This Oscar-Winning 2023 Murder Mystery Is Blowing Up Streaming Charts Again - Here's Why
As Anatomy of a Fall rises in our JustWatch streaming charts, two things are becoming very clear: one is that the courtroom drama is back, and, as far as 2026 is concerned, this is Sandra Hüller’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
After winning Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival in February with Rose, the German star has since gone on to play a major role in the success of Project Hail Mary — currently the biggest Hollywood movie of the year — and will be heading to Cannes next month for the premiere of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland. With Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger looking likely for Venice, too, perhaps only Zendaya and Robert Pattinson can claim to be having a better 12-month run.
Given the abundance of movie aura, it’s probably no surprise that Hüller’s last high-profile movie — which won Justine Triet the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2023 — has skyrocketed up our charts since dropping on US Netflix a few weeks ago. Read on to learn a bit more about this incredible movie and use the guide below to find out where to watch the movies mentioned on services like Apple TV, Netflix, Prime Video and elsewhere.
Why Is Everyone Flocking to 2023’s Anatomy of a Fall in 2026?
The combination of a Netflix drop and Hüller’s ascendency to Hollywood A-list status makes the Anatomy of a Fall’s surge quite straightforward. The other thing to consider is that Justine Triet’s movie — which won Cannes’ biggest prize over Johnathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest — is phenomenally good and relentlessly entertaining.
The story (co-written by Arthur Harari) centres on a successful writer who may or may not kill her husband in the opening scene. The remainder of the movie is then spent trying to work out whether or not she did it — a mystery that is perfectly captured in Hüller’s jagged and elusive performance. Rumour has it that Triet and Harari never told the actors if the character is guilty, which makes watching it and trying to suss things out all the more fun.
The film became an immediate smash that year in Cannes, where Messi (the blue-eyed border collie who plays the family dog, Snoop) became the festival’s unofficial mascot. That four-legged star went on to walk the red carpet at the Oscars, as did Hüller (who was nominated for Best Actress) and Triet (who won the award for Best Original Screenplay). Swann Arlaud, the silver-haired French actor who plays the lawyer defending Hüller’s alleged killer in the film, briefly became a cinephile sex symbol. As French courtroom dramas go, it was nothing short of a sensation.
Anatomy of a Fall Marks the Return of the Courtroom Drama
One thing we can say for sure is that aside from the obvious Hüller of it all, the courtroom drama is having a significant moment. In an era when studios and streamers seem to be forever attempting to revitalise once profitable genres, the humble courtroom drama just seems to tick away of its own accord, inspiring both old school auteurs and younger experimenters to tweak its most enduring tropes to create films that feel novel and new.
In the last five years, we’ve seen solid courtroom flicks from two of Hollywood’s great warhorses: William Friedkin (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial) and Clint Eastwood (Juror #2). Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, meanwhile, is a fascinating hybrid courtroom experiment that probably should have won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
More recently, I frankly couldn’t believe that Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution, a relentless courtroom drama thriller, wasn’t in the competition at the Berlinale this year. And then there was Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms, a genuinely haunting masterpiece that premiered at Karlovy Vary in 2023 before becoming an unlikely word-of-mouth hit. Add to that the renewed interest in classics like My Cousin Vinny, A Few Good Men and The Devil’s Advocate, and it’s not hard to see which way the wind is blowing.
Mileage may vary on some of the films I’ve mentioned, but if the courtroom drama is having a moment, Anatomy of a Fall is that moment’s crown jewel. It’s no wonder we can’t get enough of it, or its rising global star.
