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Steven Spielberg Movies: Where to Watch

The Steven Spielberg movies in our catalogue, best known first, and which of them are on Netflix in the United States today.

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Steven Spielberg, with posters of Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List and Catch Me If You Can

Steven Spielberg directed every film here, and the range between them is the first thing to notice. Jurassic Park fills an adventure with living dinosaurs. Schindler's List takes Oskar Schindler to Kraków to make his fortune and gives the story the weight of history. One is built to thrill a crowd, the other asks for patience and pays it back. What the two share is a camera that stays close to a person with a problem to solve and not much time to solve it.

The order runs newest first through the whole filmography, and a title did not need to be on Netflix in the United States to be included. Only some of these films are on Netflix in the United States today.

Start with Jaws, which is on Netflix in the United States now. A great white shark works the water off a summer island, and the police chief, played by Roy Scheider, wants the beaches shut. Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss fill out the cast, and the mayor wants them open because the summer season is the town's livelihood. Tom Hanks leads Saving Private Ryan as Captain John H. Miller. His squad crosses Normandy to bring one private home after three brothers from the same family are lost in action. Catch Me If You Can sets Leonardo DiCaprio running as a sixteen-year-old who passes forged Pan Am checks as a pilot, with Tom Hanks as the FBI agent, Carl Hanratty, on the case.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

2h 49m • Drama, War
- IMDb 8.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 94%
- Our score 4.5/5
Three Ryan brothers are killed in action. Captain John H. Miller and a squad cross Normandy to find the fourth, Private James Francis Ryan, and bring him home.

Not on Netflix US
Schindler's List (1993)

3h 15m • Biography, Drama, History
- IMDb 9.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 98%
- Our score 4.7/5
Oskar Schindler comes to German-occupied Kraków to make his fortune. He acquires an enamelware factory and hires Itzhak Stern, who has Jewish workers classed as vital to the war effort.

Not on Netflix US
Catch Me If You Can (2002)

2h 21m • Biography, Crime, Drama
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 96%
- Our score 4.4/5
Frank Abagnale Jr., sixteen, watches his father run cons. When his parents divorce, he runs away and passes forged Pan Am checks as a pilot. FBI agent Carl Hanratty takes the case.

Not on Netflix US
Jurassic Park (1993)

2h 7m • Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- IMDb 8.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.4/5
Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler dig dinosaurs in Montana until John Hammond invites them to his island, where living dinosaurs roam. Investors want the park certified safe.

Not on Netflix US
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

1h 55m • Action, Adventure
- IMDb 8.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 94%
- Our score 4.5/5
Army Intelligence hires the archaeologist Indiana Jones to beat the Nazis to the Ark of the Covenant. The trail leads him to Nepal and to Marion Ravenwood, who keeps a medallion.

Not on Netflix US
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

2h 7m • Action, Adventure
- IMDb 8.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 84%
- Our score 4.2/5
Indiana Jones learns his father, the Grail scholar Henry Jones Sr., has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Henry's diary leads Indy to Venice and to the academic Dr. Elsa Schneider.

Not on Netflix US
Jaws (1975)

2h 4m • Adventure, Thriller
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 97%
- Our score 4.5/5
A great white shark attacks swimmers off Amity Island, and police chief Martin Brody wants the beaches closed. Mayor Larry Vaughn refuses, since the summer season is the town's livelihood.

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Minority Report (2002)

2h 25m • Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 89%
- Our score 4.1/5
In 2054, a police unit called Precrime stops murders before they happen, reading visions from three clairvoyants known as precogs. Its chief, John Anderton, is named by them as a future killer.

Not on Netflix US
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

1h 58m • Action, Adventure
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 77%
- Our score 3.8/5
Indiana Jones escapes crime boss Lao Che in Shanghai with singer Willie Scott and Short Round. Stranded in an Indian village, he agrees to recover its stolen sacred stone and missing children.

Not on Netflix US
Ready Player One (2018)

2h 20m • Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 72%
- Our score 3.7/5
In 2045, Wade Watts escapes into the OASIS, a virtual reality universe. After James Halliday dies, his Easter egg hunt offers his fortune and the OASIS to whoever solves three challenges.

