What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: April 20 thru April 26, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Each week brings a new wave of releases across theaters and streaming, and we’re back to round up the films and shows that might be worth your time. Despite the chatter about there being nothing to watch, there’s always a range of fresh titles, and chances are something here will catch your eye. We’re also seeing more and more classic films get re-releases and 4K restorations, so if you’re in the mood for something familiar with a fresh polish, this is the week for that. It’s a trend that’s clearly gaining traction. So, scroll down and see what might be worth adding to your watchlist.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Whisper of the Heart
(Tues, Apr 21st — re-release; One-night IMAX event)
A curious, book-loving schoolgirl becomes fixated on a mysterious name appearing in her library books, leading her to a boy chasing his own creative ambitions. Their connection sparks her passion for writing, as this beloved Studio Ghibli coming-of-age story from legendary filmmaker Yoshifumi Kondo. The 1995 anime film returns this week in a newly restored 4K one-day IMAX event.
🎥 Fight Club: 4K Remaster
(Wed, Apr 22nd — re-release; one-night only)
First rule of Fight Club: don’t talk about Fight Club. But bringing it back to theaters? That’s fair game. A newly restored 4K version of David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic returns for a one-night-only screening this week. Starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, and based on Chuck Palahniuk’s controversial novel, the film tracks two increasingly disillusioned men as they spiral into an underground fight club that evolves into something far more dangerous... and far more destructive than they ever intended. The 4K Blu-ray arrives May 12th.
🎥 Michael
(Fri, Apr 24th — wide release)
Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson steps into the role of a young Michael, charting his rise from Motown prodigy to solo superstardom in this Antoine Fuqua-directed jukebox biopic that leans into stage performance and behind-the-scenes craft. As pressure from his domineering father/manager (played by Colman Domingo) mounts and expectations close in, he turns to the music to define himself, carving a path toward global icon status. The focus lands less on controversy and more on how the sound, the moves, and the ambition built a legend.
🎥 Mother Mary
(Fri, Apr 24th — expands wide)
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.
🎥 Over Your Dead Body
(Fri, Apr 24th — wide release)
Nothing says “marriage counseling” like a weekend getaway with a body count on the itinerary. Samara Weaving and Jason Segel play a dysfunctional couple heading to a remote cabin to reconnect while secretly plotting each other’s murder, until unexpected guests (Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis) derail everything. Directed by Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, this darkly comic remake of a 2021 Norwegian film proves when love runs out, things can get murderously messy.
🎥 Desert Warrior
(Fri, Apr 24th — wide release)
Anthony Mackie trades his shield and wings for daggers and horses, playing a legendary Arabian bandit protecting a runaway princess (Aiysha Hart) from a tyrannical emperor (Ben Kingsley) in director Rupert Wyatt’s sweeping historical epic. As alliances shift and a relentless mercenary (Sharlto Copley) closes in, rebellion takes hold... and even the mightiest armies can’t stamp out a common cause to stop a rising empire.
🎥 Fuze
(Fri, Apr 24th — wide release)
As London shuts down over a newly discovered WWII-era bomb, a bomb disposal expert (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) races to defuse it while a calculating jewel smuggler (Theo James) uses the chaos as cover for a high-stakes diamond heist. With Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie at the helm and Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sam Worthington rounding out the cast, this high-wire British thriller suggests the real threat isn’t always the one everyone’s watching.
🎥 I Swear
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release)
BAFTA winner Robert Aramayo delivers a raw, transformative performance in this award-winning true-story drama, playing John Davidson, a young Scotsman whose severe Tourette syndrome turns everyday life into an unpredictable battle as he comes of age in 1980s Scotland. With Maxine Peake as his fiercely protective guardian and supporting turns from Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan, the struggle shifts from suppression to self-acceptance, pushing him to embrace his voice rather than hide it.
🎥 Cave of Forgotten Dreams: 15th Anniversary
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release)
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.
