Netflix in April will take us back to Hawkins, Indiana, for a Stranger Things animated series that takes place in the winter between Seasons 2 and 3: Stranger Things: Tales of ’85! But that’s not all. Buckle up for the brutal reckoning of a Man on Fire series, a second season of the acclaimed Beef, a bunch of Mission Impossible movies (save for the final three), the Madagascar franchise (plus those pesky Penguins!), movies featuring killer sharks and mauling lions, and a “survive the psycho” wilderness flick starring Charlize Theron!
So even while you ponder the how/why/who of Netflix raising its prices once again, here’s a rundown of every series, special, movie, and doc landing on Netflix in April…
Everything Coming to Netflix in April 2026
Coming Soon/TBD
If Wishes Could Kill (South Korea, series)
April 1
The Age of Adaline (movie, 2015)Along Came Polly (movie, 2004)American Gangster (movie, 2007)Atonement (movie, 2007)Bohemian Rhapsody (movie, 2018)Everest (movie, 2015)Happy’s Place: Season 1 (series)Hotel Transylvania 2 (movie, 2015) Kindergarten Cop (movie, 1990)Lucy (movie, 2014)Madagascar (movie, 2005)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (movie, 2008)Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (movie, 2012)Mission: Impossible (movie, 1996)Mission: Impossible II (movie, 2000)Mission: Impossible III (movie, 2006)Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (movie, 2011)Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (movie, 2015)Money Talks (movie, 1997)Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie (movie, 2014)Smokey and the Bandit (movie, 1977)Smokey and the Bandit II (movie, 1980)St. Denis Medical: Season 1 (series)The Wiz (movie, 1978)Eat Pray Bark (Germany, series)The Giant Falls (Argentina, movie)It Takes a Village (Poland, movie)Love on the Spectrum: Season 4 (series)Sarah Millican: Late Bloomer (stand-up special)
April 2
Agent from Above (Taiwan, series) Alkhallat+: The Series: Desert Rules (South Africa, series)The Bad Guys: The Series: Season 2 (series)The Ramparts of Ice (Japan, series)Sins of Kujo (Japan, series)XO, Kitty: Season 3 (series)
April 3
Bloodhounds: Season 2 (South Korea, series)Feel My Voice (Italy, movie)Gangs of Galicia: Season 2 (Spain, series)High Tides: Season 3 (Belgium, series)Maamla Legal Hai: Season 2 (India, series)The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson (doc)
April 7
Beast (movie, 2022)
Highlight: Beast
Idris Elba stars in this solid B-thriller about a father protecting his daughters from a rogue man-eating lion on a South African game reserve. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (whose film Everest is available on April 1, and who also might show up again in the highlights later on this list), Beast is a nifty morsel of survival horror that also stars Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley, and Percy Jackson & the Olympians’ Leah Jeffries. Read our Beast review.
Sheng Wang: Purple (stand-up special)Untold: Chess Mates (doc)
April 8
Trust Me: The False Prophet (doc)
April 9
18th Rose (Philippines, movie)Bandi (France, series)Big Mistakes (series)IF (movie, 2024)
April 10
Scream (movie, 2022)Temptation Island: Season 2 (series)Thrash (movie)
Highlight: Thrash
As long as we’re on the topic of people being ripped to bits by animals, Thrash, directed by Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow, Violent Night), combines sharks and a hurricane for a big small-town flood disaster filled with gnashing teeth. A pregnant woman, an agoraphobe, and a marine researcher must band together to survive the waves of murder filling their streets.
Thrash stars Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton), Whitney Peak (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) , Alyla Browne (Sonic the Hedgehog 3), and Djimon Hounsou.
Turn of the Tide: Season 3 (Portugal, series)
April 11
A Quiet Place Part II (movie, 2020)
Highlight: A Quiet Place Part II
With the cast of A Quiet Place Part III recently announced — including Sinners’ Jack O’ Connell, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Jason Clarke, and Love Lies Bleeding’s Katy O’Brian — it’s a great time to revisit Part II, the crafty world-expanding sequel to John Krasinski’s 2018 monster movie smash. In Part II, Krasinski coninues to put the (remaining members of) the Abbott family through the wringer. It’s a highly exciting and well-acted follow-up!
Tyson Fury vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov (UK, live event)
April 12
At Home With The Furys: Season 2 (UK, series)
April 13
America: Our Defining Hours (docu-series, 2020)American Godfathers: The Five Families (docu-series, 2024)The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America (docu-series, 2022)The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen (docu-series, 2018)Halloween Ends (movie, 2022)Noah Kahan: Out of Body (doc)
April 14
Crooks: Season 2 (Germany, series)Untold: Jail Blazers (doc)
April 15
Fake Profile: Season 3 (Colombia, series)Made with Love (Indonesia, series)Million Dollar Secret: Season 2 (series)The Law According to Lidia Poët: Season 3 (Italy, series)
April 16
BEEF: Season 2 (series)
Highlight: BEEF Season 2
The first season of Lee Sung Jin’s Beef, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, won the Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series (among others). It was a taut, 10-episode story about two strangers whose hostile acts toward one another escalate over the course of weeks following a road rage incident between them. It was a funny, harrowing operatic tale about the cost of unaddressed rage, narcissism, and trauma.
