10 Overlooked But Awesome Movies You Can Watch On Netflix Right Now

1. Circle

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Despite seeming like an impossible task to pull off, movies set in one location have fared rather well over the years. From Phone Booth in the early noughties to Ryan Reynolds' Buried, it's become a sub-genre in its own right and is capable of producing incredible amounts of tension by hitting on one of our most primal fears; isolation.

Circle addresses this emotion smartly, to a heightened degree. Set in a circular, eerie, red-lit room, the film features 50 distinct characters and tasks them with choosing the one person among them who deserves to live. The sheer amount of actors allows for a lot of visual and dramatic diversity despite the single location, and Circle touches on sensitive issues like racism, sexism and police brutality with a surprising amount of grace.

Sadly, the characters themselves possess little to no sensitivity in this area, marking people for death based purely on looks rather than anything meaningful. Here, your ethnicity will work against you. Your gender will work against you. Your age will work against you. Circle explores the extent to which people would go if the rule book were tossed out the window, cleverly mocking prominent stereotypes and exposing just how ridiculous they actually are.

Because at the end of the day, whether young, old or somewhere in-between, a life is a life - is it really up to you to decide how much that life is worth?

Any other hidden treasures to be found on Netflix? Do you agree with any of our choices? Sound off in the comments below!

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