All 70 New Movies Coming to Netflix in 2021
Below, find the complete list of original movies and new acquisitions coming to Netflix in 2021.
They include a drama starring Sandra Bullock, buzzy romances, a Marilyn Monroe biopic, a Meryl Streep-led film, and musicals, to name a few.
Netflix recently unveiled its 2021 list of original movies and fresh acquisitions, featuring a Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas, a Greece-set thriller, and enough rom-coms to sate our near-endless craving for escapist storylines.
According to Deadline, Netflix’s slate of movies (mostly produced by the streaming giant) consists of 70 films, including 52 English language live action movie, 10 non-English language films, and eight animated features. And the star power is real, folks.
Expect to see appearances from A-Listers like Meryl Streep, Dwayne Johnson, Zendaya, Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Jennifer Lawrence, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chris Hemsworth. Top filmmakers Sam Levinson, Antoine Fuqua, Joe Wright, Jane Campion, and Shawn Levy will debut new works. Another exciting tidbit? In 2021, Halle Berry and Lin-Manuel Miranda will make their directorial debut on the platform.
There's just one catch: We don't know when, exactly, many of these films will be released. Stay tuned for updates. Below, find all of the original movies coming to Netflix in 2021—and we have a strong suspicion this list will grow.
Dramas
8, Rue de l’Humanite
Release date: TBA
Starring: The contemporary French movie is directed by Dany Boon.
Plot: Seven families in a Parisian apartment building get to know each other well—perhaps too well—during the coronavirus pandemic.
Afterlife of the Party
Release date: TBA
Starring: Victoria Justice plays a social butterfly trapped between realms.
Plot: Perfect for fans of The Good Place, this metaphysical movie follows a woman who dies during her birthday week and is given a chance to redeem herself on earth before making it to heaven.
A Week Away
Release date: TBA
Starring: Kevin Quinn, Bailee Madison, Sherri Shepherd and David Koechner
Plot: Featuring original music and reimagined versions of contemporary Christian songs, this musical is set over the course of a pivotal summer for troubled teenage boy (Quinn). When given the choice to attend a juvenile detention center or a Christian summer camp, he chooses the latter—and the story unfolds from there.
Beauty
Release date: TBA
Starring: Gracie Marie Bradley and Aleyse Shannon star as the movie's central couple, with supporting appearances from Giancarlo Esposito and Sharon Stone. Beauty is Andrew Dosunmu's fourth feature.
Plot: Based on a screenplay by Lena Waithe, Beauty is a queer romance about an up-and-coming pop star and the woman who loves her. Their new relationship is tested by judgmental family members.
Blonde
Release date: TBA
Starring: Ana de Armas plays the one-and-only Marilyn Monroe in this biopic.
Plot: Based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carole Oates, Blonde is an intimate look at one of Hollywood's most iconic figures.
Bruised
Release date: TBA
Starring: Halle Berry made her directorial debut while starring as a, well, bruised MMA fighter.
Plot: Berry plays an MMA fighter looking to restart her career and regain custody of her son. When Netflix bought the rights to Bruised after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Berry tweeted, "I am speechless."
Concrete Cowboy
Release date: TBA
Starring: Idris Elba and Stranger Things’s Caleb McLaughlin play an estranged father and son in Northern Philadelphia. The movie co-stars Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, Byron Bowers and Clifford “Method Man” Smith.
Plot: Based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Ner, Concrete Cowboy focuses on a 15-year-old boy who discovers the thrill of horseback riding (in cities) when he goes to live with his father.
Fever Dream
Release date: TBA
Starring: Peruvian director Claudia Llosa directs this adaptation of acclaimed author Samantha Schweblin's novel, steeped in magical realism.
Plot: As a woman lays dying in rural Argentina, she's visited by a series of apparitions that explain how she got to that point.
Monster
Release date: TBA
Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Ehle, Jeffrey Wright, and John David Washington.
Plot: Based on the bestselling novel by Walter Dean Myers, Monster is about a 17-year-old honor student (Harrison Jr.) wrongfully charged with murder.
