The 15 best movies on Netflix in March 2026 you need to watch
Peaky Blinders is back!
Netflix has refreshed its film library for March 2026. Whether it’s the return of Peaky Blinders or John Davidson’s BAFTA-winning biopic, these are the best movies to watch this month.
It can feel like a chore to pick something to watch. There are so many streaming services, and each one is jam-packed – how do you sift through everything and decide?
Well, that’s why we’re here. Netflix has some incredible new movies coming to the platform in March, plus some oldies you should check out.
So, read on, by order of the… well, you know.
I Swear
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2025
- Cast: Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson, Peter Mullan
- Director: Kirk Jones
- Runtime: 2 hours
What it’s about: John Davidson, a Scottish teenager with dreams of becoming a football player, begins experiencing uncontrollable tics. As he grows up, he tries to manage living with Tourette’s and educate others on the condition.
Why to watch: After John Davidson’s tics (and ensuing, divisive backlash) at the BAFTAs, there couldn’t be a better time to watch I Swear. Not only is it an amazing film – heartbreaking, hilarious, and life-affirming all at once – but it’s a tremendously effective (and affecting) lesson on the severity of Tourette’s and the compassion it demands.
The Fall Guy
- Genre: Action, Comedy
- Year: 2024
- Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham
- Director: David Leitch
- Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
What it’s about: Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who returns to work after a near-career-ending accident, is called upon to track down a missing movie star. In the process, he tries to win back the love of his life.
Why to watch: The Fall Guy deserved better. This is a big, action-packed spectacle packed with panache, heart, and laughs, with Ryan Gosling in full, smouldering movie star mode and a delightful turn by Hannah Waddingham. Fun for the whole family – and then some.
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Year: 2026 (premieres March 20 on Netflix)
- Cast: Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, Sophie Rundle
- Director: Tom Harper
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
What it’s about: After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
Why to watch: It’s hard to imagine a more tantalising prospect than a Peaky Blinders movie. Fans have long waited to return to Steven Knight’s grimy, violent, and intoxicating world, and with Cillian Murphy back as Thomas Shelby (and Barry Keoghan as his son!), this is undoubtedly the month’s must-watch film.
War Machine
- Genre: Action, Sci-fi
- Year: 2026 (premieres March 6 on Netflix)
- Cast: Alan Ritchson, Jack Patten, Dennis Quaid
- Director: Patrick Hughes
- Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes
What it’s about: On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.
Why to watch: Alan Ritchson has been around for a while, but he was a revelation in Reacher: a hulking, charismatic mammoth of a man made to be a lead. War Machine will put him to the test, and it looks like a blend of Lone Survivor, Battle Los Angeles, and Predator. SOLD!
Catch Me If You Can
- Genre: Biography, Crime
- Year: 2002
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Runtime: 2 hours 21 minutes
What it’s about: Frank Abagnale Jr pulls off audacious cons for a living, posing as a pilot, doctor, and lawyer and cashing cheques worth millions of dollars while evading the FBI.
Why to watch: One of Steven Spielberg’s gentlest and most affectionately movies, Catch Me If You Can is a breezy, jazzy, yet exhilarating caper that proved to be the perfect vehicle for the post-Titanic era of Leonardo DiCaprio’s career. It’s impossible to not enjoy it, in our eyes.
Chef
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Year: 2014
- Cast: Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson
- Director: Jon Favreau
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
What it’s about: After igniting a social media war with a well-known culinary critic, a Los Angeles chef packs his knives, heads home to Miami, and opens a food truck.
Why to watch: Chef will make you insatiably hungry, whether it’s Jon Favreau’s oozing grilled cheese or Scarlett Johansson’s oil-dripping, garlic spaghetti. There’s mouth-watering artistry in its photography of food, and it’s also a heartwarming father-and-son story.
Anniversary
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Year: 2025
- Cast: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor
- Director: Stephen Chbosky
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
What it’s about: A close-knit family’s lives are upended by ‘The Change’, a bold political movement spearheaded by Liz, a new girlfriend and former student at their university.
Why to watch: Anniversary can be unbearably – and deliciously – fraught; a movie that barely walks the tightrope between passive-aggression and all-out menace. There is one scene at the dinner table that’s worth the entire runtime (but it’s not too long, anyway).
Its lack of political specificity, similarly to Civil War, isn’t a flaw: if anything, it highlights how extremity is the problem above all else. If you’re in the right mood, you’ll be hooked.
Kill Bill (Vol 1 and 2)
- Genre: Action, Thriller
- Year: 2003–2004
- Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Runtime: 4 hours 7 minutes (1 hour 51 minutes and 2 hours 18 minutes)
What it’s about: Years after a pregnant assassin – code-named The Bride – is slain by her troupe of contract killers, she emerges from a coma hellbent on revenge.
