SECRETARY (2002) Stream on Hulu. Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Viewers will have to decide how well the sexual politics of this unconventional romantic comedy have aged since the turn of the millennium. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lee, a troubled young woman who finds work as a secretary to a temperamental attorney, E. Edward Grey (James Spader). His demanding personality and her obedient one gel and their dynamic quickly becomes sexual. In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden called the film “a small groundbreaking comedy” and said that its characterization of Lee isn’t derisive. “Lee may be shown crawling around the floor with an envelope in her teeth, but the movie still insists on seeing her as a plucky heroine plotting her own sexual emancipation.”

OCÉANS (2010) Stream on Netflix. Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. This documentary by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud explores the Earth’s largest bodies of water, which cover around 70 percent of the planet’s surface and contain roughly 97 percent of its liquid H2O. The film, narrated in English by Pierce Brosnan, approaches its gargantuan subject in several ways, showcasing its role as a home to many different ecosystems that each support a variety of plant and animal species. It also takes a wider look at the relationship between our oceans and the larger global environment as well as the ways in which humans interact with this major feature of their world.