🎥 Omaha
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release)
Set against the 2008 financial crisis, John Magaro stars in this quiet coming-of-age drama as a worn-down father driving his daughter (Molly Belle Wright) and younger son (Wyatt Solis) across the American West, where an impending foreclosure becomes impossible to outrun. This tender family portrait finds growing up in the moment you realize home isn’t ahead... it’s already slipping away behind you.
🎥 The Wolf and the Lamb
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
In this supernatural western thriller, Cassandra Scerbo plays a grieving schoolteacher searching for her missing son, only to descend into paranoia, folklore, and faith as the town unravels around her. With Zach McGowan, Adrianne Palicki, and Eric Nelsen rounding out the cast, it explores how far someone will go when belief and fear begin to mirror each other.
🎥 Broken Bird
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release)
Loneliness devolves into something darker in this haunting psychological horror thriller starring Rebecca Calder as a reclusive mortician craving connection, only to find her desires slipping into obsession as grief begins to blur the line between comfort and control. From director Joanne Mitchell comes a chilling descent where tenderness turns grotesque, proving some connections come at a deadly cost.
🎥 Frankie, Maniac Woman
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release)
Pressure builds until it explodes in this grindhouse-style psychological horror-thriller about an aspiring singer-songwriter navigating trauma, misogyny, and an image-obsessed music industry. Dina Silva co-writes and stars as a woman pushed to the edge, with director Pierre Tsigaridis shaping a story where personal struggle erupts into violent release.
🎥 Kangaroo Island
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release)
This Australian breakout follows a struggling actress drawn back to her estranged father on Kangaroo Island, where buried tensions resurface. Rebecca Breeds, Adelaide Clemens, and Erik Thomson lead a sharp, heartfelt drama that proves some scars demand a face-to-face confrontation where healing might finally begin.
🎥 Eraserheads: Combo on the Run
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release; in Select Cities)
This music documentary follows the Philippines’ most culturally seismic band, Eraserheads (ƎRASERHEADS), from their 1989 origins at UP Diliman through superstardom, breakup, and a reunion that drew nearly 250,000 fans searching for something real. Shifting between the spectacle of a massive comeback and the fragile ties behind it, it reveals how art can outlast ego, politics, and time.
🎥 Just Sing
(Fri, Apr 24th — limited release; in NY and LA)
For one ambitious group of college singers, harmony comes with a ticking clock. As the SoCal VoCals prepare for one last run at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, graduation looms and the pressure to deliver their best performance builds. This intimate documentary follows the group through intense rehearsals, personal hurdles, and the bonds that form between voices chasing the same dream.
🎥 Speed Racer
(Sat, Apr 25th — re-release; an IMAX special event)
Ahead of its newly remastered Blu-ray release on May 19th, this cult 2008 live-action take on Tatsuo Yoshida’s classic anime speeds back into theaters for a special theatrical event. Once written off as a box office flop, the Wachowskis’ wildly colorful, high-octane spectacle shows how time can turn a misunderstood swing into a fan-favorite.
🎥 The Silence of The Lambs: 35th Anniversary
(Sun, Apr 26th and Wed, Apr 29th — re-release; via Fathom Ent.)
As one of the rare horror films to sweep the Oscars, this landmark serial killer thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins introduced one of cinema’s most iconic villains: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Directed by Oscar-winner Jonathan Demme, the film still lingers in the collective imagination as a chilling portrait of FBI trainee Clarice Starling, drawn into the twisted hunt for the elusive Buffalo Bill. The 1991 classic returns to theaters for its 35th anniversary... and the silence still cuts deep.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool
(Wed, Apr 22nd — premiering on Netflix)
Fame comes fast, but staying grounded takes work. This intimate music documentary follows breakout country star Lainey Wilson as she balances life on the road, rising expectations, and the personal fight to hold onto the voice that started it all.
