Smile’s $217.4M haul: 3 best movies to watch on Netflix this weekend, including 1 Winona Ryder R-rated mystery thriller

A romance with consequences

Reminders of Him adapts Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel and currently ranks as Netflix’s second most-watched movie nationwide. It follows Kenna, who leaves prison six years after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Scotty.

She hopes to make amends and reconnect with her five-year-old daughter. The story also follows the developing bond between Kenna and Ledger, her late boyfriend’s best friend, as they face emotional and moral complications.

Smile brings supernatural horror

Netflix is set to add Smile on Sunday, November 15. The horror film centers on a supernatural force that appears through disturbing grins on people’s faces. Its main character races to understand and break a curse before it proves fatal. Smile earned $217.4 million worldwide on a $17 million budget, and its follow-up, Smile 2, brought in $138.1 million globally.

Ryder leads a tense mystery

Gone in the Night stars Winona Ryder, known to Netflix viewers as Joyce Byers in Stranger Things. The R-rated mystery thriller ranks tenth among the service’s most-watched films nationwide.

Ryder plays Kath, who travels to a cabin in the woods with her boyfriend, Max. They find another couple already there, and after the couples agree to share the location, a series of shocking events unfolds.