What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: April 13 thru April 19, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Despite all the talk about Hollywood’s current state, new releases keep rolling in, with this month delivering a steady lineup of titles worth checking out. That said, television has been stealing the spotlight lately, while theaters haven’t quite matched that momentum. And this week doesn’t look to change that, with a couple of high-profile shows arriving in the next few days. However, there’s been a noticeable uptick in films hitting theaters week after week this year, even if they’re not landing with the same scale as traditional blockbusters.
So, whether you’re heading out to your local cinema this weekend or settling in for a night of TV and streaming, as always, we’ve put together a weekly roundup of what’s arriving over the next couple of days. So, scroll down and see if anything stands out. We’re sure there’s something worth adding to your watchlist.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Cave of Forgotten Dreams: 15th Anniversary (6K Restoration)
(Wed, Apr 15th and Sun, Apr 19th — re-release; IMAX screenings)
Werner Herzog journeys into one of humanity’s oldest galleries with rare access to the sealed Chauvet Cave, capturing prehistoric artwork untouched for over 30,000 years. Now returning for its 15th anniversary in a stunning 6K restoration, this mesmerizing documentary transforms fragile preservation into a cinematic experience that feels both ancient and immediate.
🎥 Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
(Fri, Apr 17th — wide release)
Eight years gone, and she comes back like nothing ever happened. Jack Reynor stars in this eerie supernatural horror thriller as a journalist whose missing daughter (Natalie Grace) is discovered inside a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus, unchanged in body but deeply unsettling in spirit. As he and his wife (Laia Costa) try to welcome her home, strange and violent signs begin to surface, pointing to something ancient taking hold. Sometimes the real horror isn’t losing someone... it’s getting them back.
🎥 Normal
(Fri, Apr 17th — wide release)
Retirement plans don’t last long in a town like this. Bob Odenkirk plays a battle-worn sheriff who heads to a quiet Midwestern community expecting an easy final stretch, only to uncover a deeply embedded criminal network after a robbery goes sideways. As the violence escalates and the town’s friendly veneer cracks, cult British filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, Meg 2: The Trench) and John Wick writer Derek Kolstad turn this neo-Western into a darkly funny, hard-hitting showdown where one last stand is all that’s left.
🎥 Mother Mary
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Anne Hathaway stars as a pop icon in freefall who retreats to a rural German farmhouse to reunite with her estranged friend and costume designer (Michaela Coel) to create a dress meant to mark a bold comeback. But as old wounds reopen and the creative process turns combative, visually inventive filmmaker David Lowery shapes this surreal, music-laced drama into a psychological unraveling where identity, ego, and art become impossible to separate.
🎥 Lorne
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Behind the curtain of late-night comedy, one quiet figure has been calling the shots for decades. This documentary traces the legacy of Lorne Michaels, the elusive producer and creator who built Saturday Night Live into a cultural institution. With voices like Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, and Conan O’Brien among others reflecting on the guidance that shaped their careers, Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville uses archival footage and candid interviews to paint a portrait of a low-key architect whose influence on modern comedy is anything but small.
🎥 Busboys
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Comedians David Spade and Theo Von team up as two aimless friends who think waiting tables will somehow fix their lives... until their total lack of skill turns every shift into a full-blown disaster. With botched orders, frustrated coworkers, and chaos piling up by the minute, this fast, loose comedy serves up a nonstop stream of trouble where nothing (and no one) comes out unscathed.
🎥 Wasteman
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Rising talent David Jonsson (The Long Walk, HBO’s Industry) stars as an inmate on the verge of parole, holding onto the hope of reconnecting with his son, until a volatile new cellmate (Tom Blyth, from MGM+’s Billy the Kid) drags him back into the prison’s violent pecking order. This tense, unforgiving British prison drama suggests that second chances don’t come easy... and sometimes they don’t come without a price.
🎥 Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Martial arts icon Jackie Chan stars in this action-fantasy adventure sequel as an unlikely guardian tasked with protecting a prophesied panda who becomes the target of rival forces in a hidden world of ancient tribes and mystical power. As danger closes in, Chan brings his signature mix of agility and humor to a fast-moving quest where destiny hangs on keeping one very special bear alive.
🎥 Mile End Kicks
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Barbie Ferreira stars in this indie coming-of-age dramedy as an aspiring music journalist who heads to Montreal to write about Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, only to get swept up in the city’s indie rock scene... and into a messy romantic entanglement with two bandmates (played by Devon Bostick and Stanley Simons). Drawing from her own early experiences as a music entertainment reporter, Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack (I Like Movies) turns this into a bittersweet, music-fueled portrait of ambition, desire, and the confusion of figuring yourself out when everything seems new and nothing feels settled.
🎥 Mad Bills To Pay
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Summer feels easy, until life starts asking for more. Set in the Bronx’s Dominican community, this coming-of-age drama from writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas follows a carefree hustler (Juan Collado) whose routine of selling bootleg cocktails and chasing quick thrills is upended when his girlfriend (Destiny Checo) moves into his already crowded home. Young love, family tension, and the pressure to grow up faster than expected mix into a harsh reality check as bills begin to stack up.
