3 Underrated Netflix Movies to Watch This Weekend (July 18-20): ‘Ziam’ and More

Summertime is for indulging in lazy-time pleasures like watching movies. And there’s no better streamer than Netflix to find some of the biggest and best films around.

But what about the movies you haven’t heard of? Watch With Us has selected three underrated Netflix movies for you to watch this weekend.

Ziam is a new action movie filled with bloody zombies, while The Lost Husband is a romantic drama that will appeal to Ransom Canyon fans.

Our last selection, The Man Who Knew Too Much, is an often overlooked classic from an all-time great film director.

‘Ziam’ (2025)

Stop me if you’ve heard of this before — a man must battle against a horde of zombies in a post-apocalyptic future. Sounds like The Walking Dead, Train to Busan and about 100 other movies and shows, right? But while Ziam doesn’t do anything dramatically different in the zombie subgenre, it’s still a solid action flick that showcases lead star Mark Prin’s impressive action hero skills.

He plays Singh, a former Muay Thai fighter who must save his doctor girlfriend Rin (Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich) from being eaten alive by hundreds of zombies that have trapped her — and all the other doctors and patients — in the hospital. Singh must figure out a way to break into the hospital, find Rin and leave without being eaten alive by the sharp-toothed, flesh-eating undead that have taken over the city.

Ziam is streaming on Netflix.

‘The Lost Husband’ (2020)

If zombies aren’t your thing, here’s a movie that deals with something scarier — love. In The Lost Husband, The White Lotus’ Leslie Bibb stars as Libby, a single mother with two young children and nowhere to go. She ends up at her Aunt Jean’s (Nora Dunn) Texas farm, where she begrudgingly learns how to manage it.

Her teacher is James O’ Connor (Josh Duhamel), a gruff farm manager who isn’t thrilled about showing a newbie the ropes. Would it surprise you to know that Libby and James start to develop feelings for each other? And that a secret from James’ past threatens to end their burgeoning feelings for one another?

The Lost Husband’s plot is straight out of a Hallmark movie, but what makes it better than your average cable movie weepie is Bibb, who shows real dramatic range as the world-weary Libby, and Duhamel, who radiates matinee idol charisma. The movie has a good feel for its central Texas setting and has a third-act reveal that you won’t see coming.

The Lost Husband is streaming on Netflix.

‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ (1956)

Dr. Ben McKenna (James Stewart) is traveling with his wife, Jo (Doris Day), and young son, Hank (Christopher Olsen), in Marrakesh when they witness a man dying in front of them. With his last words, the man tells Ben that a statesman will be assassinated in London. Ben doesn’t believe him until Hank is kidnapped. He won’t be harmed as long as Ben doesn’t say anything about the dying man’s warning. Will Ben remain silent and let an innocent man die in the hope his son will be returned to him alive?

The downside to being a genius director like Alfred Hitchcock is that a perfectly great movie like The Man Who Knew Too Much is overshadowed by stone-cold classics like 1954’s Rear Window and 1958’s Vertigo. But if anyone made this 1956 thriller featuring such stars as Stewart and Day, they’d be recognized as one of the genre’s best filmmakers. It’s that good, and Netflix subscribers should watch it before it leaves the streamer on July 31.

The Man Who Knew Too Much is streaming on Netflix.