Munich
Release date: TBA
Starring: Jeremy Irons plays Neville Chamberlain in Christian Schwochow's film, also starring George MacKay.
Plot: Set in 1938, this historical movie is centered on negotiations between England and Germany on the eve of WWII.
Penguin Bloom
Release date: January 27
Starring: Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, and Jacki Weaver star in the movie based on a true story.
Plot: When an accident leaves a young mother unable to walk, she and her family bond over taking care of a baby magpie chick they name Penguin.
Pieces of a Woman
Release date: January 7
Starring: Kornél Mundruczó directs the drama, which stars Vanessa Kirby, Sarah Snook, Ellen Burstyn, and Shia LaBeouf.
Plot: Pieces of a Woman features a conversation-starting, 24-minute home birth scene.
Red Notice
Release date: TBA
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds are the leads of this heist drama.
Plot: An FBI profiler (Johnson) teams up with two criminals (Gadot and Reynolds) to catch the world's most wanted criminal. Pretend that you're watching this one on the big screen.
Skater Girl
Release date: TBA
Starring: Rachel Saanchita Gupta and Shafin Patel make their acting debuts, and Manjari Makijany makes her directorial debut, in this coming-of-age story.
Plot: A teenage girl in rural India is introduced to skateboarding and goes on to compete in the national championships.
The Dig
Release date: January 29
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, and Johnny Flynn.
Plot: Based on a true story and inspired by a novel, The Dig follows a wealthy English widow who discovers ancient burial mounts of tremendous historical significance in her backyard.
The Guilty
Release date: TBA
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the remake of the Danish film.
Plot: Set over the course of single morning at a 911 dispatch call center, The Guilty follows a phone operator roped into an emergency situation where nothing is as it seems.
The Hand of God
Release date: TBA
Starring: Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino helms this movie set in his hometown of Naples.
Plot: Story details for this one aren't available. However, Sorrentino said, “The Hand of God represents for the first time in my career an intimate and personal film, a novel of formation at once light-hearted and painful.”
The Harder They Fall
Release date: TBA
Starring: The movie features an all-star cast of Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, Regina King, and Idris Elba.
Plot: Outlaw Nat Love (Majors) discovers that his enemy, Rufus Buck (Elba), is being released from prison, so he reunites his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge.
The Power of the Dog
Release date: TBA
Starring: Renowned filmmaker Jane Campion directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons, who play Montana brothers.
Plot: On a ranch in Montana in the 1920s, two brothers—and complete opposites—clash over one brother's romance with a local widow (Kirsten Dunst).
The Starling
Release date: TBA
Starring: Melissa McCarthy and Chris O'Dowd play a grieving married couple in this dramedy, which also stars Kevin Kline, Timothy Olyphant, Daveed Diggs, Skyler Gisondo, Loretta Devine, Laura Harrier, Rosalind Chao, and Kimberly Quinn.
Plot: After suffering a tragedy, Lilly (McCarthy) attempts to heal through gardening, and then becomes consumed with nest of violent starlings in her backyard.
The White Tiger
Release date: TBA
Plot: Adarsh Gourav stars alongside Rajkummar Rao and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas.
Plot: Adapted from a Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger is one man's journey cutting through caste and class in India. Watch as Balram Halwai goes from chauffeuring millionaires to socializing among them.
tick, tick…BOOM!
Release date: TBA
Starring: Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Jonathan Larson's (Rent) musical. We'll get to see Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, and Bradley Whitford sing and dance their way through it.
Plot: Set in 1990, tick, tick…BOOM! tells the story of an aspiring theater composer waiting tables in New York City and waiting on his big break as he writes what he hopes is the great American musical.
Untitled Alexandre Moratto movie
Release date: TBA
Starring: Alexandre Moratto, a Brazilian-American filmmaker, helms this raw movie about modern-day slavery.
Plot: An 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo and is subsequently lured into a kind of contemporary slavery.
Untitled Graham King movie
Release date: TBA
Starring: Sandra Bullock stars in this adaptation of Sally Wainwright’s 2009 drama series Unforgiven, which will be directed by Nora Fingscheidt.
