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We are quickly heading towards fall movie season, when Oscar hopefuls of all sizes hit theaters. Many of the films that will populate the year-end Top 10 lists will be released over the next three months. But the first nine months of the year had their share of great films. Here’s a regularly updated list of where you can stream them. Want to watch one of the titles below at a later time? Add it to your Watchlist, where you can keep track of interesting movies and TV shows across multiple services.

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‘The Big Sick’

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In this summer indie hit based on a real-life story, a stand-up comedian named Kumail (played by Kumail Nanjiani) and a grad student named Emily (Zoe Kazan, playing Nanjiani’s wife, Emily V. Gordon) meet, fall in love and break up before Emily lands in the hospital with a mysterious illness. The nightmarish situation pushes Kumail to bond with her parents (played by Ray Romano and Holly Hunter, one of the year’s cutest onscreen couples), giving him hope for a chance to repair his relationship.

“The Big Sick” is candid about the problems facing first generation Americans, like having to choose which traditions to keep (family dinners), which ones to leave (arranged marriages) and then getting their tradition-minded parents to understand.

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‘The Lost City of Z’

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According to director James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z,” nothing is more tragic than unfulfilled ambition. This adaptation of the nonfiction book by David Grann recounts an English explorer’s obsession with a lost civilization in the depths of the Amazon, as well as the effect his daring adventures have on his family. Gray takes great pains to transport the viewer to another time and place with exquisite cinematography and a cast that includes Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland (the new “Spider-Man”) and an almost unrecognizable Robert Pattinson.

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‘It Comes at Night’

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In the aftermath of an infectious zombie apocalypse, a family of three must decide if they should risk deadly infection by letting another young family inside their home or leave the outsiders to fend for themselves. Featuring Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough, this horror movie is a tense thriller. The slow burning suspense of “It Comes at Night” makes great use of its sound design and story, leaving its viewers in the spooky darkness along with its characters.

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‘I Am Not Your Negro’

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Using the text of an unpublished James Baldwin book about the lives of the slain leaders the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, Raoul Peck uses this powerful documentary to connect the history of African-Americans in the United States to current conversations about race, law enforcement and civil rights. Samuel L. Jackson narrates the film while archival recordings and footage place Baldwin — a magnetic presence — alongside images from today’s news. The result is both thought-provoking and moving.

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‘Get Out’

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If the fall horror movie season is just as exciting as the first half of this year was for the genre, then this will have been a knockout year for scary movies. Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” — about a black man who visits his white girlfriend’s parents for the first time — became a huge hit in February thanks to a clever script that used traditional horror tropes to comment on race in America.

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‘Kedi’

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This feature-length cat video should be irresistible for cat lovers and globe-trotters alike. Lovingly filmed from rooftops, windowsills and under cafe tables, this documentary profiles the feral cats of Istanbul while also showing off the port city’s gorgeous coastlines and restaurants. Although the cats don’t have much to say aside from the occasional meow or hiss, the shopkeepers, workers and good Samaritans who look after them sure do. It’s heartwarming to hear them talk about the animals with the kind of fondness that most of us reserve for favorite relatives.

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The actor-turned-director Macon Blair made an impression at this year’s Sundance Film Festival with this violent debut feature. When Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) comes home to discover she has been the victim of a burglary, she enlists her maniacal, ninja-star-wielding neighbor (Elijah Wood) for help. This is a tense movie that waits until the very end to unveil its most memorable shocks.

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‘The Lure’

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A musical/horror/fantasy mash-up, this Polish film is one of the year’s more delightfully weird movies. Two mermaid sisters are persuaded to join a nightclub act but become jealous of each other after they fall for a boy in the band. These mermaids are more like sexy vampires with fishtails than anything you remember from a Disney movie. Agnieszka Smoczynska’s feature debut is awash in aqua colors and neon lights.

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‘John Wick: Chapter 2’

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You needn’t have seen the original “John Wick” to appreciate the sequel. All you need is a desire to watch as a seemingly ageless Keanu Reeves kicks and shoot his way through a never-ending line of well-dressed bad guys. The fight choreography is stunning — unlike many modern action films, this one is shot and edited so that you can actually understand what’s going on. And for those of you not into “Kedi,” the film co-stars a big dog as Wick’s new canine companion.

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‘The Salesman’

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Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman” focuses on a troubled married couple who, after moving to a new apartment, run into problems left over from its previous tenant. Each revelation becomes an invitation for the husband and wife to fight over their hidden frustration and distrust. The tension in the household escalates until their situation is out of control, and their marriage is thrown into potential jeopardy.

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‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’

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Osgood Perkins’s “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” is a wintry thriller that mixes the occult, murder and a girls boarding school. Starring Kiernan Shipka, who played Sally Draper on “Mad Men,” the film is undoubtedly slow but as creepy as anything starring Perkins’s father, the “Psycho” star Anthony Perkins.

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‘Split’

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M. Night Shyamalan directs this horror movie starring James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch”). McAvoy, as a disturbed young man with multiple personalities, including some downright evil ones, kidnaps three teenage girls who must try to escape their unwieldy captor. McAvoy portrays his character’s multiple personalities with enthusiastic gusto. However, the most satisfying performance is Shyamalan’s, continuing his low-budget comeback after the 2015 found-footage thriller, “The Visit.”

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‘Okja’

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A South Korean girl (An Seo Hyun) and her genetically modified pet pig take on corporate overlords and the food industry in Bong Joon Ho’s latest adventure movie, “Okja.” The film readily mixes humor and tragedy during the girl’s quest to save her pet swine from crooked executives. An is wonderful as the girl determined to save her pig, and the rest of the film features strange and campy performances from Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano.

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‘Raw’

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Justine (Garance Marillier), a misfit academic prodigy and a lifelong vegetarian, is forced to eat her first piece of meat during rush week at veterinary school, leading her to discover a newfound taste for all things warm and bloody, including human flesh. This debut feature from Julia Ducournau mixes adolescent anxiety and gory horror in a darkly funny manner. Ducournau sets up a stylish hellscape of a school, with the lighting of a Dario Argento movie and the psychosexual undertones of a David Cronenberg film.

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‘I Called Him Morgan’

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To those who knew him, the trumpeter Lee Morgan was destined to be a star. A jazz prodigy who had fallen on hard times, Morgan was back on the upswing thanks to his common-law wife and manager, Helen, who helped him break his drug addiction. But everything changed one snowy night in 1972 when she shot and killed him in a club after an argument. Director Kasper Collin painstakingly pieces together Morgan’s story for a mesmerizing documentary about this brilliant musician who was cut down in his prime. Far from being a sensationalist true-crime documentary, “I Called Him Morgan” feels like a tribute to two lost souls.