🎦 Apex
(Fri, Apr 24th — premiering on Netflix)
Some quality time in the wild might seem like the perfect escape… until it turns into something far more dangerous than expected. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest), this stripped-down survival thriller follows a backpacker (Charlize Theron) hoping to test her limits, only to find herself in the crosshairs of a sadistic hunter (Taron Egerton). As she’s forced into a brutal game of life and death, the Australian wilderness becomes both battleground and lifeline, where survival depends on staying one step ahead.
🎦 Marty Supreme
(Fri, Apr 24th — streaming on HBO MAX)
Timothée Chalamet plays a brash, overconfident 1950s New York ping pong hustler who decides the game of table tennis is his ticket to immortality, fueled by ego, ambition, and a gift for believing his own hype. As his meteoric rise turns sport into spectacle, obsession threatens to swallow him whole. Directed by Josh Safdie and co-starring Odessa A’zion, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary, this Oscar-nominated hyper-charged period drama reframes the American Dream as a sweaty, chaotic hustle where winning might be the most dangerous move of all.
🎦 No Other Choice
(Fri, Apr 24th — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
Lee Byung-hun stars in acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s razor-sharp, class-conscious thriller as a longtime paper industry manager whose comfortable life unravels after a sudden layoff, driving him to secure his family’s future by methodically eliminating his job competition one rival at a time.
🎦 Dolly
(Fri, Apr 24th — streaming on Shudder)
A quiet getaway spirals into captivity when a young woman is abducted by a porcelain-faced killer who wants to turn her into his surrogate child. Fabianne Therese stars opposite Seann William Scott in this grimy ’70s grindhouse throwback, where a grotesque dollhouse becomes the stage for psychological torment and survival.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Tow
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
Inspired by a true story, recent Oscar nominee Rose Byrne stars as a struggling Seattle woman living out of her aging Toyota Camry while trying to rebuild her life and reconnect with her teenage child (Elsie Fisher). When the car is suddenly towed and impounded, she loses both her transportation and the last place she can call home. With the help of a young lawyer (Dominic Sessa), she challenges a towing company’s predatory practices, turning her fight into a class-action battle for fairness and accountability.
✅ Protector
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
Cross the wrong mother and you won’t like the outcome. Milla Jovovich leads the action thriller as Nikki, a decorated war hero pulled back into combat mode when her teenage daughter is abducted by a trafficking ring. Directed by Adrian Grünberg, the film sends Nikki on a relentless hunt that blends Rambo grit with Taken urgency, proving these predators picked the worst possible target to cross.
✅ Mabel
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
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.
✅ Weekend At The End Of The World
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
This offbeat indie comedy follows two well-meaning doofuses who duck away to a remote cabin chasing a quick payday, only to accidentally unleash a reality-warping darkness they barely understand. Starring Clay Elliott and Cameron Fife alongside Thomas Lennon and Troian Bellisario, what begins as a laid-back weekend scheme quickly turns into a frantic scramble to keep existence intact after two hapless friends accidentally set off the apocalypse.
✅ The Serpent’s Skin
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
In this supernatural lesbian romance from Australian horror filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay, a young woman escapes a hostile hometown and finds connection with a magnetic goth tattoo artist. But when a demonic force they unleash begins feeding on those around them, their passion takes a darker turn, forcing them to confront trauma and self-doubt before it pulls them apart.
✅ Jaunt
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
Sometimes the road knows where you’re headed before you do. Directed by Alexi Papalexopoulos and starring Blake Worrell and Emanuela Boisbouvier, this soulful romantic dramedy follows a washed-up photographer and a free-spirited traveler whose impulsive trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco stirs up buried truths that could either bring them closer... or pull them apart.
✅ Late Shift
(Tues, Apr 21st — on VOD/Digital)
From acclaimed Swiss filmmaker Petra Volpe, this tense medical drama stars German actress Leonie Benesch as an overworked nurse pushed to her limits by exhaustion, understaffing, and the ticking clock during a grueling overnight shift. Unfolding in near real time, small disruptions quickly escalate into life-or-death stakes, where every choice matters and the strain of holding it all together intensifies with each passing minute.
