5 Best Movies Ever Released in March, Ranked: ‘Beetlejuice’ and More

March may not have the same reputation as the later months of the year, but there have been some fantastic movies released in that month over the last century of cinema. Two Best Picture Oscar winners came out in March, including one that was released just a handful of years ago. The Watch With Us team has looked over a very long list of films and narrowed the picks to the five best movies ever released in March. Our selections may have a few March releases that you may have forgotten about, if only because they play like summer blockbusters. 5 Best Movies Ever Released in February, Ranked 5. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ (2022) Release date: March 22, 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of two Best Picture winners on this list, and it’s not the kind of film that’s usually an awards darling. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis all won Oscars for their roles in this film, and some felt that Stephanie Hsu should have gotten the Best Supporting Actress award over Curtis. Each of those four performers gets to play multiple roles in the story, but the film primarily follows Yeoh’s Evelyn Quan Wang, a woman whose marriage to Waymond Wang (Quan) is crumbling and whose relationship with her daughter, Joy (Hsu), is deteriorating. Before Evelyn can be swallowed by the mediocrity of her life, she is warned that a dire threat may wipe out the entire multiverse, and the only thing standing in the way of oblivion is Evelyn herself. Everything Everywhere All at Once is streaming on HBO Max. 4. ‘The Matrix’ (1999) Release date: March 31, 1999 In 1999, movie lovers thought that Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was going to be the game-changing sci-fi film of the year. Instead, The Matrix wowed audiences with breathtaking special effects and a story that had some real surprises. Keanu Reeves stars as Thomas Anderson, a hacker who is better known by his alias Neo. 5 Best Movies Released in January, Ranked — 1 Is an Oscar-Winning Modern Classic Neo knows in his bones that there’s something wrong with the world, and he’s only heard of the Matrix. It takes a freedom fighter named Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and an enigmatic woman named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) to show Neo the truth about his life. Everything Neo has believed is a lie, and there are forces led by Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) that are out to destroy them. The Matrix is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video. 3. ‘Beetlejuice’ (1988) Release date: March 30, 1988 Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice arrived in theaters just over a year before Michael Keaton went on to play Batman in the director’s next film. Arguably, it’s Keaton’s turn as Beetlejuice — or more accurately, Betelgeuse — that’s turned out to be his most enduring role. That’s impressive considering how little screen time Keaton actually gets in the movie. Instead, the real protagonists of the film are a young couple, Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis). They had their whole lives in front of them, at least until they died. The Maitlands find themselves haunting their dream house and unwillingly living with the home’s new tenants, the Deetz family. Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) can see and hear the Maitlands, but her parents can’t. And when the elder Deetzes cause trouble for the Maitlands, they may have no choice but to turn to Beetlejuice for help. Beetlejuice is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video. 'Beetlejuice' Stars Mourn Catherine O'Hara: Michael Keaton and More 2. ‘Fargo’ (1996) Release date: March 8, 1996 Frances McDormand‘s Oscar domination began with Fargo, where she won the first of three Academy Awards for Best Actress. Directors Joel and Ethan Coen didn’t go home empty-handed, as they won Best Original Screenplay for their quirky crime comedy. McDormand plays Marge Gunderson, the police chief of a small town called Brainerd. She’s also very pregnant with her first child and unaccustomed to dealing with many violent situations. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) sets a disaster in motion when he hires two violent morons, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), to kidnap his wife, Jean Lundegaard (Kristin Rudrüd), and ransom her back to her rich father, Wade Gustafson (Harve Presnell). It’s not a big spoiler to say that the plan goes off very imperfectly, and a crime that was meant to be bloodless becomes a shocking and hilarious bloodbath. Fargo is streaming on Prime Video. 1. ‘The Godfather’ (1972) Release date: March 24, 1972 The Godfather is probably an obvious pick for a place among the top 10 movies of all time. So it’s the natural choice for the best movie ever to come out in March. This masterpiece won Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando and Best Adapted Screenplay for director Francis Ford Coppola and novelist Mario Puzo. In the aftermath of World War II, Vito Corleone (Brando) is in the twilight of his life and winding down his time as the head of the Corleone crime family. Vito’s youngest son, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), is a former soldier who wasn’t supposed to be following in his father’s footsteps. But after an attempt on Vito’s life, Michael won’t have a choice about his future with the family. Unless he can match or surpass the ruthlessness of his father, then Michael’s reign on top of the family may be a very short one. The Godfather is streaming on Paramount+.

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