Newflix is our weekly look at notable new titles available on online streaming sites.

Singin’ In The Rain (1952)

Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

Now available on Watch TCM (through Feb. 19)

What a glorious feeling: Watching one of the best musicals in history with someone you love this Valentine’s Day. At the dawn of the sound era in Hollywood, a silent film star (Gene Kelly) wrestles with the challenges of the new and very crude moviemaking technology while falling for a beautiful young chorus girl with a fabulous voice (Debbie Reynolds). Although most of Singin’ In The Rain’s songs appeared in previous films by producer Arthur Freed (the title track, for example, came from Hollywood Revue Of 1929), they were made immortal by their treatment here, thanks in large part to the incredible direction, staging, and dance choreography by directors Kelly and Stanley Donen. Warning: Watching this movie may be hazardous to your health (because you’ll have the urge to go stomp through puddles and stick your head under a drainage pipe until you get pneumonia—with a song in your heart).

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Directed by Curtis Hanson

Now available on Amazon Prime

James Ellroy’s epic crime novel L.A. Confidential was supposedly unfilmable—too long, too complicated, with too many characters and too much continuity from Ellroy’s previous books and real Los Angeles history—but director Curtis Hanson and co-writer Brian Helgeland performed the impossible, condensing and simplifying Ellroy’s book without losing anything vital to its cynical spirit and themes about the dark underbelly of glitzy 1950s Hollywood. Beyond being a superb mystery, an excellent period drama, and a surprisingly muscular action movie (the final battle never gets included in lists of all-time best movie shootouts, but it should), L.A. Confidential also made American stars of Australian actors Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe, who’ve gone on to have huge careers in the U.S.—though it’s arguable whether either has ever topped their work in this outstanding neo-noir.

Passion (2013)

Directed by Brian De Palma

Now available on Netflix

Brian De Palma’s first real thriller in over a decade is a remake of Love Crime, a 2010 French film about the rivalry between two ruthless businesswomen. In De Palma’s version they’re played by Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace, whose professional competition quickly spills out into their personal lives. Ideas and boyfriends are stolen, backs are stabbed (figuratively), throats are slashed (literally), and screens are split in that way that only De Palma can. The results are nowhere near the director’s best, but at least a few of the scenes—including a great suspense sequence that juxtaposes ballet and murder—recapture the old De Palma magic, and make this one worth a streaming view, although maybe not on Valentine’s Day. (Stick with Singin’ In The Rain instead.)

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

Directed by Dito Montiel

Now available on Hulu Plus

Before Shia LaBeouf either lost his mind or became the boldest performance artist of his generation, he was a promising young actor looking to prove his talents and range after a childhood spent as a Disney Channel star. One of his earliest and best “adult” performances came in the acclaimed Sundance selection A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, in which LaBeouf plays the film’s director, Dito Montiel, as a young man. In the present, the adult Montiel (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to his family’s home in Queens to visit his ill father; flashbacks take us back to 1986, and his formative experiences on the streets of Astoria, where a young Channing Tatum also plays a key role. It’s a good movie, and a good place to look if you’re searching for something to wash the taste of all the current Shia lunacy out of your mouth.

Also new to streaming: Splice director Vincenzo Natali’s new film Haunter (Netflix)… Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone’s Reality (Fandor)… Peter O’Toole in The Ruling Class (Hulu Plus)…Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries Of Lisbon (Hulu Plus)… and Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepurn square off in another good Valentine’s Day viewing option, Adam’s Rib (Watch TCM).