What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: April 6 thru April 12, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
April’s here to usher in a wave of new releases that’ll likely keep you glued to your watchlist. While some are holding out for the big summer blockbusters, this month is already stacked with reasons to tune in. So why wait when April is bringing the goods right now? As we do every week, we’ve compiled a list of what’s arriving over the next couple of days. So whether you’re heading to theaters this weekend or planning to stay in and check out what’s streaming, scroll down and see what catches your eye.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Faces of Death
(Fri, Apr 10th — wide release)
This cult classic shocker gets a modern upgrade as a content moderator (Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira) stumbles onto viral videos that may be recreations—or real-time murders—forcing her to question what’s performance and what’s horrifyingly real. From director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei, the filmmakers behind How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and co-starring Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX, this algorithm-age horror taps into our appetite for violent content, where the scariest part isn’t what’s on screen, but why we can’t stop watching.
🎥 You, Me & Tuscany
(Fri, Apr 10th — wide release)
A small lie sends a drifting twenty-something (The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey) into a sun-soaked Italian getaway when she pretends to be engaged to a stranger, only for real sparks to fly with his charming cousin (Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page). Produced by Will Packer, this breezy romantic comedy leans into mistaken identity and whirlwind romance, where one impulsive fib might just lead to something real.
🎥 The Christophers
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release)
A reclusive pop art painter (Ian McKellen) becomes the centerpiece of a quiet con when his estranged children enlist a skilled restorer (Michaela Coel) to secretly finish his abandoned paintings before passing them off as rediscovered works. Reuniting director Steven Soderbergh with writer Ed Solomon, this art-world drama turns questions of legacy and authorship into a sly, ticking-clock scheme where the truth may be the most valuable forgery of all.
🎥 Beast
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release)
A washed-up MMA fighter (Daniel MacPherson) is dragged back into the cage when his younger brother becomes leverage, forcing him to battle a brutal champion and a past he thought he left behind. With Russell Crowe as his hardened former trainer and Luke Hemsworth as a ruthless promoter, this gritty fight drama turns one last comeback into a fight for survival, where the cost of losing hits far beyond the final bell.
🎥 Exit 8
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release)
A routine subway ride turns into an endless loop when a Japanese man (Kazunari Ninomiya) finds himself trapped in a shifting corridor where every detail feels off and every decision could be a mistake. Directed by Genki Kawamura and based on the viral game by Kotake Create, this psychological Japanese horror thriller thrives on repetition and creeping paranoia, where escape depends on noticing what doesn’t belong.
🎥 Mermaid
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release)
A down-and-out Floridian (Johnny Pemberton) thinks he’s discovered a dying mermaid in the Gulf... only it looks more like a sideshow corpse than a fairytale fantasy, sending him on a bizarre mission that may be fueled as much by desperation as belief. Also starring Robert Patrick, Kevin Nealon, Kevin Dunn, and Tom Arnold, this dark offbeat comedy leans into delusion and deadpan absurdity, where saving a myth might be the last thing keeping him afloat.
🎥 Heads or Tails
(Fri Apr 10th — limited release; also on VOD/Digital)
Legendary American showman Buffalo Bill (John C. Reilly) brings his Wild West spectacle to Italy, only to be pulled into a real manhunt when a runaway wife (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) and a defiant local cowboy (Alessandro Borghi) turn myth into something far messier. Directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, this Spaghetti Western riff flips the legend on its head, where the man selling the myth may not survive the truth behind it.
🎥 Hamlet
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release)
A grieving heir (Riz Ahmed) navigates a British South Asian family empire riddled with secrets after his mother remarries, sending him down a path of suspicion and emotional unraveling. Directed by Aneil Karia and co-starring Art Malik, Joe Alwyn, and Morfydd Clark, this modern take on Shakespeare’s tragedy questions whether revenge brings justice or only deepens the damage.
🎥 ChaO
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release)
A timid shipyard worker finds his orderly life upended when a mermaid princess suddenly proposes, pulling him into a chaotic courtship where culture clashes spiral into spectacle. From Japanese animator Yasuhiro Aoki and anime house STUDIO4°C, this vibrant sci-fi romance turns coexistence into a test of emotion, where love can’t be engineered.
