Paul Thomas Anderson burst onto the scene in 1997 with the breakout Boogie Nights, a sweet and gritty portrait of a young adult-film star that launched Mark Walhberg’s acting career, and was the first of several the director would make with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Since then, Anderson, affectionately known as PTA to the internet, has delivered an oeuvre that revels in the complex humanity of well-intentioned people trying to survive a morally ambiguous reality. 

From Punch-Drunk Love starring Adam Sandler to There Will Be Blood led by Daniel Day-Lewis, each new PTA film leaves the audience thinking about it long after they’ve left theaters. Now, the Phantom Thread filmmaker is back with a new film, One Battle After Another, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland and starring — among others — Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infiniti. The movie recently won Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Anderson won Best Director – Motion Picture at the 2026 Golden Globes. In case a VistaVision screening of the new flick won’t fulfill your PTA fix, here are two of the director’s creations streaming on Netflix now.

ANIMA

Anima (2019) is a 15-minute musical film directed by Anderson and starring Thom Yorke, who is also the singer and main songwriter of Radiohead. Based on Yorke’s third solo studio album of the same name, Anima visualizes the sonic landscapes of anxiety and dystopia that Yorke poured into his songs. Consider it somewhere between a music video and visual album, and make sure you turn the volume all the way up. 

ANIMA

0h 15m   TV-PG   2019

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Licorice Pizza

Alana Haim (The Mastermind) and Cooper Hoffman (Saturday Night) co-star in this coming-of-age dramedy written and directed by Anderson. In 1973 Los Angeles, 15-year-old actor Gary Valentine (Hoffman) meets aimless 25-year-old Alana Kane (Haim), and is instantly besotted. The two strike up a transformative friendship that interweaves with historical LA figures. Sean Penn (Daddio), Tom Waits (The Dead Don’t Die), Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Benny Safdie (Pieces of a Woman), Skyler Gisondo (Haunted Hotel), and Mary Elizabeth Ellis (A Man on the Inside) also star.

Licorice Pizza

2h 13m   R   2021

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