Why to watch: Kill Bill isn’t Quentin Tarantino’s greatest masterpiece (that honour goes to Inglorious Basterds). It is the movie he was born to make; a high-art, bloodily effervescent pastiche with some of the most unforgettable lines and images in the director’s canon. And, yes, we’re grouping them as one film – if you can, watch The Whole Bloody Affair.
Godzilla Minus One
- Genre: Sci-fi, Action, Drama
- Year: 2023
- Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki
- Director: Takashi Yamazaki
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
What it’s about: Years after the US military’s nuclear tests in the Pacific, a gargantuan creature emerges from the depths to inflict its wrath on the people of post-war Japan.
Why to watch: Godzilla is cinema’s most iconic monster (sorry, King Kong), and Minus One is the greatest movie the franchise has ever produced. This is a devastating, awe-inspiring film, painstakingly directed and envisioned by Takashi Yamazaki.
Hollywood and its goofy MonsterVerse should be embarrassed; this is the Kaiju’s finest hour.
A Prayer Before Dawn
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2017
- Cast: Joe Cole, Pornchanok Mabklang, Panya Yimmumphai
- Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
What it’s about: Billy Moore, a young British boxer, ends up in a Thai prison, where he experiences the horrors of life behind bars.
Why to watch: Less Shawshank Redemption, more Midnight Express, A Prayer Before Dawn is a harrowingly visceral and merciless drama that puts Joe Cole’s movie star charisma to the test – and he passes with flying colours (and kicks).
Prisoners
- Genre: Thriller
- Year: 2013
- Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Runtime: 2 hours 33 minutes
What it’s about: When Keller’s daughter goes missing, he grows frustrated with the police’s inability to find her and their reluctance to arrest a suspect. So, despite Detective Loki’s warnings and continued efforts to find her, he takes matters into his own hands.
Why to watch: What would you do if your child vanished? Is there a limit to what you would do to find them?
Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve’s hard-boiled, grim whodunnit, takes distressing turns to show just how depraved a desperate person can be. You have never seen a Hugh Jackman performance like this.
Uncut Gems
- Genre: Thriller, Crime
- Year: 2019
- Cast: Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, Lakeith Stanfield
- Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
- Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes
What it’s about: Howard Ratner, a jeweller and compulsive gambler, risks everything on a bet that could pull him from the depths of his debts. But his addiction pushes him closer to ruin and graver consequences than anything he’s ever faced.
Why to watch: Uncut Gems isn’t just one of the best movies on Netflix. It’s one of the most viscerally affecting films of the past 10 years; a feature-length panic attack that could be weaponised as a stress agent.
That may not sound like a reason to watch it, but it is. Plus, it boasts a legendary performance from Sandler that should have won him an Oscar. Whether it’s now or in 30 years, it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the greatest movies of all time.
Its co-director, Josh Safdie, also directed Marty Supreme, one of the best movies of 2025.
Rebel Ridge
- Genre: Action, Thriller
- Year: 2024
- Cast: Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb, Don Johnson, Emory Cohen
- Director: Jeremy Saulnier
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
What it’s about: Terry arrives in Shelby Springs with one goal: posting bail for his cousin and leaving before he gets into more trouble. However, when the crooked police force illegally seizes his money, he’s forced to take matters into his own hands.
Why to watch: Rebel Ridge might be Netflix’s best thriller yet — a lean, clinical blend of Reacher’s Dad-coded charms and Jeremy Saulnier’s precise direction.
It feels like a modern heir to First Blood: grounded, fuelled by righteous and controlled anger, with a star-is-born, hulking performance from Aaron Pierre and Don Johnson as his smarmy, loathsome foe.
Wake Up Dead Man
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy
- Year: 2025
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Cast: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin
- Runtime: 2 hours 24 minutes
What it’s about: In Benoit Blanc’s darkest and most dangerous case yet, he finds himself in a small, religious town after a murder rocks the local congregation. Jud, a young priest, is the main suspect – but there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye.
Why to watch: Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc has already entered the pantheon of all-time great fictional detectives, and Wake Up Dead Man is an extraordinary testament to not only him, but the Knives Out series. This is the best story in the trilogy; emotionally wise, sharp, and unpredictable. It looks incredible, too.
If you’ve already watched it, read our breakdown of Wake Up Dead Man’s ending.
Warrior
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2011
- Cast: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison
- Director: Gavin O’Connor
- Runtime: 2 hours 20 minutes
What it’s about: Tommy, an ex-Marine, returns home under mysterious circumstances to train for the world’s biggest martial arts tournament. Elsewhere, his estranged brother is at risk of losing his home, so he decides to get back in the cage to make ends meet.
Why to watch: Warrior is the best sports movie ever made. Yes, better than Rocky.
It is a foolproof movie. Unabashedly macho, yet shamelessly sentimental, with some of the most bruising and emotional combat sports scenes put to film. It doesn’t matter if you have a heart of stone: you will cry, and then you’ll recommend it to everyone, and so the Warrior cycle continues.
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