This April, Netflix is making it rain with top-notch content all month long. While it’s always hard to say goodbye to the titles leaving Netflix, you won’t feel down for long once you get a good look at the impressive array of Netflix Original series coming to the platform to take their place. With everything from premiering titles to long-awaited continuations of fan favorites, Netflix’s diverse and delightful April 2025 premieres are sure to have something for everyone.
The streamer is set to help you celebrate the new month with premieres from highly-anticipated continuations of established hit series across several different genres (so there’s truly something for everyone), like You: Season 5 and Black Mirror: Season 7.
There are also plenty of exciting brand-new shows that will begin streaming exclusively on Netflix starting this month. Keep an eye out in particular for Devil May Cry, The Eternaut, and Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, which are all already looking to be some of the most promising new releases out of April’s entire streaming lineup.
So what makes the cut for our top 11, and which of them have what it takes to be in the Netflix Top 10? Keep reading to treat yourself to the greatness that is the list of streaming standouts for April 2025.
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You: Season 5
Released April 24
CAST: Penn Badgley, Charlotte Ritchie, Madeline Brewer, Griffin Matthews, Anna Camp, Natasha Behnam, b, Pete Ploszek, Tom Francis, Nava Mau
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: This hit Netflix Original romantic-thriller series reaches a killer conclusion in April with the premiere of its final season. You: Season 5 takes our deadly antihero, Joe Goldberg (Badgley), back to where it all started for him in New York City to achieve his long-awaited happily ever after. But when his past misdeeds, as well as dangerous new temptations and urges, creep up on him, Joe’s happy married life and fresh “Prince Charming” persona threaten to crash and burn irreparably.
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Devil May Cry
Released April 3
CAST: Johnny Yong Bosch, Scout Taylor-Compton, Hoon Lee, Kevin Conroy, Chris Coppola
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Based on the popular action-adventure Japanese video game of the same name, Devil May Cry is a Netflix Original adult animated urban fantasy series that revolves around an orphaned for-hire demon hunter named Dante (Bosch). When a powerful demon hatches up a sinister plan to open the gates of Hell, the fate of both the human and demon realms soon comes to unexpectedly rest on the shoulders of our handsome and cocky protagonist.
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Black Mirror: Season 7
Released April 10
CAST: Paul Giamatti, Issa Rae, Emma Corrin, Will Poulter, Tracee Ellis Ross, Awkwafina, Cristin Milioti, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Billy Magnussen, Michele Austin, Ben Bailey Smith, Asim Chaudhry, Josh Finan, James Nelson-Joyce, Jay Simpson, Michael Workéyè, Milanka Brooks, Peter Capaldi
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: After a two-year wait, this award-winning anthology series returns to Netflix with a brand new season premiering in the first half of April. Black Mirror continues its legacy of dark, satirical, thought-provoking, and inventive television in six episodes featuring a star-studded cast, genre-bending sci-fi stories, and the show’s first ever sequel episode (a continuation of Season 4’s “USS Callister”).
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The Eternaut
Released April 30
CAST: Ricardo Darín, Carla Peterson, César Troncoso, Andrea Pietra, Ariel Staltari, Marcelo Subiotto, Claudio Martínez Bel, Orianna Cárdenas, Mora Fisz
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: The Eternaut is a Netflix Original title from Argentina that revolves around a sudden, confounding, and devastating toxic snowfall on a summer night in Buenos Aires, leaving millions dead and thousands of survivors stranded. The sci-fi series follows one such survivor, Juan Salvo (Darín), as he leads a resistance against the unseen and potent intergalactic threat behind the attack before the beings can fully decimate human life on Earth.
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Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
Released April 9
CAST: N/A
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing is a three-part docuseries that delves into the darker truths behind impressive facades in the world of child influencing. With internet star Piper Rockelle and her momager Tiffany Smith as a focal point, this Netflix Original title exposes the abuse, manipulation, and exploitation that members of “The Squad” suffered as mere kids at the hands of Tiffany.
