These Motion pictures And Documentaries on Netflix Have A 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score

Directed by: Isao Takahata

Voice cast: Miki Imai, Toshirō Yanagiba, Yōko Honna, Mayumi Iizuka

Synopsis: Taeko Okajima (Imai), a 27-year-old office worker, travels to the countryside to visit the in-laws of her elder sister. She has lived all her life in Tokyo, whose memories engulf her during her travels.

More about the film: Only Yesterday is one of the earliest anime films by Studio Ghibli and is the second directed by Takahata under the banner.

Directed by: Isao Takahata

Voice cast: Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii, Nobuko Miyamoto, Atsuko Takahata

Synopsis: Princess Kaguya (Asakura) is a beautiful girl who was raised by a poor bamboo cutter and his wife. Five nobles want to marry her, but Kaguya is not interested in any of them. Though in love with Sutemaru since her childhood, Kaguya eventually realises who she really is and the tragic fate that awaits her.

More about the film: The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya is an adaptation of a 10th-century Japanese literary tale known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. It was nominated in the Best Animated Feature Film category at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015.

Directed by: Yance Ford

Synopsis: The 1992 murder of a young Black man named William Ford Jr. is investigated in greater detail by Yance Ford, the brother of the victim.

More about the documentary: William Ford Jr. was a 24-year-old high school maths teacher who was shot to death by 19-year-old white mechanic Mark Reilly in Central Islip on Long Island, New York, on 7 April 1992. Reilly was charged with manslaughter, but an all-white grand jury declined to indict him as he claimed self-defence. The Ford family was shattered.

Though the documentary is about a crime, it doesn’t follow the typical storytelling type of true-crime movies or documentaries.

“This film allowed me to interrogate and ask questions,” Yance Ford told PEOPLE in 2017. “I did learn new information, but at the end of the process, I was still left with the realization that the man who killed my brother should have gone to trial but didn’t.”

Directed by: Debra Granik

Cast: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie

Synopsis: Will (Foster) is a military veteran suffering from PTSD who lives in isolation with his 17-year-old daughter Tom (McKenzie) in a jungle-like urban park outside of Portland. Their peaceful existence is turned upside down when they are discovered by park rangers.

More about the film: Leave No Trace is based on the 2009 novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock, who, in turn, based his book on the true story of a father and daughter who were discovered living in a nature preserve in Portland. McKenzie was nominated in the Best Young Performer category at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.

Directed by: Remi Weekes

Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, Sope Dirisu, Matt Smith

Synopsis: A refugee couple, Bol (Dirisu) and Rial (Mosaku), from war-torn South Sudan, are given a home to stay outside of London. They try to go about their lives but are haunted by a supernatural entity which reminds them of a mistake they shouldn’t have made.

More about the film: The horror movie His House received three BAFTA nominations, including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Mosaku. It eventually won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Weekes.

Directed by: Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht

Synopsis: The documentary is about a summer camp in New York where teens with disabilities turned into activists for the disability rights movement.

More about the documentary: Former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama served as executive producers of the documentary.

It tells the true story of Camp Jened, a summer camp founded in 1951 in the Catskills in upstate New York for youth with disabilities. LeBrecht, who has been in a wheelchair due to spina bifida, was a member of the camp. The documentary also features Judy Heumann, a wheelchair-bound disability rights activist and camp member. It reveals how they and other supporters were instrumental in the 1970s civil rights movement for disability rights.

The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2021. It won the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it had its world premiere.

Directed by: Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch

Synopsis: The documentary is about the life and career of Walter Mercado, a renowned Puerto Rican astrologer who was immensely famous throughout Latin America.

More about the documentary: Mucho Mucho Amor features interviews of Mercado, those close to him as well as several Latin American celebrities, including Lin-Manuel Miranda. Mercado was known for his gender non-conformity — which the documentary depicts. He died on 2 November 2019, two months before the premiere of the documentary at the  2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Directed by: Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk

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Synopsis: Athlete A is a documentary about the USA Gymnastics (USAG) sex abuse scandal, revelations of which rocked the country in the mid-2010s.

More about the documentary:  The documentary follows the reporters of The Indianapolis Star who first revealed the crimes of USAG doctor Larry Nassar on young gymnasts. Its title refers to a US gymnast who reported her abuse to the authorities in 2015. She was subsequently dropped from the 2016 US Olympic team. Both the gymnast and her family are featured in the documentary, which also includes other survivors who came forward against the monstrous actions of Nassar as well as the deliberate inaction by USAG’s then-CEO Steve Penny.

Directed by: Chris Bolan

Synopsis: A Secret Love documents the remarkable story of Terry Donahue, a famous baseball player from the 1940s, who kept her same-sex relationship with Pat Henschel a secret from her family for seven decades.

More about the film: Chris Bolan is Donahue’s great-nephew. The documentary was filmed between 2013 and 2018, featuring both Donahue and Henschel. It travels from the early days of their meeting in 1947 to their old age and their eventual coming out to family and friends in their 80s.

Donahue, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, passed away on 14 March 2019 at the age of 93.

“She didn’t want to go to the grave feeling like she’d lived a lie,” Bolan told TIME magazine before the release of the documentary.

Directed by: Shalini Kantayya

Synopsis: The documentary follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s shocking discovery that facial recognition algorithms were committing racial bias.

More about the documentary: Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American-Canadian computer scientist and digital activist, who founded Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) in 2016. She was included in TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 list.

As a graduate student at MIT, she found that the algorithms (programmes/codes) in facial recognition systems were discriminating against people of colour by failing to accurately identify dark-skinned people.

Besides Buolamwini, researchers who are part of the documentary include Deborah Raji, Meredith Broussard, Cathy O’Neil and Zeynep Tufekci.