Netflix USA has plenty to offer us here on the other side of the world as the temperature drops and the likelihood of serious couch-surfing rises. Along with new seasons of series favourites, a host of movie classics join the streamer this month.
Series lovers will welcome the return of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt for Season 2. Garnering a devoted following in its first season, the innovative comedy (created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock) follows titular character, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), who must readjust to life in New York City after spending 15 years living in an underground bunker at the behest of a cult leader. Season 2 promises more quirky comedy that saw the series nominated for multiple Emmys.
Also returning for its second season is How to Get Away with Murder. A star vehicle for Viola Davis (The Help), the Oscar-nominated actress plays Annalise Keating, a brilliant but mysterious criminal defence professor who, along with a group of her students, becomes embroiled in a murder plot that turns their lives upside down. If you’re a fan of executive producer Shonda Rhimes’ previous work (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal), then this is sure to appeal.
Other series additions include Cutthroat Kitchen Seasons 3-4 for those who like high stakes with their food prep, and Season 6 of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, where viewers follow their host into countries where Bourdain delves into political issues as well as indigenous food and culture.
For those with tweens in the house, check out Lost & Found Music Studios. The series follows young aspiring musicians attending an after-school music program designed to help them realise their true potential as artists. Got younger kids and a taste for nostalgia? Don’t miss the remake of children’s animated classic, Danger Mouse. It streams from April 29.
Movie buffs get ready to revisit some classics. On offer, A Clockwork Orange (based on the cult novel of the same name), Boogie Nights (Mark Wahlberg), Mystic River (Sean Penn) and The Shawshank Redemption (Morgan Freeman). If those titles feel a little serious, then you might prefer Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts), The Princess Bride (Robin Wright), Something’s Gotta Give (Jack Nicholson) or Best in Show, the best and funniest movie ever made about a national dog show competition.
Movies for little people include last year’s popular Minions (Sandra Bullock), the 2011 family drama, Dolphin Tale (Harry Connick Jr.) and My Girl, featuring Macaulay Culkin when he was still an adorable little imp.
A comedy special, Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping, should appeal to those familiar with Oswalt’s brand of humour. It’s possible you know him more for his voiceover work (The Goldbergs, Bojack Horseman, American Dad) but Oswalt has added consistently to his resume with work including Young Adult with Charlize Theron and playing series regulars on Two and a Half Men and Veep.
And finally, it’s time to say goodbye to a host of titles this month including, sadly, Vanilla Ice Goes Amish (Season 1). Also leaving, Mr Bean’s Holiday and Let the Right One In – depending on whether you like to laugh your pants off or have them scared off you, those two might genuinely be worth catching before they’re gone. Vanilla Ice? Not so much.
See below for a full list of everything coming and going this month:
Available on Netflix April 1:
16 Blocks
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Season 6)
The Ascent of Woman: A 10,000 Year Story
Beat Bobby Flay (Season 1)
Best In Show
Bob’s Burgers (Season 5)
Boogie Nights
Breathe
Chaplin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Codegirl
Colegas
Cujo
Cutthroat Kitchen (Seasons 3-4)
Deep Impact
Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang
Dolphin Tale
Erin Brockovich
Explorers
Fixer Upper (Season 2)
Frank and Cindy
Giada At Home (Season 7)
The Great Food Truck Race (Seasons 1-2)
House Hunters (Collection 3)
House Hunters International (Collection 3)
House Hunters International Renovation (Season 1)
Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer
Kids Baking Championship (Season 1)
Looking for Richard
Lost & Found Music Studios (Season 1)
Love It or List It, Too (Season 4)
The Mask You Live In
Morituri
My Girl
Mystic River
The Next Best Thing
The Perfect Storm
The Phantom
The Princess Bride
Property Brothers at Home (Season 1)
The Ranch: Part 1
Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers
The Right Stuff
Rising Sun
The Running Man
Say It Isn’t So
The Shawshank Redemption
Scrooged
Something’s Gotta Give
Sunset Boulevard
Transporter 3
Uncommon Valor
Under the Same Moon
V for Vendetta
April 5
Wait Before Mickey
April 8
God’s Pocket
Hush
April 9
Look Who’s Back
April 10
Girl Meets World (Season 2)
April 11
TURN: Washington’s Spies (Season 2)
April 12
AJIN (Season 1)
April 14
Moonwalkers
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
April 15
Belgica
Cuckoo (Season 3)
Kong — King of the Apes
Series (Episodes 2-13)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 2)
April 16
How to Get Away with Murder (Season 2)
April 17
Lost Girl (Season 5)
The Messengers (Season 1)
April 22
Catching The Sun
Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping
April 24
Minions
April 27
Begin Again
The Fosters (Season 3)
April 29
Danger Mouse (Season 1)
Hellion
Special Correspondents
Team Foxcatcher
April 30
Sensitive Skin (Season 2)
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Leaving Netflix on April 1
101 Dalmatians
2 Fast 2 Furious
Along Came a Spider
Along Came Polly
Amistad
Bad Johnson
Bandslam
Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics (Collection 1)
Berkeley in the Sixties
The Butcher’s Wife
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Chuck’s Eat the Street (Collection 1)
Craigslist Joe
Dear Genevieve (Collection 1)
Eureka (Season 4)
Flashdance
Hook
Hotel Rwanda
House of Wax
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
The Inexplicable Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Léon: The Professional
M*A*S*H* (Seasons 1-11)
Nanny McPhee
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Nine to Five
Pride & Prejudice
Remember Me
Rock Star
The Rundown
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball
Something New
Star Trek: Insurrection
Super Troopers
The Tale of Despereaux
Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Collection 1)
Vanilla Ice Goes Amish (Season 1)
The Vanilla Ice Project (Seasons 1-4)
The Wedding Date
The Whole Ten Yards
April 2
Anchors Aweigh
Around the World in 80 Days: Special Edition
The Devil at 4 O’Clock
High Society
On the Town
Pal Joey
Some Came Running
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
April 3
Short Poppies (Season 1)
Space Dogs
April 6
The Passion of the Christ
April 10
Let The Right One In
April 15
A Royal Affair
All American Christmas Carol
Bill Cunningham New York
New York, I Love You
April 16
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
April 17
Lord of War
April 20
Half Baked
April 22
Freakshow (Season 1)
April 30
Sordid Lives
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