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Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight
Released April 30
CAST: Alain Chabat, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Laurent Lafitte, Thierry Lhermitte, Jeanne Balibar, Grégory Gadebois, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Géraldine Nakache, Alexandre Astier, Fred Testot, Grégoire Ludig, Jérôme Commandeur, David Marsais
RATING: TV-Y7
DESCRIPTION: This animated historical fantasy-comedy mini-series is a brand new chapter in the ongoing story of the beloved French comic book characters Astérix and Obélix. Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight follows the two titular Gaul warriors (Chabat and Lellouche) as they fight to defend their people against César (Lafitte) and the mighty Roman army without the help of their usual strengthening magic potion after their druid is rendered amnesic and unable to concoct it.
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North of North
Released April 10
CAST: Anna Lambe, Maika Harper, Jay Ryan, Braeden Clarke, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Zorga Qaunaq, Bailey Poching, Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds, Keira Belle Cooper, Kelly William
RATING: TV-14
DESCRIPTION: Netflix’s first Canadian original series is North of North, a comedy about a 26-year-old Inuk woman named Siaja (Lambe) who wants a fresh start after abruptly and publicly leaving her marriage. Unfortunately, it’ll be an uphill battle to make a better life for herself and her young daughter in this small Arctic community where everyone knows each other… and all of their business.
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PULSE
Released April 3
CAST: Willa Fitzgerald, Colin Woodell, Jessie T. Usher, Justina Machado, Jack Bannon, Daniela Nieves, Chelsea Muirhead, Jessy Yates
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: PULSE is a Netflix Original medical drama that centers on 3rd-year resident doctor Danielle “Danny” Simms (Fitzgerald) and her coworkers at Miami’s Emergency Medicine at Maguire Hospital as they take on difficult cases and challenges in both their professional and personal lives.
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Moonrise
Released April 10
CAST: Chiaki Kobayashi, Yūto Uemura, Kōsuke Takaguchi, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Kori Arisa, Yuka Terasak, Yū Kobayashi, Katsunori Okai, Misaki Yamada, Aina The End, Masaki Aizawa, Takehito Koyasu, Mie Sonozaki, Arisa Sekine, Shin Aomori
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Produced by Wit Studio, Moonrise is a sci-fi action series out of Japan that takes place in a not-too-distant future where an AI network governs all of Earth and sends all criminals and unsavory characters to the Moon to preserve peace. But following a rebel force’s attack on our planet, carefree heir Jacob “Jack” Shadow’s (Kobayashi) family is killed, inspiring Jack to become an Earth army scout on the Moon so he can get revenge.
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Ransom Canyon
Released April 17
CAST: Josh Duhamel, Minka Kelly, James Brolin, Marianly Tejada, Jack Schumacher, Eoin Macken, Lizzy Greene, Garrett Wareing, Andrew Liner, Jaren K. Robledo, Casey W. Johnson, Jennifer Ens, Brett Cullen, Kate Burton, Niko Guardado, Philip Winchester, Justin Johnson Cortez, Kenneth Miller
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Ransom Canyon is a Netflix Original romantic Western with no shortage of engrossing characters, events, and drama as it tracks the interwoven lives, loves, and losses of three ranching dynasties in Ransom Canyon, Texas. At the middle of it all is ranch owner and recent widower Staten Kirkland (Duhamel), who attempts to heal from heartbreak and embrace fresh opportunities amidst a quest for vengeance.
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The Diamond Heist
Released April 16
CAST: N/A
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: This fascinating true-crime docuseries explores the events behind a daring plan to steal a precious diamond from London’s Millennium Dome and then flee the scene in a boat along the Thames. While the robbery ultimately failed due to law enforcement’s intervention, The Diamond Heist gives both the criminals and police who were involved the chance to tell the whole story from their own perspectives, 25 years after it all went down.
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