5 Best Movies to Streaming February

Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of February’s most promising new titles.

1. House of Gucci

Starts streaming: Feb. 1

House of Gucci is now streaming online. The Ridley Scott-directed film starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Iron, Salma Hayek, Jack Huston and Al Pacino arrived on VOD on Tuesday (Feb. 1). The digital release comes less than three months after the true-crime drama debuted in movie theaters.

Inspired by real-life events, House of Gucci shares the story of the family behind the Italian fashion house. Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, an “outsider” from humble beginnings who marries into the fashion empire by way of Maurizio Gucci (Driver), former head of Gucci. Maurizio was killed in a murder-for-hire plot in 1995, with Reggiani later being convicted of hiring a hitman to kill him.

2. Nightmare Alley

Starts streaming: Feb. 1

In the end-of-year crunch of blockbusters and awards contenders, the director Guillermo del Toro’s visually sumptuous and thematically rich take on William Lindsay Gresham’s creepy 1946 crime novel, “Nightmare Alley” (previously adapted, beautifully, in 1947), didn’t draw as much attention or as big of an audience as it deserved. Now that it’s arriving on Hulu, fans of film noir will have another chance to catch up. Co-written by del Toro and Kim Morgan, “Nightmare Alley” has Bradley Cooper playing a sketchy drifter who gets a job at a carnival, where he learns the secrets of a mentalism act and starts passing himself off in high society as a psychic. As usual with del Toro’s work, the elaborate set designs and memorably offbeat characters are eye-catching, pulling viewers into a morally unsteady world where nearly everyone is either a hustler or a mark.

Sweeney Todd

Tim Burton, one of cinema’s favorite gothic-horror directors, took on Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s gothic-horror musical masterpiece. Burton regulars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter star as Sweeney Todd and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett in a notably gorier take on the operatic musical’s story of murder, revenge, and, of course, cannibalism. Broadway and West End favorite Laura Michelle Kelly co-stars as the Beggar Woman in this 2007 adaptation.

West Side Story (1961)

Before Steven Spielberg adapted Tony and Maria’s love story into a cinematic masterpiece, Jerome Robbins did. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymar play star-crossed lovers in the first screen adaptation of Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim’s musical update of Romeo and Juliet.

3. Pam & Tommy

Starts streaming: Feb.2

Pamela Anderson and drummer Tommy Lee’s sex tape is leaked online in this biographical miniseries directed by I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie. Lily James and Sebastian Stan, who play Pam and Tommy, respectively, both have theatrical pedigrees. Lily James was most recently seen as Eve in All About Eve on the West End, while Stan appeared in the most recent Broadway revivals of both Talk Radio and Picnic.

The mini-series “Pam & Tommy” is partly about the tumultuous romance and tabloid scandals of the rock drummer Tommy Lee and the actress Pamela Anderson. The show’s third major character is played by one of its producers and creators, Seth Rogen, who takes on the role of a disgruntled carpenter looking to exact some revenge on the celebrity couple, selling their homemade sex tape in retaliation for an unpaid bill. Sebastian Stan plays Lee and Lily James plays Anderson in the series, which also features the work — and the ironic sensibilities — of the director Craig Gillespie (“I, Tonya”) and the screenwriter Robert D. Siegel (“The Wrestler”). While “Pam & Tommy” is based on a true story, it has a satirical edge, commenting on how the public sometimes prefers to be entertained by celebrities’ private lives more than by their actual work.

4. The Deep House

Starts streaming: Feb.2

In horror, bodies of water tend to be reserved for creature features or ghost ships, things that fall in line with the theme. To this day, for instance, many consider Stephen Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) as the gold standard for underwater terror, with the iconic shark accepted as a legitimate movie monster. Ideas that go against tradition (aquatic monsters, ghost pirates, Cthulhu) are few and far in between.

Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Deep House is a rare example of going against the grain to great success. It’s a movie that mixes and matches horror elements to create something that produces scares in a different way. The exercise results in a gruesome haunted house movie shot underwater that’s sure to please fans of all walks of horror fandom.

The Deep House follows Ben (played by James Jagger) and Tina (played by Camille Rowe), a couple that visit haunted places to create content for their streaming video channel. Ben is more invested in this than Tina, but their shared interest leads them to a house found on the bottom of a lake. The place was flooded some years past and the town that was there is now underwater. The house in question is found there, nearly intact.

5. Suspicion

Starts streaming: Feb. 4

The trailer begins with the character Natalie Thompson being stopped by police at her wedding. Things sure don't look good for her as she is driven away in a police car and offered legal advice by detectives.

She tells the police "I don't need it. There's obviously been some misunderstanding" as a clock ticks away in the background. A detective then reveals: "We can't tell if this is terrorist-related, politically related, or simple extortion."

As the trailer progresses, the faces of the four other suspects appear on the screen, denying any involvement in Leo's abduction or offering the response "no comment" as audiences learn Leo was abducted in a suitcase by a masked gang. Based on the Israeli series “False Flag,” the thriller “Suspicion” begins with an abduction caught on a security camera, as the son of a powerful American media mogul is grabbed by masked criminals. Though the mogul is played by Uma Thurman, she is not the show’s lead. Instead, “Suspicion” is about a handful of seemingly unrelated Londoners who are hauled in by the police because of their possible connections to the crime. The series is structured as a mystery, with the investigators piecing together what actually happened and who was involved. But it is also a slice-of-life drama, following the suspects as their lives are upended by an unexpected accusation.