Netflix New Releases: The Best Shows & Movies to Watch in April

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Updated Mar 30, 2025

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Netflix is sharing a never-before-seen glimpse at its April 2025 streaming slate, and it’s even better than expected.

The list is full of some of the best family movies of all time, plus hits like Big Daddy, Matilda, Psycho and The Breakfast Club. You’ll also find a fresh lineup of tween shows perfect for family viewing. However, the real showstoppers are all the new original titles. While there are multiple debuts—like Havoc—there are also several shows that are returning for new seasons, like Black Mirror and You.

Keep reading for our top picks from Netflix’s new releases, followed by a complete list of TV shows and movies that are coming to the streaming service beginning in April.

1. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman

Premiere date: April 8

David Letterman is returning for part two of the show’s fifth season, where he holds candid interviews with celebrities (like WNBA player Caitlin Clark).

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2. Black Mirror

Premiere date: April 10

Black Mirror is returning for season seven with a star-studded cast list that includes Awkwafina, Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Emma Corrin and Issa Rae. The new installment will have six (yes, six) episodes, including two that are movie length.

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3. You

Premiere date: April 24

In the fifth—and final—season, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is now married and operating under the alias “professor Jonathan Moore.” Plus, the arrival of a new character, Bronte (Madeline Brewer), puts everyone on edge.

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4. Havoc

Premiere date: April 25

Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzmán, and Timothy Olyphant star in this brand-new action thriller, which follows a cop who ventures through the criminal underworld after a drug heist gone awry.

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All of the Netflix New Releases: April 2025

April 1
Big Daddy
Bonnie & Clyde
Conan the Destroyer
Couples Retreat
Draft Day
Field of Dreams
For Love of the Game
Geostorm
Get Him to the Greek
Heat
Insidious: Chapter 2
K-9
Lucy
Matilda
Psycho
Rise of the Guardians
Rooster Cogburn (…and the Lady)
Rudy
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
The Age of Innocence
The Breakfast Club
The Croods
The Mauritanian
The Place Beyond the Pines
Uncle Buck

April 2
Banger (Netflix original movie)
Garnachas: Glorious Street Food! (Netflix original documentary)
Love on the Spectrum—Season 3 (Netflix original series)

April 3
Devil May Cry (Netflix original series)
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory—Season 3 (Netflix original series) *Family-friendly option
PULSE (Netflix original series)

April 4
Karma (Netflix original series)
TEST (Netflix original movie)

April 7
Blippi's Job Show (Netflix original series) *Family-friendly option
Kill Tony: Kill or Be Killed

April 8
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)—Season 4 (Netflix original series)
Kian’s Bizarre B&B (Netflix original series)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman—Season 5, Part 2 (Netflix original series)
The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox (Netflix original series)

April 9
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (Netflix original documentary)
The Addams Family
The Dad Quest (Netflix original movie)
The Hating Game
Unicorn Academy—Chapter 3 (Netflix original series) *Family-friendly option

April 10
Black Mirror—Season 7 (Netflix original series)
Frozen Hot Boys (Netflix original movie)
Moonrise (Netflix original series)
North of North (Netflix original series)

April 11
Meet the Khumalos (Netflix original movie)
The Gardener (Netflix original series)

April 12
Resident Playbook (Netflix original series)

April 13
Life or Something Like It

April 15
The Glass Dome (Netflix original series)
Young Sheldon—Season 7

April 16
Baby Mama
I Am Not Mendoza (Netflix original series)
Project UFO (Netflix original series)
The Diamond Heist (Netflix original documentary)

April 17
Istanbul Encyclopedia (Netflix original series)
Ransom Canyon (Netflix original series)

April 18
iHostage (Netflix original movie)
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (Netflix original documentary)

April 19
Heavenly Ever After (Netflix original series)

April 21
Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey (Netflix original documentary)

April 23
A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054 (Netflix original documentary)
Battle Camp (Netflix original series)
Bullet Train Explosion (Netflix original movie)
Carlos Alcaraz: My Way (Netflix original series)
UnBroken

April 24
A Dog's Way Home
You—Season 5 (Netflix original series)

April 25
Havoc (Netflix original movie)
Pokémon Horizons—Season 2 (Netflix original series) *Family-friendly option

April 28
Chef's Table: Legends (Netflix original documentary)

April 30
Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight (Netflix original series) *Family-friendly option
Exterritorial (Netflix original movie)
The Eternaut (Netflix original series)
Turning Point: The Vietnam War (Netflix original documentary)

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