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Here Are The New Netflix Instant Movies Streaming In April

Lauren Evans

Published Mar 31, 2014

Modified Mar 31, 2014

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Spring weather is just around the corner, so it's time to draw your blackout curtains, pull tighter your most fetid sweatsuit, and gather around the tee-vee set: Netflix Instant is unleashing another wave of mediocre cinema for your isolated viewing pleasure.

They're not all bad: Chinatown is a classic, Terminator is an ingenious sci-fi trailblazer, and The Yards...is a movie that...exists. Here's the list:

Amistad
Barton Fink
Braveheart
Chinatown
Click
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Coneheads
Death Wish
Death Wish 2
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Dragonslayer
The English Patient
The Fifth Element
Gattaca
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Inventing the Abbotts
Jumanji
A League of Their Own
Look Who’s Talking Now
The Man With One Red Shoe
Mean Girls
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Night of the Comet
Rocky
The Running Man
Scary Movie 3′
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Sense and Sensibility
Survival of the Dead
The Terminator
Wild Things 2
The Yards

It's also time to say goodbye to another set of films; films you swore you'd watch before sighing heavily and hitting "replay" on Friends With Kids. In particular, watch Pet Sematary before it's too late, OK? You know you'll never pay actual cash money to see some dead animatronic brat named Gage (not a name) mirthfully murder his neglectful family with a scalpel. Watch Pi and imagine the air in the Paramount board room the moment it fully dawned on its top execs that they'd just given that guy $130 million to make a biblical film. "Tense" comes to mind; so does "sweaty."

24
Voltran: Lion Force
The Dead Zone
21 Grams
Oldboy
Escape From Alcatraz
The Hunt for Red October
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Truman Show
Sunset Boulevard
The Thing Called Love
The Amittyville Horror
Pi
Nell
Everything or Nothing
The Haunting in Connecticut
My Tutor
Who’s Minding the Store
Farewell to the King
Baby Boom
American Gigolo
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Catch 22
Dark Blue
Play It Again, Sam
Mommie Dearest
Pet Sematary
April Fool’s Day
Staying Alive
Resident Evil Apocalypse

See ya'll next Winter!

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