✅ Sound of Falling
(Fri, Apr 24th — on VOD/Digital)
From writer-director Mascha Schilinski comes this singular Cannes Jury Prize winner. Starring Hanna Heckt and Lena Urzendowsky, the acclaimed German drama traces four girls across different eras—from the brink of World War I to the early 21st century—all bound by the same Altmark farmstead and the quiet weight of history lingering in its walls.
⇯ See Above: ✅The Wolf and the Lamb (Fri, Apr 24; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Kevin
(Mon, Apr 20th — on Prime Video)
Nine lives, zero stability. After a cushy home life implodes, a pampered housecat (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) is dumped into a scrappy Queens rescue, where survival means mingling with a loud, unfiltered crew of misfits. Co-created by Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert, this offbeat animated comedy turns feline identity into an existential crisis... ’cuz finding yourself is harder when you used to have everything.
📺 4x20: Quick Hits
(Mon, Apr 20th — on Hulu/Disney+)
Four stories. Four filmmakers. One very hazy throughline. This laid-back anthology docuseries breaks cannabis culture into four bite-sized chapters, drifting from cult ’80s oddities and High Times lore to stoner comedy legacy and the underground art of glass-blown bongs. With Jimmy Kimmel executive producing, this breezy, smoke-filled ride shows how one plant sparked decades of creativity, controversy, and counterculture.
📺 Funny AF with Kevin Hart
(Mon, Apr 20th — on Netflix)
Stand-up isn’t just about landing jokes, it’s about surviving the room. This high-energy competition series follows comedian Kevin Hart hitting the road with comedy heavyweights, scouting fresh talent and throwing them into a gauntlet of live sets where every crowd reaction counts. With brutal rounds and audience votes deciding who stays or goes, the next breakout comic might only be one tough room away.
📺 Unchosen
(Tues, Apr 21st — on Netflix)
This British thriller series follows a devoted wife and mother (Molly Windsor) whose life inside a strict religious sect begins to unravel when a mysterious outsider (Fra Fee) arrives seeking refuge, exposing cracks in both her marriage to her devout husband (Asa Butterfield) and the belief system she’s built her world around. Created by Julie Gearey, this slow-burn drama tightens into a crisis of faith where control, devotion, and freedom are constantly at odds.
📺 Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill
(Tues, Apr 21st — on Netflix)
One lesson. One feud. And one moment that changed everything. This twisty true-crime entry in Netflix’s Untold series follows a retired Olympic equestrian trainer and his new student as mentorship sours into paranoia, accusations, and escalating tension. As 911 calls pile up and claims of spying surface, their tightly controlled world fractures, until the conflict erupts into a shocking act of violence that rocks the equestrian scene.
📺 This Is a Gardening Show
(Wed, Apr 22nd — on Netflix)
Comedian Zach Galifianakis trades awkward punchlines for dirt under his nails in this offbeat gardening series that grows stranger the deeper it digs. What starts as a laid-back crash course in plant life slowly blooms into something more personal, as Galifianakis mixes deadpan humor with a quietly reflective journey. It’s less about perfect gardens and more about slowing down, getting a little weird, and finding connection in the process.
📺 Hulk Hogan: Real American
(Wed, Apr 22nd — on Netflix)
Before the bandana, ripped shirts, and the roar of the crowd, there was just Terry Bollea. This raw four-part docuseries uses his final interview to peel back the myth of a wrestling icon, tracing the rise of Hulkamania through the chaos of the nWo era with voices like Bret “The Hitman” Hart and Kevin Nash filling in the gaps. What emerges is a revealing look at the man behind the persona, the ego, and the controversies, where legacy, truth, and self-reflection collide.
📺 Criminal Record: Season 2
(Wed, Apr 22nd — on Apple TV)
A stabbing at a political rally pulls two rivals back into the same orbit. Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo play tenacious detectives forced into a fragile partnership as a routine murder case spirals into an undercover mission tied to a far-right bomb plot threatening London. Trust is scarce, the stakes keep rising, and every move risks setting off something far bigger than either of them expected.
