By Remember the first time you saw Mr Blonde torturing a policeman while dancing to 'Stuck in the Middle with You'? Or tried to decipher what exactly Scarlett Johansson was whispering into Bill Murray's ear as she said goodbye in Lost in Translation?
These moments from classic films have stood the test of time, just as good today as they were ten or twenty years ago. Netflix's extensive back catalogue can mean a lot of research goes into what is worth watching, so allow us to highlight some gems lurking in there.
Dirty Dancing
Patrick Swayze in a leather jacket saying the words "nobody puts baby in the corner" is just one of the iconic moments in this story about a dance teacher and a young woman at a summer holiday camp. The coming of age tale is packed with Eighties style, a jazzy soundtrack, and romance courtesy of lines like "I carried a watermelon".
American Psycho
Christian Bale plays the athletic, well-dressed, suave, successful serial killer Patrick Bateman in this stylish adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' novel of the same name. A dive into the mind of a psychopath with jet black humour carried perfectly by Bale's maniacal grin.
Groundhog Day
A film whose title has become a catch-all phrase for repeating the same thing over and over again, Bill Murray is at his best playing weatherman Phil Connors. When he is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event he ends up stuck in a never-ending time loop.
GoodFellas
Scorsese's 1990 gangster movie epic has never been bettered in terms of exposing and damning the underbelly of New York's mafia families. Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci are sublime as delinquents pulled into the ugly violence of mob life.
When Harry Met Sally
With a screenplay written by Nora Ephron, this film about a pair of New Yorkers brought together by fate, is a cut above other rom-coms, in part due to the spark between its leads Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. Who else could make a fake orgasm scene in a busy diner a seminal piece of cinema?
The Great Escape
The King of Cool Steve McQueen was never cooler than in this epic American war film about the mass escape of a group of British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German camp during WWII. Riding a motorcycle has never looked so good.
The Terminal
A young Tom Hanks in one of his earlier partnerships with director Steven Spielberg, The Terminal follows an exiled Bulgarian traveller Viktor Navorski while he camps out at an airport terminal. It's a testament to Hanks' on-screen charm that watching someone showering and sleeping at JFK can make for such compelling watching.
Reservoir Dogs
Tarantino's debut is one of his very best, with the director telling a tightly woven story of a heist gone wrong packed with smart pop-culture references, sharp dialogue and QT favourites Harvey Keitel and Michael Madsen. Yes, there's lots of violence, but it feels more subversive and less gratuitous than some of the director's later work.
Lost In Translation
Sofia Coppola's story of two jet-lagged strangers finding solace in each other while staying in a Tokyo hotel is the sort of story that reminds you of the weird but powerful connection between all of humanity. Plus there's karaoke.
Jaws
It's almost impossible to see an image of a shark fin above water and not think of the seminal Seventies thriller Jaws. On the surface (a-ha!) it's a film about being eaten by a big fish, but underneath lurks so many messages about family, fear and authority. A film which changed cinema and is still as great as it ever was.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The film which launched Hugh Grant's career as a bumbling British bachelor, this romantic comedy delivers some hilarious moments thanks to its script by Richard Curtis. It's also, as you might have guessed by the title, as profound in its reckoning with death as with love.
Midnight Cowboy
The only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture – good trivia, that – 1969 film Midnight Cowboy tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a prostitute and a con man, with the duo brought to life by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Their friendship, amidst the sleaze and grime of New York, makes for moving viewing.
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