18 of the Best Classic Movies You Can Watch on Netflix Tonight

If you enjoy a good Western, this movie starring Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach is one worth watching. Based in the 1860s during the Civil War, three men search the American Southwest for $200,000 in stolen gold.

Watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Netflix.

Young teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) time-travels 30 years into the past after his scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) tests an experiment.

Watch Back to the Future on Netflix.

NYC actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a well-respected perfectionist, but after he bags a soap opera audition, he's determined to reinvent himself as Dorothy Michaels in order to get the part.

Watch Tootsie on Netflix.

Considered director Sergio Leone's best movie, Once Upon a Time in the West tells the story of how two men protect a beautiful widow from a railroad assassin.

Watch Once Upon a Time in the West now.

Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) works at a prestigious law firm in Philadelphia, but he has two secrets: he's gay and he's HIV positive. After a colleague spots the signs of the illness, Beckett is fired, so he teams up with a lawyer (Denzel Washington) to file a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Watch Philadelphia on Netflix.

After being shot, a baseball player takes his chance at going pro 16 years later as a rookie for the last-place New York Knights.

Watch The Natural on Netflix.

After the fall of Nazi Germany, one Nazi fugitive manages to hide away in Connecticut, hiding his old life from his new wife and community. He's not in the clear, though — a determined investigator is right on his heels. The Stranger was directed by and stars Orson Welles and deserves a watch.

Watch The Stranger on Netflix.

Plenty of your favorite Monty Python lines can be found in this classic! King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table pursue the legendary Holy Grail, but these definitely aren't the dignified knights of legend.

Watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Netflix.

A deranged New York taxi driver (Robert De Niro) gets fed up with the crime he sees on the streets every day in this iconic, Oscar-nominated film. So, naturally, he takes matters into his own hands, plotting a murder and deciding to try to rescue a teenager (Jodie Foster) from a life of prostitution. Martin Scorsese's disturbing masterpiece is back in the spotlight this year, as it's one of the inspirations for Joker.

Watch Taxi Driver on Netflix.

In irreverent Monty Python fashion, the comedy follows Brian (Graham Chapman), a normal guy who happens to be born in a stable and grows up to speak out against Roman rule in Judea. Of course, the circumstances of his life lead to him getting mixed up with someone else who has that biography. Expect to see the usual rowdy lot of John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

Watch Monty Python's Life of Brian on Netflix

With Bill Murray's comedic sensibilities, Groundhog Day (another must-watch Andie McDowell movie) emerges as a romantic holiday film with a dark bite. Murray plays a jaded reporter who finds himself reliving Groundhog Day over and over again. Needless to say, it's a cozy classic that'll keep you and your housemates engaged.

Watch Groundhog Day on Netflix.

Harrison Ford as a hot archaeology professor who goes on dangerous adventures? We're in. Date night movies should entertain, and Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark will do just that.

Watch Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on Netflix.

A young boy named Charlie finds a golden ticket hidden inside his candy bar wrapper, and it leads him to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. With lots of songs and dancing, Charlie discovers all the magic that Wonka's candy land holds.

Watch Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory on Netflix.

Inventor Caractacus Potts turns a grand prix car into a magical time machine that takes himself and his family to a mystical kingdom in a far-out land.

Watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Netflix.

Johnny Depp stars in this drama as the titular Gilbert, a small-town 24-year-old stuck at home in Iowa caring for his debilitatingly overweight mother (Darlene Cates) and his younger brother with mental disabilities (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), whose life is changed when he encounters a free-spirited woman named Becky (Juliette Lewis).

Watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape on Netflix.

Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins deliver critically acclaimed performances in this adaptation of E.M. Forster's popular novel. Howards End unravels the story of a compassionate middle-class woman who enters an unlikely relationship with a cold, calculating businessman.

Watch Howards End on Netflix.

Ferris, a high school student, convinces his entire school that he's going to die. As a result, he takes the day off with his girlfriend and best friend to have fun.

Watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off on Netflix.

Spike Lee's indie film She's Gotta Have It forever changed the landscape of independent filmmaking as it became a critical and popular hit with a budget of only $175,000. It's about a young black woman named Nola Darling who prizes her independence above any of her three suitors.

Watch She's Gotta Have It on Netflix.