Each week brings a fresh crop of movies moving onto streaming services, and this selection gathers the most discussion-worthy arrivals. Whether you follow auteur experiments, festival restorations, or provocative documentaries, the lineup includes work from established names and surprising rediscoveries. The entries below highlight directors, thematic hooks, and where to stream each title so you can decide what to add to your watchlist.
In assembling this guide I focus on films that have generated buzz for their formal risk-taking or restored presentations, as well as those that interrogate timely subjects like surveillance, climate activism, and artistic memory. You’ll find mainstream platforms and specialized services represented — a reminder that new viewing discoveries can surface almost anywhere in the streaming ecosystem.
Standout narrative features and festival restorations
The week’s list opens with Bugonia, the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, a remake of the Korean cult sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet!. Lanthimos reinterprets the original’s wild premise with his trademark deadpan and stylized absurdity; the film is now available on Netflix. Also newly streamable is Henry Jaglom’s restored Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, which unusually features performances by Larry David and Orson Welles. A 4K restoration premiered in the Revivals program at the 63rd New York Film Festival just days after Jaglom’s passing, and the restored print can be seen on Metrograph at Home.
Lucy Kerr’s feature debut Family Portrait stars Deragh Campbell as a woman trying to convene relatives for a single photograph. Winner of the Best Director Award at Locarno 2026, the film was shot along the Guadalupe River and now feels newly resonant after the floods that devastated the region last year; it streams on Le Cinéma Club. Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film — a pandemic-era mocumentary about a crew trying to recover an abandoned project — appears on The criterion channel and reads as a creative act of resistance to censorship.
Animation, shorts, and formally ambitious work
Sylvain Chomet offers A Magnificent Life, an animated fantasia in which an older Marcel Pagnol is aided by a younger incarnate of himself as he struggles to write a column for Elle. The piece, available via VOD, folds nostalgia into playful animation and examines the craft of memory. Meanwhile, Michel Gondry returns to short-form inventiveness with Maya, Give Me a Title, a string of handmade animated vignettes inspired by simple prompts from his daughter; the film runs just over an hour and is streaming on The Criterion Channel.
Short-form revival
Gondry’s shorts feel like a condensed version of his best impulsive instincts: minimal constraints, maximal visual imagination, and an intimacy born from making work for family. The project foregrounds the creative pleasure of quick, improvisatory storytelling.
Animated memoir and invention
Chomet’s film reframes biographical material as a collision between elder doubt and youthful optimism. Described as part of the festival Cannes Specials, it uses animation to ask how an artist recalls a life while still making sense of the present.
Documentaries and films that push a boundary
Oren Jacoby’s This Is Not a Drill follows grassroots activism against liquefied natural gas infrastructure in Louisiana; an especially affecting scene shows climate organizer Roishetta Ozane speaking with her child about the industry’s stakes. The documentary’s immediacy and moral urgency make it worth viewing on YouTube. Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes, on Film Movement+, interrogates the media of looking — from CCTV to human perception — with a central performance by an actor billed as Lee that maps obsession into voyeurism.
Pete Ohs’s The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick treads a line between horror and satire as it riffs on wellness culture; its tonal slipperiness resists tidy genre labels and it streams on the Letterboxd Video Store. Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights arrives on HBO Max as a polarizing adaptation that aims for shock but elicits mixed responses, especially around its eroticized visual choices.
Where else to look this week
If you prefer to browse by platform, a number of services expanded their catalogs simultaneously. The Criterion Channel refreshed its library with classics and rediscoveries such as The Apartment, Breathless, Point Break, and dozens more. Film Movement+ added titles including Forest for the Trees, while Hulu put up Good Boy. Metrograph at Home carries restored and curated prints like The Circle and Crimson Gold, and MUBI rotated in festival favorites such as Farewell My Concubine and documentaries on music and fashion. For transactional options, recent VOD additions include Didn’t Die and Forbidden Fruits.
Each platform’s list reflects a different curatorial logic: mainstream services mix contemporary hits with prestige fare, while boutique channels emphasize restoration, auteurs, and archival context. Use this roundup as a starting point — check your preferred service for availability and consider diving into a restored classic, an urgent documentary, or a short-form surprise.