🎥 Newborn
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release; Exclusively at AMC Theaters)
David Oyelowo stars as a man released after years in solitary confinement who struggles to reconnect with a world that feels just as isolating, turning reintegration into a battle within his own mind. Written and directed by Nate Parker, this psychological drama questions whether freedom can truly exist when the prison never fully lets go.
🎥 PH-1
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release; on VOD/Digital)
When a rising politician is held hostage inside his own penthouse, he’s forced to watch his life collapse in real time as media narratives spiral out of control. Mark Kassen directs and stars in this contained thriller where every second tightens the grip of misinformation and paranoia, and in a world driven by perception, the real question isn’t who’s watching... it’s who’s pulling the strings.
🎥 The Travel Companion
(Fri, Apr 10th — limited release; in NY)
Friendship gets messy when ambition and jealousy pull in opposite directions. In this offbeat buddy comedy from first-time filmmakers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis, Tristan Turner stars as a struggling New York documentarian who relies on his best friend’s airline perks to keep his dream project alive... until his friend’s new romance threatens to ground everything. As Anthony Oberbeck and Naomi Asa round out this uneasy triangle, loyalty begins to buckle, proving the quickest way to wreck a friendship is letting envy ride shotgun.
🎥 Jerry Maguire: 30th Anniversary
(Sun, Apr 12th, Tues, Apr 14th & Wed Apr 15th — re-release)
For its 30th anniversary, Cameron Crowe’s defining ‘90s crowd-pleaser returns to the big screen, revisiting a heartfelt story of romance, ambition, and soul-searching. Tom Cruise stars as a high-powered sports agent forced to rebuild with one loyal client, a rising yet cocky football star (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and the support of Renée Zellweger’s Dorothy Boyd, who believes in Jerry’s vision of success... that it means nothing without heart.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Sirāt
(Mon, Apr 6th — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
In this recent Oscar-nominated Best International Film from French-Galician filmmaker Oliver Laxe, Spanish star Sergi López plays a father scouring Morocco’s desert rave scene for his missing daughter, drifting through hypnotic nights of bass, belief, and endurance while clinging to the faint hope of a reunion months after she vanished.
🎦 Untold: Chess Mates
(Thurs, Apr 9th — premiering on Netflix)
A shocking upset between rising star Hans Niemann and world champion Magnus Carlsen ignites cheating allegations that rattle the elite chess world and spark a global debate over trust in the game. This Netflix documentary tracks the fallout and looming rematch, where the real battle plays out beyond the board.
🎦 Outcome
(Fri, Apr 10th — premiering on Apple TV)
Keanu Reeves stars in this Hollywood satire as a beloved movie star whose comeback derails when a scandal resurfaces... and he can’t even remember what he did. As he pieces together five lost years of addiction-fueled chaos, Jonah Hill (also directing) plays his crisis lawyer leading a PR team scrambling to contain the fallout. The question isn’t just what went wrong... it’s whether redemption means anything if you don’t remember the fall.
🎦 Thrash
(Fri, Apr 10th — premiering on Netflix)
A hurricane is only the beginning. When a Category 5 storm floods a coastal town, the streets turn into deadly waters where sharks hunt freely among the survivors. Led by Djimon Hounsou as a rescue captain and Phoebe Dynevor as a stranded woman fighting to survive, this high-stakes thriller from Tommy Wirkola (Violent Night, Dead Snow) turns disaster into a feeding frenzy, where staying above water might not be enough.
🎦 Christy
(Fri, Apr 10th — streaming on HBO MAX)
Sydney Sweeney packs a fierce punch as Christy Martin, the West Virginia boxing trailblazer who shattered barriers in a man’s world, only to face her most dangerous fight at home. Directed by David Michôd and co-starring Ben Foster as her volatile trainer-husband, this blistering true-life drama shows the hardest hits aren’t always thrown in the ring.
🎦 Midwinter Break
(Fri, Apr 10th — streaming on Peacock)
In this stirring British drama directed by Polly Findlay, veteran actors Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds star as a long-married couple whose visit to Amsterdam unearths unresolved truths, transforming a quiet getaway into a searching meditation on love, faith, and the fragile echoes of a shared past.
🎦 My Father’s Shadow
(Fri, Apr 10th — streaming on MUBI)
Set against Nigeria’s 1993 election crisis, two young brothers roam Lagos with their estranged father (played by Sope Dirisu), turning a simple journey home into a charged reckoning shaped by political unrest, fractured bonds, and the quiet ache of unfinished relationships. Directed by Akinola Davies Jr., this poetic family drama proves that when a nation is coming apart, growing up has a way of happening all at once.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ The Bride!
