Netflix Adds 27 New Movies Today – Here Are the 4 Best

By Phillip Swann
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Netflix today (April 1, 2025) has added 27 new movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the four best, in my humble opinion.

Best Films Just Added to Netflix

Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway star in this fanciful retelling of the 1930s bank robbing team of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film, which was inspired by the era’s New Wave films in France, puts style ahead of substance but it’s a juicy mix of iconoclastic acting and class warfare. (The cinematic Clyde justifies his actions by saying the banking industry is exploiting the poor while the real Clyde was merely a bloodthirsty thief.) Both stars are in fine form and the direction (Arthur Penn) and script (Robert Benton and David Newman) are first rate. Also look for fun supporting performances from Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder and Michael J. Pollard.

Field of Dreams (1989)
The fantasy sports film stars Kevin Costner as a struggling Iowa farmer who’s summoned by the ghosts of the game to build a baseball field on his property. Only prime Costner (or maybe Tom Hanks) could have pulled this premise off, but it’s a great and tearjerking movie about baseball, family and the power of nostalgia. And you don’t have to be a baseball fan to love this sweet-hearted film.

Heat (1995)
Michael Mann’s classic heist film pits master thief Robert De Niro against world-weary detective Al Pacino in a battle for the ages. This is the first film the two acting legends appeared in the same scene together, and while they share the screen for less than 10 minutes, it’s like watching Michael Jordan play Kobe Bryant in their primes. The intensity pours off the screen as they attempt (even if not consciously) to outdo the other. Almost lost in the novelty of having De Niro and Pacino in the same film is Mann’s incredible vision and direction of Heat which holds your attention for nearly three hours as if it were three minutes. It’s a whirlwind of a movie and increasingly getting recognition as one of the best ever.

Psycho (1960)
Janet Leigh stars in this Alfred Hitchcock master work as a bank employee whose mundane life turns upside down when she decides to steal $40,000 from the bank. Filmmakers have tried to recreate the magic of Hitchcock over the years but there’s only one Psycho and it still chills your inner workings with the best jump scares ever put on screen. Anthony Perkins is awesome as the candy corn munching hotel clerk who befriends (in his own way) Leigh’s Marion.

Complete List of Movies Added Today to Netflix

The Age of Innocence
Big Daddy
Bonnie & Clyde
The Breakfast Club
Conan the Destroyer

Couples Retreat
The Croods
Draft Day
Field of Dreams

For Love of the Game
Geostorm
Get Him to the Greek
Heat
Insidious: Chapter 2

K-9
Lucy
Matilda
The Mauritanian
The Place Beyond the Pines

Psycho
Rise of the Guardians
Rooster Cogburn (…and the Lady)
Rudy
Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
Uncle Buck

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