Each month, Netflix presents us with a healthy mix of new and old movies—fresh releases starring some of the biggest names in Hollywood (this month includes Tom Hardy), as well as classics praised by critics and fan favorites you have yet to discover. And this month is no different, as its full of exciting new film, many of which you’ve never seen before. That includes a super-charged crime movie where a lone grizzled detective must rescue a politician’s son, a documentary about the rise and fall of NFTs (and the ultimate fallout of them) and a Thai comedy that’s been praised all around the world and has now finally made its way onto American streamers. This is just the beginning of your options in April 2025.
So where do we start? Well, here are ten movies hitting Netflix this month that you cannot miss—some are old favorites I can fully recommend, and others are brand new flicks backed by mountains of hype. Each recommendation will include a plot description, a trailer, a release date and reasons you should tune in. Then at the bottom of the article, you can find a full list of every single movie that’s new to Netflix in April 2025. Hopefully you can find a new favorite in this bunch. Happy watching!
The 10 Best New Movies On Netflix In April 2025
Havoc (2025)
Gareth Evans became a notable name in action cinema when he unleashed one of the most incredibly choreographed fight scenes ever put on film, The Raid: Redemption, back in 2011, as well as the film’s sequel, The Raid 2, in 2014. But since then, Evans has only directed one film since (Apostle), and it’s been seven years since we’ve seen another one—that is, until now. Havoc brings Tom Hardy back to the gritty, relentless action roles he’s known for. And this time, he’s taking the fight straight into the criminal underworld. This upcoming action-thriller sees Hardy playing Walker, a battle-worn detective trying to rescue a politician’s son after a drug deal goes violently wrong. As the rescue mission spirals into something much bigger, Walker finds himself dodging bullets and betrayals while unraveling a web of corruption involving crime lords, crooked cops and high-level power players. You can be part of this wild ride when Havoc hits Netflix on April 25.
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)
A runaway box office hit across Southeast Asia, this tear-jerker from director Pat Boonnitipat
struck a chord with audiences by blending raw emotion with biting humor. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is a heart-wrenching yet darkly comedic Thai drama that explores the lengths someone will go for love, duty and, potentially, a massive inheritance. The film stars Putthipong “Billkin” Assaratanakul as M, a young man who gives up his dreams of becoming a professional game caster to care for his terminally ill grandmother (Usha Seamkhum). But what starts as a calculated move to secure her fortune turns into an emotional journey, as M must navigate her tough love, difficult demands, and the growing rivalry from other family members hoping for the same payday. While the film has been streaming in other countries for several months now, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies will be available to American Netflix subscribers starting April 12.
Bullet Train Explosion (2025)
When a mysterious caller alerts officials that a bomb has been planted on the Hayabusa No. 60—set to explode if the train slows below 100 kilometers per hour—a conductor, his fellow crew members and a host of passengers must work together to stop catastrophe. With only limited time and a ransom demand of 100 billion yen, the pressure mounts as each decision could mean life or death. That’s the basic plot of the high-octane Japanese thriller Bullet Train Explosion, which aims to update the 1975 Japanese classic Bullet Train, as well as the 1994 American thriller Speed, for a modern audience. Complete with real Shinkansen trains, a star-studded cast (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as the conductor Takaichi, and Kanata Hosoda and Non as his crew members Fujii and Matsumoto) and a ticking clock that never lets up, this unrelenting thriller from Shinji Higuchi (who also directed Shin Godzilla) promises a non-stop action-packed ride when it races onto Netflix on April 23.
For the Love of the Game (1999)
Sam Raimi was quite the versatile filmmaker, directing everything from low-budget horror to big-budget action to everything in between—including this part-baseball, part-romance. For the Love of the Game centers on an aging baseball pitcher, Billy Chapel (played by Kevin Costner, in one of his many baseball roles), who takes the mound for what may be the final game of his career. As he stands 60 feet away from home plate and navigates each inning, Billy reflects upon the choices that shaped his life. As the game unfolds, memories of a long and complicated relationship with a woman he loved, and may have lost, flood his mind. The very structure and pacing of the film reflects the rhythm of a real game—tense, strategic and methodical, but always at the whim of whatever fate has in store. We can do our best to guide the outcome, but our ability to roll with the punches is what’s key. This is what connects us to Billy: it isn’t about whether he wins, but rather if he understands what he could lose. Just in time for the baseball season, For the Love of the Game hit the Netflix library on April 1.
Minted: The Rise (And Fall?) of the NFT (2023)
At the height of the NFT boom, a digital artwork sold for $69 million, turning an obscure technology into a global obsession. Minted: The Rise (and Fall?) of the NFT tracks the explosive rise of this crypto-based art market and the artists, collectors and platforms caught up in its promise and collapse. Directed by Nicholas Bruckman (who also gave us the moving documentary Not Going Quietly) and scored by electronic musician Dan Deacon, the documentary moves beyond simple tech explanation to explore how creators around the world—from digital painters in Nigeria to underground musicians in New York—used NFTs to challenge traditional art systems and reach global audiences. Along the way, Minted captures the unregulated chaos, sudden fortunes and deeper questions around artistic value and ownership in the digital age. Featuring Beeple, Latashá, Justin Aversano and more, this documentary serves as a crash course in the crypto art gold rush—and its ultimate fallout—and will be available on Netflix starting April 9.