📺 SisterS: Season 2
(Wed, Apr 22nd — on Acorn TV)
This Irish-Canadian dramedy series follows two newly discovered half-sisters who hit the road to track down their elusive, alcoholic father, only to find their own baggage riding shotgun. Co-creators and stars Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley return for a second season that digs into infertility, illness, and the emotional fallout they can’t outrun.
📺 Killing Grounds: The Gilgo Beach Murders
(Wed, Apr 22nd — on Prime Video)
A quiet stretch of shoreline hides a decades-long nightmare. This true-crime docuseries revisits the chilling discoveries along Gilgo Beach, where multiple victims and years of unanswered questions turned the case into one of the nation’s most unsettling mysteries.
📺 Half Man
(Thurs, Apr 23rd — on HBO MAX)
Some bonds are built like family, and can also break like glass. Baby Reindeer creator/star Richard Gadd stars opposite Jamie Bell as two men raised as brothers whose uneasy reunion sparks violence and sends this decades-spanning drama spiraling through 30 years of buried family trauma and resentment. As the past peels back layer by layer, their shared history reveals a connection so intimate it becomes dangerous... because no one knows how to hurt you quite like a sibling who knows you best.
📺 Running Point: Season 2
(Thurs, Apr 23rd — on Netflix)
Winning may have fixed the team, but it complicates just about everything. Kate Hudson returns as Isla Gordon, the newly proven team president of the Los Angeles Waves, facing fresh pressure as family rivalries resurface and power plays intensify behind the scenes. With executive producers Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen steering this basketball comedy, success might be the one thing that makes Isla’s job even harder to keep.
📺 Stranger Things: Tales From ’85
(Thurs, Apr 23rd — on Netflix)
Snow days don’t stay quiet in Hawkins for long. This animated throwback rewinds the clock to the winter between Seasons 2 and 3, finding the Hawkins crew (Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will, and Max) still clinging to normalcy as a new threat stirs beneath the town’s frozen surface. With executive producers Eric Robles and the Duffer Brothers leaning into ’80s cartoon energy, this smaller mystery still carries a familiar chill: in Hawkins, danger never really takes a season off.
📺 Flunked
(Thurs, Apr 23rd — on Netflix)
A con with a lesson plan and nowhere to hide. In this offbeat French comedy series, Alexandre Kominek plays a math whiz turned low-level crook who goes undercover as a teacher to track down a crime boss’s child, only to find the classroom far harder to control than any heist. With Laurence Arné, Leslie Medina costarring, and from Lupin co-creator François Uzan, proves some covers are tougher to maintain than others.
📺 Nikki Glaser: Good Girl
(Fri, Apr 24th — on Hulu/Disney+)
Getting older in Hollywood isn’t for the faint of heart... and Nikki Glaser isn’t pretending otherwise. In this no-filter stand-up special, she takes aim at aging, beauty standards, and the pressure to stay desirable in an industry that never looks away. Armed with biting honesty and self-aware humor, she turns personal anxieties into brutally funny punchlines.
📺 If Wishes Could Kill
(Fri, Apr 24th — on Netflix)
Five wishes, one ticking clock, and no way to opt out. Jeon So-young, Kang Mi-na, and Baek Sun-ho play high schoolers drawn into a sinister app that grants their desires before predicting exactly how they’ll die. As the countdown closes in, this Korean horror series turns every wish into a gamble... because getting what you want might seal your fate.
📺 My Brother the Minotaur
(Fri, Apr 24th — on AppleTV)
Normal is just the starting point for something bigger. This colorful animated adventure follows a young minotaur raised among humans who begins dreaming of a past that doesn’t quite add up. With his brother and a loyal group of friends, he sets out on a heartfelt quest to uncover where he belongs; proving that figuring yourself out might be the wildest journey of all.
