The depths of winter demand a night in with a great movie. The problem? Choice paralysis. Every streaming platform has thousands of films available. To cut through that, here are 30 great hand-picked movies on Stan* right now. Don’t have Stan? Check out our guides on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max.12 Years a Slave (2013)Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave.A true story where slavery’s horror weighs on the very will to live, Steve McQueen’s Oscars best picture winner stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a free black man kidnapped into southern slavery. Masterfully made and uncompromising.Animal Kingdom (2011)Told with nightmarish economy and Aussie vernacular, David Michod’s debut charts a Melbourne crime clan’s deadly eruption. With Ben Mendelsohn as a paranoid killer and Jacki Weaver the controlling matriarch, this is a can’t-look-away crime drama.Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name.Sony Pictures ClassicsCall Me by Your Name (2017)Audiences at large discovered Timothee Chalamet with this heart-rending depiction of first love as director Luca Guadagnino captures every turning point for Chalamet’s Elio and Armie Hammer’s Oliver. Discovery, joy and loss are intertwined.Clueless (1995)Jane Austen’s Emma is relocated to Beverly Hills in a teen comedy so enjoyable that it rightly still populates our shared cultural idiom. Alicia Silverstone’s Cher Horowitz is the preposterously perfect student whose life comes unstuck when she discovers matchmaking.Stacey Dash and Alicia Silverstone in Clueless.Paramount PicturesCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Ang Lee delivered the wuxia martial arts genre to the world with this thrilling 18th century adventure in which Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh’s stoic Chinese warriors seek a stolen sword and possibly each other. Gravity and genre-defying.Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)And here’s the Michelle Yeoh double-bill, with the Malaysian as the anchor in this inter-dimensional epic in which immigrant family trauma, freaky bureaucrats and apocalyptic fates intermingle. It’s both delightfully absurd and undeniably tragic.Michelle Yeow in Everything Everywhere All At Once.Erin Brockovich (2000)Director Steven Soderbergh and star Julia Roberts gave the legal drama a memorable underdog heroine in this real-life story of a Californian legal clerk who uncovered deadly corporate crimes and refused to take a backwards step.Fargo (1996)With thick North Dakota accents and a subtle reading of evil’s ease with the mundane, the Coen brothers follow a pregnant sheriff (Frances McDormand) diligently unwinding a botched kidnapping. It is the quintessential laugh-until-you-cry black comedy.Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in Fargo. Fight Club (1999)The true end of the 20th century bug was this subversive satire from David Fincher in which a corporate drone (Edward Norton) finds purpose via a badass bestie (Brad Pitt). Fighting each other and the audience’s morality, the film coolly runs amok.The Fugitive (1993)With Tommy Lee Jones as his hard-charging pursuer, Harrison Ford is the grieving husband on the run after being framed for his wife’s murder. This is one of the great Hollywood action-thrillers – edge-of-your-seat momentum meets heroic recklessness.The Godfather (1972)The gangster film as American epic, Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece about a 1940s New York mafia clan combines indelible performances – Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and more – with starkly tragic image-making.Godland (2022)The physical and philosophical worlds combine to harrowing heights in this 19th century drama about a Danish priest (Elliott Crosset Hove) tasked with founding an Icelandic parish. Specks of the harshest humour dot spiritual doubt and colonial guilt.Al Pacino in Heat.Heat (1995)Michael Mann’s monumental crime drama stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as respectively a brilliant master thief and obsessive police detective drawn together in a Los Angeles punctuated by cataclysmic shootouts and flawed personal relationships.If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)Rose Byrne rightfully earnt her Academy Award nomination in this psychological drama in which a working mother’s professional and personal limits are breached. Byrne’s performance is so raw that the genre’s boundaries collapse.Rose Byrne in If I had Legs I’d Kick You.APLa La Land (2016)With the chemistry between Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling providing the accelerant, this contemporary update of the classic movie musical escapes gravity as two hopeful artists experience the thrill of discovery and the cost of success.Nightcrawler (2014)With a terrifyingly acute performance that now feels prescient, a gaunt Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom, a sociopath whose amoral ambitions have no limit while flourishing as a freelance cameraman racing to nocturnal Los Angeles crime scenes.To play the accident and crime-scene videographer Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal effectively starved himself.Chuck ZlotnickOne Fine Morning (2023)Mia Hansen-Love has been a crucial French director this century, and this riveting tapestry of beginnings and endings is a stellar example. A never-better Lea Seydoux plays a Parisian widow who begins a relationship just as her father’s health declines.Paterson (2016)Jim Jarmusch crafts eccentric milieus. Sometimes they’re inhabited by vampires or spies, but here it’s simply a New Jersey bus driver (Adam Driver) with a yen for poetry and a whirlwind wife (Golshifteh Farahani). Life’s everyday expression sparkles.Adam Driver in Paterson.