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

Streaming platforms are packed this year, and now that we are in the second half of 2026, you can stream buzzy new releases like Project Hail Mary, The Drama, and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, along with crowd-pleasers Apex and The Rip.

Other highlights include the emotional series finale Heartstopper Forever and the star-studded murder mystery The Sheep Detectives. Whether you’re in the mood for a rom-com, a horror thriller, or an animated adventure, there’s something new worth adding to your watchlist. Read the entire guide for all of our best new movie picks.

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Project Hail Mary (2026)

Based on Andy Weir’s bestselling novel, Project Hail Mary follows Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a middle school science teacher who wakes up aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory slowly returns, he realizes he’s humanity’s last hope, tasked with solving a global extinction event.

Alone in deep space, Grace must rely on his scientific knowledge and unconventional thinking to save Earth from extinction. However, an unexpected friendship with an alien named Rocky (James Ortiz) along the way means he may not have to face it entirely alone.

Stream Project Hail Mary on Prime Video and MGM+.

The Sheep Detectives (2026)

Every night, shepherd George (Hugh Jackman) reads detective novels aloud to his flock, assuming they can’t possibly understand a word. When George turns up dead under mysterious circumstances, his intelligent flock of sheep decides to investigate the crime using their collective observations to piece together clues.

The different sheep are voiced by an ensemble including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, and Patrick Stewart. Leaving their pasture for the first time, the flock navigates the confusing human world, uncovering secret rivalries and town mysteries to identify George’s murderer.

Stream The Sheep Detectives on Prime Video.

Swapped (2026)

On a small island within a flooded valley live the Pookoo, tiny woodland creatures who share their home with a species of majestic birds called Javans. When Pookoo Ollie (Michael B. Jordan) and Javan Ivy (Juno Temple) are magically swapped into each other’s bodies, the two sworn enemies are forced to team up just to survive. Their journey to reverse the swap soon uncovers a much bigger threat, one that could put not just their own species, but the entire valley they call home, in danger.

Stream Swapped on Netflix.

Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)

After losing her sister Isabelle (Ciara Bravo), Jill (Zoey Deutch) copes with her grief by leaving rambling, confessional voicemails recounting her chaotic life in San Francisco, unaware that her late sister’s old number has been reassigned.

Those messages instead land with Wes (Nick Robinson), a stranger who finds himself quietly falling for Jill from afar, sight unseen. As the voicemails continue, an unlikely long-distance connection begins to form between two people who’ve never actually met, built entirely on honesty, humor, and shared heartbreak.

Stream Voicemails for Isabelle on Netflix.

The Drama (2026)

With just one week until their wedding, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) sit down with friends Rachel (Alana Haim) and her husband Mike (Mamoudou Athie) to finalize their reception menu.

A little wine and a playful game later, Emma reveals a shocking secret from her past that neither Charlie nor their friends saw coming. What begins as ordinary wedding-week stress spirals into a tense, darkly comic reckoning, forcing Charlie to confront how well he actually knows the woman he’s about to marry.

Stream The Drama on HBO Max.

Heartstopper Forever (2026)

Picking up after the Season 3 finale of the TV series on Netflix, Heartstopper Forever follows Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) as he prepares to leave for university, while Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) steps into a new leadership role back at school.

As their relationship deepens, the couple starts confronting what life looks like once they’re no longer sharing the same hallways every day. Their friends Elle (Yasmin Finney), Tao (William Gao), and Imogen (Rhea Norwood) navigate their own paths forward too, in this feature-length send-off to Alice Oseman’s beloved series.

Stream Heartstopper Forever on Netflix.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026)

A man claiming to be from the future (Sam Rockwell) arrives at a Los Angeles diner insisting this is far from his first visit, having traveled back in time over a hundred times already. He recruits a specific group of disgruntled patrons, including Ingrid (Haley Lu Richardson) and Susan (Juno Temple), for a single chaotic night with a mission to stop a rogue artificial intelligence from destroying the world. What follows is a genre-bending, six-block journey through the absurdity of modern technology dependence, social media brainrot, and the looming AI apocalypse.

Stream Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die on Hulu.