Season 2 of this anthology series stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny and will focus, this time, on dueling couples, specifically a competition to win the favor of the billionaire owner of the country club where they work.
Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts, the upcoming MCU X-Men film) returns to direct more Beef, much like he did in Season 1.
Dandelion (Japan, series)Ronaldinho: The One and Only (Brazil, doc)
April 17
180 (South Africa, movie)A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough (UK, doc)Alpha Males: Season 5 (Spain, series)Roommates (movie)
Highlight: Roommates
In this Adam Sandler-produced comedy, Sadie Sandler (Happy Gilmore 2) and Chloe East (Heretic) play freshman college roommates who get along initially but soon see their friendship spiral into a bitter battle of passive aggressive behavior.
The supporting cast features some fun names like Sarah Sherman, Nick Kroll, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Kane, Natasha Lyonne, and even Adam Sandler himself.
April 18
Denial (movie, 2016)We Are All Trying Here (South Korea, series)
April 19
Him (movie, 2025)
April 20
CoComelon Lane: Season 7 (series)Funny AF with Kevin Hart (series)
April 21
Unchosen (UK, series)Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill (doc)
April 22
Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool (stand-up special)Million Dollar Secret: Season 2 (series, new eps)Santita (Mexico, series)Sold Out on You (South Korea, series)This Is a Gardening Show (doc)
April 23
Flunked (France, series)Running Point: Season 2 (series)Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 (series)
Highlight: Stranger Things: Tales From ’85
Need more Stranger Things in your life? Even if (or especially if?) it’s in animated form?! And the characters are all voiced by different foks? Do you also have a burning need to know what happened between Seasons 2 and 3, in the winter? Before all the Starcourt Mall stuff? Then Tales of ’85 is for you!
Check out Everything You Need to Know about Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 here!
Is this canon? How does Tales from ’85 fit in? If they fought monsters between seasons, why wouldn’t that come up in conversation during seasons? The idea here is that it’s loose canon, like The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, in that nothing the characters do on Tales from ’85 will contradict the main show. But, yeah, it’s just some harmless retconning. Think of the show as being “inspired by” Stranger Things, in a way.
April 24
Apex (movie)
Highlight: Apex
Charlize Theron stars in this thriller from director Baltasar Kormákur (‘memba him?) about a rock climber who finds herself being stalked by a hunter (Taron Egerton) in the wild. Who will be the apex predator in this scenario? Our bet’s on Theron. Though Eric Bana is also in the movie. But, yeah, it’s still Theron. It’s always Theron.
April 26
Supernova: Genesis (Mexico, live event)
April 27
Straight to Hell (Japan, series)
April 29
Je m’appelle Agneta (Sweden, movie)Million Dollar Secret: Season 2 (series, new eps)Should I Marry A Murderer? (UK, doc)
April 30
Man on Fire (series)
Highlight: Man on Fire
There’ve been two movies adapted from A. J. Quinnell’s 1980 novel, Man on Fire: The mostly forgotten 1987 film, starring starring Scott Glenn, and the truly excellent Tony Scott-directed Denzel Washington flick from 2004 that was a far superior Punisher movie than the actual Punisher movie that came out, literally, the week before.
Now Man on Fire is a series! It comes from Kyle Killen (Awake, Halo) and stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as burned-out Special Forces merc John Creasy. It will adapt Man on Fire and also, apparently, Quinnell’s sequel novel, The Perfect Kill. All seven episodes drop on April 30. Billie Boullet, Alice Braga, Scoot McNairy, Paul Ben-Victor, and Bobby Cannavale also star.
What’s Leaving Netflix in April 2026
Here’s a quick look at everything leaving Netflix in April, including — well — all of the James Bond movies that arrived at the start of February. Also, relevant to the list above, the 2004 Man on Fire is leaving on the 1st, so you’ve got just a few days from when this piece goes up to catch it!
Also, you have a few weeks to watch all four seasons of Black Sails. It’s spectacular. Do it.
Movies and Series Leaving April 1
The American PresidentBest in ShowBig Momma’s HouseBig Momma’s House 2The Bucket ListCheaper by the DozenCheaper by the Dozen 2Crazy, Stupid, Love.District 9Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the HatDr. Seuss’ The LoraxFord v. FerrariFree SoloFriends with BenefitsGhosts of MississippiKicking & ScreamingMan on FireMiseryMolly’s GameOnly the BravePineapple ExpressPitch PerfectPitch Perfect 2RioRio 2Rumor Has It…Zero Dark Thirty
Leaving April 7
Queen of the South: Seasons 1-5
Leaving April 16
Van Helsing: Seasons 1-5
Leaving April 17
Black Sails: Seasons 1-4
Leaving April 21
Casino RoyaleDiamonds Are ForeverDie Another DayDr. NoFor Your Eyes OnlyFrom Russia with LoveGoldenEyeGoldfingerThe Man with the Golden GunNever Say Never AgainNo Time to DieOctopussyOn Her Majesty’s Secret ServiceQuantum of SolaceSkyfallSpectreThe Spy Who Loved MeTomorrow Never DiesThe World Is Not EnoughYou Only Live Twice