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Each month, dozens upon dozens of modern films flood the Netflix platform. But, curiously, you can only find one or two old classics interspersed. This month includes the timeless film Psycho (which I also recommend you watch), as well as one of the most influential movies ever made, Bonnie and Clyde. This age-old story centers on our two young titular characters, Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde (Warren Beatty), who go on a crime spree that captivates American amid the Great Depression. Directed by Arthur Penn, who brought a bold visual style, frank sexuality and graphic, balletic violence to a Hollywood dominated by optimistic pictures, this countercultural romance served as a precursor to the generational tension and mistrust in authority that was quietly pervading the country. These two criminals, whom we both root for and villainize, present a glamorized image—stylish clothes, stolen cars and road-trip romance—that stands in contrast to their grim, often chaotic reality, which ultimately represents the disillusionment of an entire generation. Bonnie and Clyde is available to Netflix subscribers on April 1.
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (2025)
Almost 30 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks in United States history, this documentary from Greg Tillman revisits the events that took place on April 19, 1995. Produced by the team behind Waco: American Apocalypse, this chilling documentary, Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror, uses never-before-head audio interviews with the attacker, Timothy McVeigh, as well as crime scene recreations and survivor testimonies to create a chilling sense of the atmosphere that hovered in the air when the attack took place—and the ideology that served as its impetus. The movie also delves into the cooperation tactics deployed between local and federal law enforcement, providing crucial insight into how McVeigh was brought to justice. With the 30th anniversary of the bombing quickly approaching, this powerful retelling confronts the personal and political roots of American extremism—and its haunting relevance today—when it hits Netflix on April 18.
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Our discussion of Martin Scorsese’s career has been, rightfully so, dominated by some outright classics: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, as well as some recent additions like The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street and Killers of the Flower Moon. But in the fray, many great films have seemingly gone forgotten, including this incredibly well-acted film set in Gilded Age New York, The Age of Innocence. Based on Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, the story follows a well-mannered attorney named Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), a well-bred lawyer torn between duty and longing as he becomes infatuated with the scandal-marked Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) while engaged to the prim, socially perfect May Welland (Winona Ryder). Known for his kinetic camera and visceral storytelling, Scorsese turns inward here, using formality and visual beauty as tools to explore repression and unspoken longing. His camera glides slowly through ornate drawing rooms, dances through operas and dinner parties and lingers on gazes that say what words never can. The Age of Innocence is available on Netflix starting April 1.
Geostorm (2017)
There are fun movies, there are thrilling movies, and then there are crazy movies—yeah, Geostorm gloriously fits neatly into that final category. In this film, an assassination subplot, a government conspiracy and a mole on the space station are mere accents to the main storyline of climate chaos, in which a rogue engineer who designed the satellite system is called back into action when extreme weather events start killing thousands and hint at a sinister global conspiracy. Buckle up for this globe-trotting, CGI-heavy adventure that combines apocalyptic spectacle and family drama in the least pretentious way possible. The star of our show is Gerard Butler, who brings his trademark mix of grit and charm to our rogue engineer Jake Lawson, a brilliant but insubordinate engineer who speaks truth to power and fixes satellites like he’s playing a round of beer pong. Butler spends most of the film in space, problem-solving under pressure, delivering one-liners and outrunning zero-gravity fireballs with admirable conviction in this wonderfully entertaining affair that graces Netflix on April 1.
Lucy (2014)
If you’re looking for a director who is almost guaranteed to provide a great time at the movies, then look no further than Luc Besson. In addition to critically revered films like Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, he’s helmed some unfairly maligned gems like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Dogman and, the movie I’m recommending this month, Lucy. Scarlett Johansson stars as Lucy, a college student in Taiwan who’s forcibly recruited as a drug mule and accidentally absorbs a synthetic substance that unlocks increasing percentages of her brain capacity. As her cognitive abilities expand, Lucy becomes more powerful—telekinetic, omnilingual and, eventually, omnipresent—while the film shifts from a physical survival story to a meditation on time, consciousness and what it means to exist. Johansson gives a cool, detached performance that evolves with her character—starting off frightened and confused, she gradually becomes serene, alien and almost post-human. It’s a marvel of a performance to to watch, and you can catch it on Netflix starting April 1.
Every New Movie On Netflix In April 2025
- April 1: Alpha (2018); Babah (2024); Big Daddy (1999); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Couples Retreat (2009); Draft Day (2014); Field of Dreams (1989); For Love of the Game (1999); Get Him to the Greek(2010); Geostorm (2017); Heat (1995); Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013); Jack the Giant Slayer (2013); K-9 (1989); Lucy(2014); Matilda (1996); Psycho (1960); Rise of the Guardians (2012); Rooster Cogburn (1975); Rudy (1993); Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018); Smokey and the Bandit (1977); Smokey and the Bandit II (1980); The Age of Innocence (1993); The Breakfast Club (1985); The Croods (2013); The Hating Game (2021); The Mauritanian (2021); The Place Beyond the Pines (2012); Uncle Buck (1989)
- April 2: Banger (2025)
- April 4: Test (2025)
- April 9: Minted: The Rise (And Fall?) of the NFT (2023); The Addams Family (1991); The Dad Quest (2025)
- April 12: How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)
- April 13: Life or Something Like It (2002)
- April 18: iHostage (2025); Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (2025)
- April 21: American Sniper (2014); Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey (2025)
- April 23: Bullet Train Explosion (2025); UnBroken (2023)
- April 24: A Dog’s Way Home (2019)
- April 25: Havoc (2025)
- April 30: Exterritorial (2025)