Eternity (2026)

When Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) dies in her eighties, she arrives in an afterlife where every soul is given one week to decide where they’ll spend eternity. There, she’s reunited with both her husband of over sixty years, Larry (Miles Teller), and her first love, Luke (Callum Turner), who died young decades earlier and has been waiting in the afterlife for her ever since. Guided by afterlife coordinators played by John Early and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Joan must make an impossible choice between the life she built and the love she never got to live out.

Stream Eternity on Apple TV.

The Rip (2026)

After a Miami police unit stumbles onto millions of dollars in cash stashed inside a derelict safehouse, trust among the team quickly begins to unravel. Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne (Ben Affleck) and Lieutenant Dane Dumars (Matt Damon) find themselves at the center of the fallout as word of the massive seizure spreads and outside forces close in. With federal agents and internal suspicion both circling, the cops are forced to question who on their own team can still be trusted.

Stream The Rip on Netflix.

Send Help (2026)

Corporate strategist Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) has spent years anticipating a long-promised promotion, one that finally seems within reach once her entitled boss’s son, Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien), is appointed CEO. When their flight crashes, leaving the two as the only survivors stranded on a deserted island, old workplace tensions erupt into an entirely new power struggle. As resources run low and rescue seems increasingly unlikely, uneasy cooperation gives way to psychological warfare between the two former colleagues.

Stream Send Help on Hulu.

People We Meet on Vacation (2026)

Best friends since college, Poppy (Emily Bader) and Alex (Tom Blyth) have spent years taking one big annual trip together, even as their lives otherwise drift apart. After a disastrous vacation left their friendship in ruins two years earlier, Poppy convinces a reluctant Alex to give their tradition one last shot. As old feelings resurface throughout the trip, both are forced to confront whether their bond was always meant to be something more than friendship.

Stream People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)

Set in Birmingham during the Blitz of 1940, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is drawn back from isolation when his estranged son, Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan), gets entangled with British fascist John Beckett (Tim Roth) in a Nazi plot to destabilize Britain’s economy with counterfeit currency.

Reunited with his sister Ada (Sophie Rundle) and old allies, Tommy must decide whether to confront the legacy he built or destroy it entirely, facing down his most dangerous reckoning yet with both his family and his country at stake.

Stream Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man on Netflix.

Apex (2026)

While climbing Norway’s Troll Wall, Sasha (Charlize Theron) is forced to release her partner Tommy (Eric Bana) after he’s struck by a falling boulder, sending him to his death and leaving her haunted by guilt. Seeking to escape her grief, Sasha travels alone to the remote Australian outback, unaware she’s about to become prey in a hunter’s deadly game. Pursued through the wilderness by Ben (Taron Egerton), Sasha must rely on every physical and mental skill she has just to survive in this survival thriller

Stream Apex on Netflix.

Drop (2026)

Widowed mother Violet (Meghann Fahy) is finally back on the dating scene when she meets Henry (Brandon Sklenar) for dinner at an upscale Chicago restaurant. What starts as a promising first date quickly turns terrifying when Violet begins receiving anonymous, threatening messages sent directly to her phone.

Warned that her babysitting sister and young son will be killed if she alerts anyone or tries to leave, Violet is forced to follow her tormentor’s escalating demands, as she races against time to identify the tormentor.

Stream Drop on Peacock.

The best movies from 2025 you can stream right now

While new 2026 releases keep rolling in, some of last year’s best films are only just becoming available to stream. Here’s what’s worth watching from 2025 before it slips off your radar.

One Battle After Another (2025)

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.

Predator: Badlands (2025)

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+.

Novocaine (2025)

Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) is a mild-mannered bank employee living with a rare condition that leaves him incapable of feeling physical pain. When Sherry (Amber Midthunder), the woman he’s falling for, is kidnapped during a violent bank heist, Nate turns his unusual condition into an unexpected advantage. Diving headfirst into a rescue mission he’s completely unequipped for, Nate pursues the criminals through a series of chaotic confrontations to rescue the hostages.

Stream Novocaine on Prime Video.

Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

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.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

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.

Sinners (2025)

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.

Weapons (2025)

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.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

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+.

Lilo & Stitch (2025)

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+.