

Starting with co-writer Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne, this showcase of comic actresses delivers an unhinged but also insightful exploration of female friendship as preparations for a wedding run amok.

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci reunited for this real-life mob saga about the Mafia associates – plus a scintillating Sharon Stone – who spin out of control when given the run of Las Vegas. Sumptuous, bloody filmmaking.

In her international breakthrough, Cate Blanchett is a translucent centrepiece who must sacrifice her own desires to survive a murderous 16th-century campaign to reach and retain England’s contested throne. Power is depicted with elegant brutality.

Starring an impossibly young Mel Gibson and Mark Lee as athletic rivals turned World War I comrades, Peter Weir’s compelling war film reveals how the horrors of trench warfare helped form Australia’s national identity.

Ridley Scott updated the swords-and-sandals genre from the 1950s to the age of computer-generated imagery, with a defiant Russell Crowe as the fallen Roman general seeking vengeance on his imperial foes by fighting his way to Colosseum glory.

As much a maximal action invocation as a twisted European fairytale, Joe Wright’s coming-of-age thriller stars a teenage Saoirse Ronan as an avenging innocent sent by her fugitive father ( Eric Bana ) to kill his CIA adversary (Cate Blanchett).

Still fiercely contentious on both sides, this biographical drama is nonetheless one of Daniel Day Lewis’ defining roles, playing a young Northern Irish man falsely convicted by the British government for a terrorist attack.

Nancy Meyers gracefully aged the romantic comedy into fifty-something abandon, with a masterful Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin as the divorced parents who have an unexpected affair. Steve Martin, and perfect decor, complete the equation.