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They're originally from the BBC, but are available to stream in Canada. Same with Flowers, the incredible yet little-known TV show with Olivia Colman, Outlander, and many other picks from this list of the very best little-binged TV shows on Canadian Netflix. This documentary from Ken Burns is a selection of stories from prisoners enrolled in a competitive college program.

Many of the prisoners are in maximum-security facilities, some for serious crimes. For three years, the makers of this docuseries gained in-depth access to ICE and other government agencies to document the current state of the U. Immigration Nation looks at how ICE functions from within, but it also focuses on the human toll of its methods. When a migrant freezes to death, an officer calls his distraught father to notify him.

It quickly becomes apparent that the officer is using the same call to try to establish if the father is in the U. The show also makes an important point of noting that the harshness of the U. With true crime hitting an all-time high, and Making a Murderer making millions, here comes Netflix's The Keepers. However, while the two shows share a common genre and general tone of voice, The Keepers is a much more interesting show.

For one, it focuses on the victims and their stories, instead of the grisly perpetrators. Second, it trades cliffhangers for substance without compromising on breathtaking twists and revelations. Across seven taut episodes, it meticulously examines the unsolved murder of Catherine Cesnik, a Baltimore nun in , who is suspected of being murdered to cover up sexual abuse at the Catholic high school she taught at.

Adroitly edited, beautifully shot, and featuring great music by Blake Neely, The Keepers unfolds a horrific tale and emphatically captures the pain still lingering on five decades later. Think of Dix pour cent, or Call My Agent! Eight Grade is a movie that follows a girl going through her generation's strange world.

Social media, selfies, Youtube; you name it. But also, the weight of her expectations as shaped by the internet versus her reality. Written and directed by famous comedian Bo Burnham, it's a gentle and often funny look at our anxieties and how they shape our growth.

Prepare for a lot of cringes. This is a star-packed movie about two brother assassins played by John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. You might have read the book of the same name, and it is always hard to make a great film out of a great book but the brilliant director of A Prophet Jacques Audiard has done it again. He is aided by a superb darkly comic script and fantastic acting from the entire cast.

Audiard is French, but his take on the American Western is filled with epic violence but also witty dialogue, brotherly love, and male camaraderie. Read also:. Aquarius Genre : Drama.

And Breathe Normally Midsommar Genre : Drama, Horror, Mystery. Radha Blank wrote, directed and starred in this cringe-comedy about an artist reaching a point in life where the need to make money brushes up against a desire for creative fulfillment.

Blank plays a once-buzzy playwright who starts rapping to rekindle her creative spark while selling out on Broadway. Shot in romantic and intimate black-and-white, The Year-Old Version is packed with one-liners and great musical sequences.

Though the lead character is highly cynical, the movie takes a refreshingly uncynical view of the generation gap. A movie about those left behind in the global humanitarian crisis, Atlantics cleverly subverts a realist aesthetic to draw viewers into a supernatural story about class, grief and belief.

Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris The Fog Of War spends some time in Boston with his old friend Elsa, who specializes in intimate, vivid large-format Polaroid portraits — and who now sees her specialization threatened by the death of traditional photography.

There are plenty of ridiculously raunchy digressions, but Bad Trip manages to give viewers an optimistic and heartening look at America without glossing over issues of race and class. Also: Tiffany Haddish delivers her funniest performance since Girls Trip. McKay orchestrates it all so deftly that you might not even notice how angry he is… at least, not right away. Many stories of 60s radicalism have been told on film, but the Oscar-nominated doc finds an unsung tale in the seeds of the modern-day disability rights movement.

Crip Camp traces pivotal civil rights battles in the United States back to Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled teens in the 70s that is fondly remembered as a utopia among attendees who were able to feel a sense of normalcy there. The trust the director puts in her audience is like a rebellion in and of itself. A dozy riff on George A. What ensues is both a deadpan, laconic deconstruction of the zombie genre and an allegory for the numbing effects of consumerism.

Sharad Aditya Modak is a devoted student of Hindustani classical music who is skeptical of performing and recording for profit. The Sinner is an anthology crime series about Detective Harry Ambrose and the disturbing cases he investigates. Jessica Biel is absolutely incredible in season one, which I enjoyed more than seasons two and three.

Ozark is about a man Jason Bateman who moves his family from Chicago to the Ozarks summer resort community. Itaewon Class is probably my most favourite Korean drama of all-time. Orphan and chess prodigy Beth Harmon struggles with addiction on her way to become the greatest chess player in the world. It actually took 30 years for the producer to finally get this series made — no studios thought anyone would want to watch a show about chess!

When They See Us is a limited series based on true events that happened in It tells the story of the Central Park Five , who were wrongfully convicted of assaulting a jogger in Central Park.

They were exonerated 13 years later, and it is absolutely heartbreaking to watch the five kids turn into men while in prison. I learned about Hasidic Jews while in Israel , and watching Unorthodox was very powerful and emotional. A Hasidic Jewish woman flees her arranged marriage and religious life in Brooklyn for freedom and a new life in Germany, but her past catches up to her.

After serving as a nurse in the British army, Claire Randall goes on a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband Frank before he starts a new career as a historian. She suddenly gets transported years into the past, marries Scottish man Jamie Fraser to keep herself safe, and ends up falling in love. Outlander is a historical drama based on a novel series of the same name, which happens to be one of the best-selling book series of all-time!

You makes you want to private all your social media accounts and never talk to strangers ever again. After the sun mysteriously starts killing everything it touches, a group of passengers on a plane travels west to try to find somewhere safe. Into the Night is actually the first Belgian series on Netflix! After his wife and children are killed, Frank Castle becomes The Punisher, a vigilante who takes justice into his own hands. I started watching the show on Netflix not knowing what it was about and thought it was meh, but then it started to get really exciting.

Set in the 80s, Stranger Things is about a small town that encounters the supernatural. The show was created by the Duffer brothers, who also wrote the horror film Hidden!