Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of March’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
‘Vladimir’
Starts streaming: March 5
Rachel Weisz plays a feminist literature professor mired in a marital scandal in the satirical mini-series “Vladimir,” adapted by the writer-producer Julia May Jonas from her own novel. The protagonist — known only as M — frequently speaks directly into the camera, telling the audience about her husband, John (John Slattery), a poetry professor and department chair who has been suspended for sleeping with students. Although M and John have an open marriage, the optics of John’s indiscretions are bad for M’s image. It also complicates her own lusty pursuit of a new colleague: the young and married Vladimir (Leo Woodall). Jonas explores the changing mores of sex and gender dynamics in academia, in a story about a woman who can’t decide whether to fight to keep her comfortable faculty life or be liberated by her chaotic personal life.
‘War Machine’
Starts streaming: March 6
“An Officer and a Gentleman” meets “Predator” in this 1980s-style action film, which follows an elite class of Army Ranger candidates as they confront a surprise extraterrestrial invasion. Alan Ritchson plays “81” (the recruits are assigned numbers), an older and more experienced soldier who entered the program to fulfill a promise to his dead brother. Although the sullen and standoffish 81 is weighed down by grief, he remains doggedly committed to completing his mission. So when an enormous, armored alien tank starts firing missiles at him and his comrades, 81’s latent leadership skills kick in, and he battles alongside his troops for survival. Directed by Patrick Hughes, “War Machine” mixes science-fiction special effects with more conventional combat movie stunts, all set against a picturesque backdrop of dense forests, rocky mountains and raging rivers.
‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’
Starts streaming: March 20
Across six seasons and 36 episodes, the historical crime drama “Peaky Blinders” told the story of Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), a Romani-Irish mobster acquiring power and influence for his family and friends in England, in the decades between World Wars I and II. The sequel movie, “The Immortal Man,” jumps ahead to 1940 — well into the years when Nazi bombs were falling on Britain — and finds Tommy living in seclusion, haunted by the choices he has made and the loved ones he has lost. But when his son Duke (Barry Keoghan) considers allying the Shelby gang with a local fascist sympathizer (Tim Roth), Tommy feels compelled to come out of retirement and fight for his legacy.
‘Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole’ Season 1
Starts streaming: March 26
The Norwegian detective Harry Hole (pronounced like “hula”) made his first appearance in Jo Nesbo’s 1997 novel “The Bat” and quickly became a favorite among international crime fiction aficionados. After a failed attempt to bring the character to the big screen with the critically panned 2017 English-language film “The Snowman,” Harry gets another chance at finding a wider audience with this Norwegian-language series, written by Nesbo himself. Tobias Santelmann plays Detective Hole, a recovering alcoholic who is legendary among his fellow police officers for his mystery-solving acumen and general surliness. Season 1 adapts the book “The Devil’s Star,” in which a tricky investigation into a gruesome string of murders forces Hole to work both with and against a corrupt colleague, Tom Waaler (Joel Kinnaman). The mystery plot provides a frame for a study of the world’s darker sides and the temptations that lurk there.
‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Season 1
Starts streaming: March 26
In this horror series, Camila Morrone plays Rachel, a bride-to-be meeting her future in-laws for the first time, at the spooky house in the woods where she and her fiancé, Nicky (Adam DiMarco), are about to get married. “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” is set in the week leading up to the wedding, as Rachel tries to overcome unsettling premonitions about the big event. Her anxieties are exacerbated by her encounters with Nicky’s eccentric family, including his frail mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and anxious father (Ted Levine). Executive produced by the “Stranger Things” creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, and created by Haley Z. Boston (a writer on Netflix’s bizarre “Brand New Cherry Flavor”), the series weaves together unsettling everyday encounters and possibly supernatural phenomena, all of which combine to leave Rachel uncertain whether her fears are justified or she is just dealing with ordinary premarital jitters.
Also arriving:
March 1 “Casino” “The Green Knight” “The Lego Movie” “Misery” “Ray” “Sicario”
March 2 “Gabby’s Dollhouse” Season 13
March 3 “Bruce Bruce: I Ain’t Playin’”
March 5 “A Friend, a Murder”
March 6 “Boyfriend on Demand” Season 1 “The Dinosaurs” “Strangers in the Park” “The TikTok Killer”
March 7 “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” “Nuremberg”
March 10 “One Piece” Season 2
March 11 “Age of Attraction” Season 1 “Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere” “The Man in the High Castle” Seasons 1-4
March 12 “Virgin River” Season 7
March 13 “Fatal Seduction” Season 3 “That Night” Season 1
March 16 “The Plastic Detox”
March 17 “Mark Normand: None Too Pleased” “The Ricky Gervais Show” Seasons 1-3
March 18 “Eva Lasting” Season 4 “Radioactive Emergency” Season 1
March 20 “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel”
March 21 “BTS: The Comeback Live — Arirang”
March 23 “Anatomy of a Fall” “Inside” Season 3
March 24 “Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride” “Ready or Not: Texas” Season 1
March 25 “Heartbreak High” Season 3 “Homicide: New York” Season 2
March 26 “Mike & Molly” Seasons 1-6 “The Prosecutor” “The Red Line”
March 27 “BTS: The Return”
March 28 “Anemone”
March 31 “Aaron Chen: Funny Garden” “Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom”
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