This week on streaming, we’ve got a few hit TV shows, a couple of Oscar nominees, and a few lesser known gems, and they run the gamut from deep drama to chilling horror to spectacular martial arts action. Read on for the full list.
Taylor Schilling leads an ensemble cast in Netflix’s critically acclaimed comedy-drama about a woman thrown in jail for an old crime who must learn to navigate the prison’s power structure.
Available now on: Netflix
Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his handpicked team of the agency’s “best and brightest” are back to investigate a rogue faction of Inhumans in their continuous war with Hydra.
Available now on: Netflix
This Certified Fresh drama from Jordan — nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars — tells the story of a young Bedouin who guides a British soldier across inhospitable terrain to find a water hole in the desert.
Available now on: Netflix
Christopher Abbott and Cynthia Nixon star in this Certified Fresh drama about a party-hearty man who must get himself together when his mother suffers from a serious illness.
Available now on: Netflix
Donnie Yen stars in this third installment of the martial arts franchise, which finds its titular folk hero defending his city from a ruthless gangster (and Mike Tyson).
Available now on: Netflix
Shonda Rhimes’ hit medical drama centers on the complicated personal and professional lives of the medical staff of a fictional Seattle hospital, anchored by Ellen Pompeo’s Dr. Meredith Grey.
Available now on: Netflix
This multiple Emmy-winning CBS drama stars Julianna Margulies as an attorney who returns to practicing law after her husband, the state’s attorney, is caught in a sex scandal. The series ended back in May, so you can binge the whole thing on Amazon or Hulu.
Available now on: Amazon Prime, Hulu
In this Certified Fresh indie horror anthology, bad things happen in a Southwestern desert. Very bad things.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Bryan Cranston earned a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Dalton Trumbo in this drama about the prolific Hollywood writer who, along with several others, was jailed for his political beliefs and fought against the notion of the “blacklist.”
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in this CBS political comedy about a woman who discovers that aliens posing as humans have infiltrated the US Congress.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Richard Linklater‘s latest is a nearly plotless, freewheeling comedy about a party-hearty college baseball team in the early 1980s.
Available now on: iTunes
This documentary tells the tale of a group of friends and their decades-long effort to finish their homemade Indiana Jones movie.
Available now on: iTunes
This Certified Fresh Norwegian thriller wrings drama out of a fjord collapse and the subsequent danger to a sleepy tourist town.
Available now on: iTunes
Jennifer Garner stars in this based-on-true-events drama about a mother whose daughter, suffering from an untreatable disease, experiences a miracle after a freak accident.
Available now on: Amazon
