Netflix Movie Preview: The 20 Best Films Coming in 2025

Stock up on popcorn, this lineup will keep you happily sofa bound through Christmas

Tracey Minkin,

AARP

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Published March 10, 2025

Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and Ke Huy Quan

(From left) Millie Bobby Brown as Michelle, Chris Pratt as Keats, Ke Huy Quan as Dr. Amherst in The Electric State.

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This is shaping up to be the biggest movie year yet for Netflix, which has already launched comedies like Kinda Pregnant starring Amy Schumer and the family-friendly charmer Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl since New Year’s Day. But there are more – far more, in fact – dramas, comedies, rom-coms, thrillers and action films planned for the rest of the year. While many of the release dates aren’t yet finalized, check this page for updates, see AARP's guide to what's new and best on Netflix each month — and get excited for the 20 best new films coming to Netflix in 2025.

DRAMAS

Jay Kelly

A heartbreaking dramedy from Marriage Story director Noah Baumbach, 55. The plot details remain under wraps, but the cast list is a stunner, including George Clooney, 63, Adam Sandler, 58, and Laura Dern, 58.

(Coming Fall 2025)

RIP

Matt Damon, 54, and Ben Affleck, 52, lead an ensemble cast as Miami cops who discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. Trust among them begins to fray and a criminal thriller ensues.

(Coming Fall 2025)

Train Dreams

Adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella of the same name, Joel Edgerton, 50, plays a railroad laborer at the start of the 20th century encountering deep love, demoralizing setbacks, and a rapidly changing American landscape. Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, and Willam H. Macy, 74, costar.

(Coming Fall 2025)

Frankenstein

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, 60, brings his inimitable vision to Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), who plays God and creates a monster (Jacob Elordi).

(Coming November 2025)

The Ballad of a Small Player

This psychological thriller based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel stars Colin Farrell as a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau, whose past and debts loom dangerously large. Tilda Swinton, 64, costars.

(Coming in 2025)

R&B

From producer Tyler Perry, 55, this is an updated telling of the iconic Biblical love story of Ruth and Boaz. Here, a young woman leaves the Atlanta music scene to care for an elderly widow, finding love and the mother she never had. The ensemble cast includes Phylicia Rashad, 76.

(Coming in 2025)

Steve

Cillian Murphy stars in a 24-style film as a headmaster of a last-chance reform school who struggles with his own mental health along with the behaviors of his students.

(Coming in 2025)

Straw

Writer/director Tyler Perry’s thriller stars Taraji P. Henson, 54, in a story of a single mother, struggling against circumstances beyond her control, who gets entangled in a situation she never imagined.

(Coming in 2025)

COMEDIES

Nonnas

Stricken by grief after the loss of his mother, Joe (Vince Vaughan, 54) upends his life and opens an Italian restaurant with a group of local grandmothers as the chefs. The nonnas include Susan Sarandon, 78, Lorraine Bracco, 70, Talia Shire, 78, and Brenda Vaccaro, 85.

(Coming May 9, 2025)

Happy Gilmore 2

Adam Sandler, 58, returns as the accidental duffer with a massive slapshot swing, reuniting with many cast members from the 1996 original, including Christopher McDonald, 70, Julie Bowen, 55, Dennis Dugan, 78, Allen Covert, 60, and Severance director Ben Stiller, 59.

(Coming in 2025)

The Thursday Murder Club

A quartet of retirees – Elizabeth (Helen Mirren, 79), Ron (Pierce Brosnan, 71), Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley, 81) and Joyce (Celia Imrie, 72) – solve cold-case murders for fun instead of playing bridge. But when a crime occurs close to home, they’re called into real action as a crime-solving squad most delightful.

(Coming in 2025)

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Destination Wedding

Madea’s gang is back! And they’re going to the Bahamas for the sudden wedding of the daughter of Brian (Perry) and ex-wife Debra (Taja V. Simpson), to a rapper the girl met on a yacht. Perry reprises his iconic role as the mater hilarious.

(Coming in 2025)

MYSTERIES

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig, 57) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third installment in Netflix’s hit whodunit ensemble capers.

(Coming Fall 2025)

The Woman in Cabin 10

Based on Ruth Ware’s 2016 bestselling novel about a journalist (Keira Knightley) aboard a luxury yacht who witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard. Her concerns go unheeded, and when she begins her own investigation, things get suddenly dangerous. Guy Pearce, 57, and Hannah Waddingham, 50, costar.

(Coming Fall 2025)

ROM-COMS

The Life List

After the death of her mother, Alex (Disney vet Sofia Carson) sets off to fulfill her mom’s bucket list. The quest leads her into romance (of course), family secrets, and self-discovery.

(Coming March 28, 2025)

Champagne Problems

Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) plays an American Type-A biz exec who travels to France to buy up a world-renowned Champagne brand before Christmas. Enter a charming Parisian and ensuing Gallic romance, but ooh la la! He’s the founder’s son.

(Coming in 2025)

My Oxford Year

When American Anna (Sofia Carson again!) fulfills her childhood dreams of going to Oxford University, a dashing local complicates the plot.

(Coming in 2025)

The Wrong Paris

A young woman (Emmy nominee Miranda Cosgrove) joins a reality dating show thinking it's in Paris, France, but it's actually in Paris, Texas. She’s working on a way to get eliminated, but suddenly finds herself developing feelings for the bachelor at the center of the show.

(Coming in 2025)

ACTION MOVIES

Havoc

In this action thriller, a world-weary detective (Tom Hardy) goes deep into the criminal underworld to save a politician’s estranged son after a drug deal goes awry. There, he discovers a menacing world of corruption that threatens his entire city.

(Coming April 25, 2025)