Not on Netflix US
The Terminal (2004)

2h 8m • Comedy, Drama
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 61%
- Our score 3.4/5
A coup in Krakozhia leaves Viktor Navorski's passport unrecognized while he is in the air, stranding him at JFK Airport. Frank Dixon tells him to stay in the transit lounge.

Not on Netflix US
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

2h 2m • Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- IMDb 6.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 77%
- Our score 3.5/5
In 1957, Soviet agents hunt a crystal skull. Archaeologist Indiana Jones is pulled into the search when a young greaser, Mutt Williams, brings a coded message from a missing colleague.

Not on Netflix US
War of the Worlds (2005)

1h 56m • Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- IMDb 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 76%
- Our score 3.6/5
Ray Ferrier, a divorced dockworker in New Jersey, has his children Rachel and Robbie for a weekend visit. A lightning storm strikes, and a three-legged machine rises from the street.

Not on Netflix US
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

2h 9m
- IMDb 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 57%
- Our score 3.1/5
John Hammond reveals that InGen bred dinosaurs on a second island, Isla Sorna, and wants Ian Malcolm there. Malcolm refuses until he learns his girlfriend Sarah Harding is already on the island.

Not on Netflix US
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

1h 55m • Family, Sci-Fi
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 99%
- Our score 4.5/5
A small alien gathering plants in a California forest is left behind when his group flees. Ten-year-old Elliott Taylor shelters him in his room, hidden from his mother.

Not on Netflix US
Bridge of Spies (2015)

2h 22m • Biography, Drama, Thriller
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 91%
- Our score 4.2/5
Rudolf Abel is arrested in New York City in 1957 and charged with spying for the Soviet Union. Lawyer James B. Donovan is appointed to defend him.

Not on Netflix US
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

2h 26m • Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
- IMDb 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 76%
- Our score 3.7/5
In the 22nd century, David, a mecha child built to love, is adopted by Monica Swinton and her husband, Henry. Their son Martin, cured of a rare disease, comes home.

Not on Netflix US
Hook (1991)

2h 22m • Adventure, Comedy, Family
- IMDb 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 37%
- Our score 2.6/5
Peter Banning, a lawyer, lets work crowd out his wife, Moira, and their children, Jack and Maggie. Captain Hook takes the children, and Wendy tells Peter he is Peter Pan.

Not on Netflix US
Lincoln (2012)

2h 30m • Biography, Drama, History, War
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 90%
- Our score 4.1/5
In January 1865, Abraham Lincoln works to win House votes for the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. Peace would return the southern states to Congress, where they would vote it down.

Not on Netflix US
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

1h 47m • Action, Adventure, Animation
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 75%
- Our score 3.7/5
In Brussels, reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy buy a model of the ship Unicorn at a market. The collector Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine tries to buy it from him.

Not on Netflix US
Munich (2005)

2h 44m • Drama, History, Thriller
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 78%
- Our score 3.8/5
Palestinian militants take eleven Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and all eleven are killed. Mossad agent Avner Kaufman is picked to lead a squad hunting those responsible.

Not on Netflix US
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

2h 17m • Drama, Sci-Fi
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 90%
- Our score 4.2/5
Roy Neary, a lineman, sees a UFO over an Indiana road, and the mountain shape it leaves in his head will not let go. Scientist Claude Lacombe examines aircraft in a desert.

Not on Netflix US
War Horse (2011)

2h 26m • Drama, War
- IMDb 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 74%
- Our score 3.7/5
Albert Narracott raises Joey, the colt his father bought. When rain ruins the crops and war is declared, Ted sells the horse to the cavalry, and Albert is too young to enlist.

Not on Netflix US
The Post (2017)

1h 56m • Drama
- IMDb 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 88%
- Our score 4.0/5
In 1971, the Washington Post chases the story of classified documents on the Vietnam War. Publisher Katharine Graham and editor Ben Bradlee must decide how far the paper will go.