(Tues, Apr 7th — on VOD/Digital)
Revenge meets resurrection in writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 1930s reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein, where loyalty and longing turn combustible. Recent Oscar winner Jessie Buckley plays a murdered woman brought back to life and unleashed into Chicago’s underworld, while Oscar winner Christian Bale’s monster searches for devotion and finds an outlaw partner instead. This smoky genre mashup turns a classic monster tale into a volatile love story with a rising body count.
✅ EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(Tues, Apr 7th — on VOD/Digital)
In this electrifying concert documentary, Elvis helmer Baz Luhrmann unveils restored, never-before-seen footage from Elvis Presley’s legendary 1970s Las Vegas residency, capturing the King at his most magnetic and unguarded. Through the glitter, sweat, and spectacle of Sin City, it’s more than a time capsule... it’s rock ’n’ roll royalty at full voltage!
✅ Psycho Killer
(Tues, Apr 7th — on VOD/Digital)
Barbarian breakout Georgina Campbell stars as a Kansas highway patrol officer who becomes an unrelenting hunter after her husband is murdered in cold blood by a masked drifter revealed to be a calculating serial killer known as the Satanic Slasher. The deeper she barrels down this highway to hell, the further she slips into his twisted world. Penned by Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of Se7en, this cat-and-mouse chiller suggests some predators aren’t running from the law... they’re daring it to follow them into the dark.
✅ The President’s Cake
(Tues, Apr 7th — on VOD/Digital)
From writer-director Hasan Hadi, this powerful Iraqi drama distills a sweeping geopolitical crisis into one child’s impossible mission during the 1990s Iraq sanctions. Nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef) is ordered to bake a birthday cake for the President amid crushing food scarcity, forcing her to navigate a city of looming threats and impossible choices no child should ever face.
✅ Sniper: No Nation
(Tues, Apr 7th — on VOD/Digital)
The Beckett legacy is back in the crosshairs. When a covert mission sparks an international scandal, ace sniper Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins) is disavowed and hunted by his own government, forcing him to reunite with his legendary father (Tom Berenger) for a no-win rescue mission. This long-running action franchise entry proves some soldiers don’t retire... they just reload.
✅ The Yeti
(Fri, Apr 10th — on VOD/Digital)
Something out there in the wilderness... and it doesn’t like visitors. This retro 1940s-set creature feature drops Jim Cummings, Brittany Allen, Eric Nelson, William Sadler, and Corbin Bernsen into the frozen wilds of Alaska, where a rescue mission turns into a fight for survival against a towering, bloodthirsty beast lurking beyond the treeline.
✅ Infiltrate
(Fri, Apr 10th — on VOD/Digital)
Stuntwoman-turned-actress Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen stars in this gritty indie spy action-thriller as a government agent pushed into a brutal deal: take out criminals or lose her kidnapped husband, each mission pulling her deeper into a corrupt underworld where survival demands a piece of her humanity until there’s nothing left to save.
✅ Dreams
(Fri, Apr 10th — on VOD/Digital)
In this provocative drama, Jessica Chastain plays a wealthy socialite whose affair with an undocumented dancer (Isaac Hernández) turns into a chilling game of control, where affection gives way to manipulation. Directed by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, this slow-burn examines desire, privilege, and the kind of power that can ruin a life with a single phone call.
⇯ See Above: ✅Heads or Tails (Fri, Apr 10; VOD/Digital)
⇯ See Above: ✅PH-1 (Fri, Apr 10; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord
(Mon, Apr 6th — on Disney+)
Every Sith needs an apprentice... but choosing one might be the most dangerous move of all. Set after The Clone Wars, this animated Star Wars series follows a rogue Darth Maul (voiced by Sam Witwer) as he plots revenge against the Empire while training a young Force-sensitive to become his ultimate weapon. Spearheaded by Dave Filoni, this darker, character-driven chapter asks a simple question: is Maul building an ally... or creating something far worse?
📺 Sheng Wang: Purple
(Tues, Apr 7th — on Netflix)
Comedian Sheng Wang riffs on the strange realities of adult life, turning everyday details, from shared fruit to questionable haunted houses, into quietly hilarious observations. Directed by fellow comedian Ali Wong, this laid-back stand-up special finds humor in the small things, where even cooking with shallots becomes a philosophical exercise.
