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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 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 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



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) 86%

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) 83%

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) 87%

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