What Movies Do You Recommend from the past 4 Years??

We love real life stories also.
I would recommend:
Secretariat
The Fighter
St Ralph ( not a true story)
Defiance
Seabiscuit
Chariots of Fire (older, but a fav)
Saints and Soldiers
Downfall

Sunshine Cleaning
Hall Pass
Little Miss Sunshine (probably older than 4 years old)

The Help (2011)
Walk the Line (2005)
Crash (2005)
Stupid Crazy Love (2011)
Toy Story 3
The Kings Speech (loved it!)
Up
The Blind Side
Taken
Iron Man (both)
Grand Torino
Burlesque (Cher and Christina Aguilera)
Easy A

There are sooo many...

I have to echo a few from Victoria C's list:
Secretariat
The Fighter (Mark Wahlberg/Christian Bale- true story about a boxer)
Seabiscuit
Saints and Soldiers

Also:
True Grit
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Rabbit Hole
Shutter Island
That Thing You Do
The Lives of Others (we have watched this multiple times it is so good)
The Way Back
Hart's War
We Are Marshall (true story adaptation)
Apocalypto
Ip Man
The Blind Side
Gran Torino
The Illusionist
Flags of Our Fathers
Road to Perdition
Invictus
Crash
The Good Shepherd
Invincible
A Beautiful Mind
3:10 to Yuma
Unstoppable
Taken
The Bank Job

We love drama also...Not sure how many of these are available on streaming or if you have to order the DVD.

use the search engine on Netflix. Enter a movie you know you liked, & the site will recommend movies "like" it. You can do this with genres, actors, & directors. Love how it helps me....especially since I'm addicted to classics...both noir & not!

Both of my sons use it thru their game systems. My older son has been watching the tv show "Seeker", & has already worked his way thru "Merlin". My younger son is working his way thru "Top Gear"....just shoot me now! & I've been watching the classic tv show from the late 70s..."Soap". Still funnier than Heck! I grew up watching it....we used to have party nights w/ neighbors/family/friends - just like Monday night football!

As for movie recommendations: Morning Glory & Love's Kitchen were both good romances. Both on instant play. Enjoy!

From megan's list - Tangled is on Netflix streaming. Rio and The Help are not.

Beth's list - Iron Man 2 is on Streaming.

One & Done's list - NONE are on Netflix Streaming. She always recommends the movie Reservior Dogs, which is not 4 years old, but IS on Nextflix Streaming.

New movies (kind of) on Streaming: The Next Three Days, The Fighter, Secretariat.We watched Jackass 3 the other night (Netflix streaming) and laughed our butts off. The first season of Raising Hope is on there (I highly recommend!) and the first two seasons of Parenthood are on there as well. It's not 4 yrs old, but I highly recommend "Return To Me" with Minnie Driver and David Duchovny. Love this love-story. It's on Streaming. "Precious" was a hard movie to watch, but an interesting story. Both versions of True Grit are on Streaming, as is the new Limitless and Toy Story 3.

I have a somewhat recent question about Netflix and Hulu, so feel free to get on my profile and look at my past-asked questions. Or click here for one mostly about TV shows: http://www.mamapedia.com/questions/1863622349711147009 and here for one about Netflix Streaming http://www.mamapedia.com/questions/13195797842079449089

And I meant to add in your last question, that we use our library for a lot of our movie-viewing as well. The Help - I am number 2 on the waiting list for that. I also saw, thanks to my library, Bridesmaids, Captain America, and many others I can't even think of right now. My library is awesome with it's movie selection.

Love and Other Drugs

Friends with Benefits

Paul

Seven Pounds

Sunshine Cleaning

Catch and Release is a really good Date movie

Those are the ones in my constant Watch List:)

This past weekend, we saw a couple of good ones:

Knight and Day

Columbiana

Sherlock Holmes 1 &2
Thor
Iron Man 1&2

but it looks like you and I have opposite movie likes , but those are some of my favorites from these past few years

The Help (adult) - LOVED it!!
Rio (kids)
Tangled (kids)