Netflix is keeping its 2026 movie calendar moving like a conveyor belt: a front-loaded winter run of book adaptations, true-story documentaries, and star-studded genre films, followed by spring survival-thriller energy in “Apex” with Charlize Theron and a summer lane that leans into sequel comfort with “Enola Holmes 3” starring Millie Bobby Brown. The spring-to-summer pivot is where the slate starts to feel most “Netflix” in the purest sense—big, broad, and engineered to give subscribers a steady stream of clickable Friday-night options.
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The year’s first stretch is busy and varied. “People We Meet on Vacation” leads off January, with its behind-the-scenes companion piece, “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5,” close behind, and then “The Rip,” starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, arrives mid-month. From there, Netflix stacks the month with doc titles like “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” and “Miracle: The Boys of ’80,” and then rolls into March with the eco-focused “The Plastic Detox” and the action-heavy one-two of “War Machine” and “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.”
Spring keeps the pace, anchored by “A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough,” the April-set “Apex,” and “Remarkably Bright Creatures” in early May. Summer brings “72 Hours” and “The Whisper Man,” plus “Enola Holmes 3” as the headline sequel, before the year closes with “Quasimodo” in fall and “Narnia” set for December.
Undated, but still of interest, the comedy “Little Brother” with John Cena and Eric André, the animated neo-noir “Ray Gunn” from director Brad Bird (“The Incredibles”), and the romance film “Saturn Return” starring Rachel Brosnahan, Charles Melton, and Will Poulter.
Here’s the complete list of projects announced. However, Netflix noted that more projects will be announced throughout the year, presumably including David Fincher’s “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” starring Brad Pitt.
Below is the full list of projects from Netflix’s 2026 film preview.
WINTER 2026
- “People We Meet on Vacation” — On Netflix January 9, 2026
- “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5” — On Netflix January 12, 2026
- “The Rip” — On Netflix January 16, 2026
- “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” — On Netflix January 21, 2026
- “Cosmic Princess Kaguya” — On Netflix January 22, 2026
- “Miracle: The Boys of ’80” — On Netflix January 30, 2026
- “Queen of Chess” — On Netflix February 6, 2026
- “Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip” — On Netflix February 13, 2026
- “The Plastic Detox” — On Netflix March 2026
- “War Machine” — On Netflix March 6, 2026
- “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” — On Netflix March 20, 2026
SPRING 2026
- “A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough” — On Netflix April 17, 2026
- “Apex” — On Netflix April 24, 2026
- “Ladies First” — On Netflix May 2026
- “Remarkably Bright Creatures” — On Netflix May 8, 2026
SUMMER 2026
- “72 Hours” — On Netflix Summer 2026
- “Enola Holmes 3” — On Netflix Summer 2026
- “The Whisper Man” — On Netflix Summer 2026
FALL / Q4 2026
- “Quasimodo” — On Netflix Fall 2026
- “Narnia” — On Netflix December 2026
COMING SOON [ALPHABETICAL] (ON NETFLIX 2026)
- “11817”
- “A Dog’s Perfect Christmas”
- “Animals”
- “Best of the Best”
- “Don’t Say Good Luck”
- “Good Sex”
- “Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas”
- “Guarding Stars”
- “Heartstopper Forever”
- “Here Comes the Flood”
- “In a Holidaze”
- “Little Brother”
- “México 86”
- “The Mosquito Bowl”
- “Office Romance”
- “Possible Love”
- “Ray Gunn”
- “Roommates”
- “Saturn Return”
- “Steps”
- “Swapped”
- “’Tis So Sweet”
- “Unabom”
- “Voicemails for Isabelle”
- “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Again?”
