One of the best fantasy movies of all time is on Netflix – you’ve never seen Robert De Niro like this!

Robert De Niro has played many different roles in his long career, but he is undoubtedly best known for the many mobsters he played at the height of his career for directors such as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Michael Mann. In recent years, however, he has focused mainly on more and less successful comedies.

However, if you want to see De Niro from a completely different side, you can subscribe Netflix the right movie:The Starwalker“. In it, the two-time Oscar winner not only appears as the (supposedly) tough pirate captain Captain Shakespeare, but he is later allowed to show a completely different side of his personality.

Of course we won’t reveal what that is here, but it culminates in one of the most amusing scenes of a film that is not exactly lacking in highlights, in which it really erupts aboard the flying pirate ship to the sounds of Jacques Offenbach’s famous can-can from “Orpheus in the Underworld”. Curious? Then you will find “Der Sternwanderer” on Netflix.

For us, “Der Sternwanderer” is not only one of the best fantasy films of all time, but also thanks to Robert De Niro’s smashing performance as Captain Shakespeare. In our ranking, the film, directed by Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass”, “Kingsman”) and based on a template by Neil Gaiman (“The Sandman”), ranks 29th. You can see which titles also made the list here:

And that’s what Star Wanderer is all about on Netflix: Young Tristan (Charlie Cox) wants to find a shooting star that has fallen to earth in order to win the heart of his beloved Victoria (Sienna Miller). But for that, Tristan must cross the wall that separates his homeland from the magical kingdom of Stormhold. In addition, the shooting star turns out to be a young woman named Yvaine (Claire Danes).

Together they travel through Stormhold and take on the evil witch Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Prince Septimus (Mark Strong), who are also after the fallen star…