Best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more

    By Anthony Orlando
Updated March 11, 2026

Though we’re now over two months into 2026, streaming platforms are still dropping plenty of incredible films from the past year for audiences to enjoy. This March, we’re now able to stream such notable, new films as Wicked: For Good, One Battle After Another, and Fackham Hall.

Other highlights from 2025 include Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, Ryan Coogler’s musical vampire movie Sinners, and James Gunn’s DC Universe film Superman. Read the entire guide for all of our new streaming picks.

We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on HBO Max, and the best movies on Disney+.

In this sequel to Wicked, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) continues to fight the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) for the rights of animals years after she became known as the “Wicked Witch of the West.” Meanwhile, Glinda (Ariana Grande) works for the Wizard and is engaged to Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), who tries to locate Elphaba.

Though Glinda tries to reconnect with Elphaba and create peace in Oz, these two good friends become bitter enemies once more. When a young girl from Kansas (Bethany Weaves) ends up in Oz, the war between Elphaba and the Wizard reaches a shocking climax.

Stream Wicked For Good on Peacock on March 20.

Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, One Battle After Another begins with the rise and fall of revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyena Taylor), who leaves behind her partner Pat (Leonardo DiCaprio) and rats out her comrades. Years later, Pat lives as “Bob Ferguson,” a washed-up stoner raising his and Perfidia’s daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti).

However, when Bob’s old enemy, Col. Lockjaw (Sean Penn), suspects Willa is his biological daughter, the Fergusons find themselves on the run from Lockjaw, making for a weird and wild journey as a father and daughter fight to reunite.

Stream One Battle After Another on HBO Max.

Fans of Airplane! and The Naked Gun will enjoy this hilarious spoof on Downton Abbey. Fackham Hall follows the wealthy Davenport family at a time of great upheaval. Lord Davenport (Damian Lewis) is found murdered, young Rose (Thomasin McKenzie falls for a new hall boy (Ben Radcliffe), and Archibald’s (Tom Felton) cousin Poppy (Emma Laird) runs off on their wedding day.

In the midst of all this confusion is a nonstop serving of puns, gags, and goofs. And as for the golden rules of high society. Well, it’s right in the film’s title.

Stream Fackham Hall on HBO Max.

From the director of Prey, Predator: Badlands follows Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a young Yautja who travels to the deadly planet Genna to hunt the unkillable Kalisk so he can return to his clan a fully-fledged predator. On Genna, Dek teams up with the damaged android Thia (Elle Fanning) to find the elusive alien.

However, a team of relentless androids from the Weyland-Yutani corporation (the company from the Alien franchise) is also looking for the Kalisk. This all culminates in an epic battle to see which hunter reigns supreme.

Stream Predator: Badlands on Hulu or on Disney+.

From director Edgar Wright, creator of Baby Driver and Shaun of the Dead, The Running Man adapts Stephen King’s dystopian sci-fi novel of the same name. The story follows Ben Richards (Glen Powell), a father who participates in the titular death game to win money for his family.

Ben tries to survive a whole month of civilians and hired bounty hunters trying to kill him. Eventually, he learns that the game is rigged against him and fights to take down a corrupt system in which the wealthy profit from the public’s pain.

Stream The Running Man on Paramount+.

Final Destination Bloodlines opens in 1969 with Iris Campbell (Brec Bassinger) having a premonition that a high-rise restaurant will collapse, killing everyone inside. Though she averted this tragedy and saved several people, she only stalled Death’s plans for the living.

Cut to the present day, over 50 years later, and Iris’s granddaughter, Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), begins having nightmares about the tower collapse. She is then forced to confront her family’s troubled past in order to defend herself and her loved ones from Death’s wrath.

Stream Final Destination Bloodlines on Prime Video, Hulu, or HBO Max.

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has had his fair share of baffling cases, but this one takes the cake. Wake Up Dead Man sees him investigating the murder of a priest (Josh Brolin) at his church, with many people suspecting another priest (Josh O’Connor) of committing the crime.

However, as the Knives Out movies have shown so far, nothing is ever as it seems in this franchise. Expect another mind-bending mystery as Blanc tries to find the murderer amongst his multiple suspects.

Stream Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on Netflix.

Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro has released quite possibly the greatest film adaptation of Frankenstein ever. In this faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) recounts how he sought to bring life to dead flesh after his mother’s untimely demise.

We follow Victor in his decades-long quest to build a living Creature (Jacob Elordi) using the parts of human corpses. However, once he finally achieves his goal, in his arrogance, he unleashes the Creature’s superhuman wrath after injecting him with hatred and loneliness.

Stream Frankenstein on Netflix.

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler unleashed one of the most inventive horror movies in recent years with this original film, which has received an extraordinary 16 Oscar nominations. Set in Jim Crow-era Mississippi, Sinners follows gangster twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) as they try to open a juke joint in their hometown after working for Al Capone.

Though their opening night starts out well, the mystical music created by their guitarist cousin, Sammie (Miles Caton), attracts the attention of the vampire Remmick (Jack O’Connell). The party quickly turns into a massacre as Remmick turns the twins’ friends and loved ones into vampires, culminating in an epic battle between the living and the dead.

Stream Sinners on HBO Max or on Prime Video.

After years of development, Superman finally soared into our lives this past summer. The first film in James Gunn’s DC Universe is not an origin story. Instead, Clark Kent (David Corenswet) has been operating as the Man of Steel for over three years when Gunn’s story begins.

While Superman faces the consequences of intervening in foreign relations, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) orchestrates a plan to rid the world of the Kryptonian. Faced with adversity, Superman fights to show the goodness of humanity. Just another busy week for the Man of Steel.

Stream Superman on HBO Max.

Over two decades since the release of 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reconvened to further explore the fallout of the Rage virus in 28 Years Later. Set in the British Isles, this long-awaited threequel depicts a quarantined community living on a secluded island, with only a single causeway connecting the residents to the mainland.

Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son, Spike (Alfie Williams), venture to the mainland for a hunting ritual. They discover a mutated version of the Rage virus that continues to wreak havoc. Despite the danger, Spike must traverse this deadly wilderness to have any hope of saving his terminally ill mother, Isla (Jodie Comer).

Stream 28 Years Later on Netflix.

One of 2025’s most successful horror movies, Weapons established writer-director Zach Cregger as one of the genre’s biggest new filmmakers. Weapons begins with 17 children from the same class walking out of their homes and disappearing into the night at 2:17 a.m.

After this bizarre and unexplainable tragedy, we follow the missing kids’ teacher (Julia Garner), her only remaining student (Cary Christopher), the father (Josh Brolin) of one of the missing kids, and a few other adults in their town as they become embroiled in this terrifying mystery unleashed by a supernatural evil (Amy Madigan).

Stream Weapons on HBO Max.

Lilo & Stitch is one of the few movies in 2025 to cross the billion-dollar threshold at the box office. In this live-action remake of the 2002 animated classic, we follow Hawaiian Lilo Pelekaj (Maia Kealoha), a lonely girl living with her older sister Nani (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong).

In need of a friend, Lilo goes to an animal shelter and adopts Stitch, an alien that acts like a dog. Stitch was created to be a destructive force, but he softens his attitude thanks to Lilo’s kindness. To avoid social workers and government employees, Lilo and Stitch will have to rely on the one thing they’re both searching for: family.

Stream Lilo & Stitch on Disney+.

Liam Neeson has long established himself as one of cinema’s biggest action stars. However, he took that persona in a whole new direction with this recent reboot of the Naked Gun franchise.

2025’s The Naked Gun follows Frank Drebin Jr. (Neeson) as he investigates a murder linked to a world-ending conspiracy orchestrated by a wealthy tech mogul (Danny Huston). However, in true Naked Gun fashion, Drebin gets into all sorts of comedic hijinks that threaten to kill Police Squad and make the audience die of laughter.

Stream The Naked Gun on Paramount+.

After Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning saw the Entity going rogue, this sequel sees Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) continue his quest to find the rogue AI as it wreaks havoc worldwide. With allies new and old, Ethan travels across the globe in a race against time to find what he needs to gain control over the Entity before it unleashes nuclear Armageddon.

As usual, the franchise delivers plenty of mind-boggling stunts and heart-pounding suspense in this film. But with so much at stake and so many odds, The Final Reckoning proves to be Ethan’s most challenging mission yet.

Stream Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on Paramount+.

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