5 Netflix Picks: What To Watch This Week Begins With Colin Firth as the King

5 Netflix Picks is our weekly list of random movies we recommend you move to the top of your queue, from romance to horror and everything in-between.

Another week and it’s time to start thinking about what you’ll be watching when the evening comes, and this time, we’ve put together another great mix of some famous hits and deep cuts you probably never heard of. Sure, sure, we have a Christmas movie in there on the 25th, but the rest of the week is packed with all kinds of genres to satisfy your movie cravings. So let’s get started with a bit of history and a future Kingsman …

MONDAY: The King’s Speech

Hard to believe this multiple Academy Award-winning drama is now eight years old, but here we are and what a start for the week. Colin Firth turns in an Oscar-winning performance as King George VI, a young monarch with a stammer who enlists the help of a speech therapist named Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). His unorthodox treatment is at first hard for George to accept but soon a bond is built between the two as World War II looms over the country. Highly entertaining with beautiful attention to period details, this is an actor’s film through and through.

CHRISTMAS TUESDAY: Christmas Inheritance

Okay so Netflix isn’t exactly pulling out all stop this year for Holiday movies, the digital shelves pretty bare for classics and quality, but we do have this sweet little pick for you about a young woman named Ellen (Eliza Taylor) who gets a bit of Xmas magic. She’s the daughter of a wealthy CEO, challenged by him to hand deliver a Christmas card to his former business partner in a far away small town. The catch? She’s got to do it incognito and with only a hundred bucks in her pocket. Oh, the horror. Think she’ll find true love along the way? You know the drill but this is nonetheless a harmless bit of holiday happiness. Read our full review.

WEDNESDAY: What Happened, Miss Simone?

If you’ve never heard of Nina Simone, then it’s high time you did, and it’s with this astounding documentary about the turbulent life of this incredibly talented singer and activist where you should begin. Tracing back the roots of her rise to fame, the film uses archival footage of her performances along with interviews with friends and family to pull back the veil on this too often forgotten icon. With a voice unlike any other and power to make change, Simone is a woman whose contributions to music and social justice are nearly unmatched. Watch this film.

THURSDAY: Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

For the family this week, we’re going with something a little off center, a dark fairytale like animated film that is sort of trippy but highly entertaining with some inventive imagery and plenty to talk about when it’s over. Set more than a hundred years ago, it tells of a boy whose heart was replaced with a clock when he was born, and thus, because of its fragile inner workings, vulnerable to emotions, leaving him warned to steer clear of such things, especially love. Guess how well that goes? Wonderfully imagined and full of curious adventures, this is a peculiar pick but one well worth watching.

FRIDAY: Rumble in the Bronx

We give a lot of praise around here for Tom Cruise, one of our favorite actions stars who is ridiculously committed to entertaining his audience, but even Cruise falls at the feet of Jackie Chan, the absolute top of the food chain when it comes to stunts, direction, and full-on balls to the wall devotion to getting the shot. In this 1995 action film, considered his Hollywood breakthrough, he proves he’s a true man of steel, mixing outrageous action and comedy with mind boggling stunts that he does on his own. It doesn’t matter if you’re not a fan of martial arts movies or not, this is a must see if you even passively call your yourself a movie fan. All hail, Jackie Chan.