The 30 best movies to stream on SBS On Demand right now

Every streaming platform has thousands of films available. To cut through that, here are 30 great movies that span genres, filmmakers and languages. This week: SBS on Demand. For 150 other movie choices, check out our guides on Stan* , HBO Max , Netflix , Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ .

What we remember and what we will never know underpins this intimately audacious debut drama from Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells , with a young British father ( Paul Mescal ) taking his 11-year-old daughter (Frankie Corio) on a holiday to Turkey.

A romantic fantasy intended as a balm for World War II’s losses, this wonderfully constructed tale follows a British airman (David Niven) who dodges the hereafter. His second-chance appreciation of life becomes joyful.

A legal thriller – in a rarely experienced Swiss setting – rendered as an investigation of how malleable truth and family have to be, this riveting drama delivers a powerhouse performance from a pre- Project Hail Mary Sandra Hüller.

With an all-time performance from Jeff Bridges as Los Angeles slacker “The Dude”, this noir-ringed black comedy from the Coen brothers remains a winningly idiosyncratic affair, complete with a scene-stealing John Turturro.

David Lean’s first epic is a sober examination of duty and heroism during World War II, as imprisoned American and British officers (William Holden and Sir Alec Guinness) clash over a bridge they built for their brutal Japanese captors.

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a revered figure in world cinema and this is a signature work – a gracefully fluid exploration of national trauma and private memory that turns a military hospital into a spiritual way-station.

All too relevant, Bernardo Bertolucci’s drama of warped political belonging follows a 1930s Italian civil servant (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who takes part in a fascist murder plot against his former professor. A film of cruel beauty and erotic malaise.

The great Sam Neill was at ease in any genre, and this mordant Australian farce, where he plays a Melbourne chef in over his head with his girlfriend and associated gangsters, is a showcase of his comedic skills.

When an exiled photographer (Rachel Weisz) returns to her insular Orthodox Jewish community and the best friend (Rachel McAdams) she left behind, the roiling emotions between them become overwhelming. The leads are sublime together.

Anchored by a graceful Forest Whitaker as the titular hitman, Jim Jarmusch’s take on the wronged gangster flick intertwines hip-hop beats and Japanese philosophy. Sometimes violent, often wry, always unique.

With David Fincher directing, this portrait of marital discord has a forensic fierceness as a cheating husband (Ben Affleck) becomes embroiled in suspicion when his wife (Rosamund Pike) disappears. The storytelling delivers brutal implications.

An enduring masterpiece of French cinema, Jean Renoir’s humanist classic explores the bond during World War I between two captured French aviators and their German overseer.