As 2015 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 2015 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.
’71 (Yann Demange) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi) // Netflix – iTunes – Google
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Amy (Asif Kapadia) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga) // Netflix
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Blackhat (Michael Mann) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Call Me Lucky (Bobcat Goldthwait) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Entertainment (Rick Alverson) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Ex Machina (Alex Garland) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Faults (Riley Stearns) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Gangs of Wasseypur (Anurag Kashyap) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Heaven Knows What (Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Horse Money (Pedro Costa) // Netflix
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Inside Out (Pete Docter) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Iris (Albert Maysles) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) // Netflix – iTunes – Google
Junun (Paul Thomas Anderson) // iTunes
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen) // HBO GO
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) // – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Man From Reno (Dave Boyle) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Martian (Ridley Scott) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Mend (John Magary) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Mississippi Grind (Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) // Amazon – iTunes
Paddington (Paul King) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Partisan (Ariel Kleiman) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Phoenix (Christian Petzold) // Netflix –Amazon – iTunes – Google
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Results (Andrew Bujalski) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Russian Woodpecker (Chad Gracia) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton, Richard Starzak) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Slow West (John Maclean) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Spring (Justin Benson, Aaron Scott Moorhead) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Tangerine (Sean Baker) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Unexpected (Kris Swanberg) //Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Voices (Marjane Satrapi) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Walk (Robert Zemeckis) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt) // Vimeo
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