Looking for the best movie to watch this weekend on Netflix, Max, Prime, or Hulu? Here are the best movies new to streaming platforms in April 2024.
Greetings, Polygon readers! April is here, and you know what that means. That’s right: There’s a slew of exciting new films coming out in theaters this month, like the sci-fi drama The Beast starring Léa Seydoux, Alex Garland’s Civil War, Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, and more. All of those look great, but if you’re looking to enjoy a fantastic movie from the comfort of your home, there’s a wealth of great films to watch on streaming in April.
This month, we’ve got Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing historical drama The Zone of Interest, an underappreciated classic by the late, great William Friedkin, Bong Joon-ho’s terrifying monster flick The Host, and more.
Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month.Editor’s pick Sorcerer
Where to watch: Criterion Channel
Genre: Thriller
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Late last month, director Julien Leclercq released his latest movie, The Wages of Fear, the third remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s seminal 1953 thriller. If you’re looking for a nail-biting drama about a group of men risking life and limb for a second chance at life, what better film to watch than The Exorcist director William Friedkin’s 1977 remake?
Named after Miles Davis’ 1967 album, Sorcerer follows a group of four men: fugitives, resistance fighters, outcasts, and debtors, each of whom has taken refuge in a remote village in Colombia with no way home. Desperate to escape their predicament, each of them accepts a terrifying job offer: Transport a convoy of unstable dynamite through the jungle to extinguish an oil well explosion in exchange for enough money to leave the country. Over the course of their journey, all of the men are brought face-to-face with their own mortality and rendered shadows of their former selves by the ruthless perils of the jungle.
Friedkin’s film is a brutal, adrenaline-pumping experience, packed to the brim with moments that will have viewers gasping in their seats. You wanna see a man get impaled by a bunch of trees while maneuvering a truck over a unstable bridge during a raging storm? You wanna see the hope drain out of a man’s eyes as he watches his last chance at returning home erupt in a plume of hellfire? Boy, is this the movie for you! —Toussaint EganNew on NetflixAmadeus
Genre: Biographical drama
Director: Miloš Forman
Cast: F.
