As 2017 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our hands on the titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen. With the proliferation of streaming options, it’s thankfully easier than ever to play catch-up, and to assist with the process, we’re bringing you a rundown of the best titles of the year available to watch.
Curated from the Best Films of 2017 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable, perhaps underseen, titles from the year.
Note that we’re going by U.S. theatrical releases and the streaming services are limited solely to the territory as well. If you want to stay up-to-date with new titles being made available, check out our weekly column. In the meantime, see our rundown below, which will be updated as new titles hit streaming services, so make sure to bookmark. One can also click titles to see our official reviews or additional coverage.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
All These Sleepless Nights (Michal Marczak) | Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda) | Amazon Prime – iTunes
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Osgood Perkins) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
City of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Coco (Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) | Hulu – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Columbus (kogonada) | Hulu – Amazon – iTunes
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison) | FilmStruck – Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra) | iTunes
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Faces Places (Agnès Varda and JR) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Félicité (Alain Gomis) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Get Out (Jordan Peele) | HBO Go – Amazon – iTunes – Google
A Ghost Story (David Lowery) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
God’s Own Country (Francis Lee) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Macon Blair) | Netflix
John Wick: Chapter Two (Chad Stahelski) | HBO Go – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Kedi (Ceyda Torun) | Amazon – iTunes
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Landline (Gillian Robespierre) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Lost City of Z (James Gray) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Lovesong (So Yong Kim) | Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczynska) | FilmStruck – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Mimosas (Oliver Laxe) | iTunes
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach) | Netflix
mother! (Darren Aronofsky) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Mudbound (Dee Rees) | Netflix
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello) | Netflix
Okja (Bong Joon-ho) | Netflix
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues) | Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa) | Amazon – iTunes
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) | Netflix – Amazon – iTunes
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Rat Film (Theo Anthony) | iTunes
The Son of Joseph (Eugéne Green) | Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Song to Song (Terrence Malick) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
The Square (Ruben Östlund) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie) | Netflix – Amazon – Google
The Trip to Spain (Michael Winterbottom) | iTunes
The Untamed (Amat Escalante) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) | Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
The Work (James McLeary & Rob Allbee | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) | Amazon – iTunes – Google
Have any suggestions? Comment below or tweet @TheFilmStage to submit titles for consideration. See all new streaming options here.