What's on TV Friday: 'Shirkers' and 'Suspiria'

Sandi Tan's acclaimed documentary debut on Netflix. And the original "Suspiria" streams on Tubi.

What's Streaming

SHIRKERS (2018) we Netflix. In Singapore in the early 1990s, a teenage Sandi Tan wrote and acted in a road movie in which she played a woman who murdered for sport. Then, one collaborator on the movie – an American named George Cardona – disappeared with all the footage. In this documentary – for which Ms. Tan won a directing award at Sundance – she revisits her old movie after the movie is recovered, looking to find out who George really was and why he stole it. In her review for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the film is "both mystery and manhunt, a captivating account of shattered friendship and betrayed trust."

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2017) we Amazon. Lynne Ramsay's dark, brutal thriller based on Jonathan Ames novella casts Joe Joaquin as Joe, a hired gun who saves young girls from trafficking. Phoenix speaks to the world, leaving plenty of room for the movie's rich, unearthly score by Jonny Greenwood. A.O. Scott, in his review for The Times, wrote that the movie is "less concerned with what Joe does or why he does it."

SUSPIRIA (1977) we Tubi. Dario Argento's self-aware horror movie will find a visual feast with colorful, bizarre cinematography. The plot revolves around Suzy (Jessica Harper), a student at a German ballet school. Mysterious murders start happening there, providing an over-the-top foundation on which Luciano Tovoli and the cinematographer build images of grotesque surreality. The film has inspired everyone from the Norwegian band Susperia to the director Luca Guadagnino, whose remake of the movie is in theaters this weekend.

BEEN SO LONG (2018) we Netflix. Tinge Krishnan ("Junkhearts") direct this musical love story about a single mother in London who strikes up a romance with a sweet stranger on the streets of Camden. Michaela Coel, who won two British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards in 2016 for her series "Chewing Gum" and was recently part of the set of "Black Mirror," plays the mother. Arinzé Kene stars opposite her. And the music is tinged with R & B – fittingly, as Coel's character is named Simone.