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The studio that owns the rights to those movies did not agree to having Netflix stream their films on their website.
Jake No Chat
Streaming does have some good ones, but i agree with the observation that if you search for more recent and better films, they are mostly on DVD at Netflix. There may be some movie owner rights that make is harder to go with streaming, or Netflix wants you to pay double and get streaming and DVD by mail. It is business, nothing personal.
Anonymous
I know it's confusing - but at the beginning of the film, the jet engine was "supposed" to have landed in Donnie's room and killed him - it didn't for some reason, so the rest of the film depicts this "tangent universe", with weird events, and hints that maybe something's not right with the world. The images that Donnie sees, are the result of ripples in space-time, and are caused by the corruption of the timeline. At the end of the film, there is a wormhole that the jet engine travels through, back in time to 28 days earlier, and crashes into the bedroom, killing Donnie and setting things right. Frank is an imaginary friend who guides Donnie and helps him navigate the weird timestream - he somehow prophesized his own (?) death - (or the death of a guy named Frank wearing a similar costume). This Frank died because Donnie survived the accident - at the end of the film we see that since Donnie died, he's alive, as he's supposed to be. It's a big confusing time-travel paradox. Did you ever wonder how things would turn out differently if you were running 5 minutes late - you could get hit by a car and be badly injured. Or if you took the wrong turn or made the wrong choice sometime in your life, how would it be different? It's something like that.
mgnmrld
Because you pay more for the DVD services. There are some good movies on streaming though- they're just a little bit older. For example, 13 Going on 30, Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Some more current ones are on there as well though, such as The Avengers and The Hunger Games.