10 New Movies on Netflix We Can’t Wait to Watch This May

Past Lives is the directorial debut from Celine Song, who also wrote the film. Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star as friends Nora and Hae Sung who met as children in South Korea but lost touch after Nora’s family relocated to Canada. After reconnecting, the two friends explore their friendship and wonder what might have been had Nora never left. A beautiful story of longing and unrequited feelings, the film was nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars.

Netflix’s original sports documentary series Untold returns this May with three new feature-length specials, each one diving deep into a specific topic. The first film, Shooting Guards, premieres on May 6 and explores the story of Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton. Their personal tensions exploded in 2009 when they threatened each other with guns in the locker room, leading to suspensions for the rest of the season.The film provides a thorough account of their story, including Crittenton’s eventual manslaughter conviction on unrelated charges. Untold: The Liver King, about disgraced wellness influencer Brian Johnson, will premiere May 13, and Untold: The Fall of Favre, about NFL star Brett Favre, arrives May 20.

The French action series Lost Bullet concludes with the third and final film, the cleverly titled Last Bullet, which arrives to Netflix on May 7. Alban Lenoir returns as Lino, a thief-turned-mechanic. In this installment, he’s out of prison and seeking justice for his old friend, detective Charas, who was killed by a dirty cop in the first film. Thrills and chases abound; think of it as a French version of The Fast and the Furious, where the hero drives a souped-up Renault.

Vince Vaughn headlines the new, sentimental Netflix dramedy Nonnas, about a man who honors his late mother by opening a restaurant that serves up some of her comforting family recipes. The hook? The restaurant’s chefs are all Italian grannies — the titular nonnas — played by Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire and Brenda Vaccaro. The film is directed by Stephen Chbosky, and Joe Manganiello and Linda Cardellini round out the cast.

Netflix knows its audience loves a good true-crime tale, and this month’s newest feature, A Deadly American Marriage, is a story of love with tragic results. This original documentary follows the true story of Jason Corbett, a widowed father of two from Ireland who married his children’s American au pair, Molly Martens. After the family relocated with Martens to North Carolina, Corbett was violently killed by Molly and her father Thomas. Though Molly claimed Jason was abusive during their marriage, the web of secrets and lies she created would ultimately prove that she was a compulsive liar and Jason was a victim of her con.

Smile, the debut film from Parker Finn, has gained a reputation as one of the creepiest, most fun psychological thrillers of the past few years (and it was successful enough to get a sequel just two years later). The film stars Sosie Bacon as a psychiatrist named Rose Cotter who witnesses a patient commit suicide because of a supernatural entity with a creepy smile. Much like The Ring, once you see the creepy smiler, death is imminent and Rose is not immune, but this thriller blends that kind of true horror with some thoughtful meditations on trauma, too.

Three Fear Street films were released in short order back in 2021, each one focusing on the mysterious town of Shadyside and the creepy, bloody history there. Well, things haven’t really changed much in Shadyside, meaning that evil continues to lurk. This time it’s in the halls of Shadyside High, as beautiful young candidates for prom queen start dropping like flies. The cast includes India Fowler, Suzanna Son and Katherine Waterston, plus teen movie icons like Lili Taylor and Chris Klein.

After the success of the 2022 film Off Track, Netflix is releasing a sequel to the cozy Swedish dramedy about a pair of siblings who enter a bicycle race just as their personal lives seem to be in dire need of a tune-up. Katia Winters reprises the role of Lisa, who is set on taking on the 200-mile-long Vätternrundan bike race with her brother Daniel. When Daniel’s marriage starts to fall apart, he focuses on his wife rather than on racing with Lisa, and Lisa in turn, starts to worry that her own relationship with her boyfriend Anders has hit the skids, too.

The Oscar-nominated family film The Wild Robot is making its way to Netflix this month.The Wild Robot, which is based on the novel by Peter Brown, is the story of a robot who, upon getting lost in the woods, ends up adopting a baby goose as her own. Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor and Catherine O’Hara all lend their voices.

A Widow’s Game, directed by Carlos Sedes, is a Spanish film based on a true crime case known as “the Black Widow of Patraix.” In August 2017, the body of a man who had been stabbed seven times was discovered in a parking lot in Valencia. When the city’s Homicide Group begins its investigation, the prime suspect quickly becomes the man’s widow, Maje — a charming young woman hiding all kinds of secrets.