Bilal Zouheir: My Curated Picks on Streaming Services

Exterminate All the Brutes

New on Max a month ago

I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck examines the history of colonisation in this four-part miniseries, interweaving his own…

My Love: Six Stories of True Love

Dir. Carolina Sá & Chico Pereira

This docuseries follows six couples from Japan, the U.S., Spain, Brazil, and India, as they share their stories of a…

In the Same Breath

Dir. Female director & Nanfu Wang

The culture of propaganda and cover-ups that kicked off the pandemic is the subject of this compelling documentary by award-winning…

Archive 81

This sci-fi thriller based on a podcast by the same name is about Dan (Mamoudou Athie), a video archivist who…

The Afterparty

Dave Franco stars in this murder mystery as an obnoxious pop star who gets murdered during a 15-year high-school reunion…

Gather

Dir. Sanjay Rawal

This insightful and uplifting documentary is about a growing movement within indigenous communities: obtaining food sovereignty by going back to…

Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story

Dir. Adam Carolla & Nate Adams

“They called me uppity. Uppity n*****. And I loved it”. That’s how this excellent documentary, about the first professional black…

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Dir. Radha Blank

This fun comedy-drama is about a New York playwright called Radha who never hit big. When she turns 40, she…

Athlete A

Dir. Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk

This groundbreaking documentary follows the USA Olympics sexual abuse case that made headlines in 2015. Through interviews with Olympians, their…

One Night in Miami

Dir. Regina King

This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…

Mixte

Dir. Alexandre Castagnetti & Edouard Salier

This French TV series is set in 1963, at the first high school to have both boys and girls as…

Dating Amber

Dir. David Freyne

This lovely comedy-romance from Ireland is about a closeted gay teen and his lesbian schoolmate who pretend to be in…

Immigration Nation

Dir. Christina Clusiau & Shaul Schwarz

For three years, the makers of this docuseries gained in-depth access to ICE and other government agencies to document the…

Losers

Dir. Lissette Feliciano

While this perspective on competitive sports is obviously unconventional, it makes perfect sense. Winners are boring. If you win, you…

The Hand of God

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino

The Hand of God is the autobiographical movie from Paolo Sarrantino, the director of the 2013 masterpiece The Great Beauty.…

I Lost My Body

Dir. Jérémy Clapin & Jérémy Clapin

Two storylines take place in this Parisian animation: one of a Moroccan immigrant who works as a pizza delivery guy,…

Love, Antosha

Dir. Garret Price

This movie narrated by Nicolas Cage is the incredible story of actor Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Like Crazy): from being…

Diego Maradona

Dir. Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia, the genius of biopics who gave us Senna, is back with this documentary on an even bigger sports…

Tell Me Who I Am

Dir. Ed Perkins

This documentary starts with Alex Lewis, who gets into a motorcycle accident and wakes up in the hospital not knowing…

Rilakkuma and Kaoru

Dir. Masahito Kobayashi

Meet Rilakkuma, a relaxed teddy bear (which is indeed what his name translates to in Japanese), and Kaoru, a Japanese…

Couples Therapy

Dir. Maya Seidler & Pax Wassermann

The simple premise of this series, about real couples going to therapy, shouldn’t feel as revolutionary as it does. And…

First Cow

Dir. Kelly Reichardt

Two misfits, an immigrant and a traveling cook, team up to start an unlikely enterprise in this slow but captivating…

Devs

This mini-series by Alex Garland (28 Days Later writer and Ex Machina director) is about a tech company like Google…