Not on Netflix US
Disclosure Day (2026)

2h 26m • Sci-Fi, Thriller
- IMDb 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 79%
- Our score 3.6/5
Dr. Daniel Kellner steals an archive of extraterrestrial evidence from Wardex, the contractor he works for. Meteorologist Margaret Fairchild begins speaking a language she never learned.

Not on Netflix US
West Side Story (2021)

2h 36m • Crime, Drama, Romance
- IMDb 7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.1/5
Two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, fight over the same Upper West Side blocks in 1957. Tony, on parole, falls for María, whose brother leads the Sharks.

Not on Netflix US
Empire of the Sun (1987)

2h 33m • Drama, History, War
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 77%
- Our score 3.9/5
In 1941 Shanghai, British schoolboy Jamie Graham is separated from his parents when the Japanese occupy the city. Alone and hungry, he falls in with two American hustlers, Basie and Frank.

Not on Netflix US
The Fabelmans (2022)

2h 31m • Drama
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.2/5
Mitzi and Burt Fabelman take their son Sammy to his first film. Dazzled by a train crash, he wants to shoot one himself. A new job moves the family to Phoenix, Arizona.

Not on Netflix US
The Color Purple (1985)

2h 34m • Drama
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 73%
- Our score 3.8/5
In Georgia, Celie bears two children by her abusive father, and both are taken from her. She is married off to Albert Johnson, who beats her, and separated from her sister Nettie.

Not on Netflix US
The BFG (2016)

1h 57m • Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- IMDb 6.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 74%
- Our score 3.4/5
Sophie, a ten-year-old orphan in London, sees an elderly giant from her window at night. He carries her off to Giant Country, where far larger man-eating giants live.

Not on Netflix US
Amistad (1997)

2h 35m • Drama, History
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 78%
- Our score 3.8/5
Off Cuba in 1839, captives aboard the schooner La Amistad rise against the crew under Cinqué. Held in Connecticut, they are defended by the lawyer Roger Sherman Baldwin.

Not on Netflix US
Duel (1971)

1h 14m • Action, Thriller
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 89%
- Our score 4.1/5
On a business trip across the Mojave Desert, salesman David Mann overtakes a dilapidated tanker truck. The truck roars past him and then refuses to let him by again.

Not on Netflix US
1941 (1979)

1h 58m • Action, Comedy, War
- IMDb 5.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 39%
- Our score 2.4/5
Six days after the raid on Pearl Harbor, submarine commander Akiro Mitamura picks Hollywood as a target while Sergeant Frank Tree's tank crew and pilot Wild Bill Kelso face California's panic.

Not on Netflix US
Always (1989)

2h 2m • Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- IMDb 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 70%
- Our score 3.4/5
Pete Sandich flies low over forest fires, taking risks that frighten Dorinda Durston, the pilot who works his radio. Killed in a crash, he returns as a spirit to guide another pilot.

Not on Netflix US
The Sugarland Express (1974)

1h 50m • Crime, Drama
- IMDb 6.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 87%
- Our score 3.9/5
Lou Jean Poplin breaks her husband Clovis out of a Texas prison to reclaim their baby son from foster care. The highway patrolman who stops them becomes their hostage.

Not on Netflix US
Something Evil (1972)

1h 13m • Horror
- IMDb 5.2/10
- Our score 2.6/5
Paul Worden, a television producer, moves his wife Marjorie and their two children into a Pennsylvania farmhouse. The countryside looks idyllic, but something unseen there has fixed on Marjorie.

Not on Netflix US
Night Gallery (1969)

1h 38m • Horror, Thriller
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Our score 3.8/5
A curator unveils paintings in a gallery, each canvas introducing a tale. A nephew murders for an inheritance, a blind woman pays for sight, a Nazi fugitive hides in South America.

Not on Netflix US
Amazing Stories (1986)

1h 51m • Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
- IMDb 7.0/10
- Our score 3.5/5
Three episodes of the Amazing Stories television anthology, among them Go to the Head of the Class and Mummy Daddy, are gathered into one feature.

Not on Netflix US