Plot: After serving a sentence for a violent crime, Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock) re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Thrillers and Horror Movies
Army of the Dead
Release date: TBA
Starring: Directed by Zack Snyder, this action-packed movie stars Dave Bautista, Tig Notaro, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, and more.
Plot: Imagine that the zombie apocalypse begins in Las Vegas. If that sentence excites you, then Army of the Dead is for you.
Awake
Release date: TBA
Starring: Gina Rodriguez and Jennifer Jason Leigh are the leads.
Plot: In this dystopian movie, the world as we know it ends in a cataclysm that a) wipes out all electronics and b) destroys people's ability to sleep. Only one woman holds the key to a good night's rest. The question is: Can she save the world before her own mind is frayed?
Beckett
Release date: TBA
Starring: John David Washington (who also stars in Netflix's Malcolm and Marie), Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps
Plot: What should be a romantic Greek vacation turns into a nightmare in this star-studded thriller.
Blood Red Sky
Release date: TBA
Starring: The German thriller stars Peri Baumeister as a woman trapped on a hijacked flight.
Plot: After a plane is taken over, a woman with a mysterious illness realizes she's the only person who can save her son–and other passengers.
Escape From Spiderhead
Release date: TBA
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smolett co-star in the thriller.
Plot: This futuristic drama is set in a facility run by a "brilliant visionary" who experiments by giving inmates emotion-altering drugs. Sounds sinister to us.
Fear Street Trilogy
Release date: Summer 2021
Starring: Leigh Janiak will direct the trilogy, starring Stranger Things's Sadie Sink, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Welch, Emily Rudd, Benjamin Flores Jr, and more.
Plot: R.L. Stine's creepy Fear Street novels were converted into a trilogy of horror movies for kids, set to be released over one summer, per Deadline.
I Care a Lot
Release date: TBA
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Eiza Gonzalez, Dianne Wiest, and Peter Dinklage.
Plot: Gear up for a dark thriller about a morally corrupt legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards—and the woman who tries to con her right back.
Intrusion
Release date: TBA
Starring: Logan Marshall Green and Freida Pinto play a husband and wife in this Adam Salky-directed thriller.
Plot: After a home invasion, one woman (Pinto) is left traumatized and suspicious of the world around her.
Kate
Release date: TBA
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, and Tadanobu Asan co-star in the revenge thriller.
Plot: After being poisoned, a criminal operative seeks one final act of retribution.
Nightbooks
Release date: TBA
Starring: Krysten Ritter, Winslow Fegley and Lidya Jewet are the leads of this horror-fantasy, designed with kids in mind.
Plot: Fairy tales meet contemporary New York when a boy obsessed with scary stories is imprisoned by an evil young witch in her apartment, and must tell a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.
Night Teeth
Release date: TBA
Starring: Debby Ryan, Alfie Allen, and Lucy Fry co-star.
Plot: What begins as a typical rideshare goes off the rails when a driver's passengers reveal themselves to be supernatural creatures leading him into a dangerous underworld.
No One Gets Out Alive
Release date: TBA
Starring: Cristina Rodlo and Marc Menchaca are the leads of this horror movie, which intertwines contemporary issues with genre fare.
Plot: An immigrant to America takes a room in a boarding house, only to find that she can't leave the boarding house. If you want to know the ending, read the book first.
O2
Release date: TBA
Starring: The French thriller stars Noomi Rapace and Melanie Laurent.
Plot: A young woman wakes up in a medical cryo unit without memory of how she got there. Don't watch if you're claustrophobic.
Outside the Wire
Release date: January 15
Starring: Anthony Mackie plays an android officer in this future-set movie. Damson Idris is a drone pilot following his orders.
Plot: Outside the Wire envisions a future in which androids are fighting humanity's wars.
Stowaway
Release date: TBA
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Shamier Anderson, and Daniel Dae Kim play astronauts trapped in space.
Plot: The crew of a spaceship headed to Mars discover a stowaway long after liftoff. The quarantine experience will probably make it easier to relate to the astronauts in this sci-fi thriller.