📺 The Boys: Season 5
(Wed, Apr 8th — on Prime Video)
Hope was never part of the plan. As this savage superhero satire barrels toward its final season, Homelander (Antony Starr) tightens his grip on a world now bending to his will, while The Boys (Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Karen Fukuhara and Tomer Capone) scramble from the brink of collapse to stop him. Created by Eric Kripke and based on the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, this explosive endgame asks one last brutal question: is saving the world worth becoming just as monstrous as the people you’re trying to destroy?
📺 The Testaments
(Wed, Apr 8th — on Hulu/Disney+)
A new generation has no memory of freedom, only the rules they were raised to obey. Set 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale, this dystopian spinoff follows young women in Gilead, led by One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infiniti as a model student beginning to question the world she’s been taught to accept. With Ann Dowd returning as Aunt Lydia and showrunner Bruce Miller expanding the story, the real threat isn’t rebellion from the outside... it’s doubt growing from within.
📺 Hacks: Season 5
(Thurs, Apr 9th — on HBO MAX)
Dead? Not quite. When reports of her demise spark a media frenzy, legendary comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) storms back to Las Vegas with Ava (Hannah Einbinder) to reclaim the spotlight and rewrite her own ending. This final season turns one last set into a battle for legacy. Because in comedy, timing is everything, and Deb’s not done with the punchline just yet.
📺 The Miniature Wife
(Thurs, Apr 9th — on Peacock)
Marriage problems just got a lot smaller... and somehow much bigger as well. When a brilliant inventor accidentally shrinks his wife to doll-size, their already strained relationship turns into a ticking-clock crisis as they race to reverse the process before it’s permanent. Starring Elizabeth Banks and Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen, this darkly comic series asks a pointed question: can a relationship survive when one person literally holds all the power?
📺 Big Mistakes
(Thurs, Apr 9th — on Netflix)
A bumbling sibling duo (Schitt’s Creek’s Dan Levy and Taylor Ortega) lands in over their heads with the mob after a botched theft turns into blackmail, forcing them into a life of crime they’re wildly unprepared for. Created by Levy and Rachel Sennott, this offbeat crime comedy leans into chaos and incompetence, where the biggest threat to the operation might be the ones running it.
📺 Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair
(Fri, Apr 10th — on Hulu/Disney+)
Some families never change... they just get older. Nearly two decades after the original sitcom ended, Malcolm (Frankie Muniz) is now a father himself, pulled back into the chaos when Hal (Bryan Cranston) and Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) gather the family for a 40th anniversary celebration. With creator Linwood Boomer returning, this reunion proves life’s still unfair... especially when your family is involved.
📺 Trust Me: The False Prophet
(Fri, Apr 8th — on Netflix)
A cult expert and her filmmaker husband embed themselves in a secretive polygamist community as a new prophet tightens control, documenting signs of manipulation and abuse as the danger grows. This true-crime docuseries examines belief and power, where exposing the truth comes at a rising cost.
📺 Turn of the Tide: Season 3
(Fri, Apr 10th — on Netflix)
A tight-knit group of islanders trades one battle for another as they shift from fighting traffickers to confronting a corrupt system where justice turns personal. Led by José Condessa and joined by Joaquim de Almeida, this final chapter of the Portuguese crime series blurs right and wrong, where someone else decides where the line is drawn.
📺 Euphoria: Season 3
(Sun, Apr 12th — on HBO)
High school is over, but the fallout is just beginning. Years after leaving East Highland behind, Rue (Zendaya) and her circle (Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, Maude Apatow, and Alexa Demie) step into adulthood carrying the same addictions, ambitions, and unresolved damage; only now the stakes are higher and the consequences hit harder. Created by Sam Levinson, this next chapter asks whether growing up means moving on... or just making bigger mistakes with better excuses.
📺 The Audacity
(Sun, Apr 12th — on AMC/AMC+)
Disruption was supposed to change the world… just not like this. This dark tech satire follows a megalomaniacal CEO (Billy Magnussen) who treats humanity as data to be optimized, while the people around him profit from a system spiraling out of control. Created by Jonathan Glatzer and co-starring Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Simon Helberg, and Rob Corddry, it asks: when the people running the future have no limits, who’s left to stop them?
