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Now Streaming: The Returned, The New Yorker Presents, and More

by | February 23, 2016 | Comments

There isn’t a whole lot of new content available on streaming services this week, but we do have a couple of well-received television shows, as well as a handful of classics on Fandor and some Oscar nominees available for purchase. Read on for the full list:


New on Netflix

 

The Returned: Season 2 (2015) 95%

This French import (which spawned an American remake) is a supernatural drama about a group of people from a small village in the Alps who come back from the dead in mysterious circumstances.

Available now on: Netflix


New on Amazon Prime

 

The New Yorker Presents: Season 1 (2016) 86%

This Certified Fresh new series from Amazon presents the esteemed magazine as a compilation of documentary shorts, films, and interviews based on content from its printed pages.

Available now on: Amazon Prime


New on Fandor

 

The Vanishing (1988) 96%

In this Dutch psychological thriller, a young man becomes obsessed with discovering the fate of his missing girlfriend, only to draw the attention of the man who kidnapped her.

Available now on: Fandor


Purple Noon (1960) 95%

René Clément’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley stars perennial cool dude Alain Delon as Tom Ripley and Maurice Ronet as Philippe Greenleaf, the young playboy Ripley tries to convince to return to San Francisco.

Available now on: Fandor


Diabolique (1955) 95%

Henri‑Georges Clouzot’s masterful, twisty thriller stars Michel Delasalle as a philandering boarding school headmaster who becomes the target of his wife (Vera Clouzot) and one of his mistresses.

Available now on: Fandor


Sisters (1973) 85%

Jennifer Salt and Margot Kidder star in this Brian De Palma thriller, in which a reporter becomes entangled in the lives of a pair of separated Siamese twins when she witnesses what she thinks is one of them committing a murder.

Available now on: Fandor


The Element of Crime (1984) 80%

Lars von Trier’s debut feature stars Michael Elphick as a retired detective investigating a series of murders involving young lottery ticket salesgirls.

Available now on: Fandor


Available to Purchase

 

Brooklyn (2015) 97%

Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson in this Certified Fresh, Best Picture-nominated drama about an Irish immigrant dealing with love and loneliness in 1950s New York.

Available now on: AmazoniTunes, Vudu


Theeb (2014) 97%

This Certified Fresh, Best Foreign Film nominee is a period drama about a young Bedouin who guides a British soldier across inhospitable terrain to find a water hole in the desert.

Available now on: Amazon, iTunes


The Tribe (2014) 88%

This Certified Fresh drama is the story of a group of students at a Ukrainian school for the deaf involved in all matter of criminal activity.

Available now on: AmazoniTunes


The Good Dinosaur (2015) 76%

This Certified Fresh offering from Pixar is set on an alternate version of Earth where dinosaurs have survived extinction; the story centers on Arlo, a timid Apatosaurus who finds himself lost after chasing a caveboy into the wilderness. In order to find his way home, he must befriend the feral boy and face his fears.

Available now on: AmazoniTunes, Vudu