Memorial Day is a time to remember the sacrifices of America's armed services, barbecue with family and friends, and also watch patriotic movies. But what if you're just looking for a film that shares its name with the United States? Fortunately, Netflix has you covered. Ahead, 29 movies on Watch Instantly with America (or American) in the title.
Netflix Description: "With high school a distant memory, sweethearts Jim and Michelle are getting married, prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party."
Netflix Description: "An arrogant businessman gets involved with a group of aspiring dancers and, in order to impress their mentor, hires a coach to train them."
Netflix Description: "Discontented with his pampered life, an African prince heads to America as a working-class man to find someone who will fall for him, not his riches."
Netflix Description: "Disgusted with American society, middle-aged Frank and teenage Roxy begin killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant."
Netflix Description: "Filmmaker Darryl Roberts examines the unrealistic standards of beauty dictated to the U.S. public by the media, pop culture and the fashion industry."
Netflix Description: "Documentary provocateur Darryl Roberts examines how the national obsession with image has affected our ideas of what constitutes a healthy weight."
Netflix Description: "After realizing that their boob tube is gone, Beavis and Butt-head set off on an expedition that takes them from Las Vegas to the nation's capital."
Netflix Description: "This documentary journeys through nuclear reactor communities to expose the truths and myths concerning the risks and benefits of the energy source."
Netflix Description: "In this slick satire, a separated, bickering movie-star couple make nice for the cameras during a press junket promoting their final film together."
Netflix Description: "Set in the fictitious, modern-day Confederate States of America, this satire imagines what it would be like if the South had won the Civil War."
Netflix Description: "Chart the incredible late-in-life rise of 62-year-old soul singer Charles Bradley, whose 2011 debut album rocketed to Rolling Stone magazine's top 50."
Netflix Description: "This documentary profiles comedian Bill Hicks, blending live footage, interviews and animation to illustrate a life tragically cut short by cancer."
Netflix Description: "With chiseled good looks that belie his insanity, a businessman takes pathological pride in yuppie pursuits and indulges in sudden homicidal urges."
14. "American Me"
Netflix Description: "Three friends born in poverty create their own capitalist dream as powerful gang members. Time in prison makes one of them consider a fresh beginning."
15. "American Mary"
Netflix Description: "A medical student who's piling up debt jumps at the chance when she's offered a lucrative opportunity to perform extreme body-modification surgeries."
Netflix Description: "Already grappling with his own problems, a martial arts teacher faces another crisis when his ne'er-do-well brother runs afoul of a gangster."
17. "American Son"
Netflix Description: "While at home for Thanksgiving, a 19-year-old Marine begins a romance, clashes with family and confronts his fears about his deployment to Iraq."
18. "The American"
Netflix Description: "Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him."
Netflix Description: "White boy Jolie longs to make his high school basketball team so that he can get in with the "in" crowd -- the black kids from the projects."
Netflix Description: "The United States' alarming appetite for prescription drugs is the focus of this sober documentary, which aims to illuminate a national health crisis."
Netflix Description: "Not to be confused with the blockbuster Battleship, the 'USS Iowa' fends off an army of invading aliens in this low-budget sci-fi thriller."
Netflix Description: "In this gritty tale, a troubled basketball player forges an unlikely friendship with a fellow baller through pickup games on the streets of St. Louis."
Netflix Description: "To get a reclusive president back in the limelight, his chief of staff books him as a guest judge on the hit talent show 'American Dreamz.'"
Netflix Description: "A 14-year-old whose parents have just divorced is sent to Los Angeles to live with his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a bygone era."
25. "American Flyer"
Netflix Description: "After failed attempts to cross the border at Tijuana, a young man constructs a flying machine out of a wheelbarrow to try to fly into California."
26. "American Gun"
Netflix Description: "After the fatal shooting of his daughter, Martin Tillman copes with his grief by setting out to find the owner of the gun involved in the murder."
Netflix Description: "This fascinating documentary focuses on four contenders competing to win the title in the International Championships of Barbershop Singing."
28. "American Wake"
Netflix Description: "A firefighter and a talented young fiddler both struggle with the gap between family expectations and their own self-discovery."
Netflix Description: "Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Jimmy does whatever he must to forget his affliction. But when his buddy lands a job, a battle of wills ensues."
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