A handful of last year’s best (yet overlooked) indies are among this month’s hidden treasures on your subscription streamers.

‘The Order’ (2024) Stream it on Hulu.

This tightly-wound mixture of political thriller and police procedural (based on a book by Denver City Councilman Kevin Flynn) from director Justin Kurzel was sadly lost in the shuffle of the year-end prestige pictures. It dramatizes the true story of The Order, a more-extreme splinter group of the Aryan Nation that was linked to multiple crimes, motivated both by money and by hate, in the early 1980s, including the killing of Denver talk radio host Alan Berg. Jude Law, working in the gruff, lived-in manner of a middle-aged Gene Hackman, stars as an FBI agent who is tracking the Order’s activities. And as Robert Jay Mathews, the leader of the Order, Nicholas Hoult deftly conveys the surface appeal of such a horrific figure — and the emptiness at his center.

‘The Outrun’ (2024) Stream it on Netflix.

You may think you’ve seen this story of a young woman, recently out of rehabilitation for drugs and alcohol, more than once before, and for good reason; the recovery narrative is certainly a durable one in contemporary memoir and fiction. But you haven’t seen this story brought to life by Saoirse Ronan. The staggeringly gifted Irish actress occupies every frame of director Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir, and she never fails to hold your attention. And the filmmakers impose a bracingly unconventional structure on the story, intercutting various phases of their protagonist’s fall and rise via stream-of-consciousness triggers and unexpected connections.

‘Lost River’ (2015) Stream it on Max.

This surrealist urban dreamscape is the first directorial effort by Ryan Gosling, who also wrote the screenplay. Gosling finds both nightmare and fairy tale magery in the less-populated corners of Detroit. He’s unsurprisingly good with actors, orchestrating nuanced work from Saoirse Ronan (again), Iain De Caestecker, Ben Mendelsohn, Matt Smith and, in her best non-”Mad Men” turn to date, the film’s star Christina Hendricks.

‘Bad Behaviour’ (2024) Stream it on Paramount+.

Jennifer Connelly is marvelous — wryly cynical, righteously indignant, raw and wounded — as Lucy, a former actor attempting to attain something resembling inner peace at a spiritual retreat run by a beatific self-help guru (played with inspired comic emptiness by Ben Whishaw). This is the kind of movie that lulls you into a snarky complacency, and then sucker-punches you with its piercing insights and emotional truth.

‘Hello, I Must Be Going’ (2012) Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.

Actor Melanie Lynskey, currently wowing viewers on “Yellowjackets,” found a breakthrough role in this tender comedy-drama. It’s essentially a coming-of-age movie, albeit on a slightly delayed schedule; Lynskey’s Amy has moved back in with her parents following a painful divorce, and finds little motivation to do much of anything — except hang out with the much-younger stepson (Christopher Abbott) of one of her father’s would-be clients. Lynskey and Abbott are excellent together.