As we near the midpoint of April, the flow of films into Netflix has slowed down a bit. It’s the beginning of the month that has most of the new titles. Thankfully, Netflix original films like Chupa are released through the rest of the month, so we never have to go too long without something fresh to enjoy.
That’s the beauty of the streamer because there’s almost always something new to watch on Netflix every week. To keep up with what’s new, all you have to do is read our roundup of the best movies on Netflix right now.
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If you’ve ever heard of the legend of the chupacabra, then you know that these goat-sucking fiends aren’t exactly cuddly. At least that’s what we thought before Chupa. In this charming (and family-friendly) adventure, young Alex (Evan Whitten) goes to Mexico to visit his family in the wake of his father’s death.
Soon enough, Alex finds a lost chupacabra cub that he takes in and nurtures. Meanwhile, an American scientist, Richard Quinn (Christian Slater), will stop at nothing to find the cub and its mother, and somehow, Alex must find a way to protect his new friend.
After a decade away from Hollywood, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first film after serving his two terms as California’s Governor was a small town sheriff, Ray Owens, in the action thriller, The Last Stand. Within the story, Ray is anything but a typical action hero, and he’s not really eager to engage Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), a violent drug lord whose escape route goes directly through Ray’s town. But Cortez’s trail of destruction leaves Ray no choice but to act.
Ray and his deputies are so severely outgunned that he’s forced to recruit a local weapons enthusiast, Lewis Dinkum (Johnny Knoxville). Unfortunately for Ray, Cortez is bringing a small army of his own.
Inception was the film that firmly established Christopher Nolan’s movies as events. It’s also a masterfully well-made story about Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a man who literally makes his living invading the dreams of other people and stealing their secrets. Dom’s job is complicated by the fact that his subconscious mind is also haunted by a very literal version of his late wife, Mal Cobb (Marion Cotillard).
After years in exile away from his children, Dom is given the chance to return home by the enigmatic Mr. Saito (Ken Watanabe). The catch is that Dom and his new team have to invade the mind of businessman Robert Michael Fischer (Cillian Murphy) and convince him to break up his father’s empire. However, each layer of Robert’s mind brings new dangers to Mal and his team. Once they go in, they may not come out.
Netflix has its own homegrown franchises, and since the first Murder Mystery movie was wildly popular, it’s no mystery why Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are reteaming as Nick and Audrey Spitz for Murder Mystery 2. This modern-day Nick and Nora Charles have even started their own detective agency after their success in the first film.
However, Nick and Audrey soon find themselves in the most challenging case of their burgeoning career when a billionaire gets kidnapped at his own wedding. The search for answers will lead the couple on a wild trip through Paris.
Minions: The Rise of Gru is a film that Peacock should probably have kept to itself, since it was one of the few animated hits of 2022. But Peacock’s loss is Netflix’s gain as the delightfully silly Despicable Me origin story of Gru (Steve Carell) unfolds with the child supervillain and his Minions (all voiced by Pierre Coffin) attempting to impress Gru’s idols, the Vicious 6, which includes Belle Bottom (Taraji P. Henson), Jean-Clawed (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Svengeance (Dolph Lundgren), Stronghold (Danny Trejo), and Nin-chuck (Lucy Lawless).
Unfortunately for Gru, his efforts only alienate the Vicious 6 and turn them into his enemies. But with the help of the Vicious 6’s former leader, Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin), Gru and the Minions have a fighting chance.
Dragged Across Concrete barely made a blip in theaters when it premiered in 2018, but it has found an audience on Netflix after racing to the top of the movie chart. The film explores the parallel stories between two lifelong friends, Henry Jones (Tory Kittles) and Biscuit (Michael Jai White), and two desperate cops, Detective Brett Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and Detective Anthony Lurasetti (Vince Vaughn).
Ridgeman and Lurasetti need money so badly that they agree to rob a local crime boss, Lorentz Vogelmann (Thomas Kretschmann). Meanwhile, Henry and Biscuit work as getaway drivers for Vogelmann’s men. But once the detectives start closing in, Henry and Biscuit realize that they may not walk away from this gig alive.
There’s a lot going on in I See You, and you’ll miss the clues if you aren’t watching closely. Equal parts mystery and horror, the film starts out like a thriller as Detective Greg Harper (Jon Tenney) and his partner, Detective Spitzky (Gregory Alan Williams), are assigned to an apparent copycat serial abduction based on a killer that Greg put away years ago.
At the same time, Greg’s home life has been shattered as his wife, Jackie Harper (Helen Hunt), is having an affair that is threatening to tear their marriage apart. There’s also an unseen presence in Greg and Jackie’s house that haunts them with seemingly harmless pranks before escalating into violence and murder. That’s just the beginning of a twisted tale that eventually draws everyone together.
All three Riddick films are now back on Netflix, but Pitch Black remains the best of the trilogy. That’s because it plays out like a sci-fi thriller rather than a standard Vin Diesel action flick. This was Diesel’s first turn as Richard B. Riddick, a killer whose eyes can see in the dark. In a distant part of space, Riddick is captured by bounty hunter William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), and both men have the misfortune of being on a starship that crashes on a remote planet.
After Riddick escapes, the survivors, including Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell), Jack (Rhiana Griffith), and Abu al-Walid (Keith David) realize that the planet is overrun by fearsome creatures whenever it gets dark. In order to survive this planet of monsters, they have to rely on their own monster: Riddick.
Netflix just took home the Oscar for Best Animated feature for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and it’s already got another strong animated flick out this week. The Magician’s Elephant adapts Kate DiCamillo’s novel of the same name, and it tells the story of a young orphan named Peter (Noah Jupe). Peter’s only wish in life is to find his missing sister, Adele (Pixie Davies), Through a fortune teller, Peter is told that he has to find a Magician (Benedict Wong) who will summon an elephant.
Incredibly, the prophecy comes true. But before the elephant can lead Peter to his sister, he is forced to perform three impossible tasks. And the attempt will change Peter’s life forever.
Idris Elba’s John Luther returns in the Netflix original film Luther: The Fallen Sun. And right off the bat, Luther is tossed in jail for everything illegal he did in the Luther TV series. Luther’s incarceration was engineered by his current adversary, David Robey (Andy Serkis), and it demonstrates just how much Robey fears the disgraced detective.
However, Luther eventually escapes from prison to go after Robey and bring him down for good. Unfortunately for Luther, his former colleagues on the police force are also hunting for him.
This sci-fi film from the writer and director of Train to Busan is part explosive action spectacle, part exploration of big business and technology run amok. The film follows a scientist working on the next generation of lethal, combat-oriented artificial intelligence, developed from the brain patterns of one of the world’s most celebrated mercenaries, who was left comatose after a failed mission. The catch here is that the mercenary is actually the mother of the scientist, who has spent decades grappling with both her mother’s legacy and the company’s ownership of what remains of her mother.
Andrew Garfield stars as Rent playwright Jonathon Larson in this semi-autobiographical film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The musical drama chronicles Larson’s struggles to bring the rock musical he’s been working on for years to the stage while navigating love, friendships, and both personal and professional pressure in New York City.
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