There's Someone Inside Your House
Release date: TBA
Starring: A group of Gen-Z talent, including Sydney Park, Theodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, and Sarah Dugdale.
Plot: Stephanie Perkins's gripping YA novel inspired this Nebraska-set thriller, where a group of teenagers are stalked by a mask-wearing killer. And no, this is not a Scream remake.
The Swarm
Release date: TBA
Starring: French actress Suliane Brahim stars in Just Philippot's horror movie as a single mother caught in a nightmare scenario.
Plot: In The Swarm, a woman learns the grasshoppers she's raising in her backyard thrive off of human blood.
The Woman in the Window
Release date: TBA
Starring: Joe Wright directed the movie, which features Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as leads.
Plot: After many delays, The Woman in the Window is finally coming to our screens. In the story, an agoraphobic New Yorker spies on her neighbors and witnesses a violent crime. Or believes she witnesses one.
Things Heard and Seen
Release date: TBA
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter and F. Murray Abraham appear.
What it's about: Joining the ranks of haunted house movies, Things Heard and Seen is about a Manhattan couple who move to a historic town in the Hudson Valley only to learn that the only thing more complicated than their marriage is the house they moved into.
Comedies
Bad Trip
Release date: TBA
Starring: The presence of Lil Rel Howery, Eric Andre, and Tiffany Haddish in Bad Trip's cast means you'll definitely laugh during this road trip movie.
Plot: From the producers of Jackass and Bad Grandpa, this inventive comedy follows two best friends on a road trip from Florida to New York. The movie features real-life pranks performed on unsuspecting people.
Don't Look Up
Release date: TBA
Starring: More like, who isn't starring in Don't Look Up? Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep appear in this disaster comedy.
Plot: Adam MacKay's latest movie follows two astronauts' quest to warn humanity of an incoming comet. Good luck.
Double Dad
Release date: TBA
Starring: The Brazilian comedy is directed by Cris D'Amato and stars Maisa Silva.
Plot: After growing up in a hippie commune, one girl attempts to track down her biological father, and ends up finding two possibilities. We're getting major Mamma Mia vibes.
Moxie
Release date: March 3
Starring: Amy Poehler directs this adaptation of Jennifer Mathieu's novel of the same name, which stars Josephine Langford and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Plot: Inspired by her punk rock mother, a 16-year-old starts a feminist revolution in her high school.
The Last Mercenary
Release date: TBA
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme has the lead role, with a supporting cast that includes Alban Ivanov, Assa Sylla and Samir Decazza.
Plot: A former secret service agent returns to France after his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government. Sounds serious, yes, but it's slated to be a comedy.
Thunder Force
Release date: TBA
Starring: Husband-wife duo Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone team up for this comedy, with McCarthy starring and Falcone directing.
Plot: Imagine a world in which supervillains were commonplace. Now imagine if two previously ordinary best friends found a way to get themselves powers to beat them. That's the gist of this comedy.
Yes Day
Release date: March 12
Starring: Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez play overextended parents.
Plot: Two parents agree to say "yes" to their kids for an entire day. Naturally, hijinks ensue.
Romances
Bombay Rose
Release date: TBA
Starring: Gitanjali Rao wrote, edited, directed, and designed this animated movie about a flower vendor falling in love.
Plot: Inspired by Bollywood aesthetics, this animated film based on a true story, is about a young club dancer escaping a child marriage.
Fuimos Canciones
Release date: TBA
Starring: María Valverde, Alex González, and Elísabet Casanovas star.
Plot: Fans of the Spanish show Valeria should watch this rom-com, based on novels by the same author. 30-year-old Maca (María Valverde) is sent reeling when her ex Leo (Alex González) comes back into her life, just after she recovered from heartbreak.
Love Hard
Release date: TBA
Starring: Nina Dobrev, Charles Melton, and Jimmy O. Yang are the movie's central love triangle.
Plot: This rom-com weaves in catfishing, ghosting, and other perils of online dating. In the movie, a woman travels from L.A. to meet a man from a dating app, only to learn he's not who he says he is.