🎥 Mabel
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Growing up takes patience... and sometimes a little help from the right teacher. When a socially withdrawn teen (Lexi Perkel) secretly joins a high school botany class, an inspiring substitute (Judy Greer) helps her slowly come out of her shell, turning quiet curiosity into a path toward confidence and connection in this heartfelt coming-of-age drama.
🎥 Amrum
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
The war is ending, but the waiting hasn’t. On a remote North Sea island in the final days of World War II, a young boy (Jasper Billerbeck) holds onto the hope that his father will return, while his devout mother (Laura Tonke) struggles to accept Germany’s looming defeat. Diane Kruger, reuniting with In the Fade filmmaker Fatih Akin, plays a quietly defiant neighbor as this intimate drama traces the moment innocence slips away and harsh truths finally come into view.
🎥 Blue Heron
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
In her feature debut, filmmaker Sophy Romvari draws from her own childhood to craft this quiet, memory-soaked coming-of-age drama set on late-’90s Vancouver Island, where a young girl (Eylul Guven) navigates her Hungarian immigrant family’s fresh start as her older brother’s volatile behavior (Edik Beddoes) begins to fracture their home. What begins with promise slowly drifts into unease, capturing the fragile moment when childhood innocence gives way to a deeper understanding of what’s really happening.
🎥 Erupcja
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Popstar Charli XCX continues her move into acting, leading this simmering relationship drama as a woman returning to Warsaw with her boyfriend, only to reconnect with her childhood friend (Lena Góra) in a way that stirs buried emotions and rising tension. Directed by Pete Ohs, this indie drama explores the fragile line of friendship as it begins to blur into something more complicated.
🎥 Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
Ben McKenzie trades acting for investigation in his documentary debut, diving into the explosive rise of cryptocurrency and unpacking a financial system driven as much by hype and belief as by actual value. Through expert interviews and a look at major industry collapses, McKenzie questions who really profits when the market crashes... and who’s left holding the bag.
🎥 Steal This Story, Please!
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release; expanding to more theaters)
The pursuit of truth isn’t simple, but a constant struggle. And Amy Goodman is one of the few who never stops chasing it. This indie documentary traces Goodman’s decades-long career as a fearless journalist at Democracy Now! who has always played by her own rules. From war zones to newsroom battles, she pushes past political and corporate barriers to amplify unheard voices, as filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin examine the cost of asking hard questions in a media landscape shaped by power and pressure.
🎥 Mārama
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release)
A young Māori woman (Ariana Osborne) exiled in Victorian England finds her fragile sense of identity unraveling as secrets about her colonial past begin to surface, pulling her toward a reckoning she can’t outrun. With Toby Stephens costarring as the man directly tied to the damage, justice and vengeance become indistinguishable, threatening to consume her completely in this New Zealand period drama where ancestral wounds refuse to heal, nor be forgotten.
🎥 Bridesmaids: 15th Anniversary
(Fri, Apr 17th — re-release)
Weddings are supposed to bring people together... this one nearly tears them apart. Back in theaters for its 15th anniversary, Paul Feig’s comedy classic follows Kristen Wiig as a struggling woman tapped to be maid of honor for her best friend (Maya Rudolph), only to spiral into escalating chaos as Rose Byrne’s rival bridesmaid and Melissa McCarthy’s unpredictable wildcard take things to unforgettable extremes.
🎥 Brothers Under Fire
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
What begins as a celebratory wedding trip to Mexico turns into a brutal fight for survival when a violent cartel attacks, forcing a hardened military captain (Kiefer Sutherland) and his squad into combat mode in this gritty indie action thriller. With soldiers played by Omar Chaparro and Laura Osma, the group faces escalating danger at every turn, where every decision could be their last.
🎥 Ballistic
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey trades royal power for raw anguish as a factory worker who discovers the bullet that killed her son was made on her own assembly line. As she digs into the company’s secrets, her search for answers spirals into a dangerous pursuit of justice where grief turns into a volatile quest for vengeance.
🎥 The Whistler
(Fri, Apr 17th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
In this eerie supernatural thriller, a grieving couple (Diane Guerrero and Juan Pablo Raba) retreats to a remote Venezuelan farm seeking peace after the death of their child, only to fall under the influence of a mysterious cult that claims to speak with the dead. As their desperation for closure deepens, they are drawn into increasingly unsettling rituals where the promise of comfort begins to feel dangerously deceptive.
🎥 Philip Hartman’s No Picnic (40th Anniversary)
(Fri, Apr 17th — screening at New York’s Film Forum)
A drifting jukebox operator (David Brisbin) roams the pre-gentrified East Village chasing the ghostly trace of a woman who may not even exist, crossing paths with early appearances from Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán along the way. Newly restored in 4K for its 40th anniversary, this scrappy black-and-white indie from filmmaker Philip Hartman captures a vanished New York in all its raw, melancholic beauty.
🎥 Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85
(Sat, Apr 18th — special big screen event; exclusively at select AMC theaters)
Back in Hawkins, winter of 1985 brings a fragile calm as Eleven and the gang settle into normal life... until a new terror begins to stir beneath the ice. In this animated Stranger Things spinoff from Eric Robles and the Duffer Brothers, a fresh mystery pulls the crew back into danger, hitting the big screen at AMC with a special theatrical preview of its first two episodes.