Malcolm & Marie
Release date: February 5
Starring: Zendaya and John David Washington star in Sam Levinson's film, written and filmed entirely during lockdown.
Plot: Malcolm & Marie is the lush romance everyone will be talking about this winter. On the same night filmmaker Malcolm (Washington) reaches a professional high, revelations about his relationship with Marie (Zendaya) unfurl.
The Kissing Booth 3
Release date: TBA
Starring: Jacob Elordi and Joey King finish up their trilogy.
Plot: The Kissing Booth and its love triangle concludes. Elle has to choose between Harvard, where her boyfriend Noah goes, and Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is going.
The Last Letter From Your Lover
Release date: TBA
Starring: Augustine Frizzell directs the pair of interwoven stories, starring Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, and Nabhaan Rizwan.
Plot: JoJo Moyes's novel inspired the movie about an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965.
To All the Boys: Always and Forever
Release date: TBA
Starring: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, John Corbett, and the rest of the beloved series's cast return for the final installment of the beloved trilogy.
Plot: With graduation fast approaching, Lara Jean Covey imagines what the rest of her life will look like...and whether Peter Kavinsky will be in it.
Family-Friendly Movies
Back to the Outback
Release date: TBA
Starring: Isla Fisher, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Jacki Knight and more provide the voices for this animated film.
Plot: The scaly residents of an Australian zoo plot to break out of the reptile house. Think Madagascar, but in the Australian Outback.
Finding Ohana
Release date: TBA
Starring: Jude Weng’s directorial debut stars Kea Peahu and Alex Aiono as siblings.
Plot: In this family-friendly flick, two Brooklyn siblings travel to Hawaii to reconnect with their heritage.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Release date: TBA
Starring: The four turtles are voiced by Ben Schwartz, Omar Benson Miller, Brandon Mychal Smith, and Josh Brener.
Plot: A Nickelodeon movie follows the next chapter for everyone's favorite reptilian crime-fighting troupe.
The Loud House Movie
Release date: TBA
Starring: The cast of Nickelodeon's The Loud House gathers for the movie.
Plot: The family of The Loud House takes a trip to Scotland, but doesn't appear to be stopping at Outlander's Craigh na Dun.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Release date: TBA
Starring: Famed director Guillermo del Toro created this animated DreamWorks film, which features the voices of Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, Tatiana Maslany, Kelsey Grammar, and more.
Plot: Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is set in a town on the border of magical and mystical lines, making it a magnet for otherworldly creatures like trolls, aliens and wizards.
Wish Dragon
Release date: TBA
Starring: Chris Appelhans, known for his work on Coraline and The Princess and the Frog, wrote and directedWish Dragon, a co-production between Sony Pictures Animation and a few Chinese production companies.
Plot: A working-class college student and a dragon set forth on an adventure through modern day Shanghai in this animated film, sure to amuse kids and adults alike.
Holiday Movies
A Boy Called Christmas
Release date: TBA
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Michiel Huisman, Sally Hawkins and Kristen Wiig are all in the Christmas film.
Plot: A young boy heads out in search of his father, who himself is on a quest to discover a mythical elf village.
A Castle for Christmas
Release date: TBA
Starring: The rom-com stars Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes.
Plot: Perfect for fans of Outlander, Brooke Shields stars as an American author who travels to Scotland with the intention of buying a castle, and clashes with the Scottish duke who owns the place.
Robin Robin
Release date: TBA
Starring: Gillian Anderson and Richard E. Grant lend their voices to the animated movie.
Plot: This stop motion holiday movie is about a robin raised by a family of mice who starts to question her identity. Existential crises are not just for humans.
The Princess Switch 3
Release date: TBA
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, of course.
Plot: We're just going to let the official description speak for itself: "When a priceless relic is stolen, Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy enlist the help of Margaret’s audacious look-alike cousin Fiona who teams with a dashing, mysterious man from her past to retrieve it…rekindling the sparks of a tantalizing Christmas romance and resulting in a very unexpected switch."
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