What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: May 25 thru May 31, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Now that May is drawing to a close, with some major releases already out and making their mark, this week still has plenty of new movies and shows worth getting excited about. The summer season is about to heat up in a big way as the calendar gets ready to flip another page, which means new releases are only going to get bigger, louder, and a lot harder to keep up with. So, consider this week a good time to catch up before the summer rush really kicks into gear.
As always, we’ve pulled together a quick guide to what’s arriving over the next few days across theaters, TV, streaming, and VOD. So whether you’re heading out to the movies or staying in with the remote within arm’s reach, scroll down and see what catches your eye. Chances are, something will.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 Backrooms
(Fri, May 29th — wide release)
YouTube creator Kane Parsons turns his viral creepypasta shorts into a full-blown theatrical horror film, dragging audiences into an endless maze of empty office rooms, dead-end corridors, and reality-bending dread. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star as a troubled man and his therapist pulled into a secret dimension where getting lost may be the least terrifying part.
🎥 The Breadwinner
(Fri, May 29th — wide release)
Nate Bargatze trades stand-up calm for stay-at-home chaos in this family comedy about a laid-back dad suddenly promoted to full-time household commander. When his wife (Mandy Moore) lands a major career opportunity, Nate is left juggling three daughters, school schedules, chores, and the terrifying realization that parenting is not a side gig. Colin Jost, Kumail Nanjiani, and Will Forte round out the cast in a comedy where dad jokes may not be enough to save the day.
🎥 Pressure
(Fri, May 29th — wide release)
History doesn’t get much heavier than the days before D-Day. Brendan Fraser stars as General Dwight D. Eisenhower, facing the impossible call of when to launch the Allied invasion, while Andrew Scott plays meteorologist James Stagg, whose weather forecast could alter the course of World War II. Directed by Hotel Mumbai helmer Anthony Maras, this tense historical drama turns military strategy into a nerve-rattling countdown where hesitation and miscalculation could cost thousands of lives.
🎥 Power Ballad
(Fri, May 29th — limited release)
Sing Street and Once filmmaker John Carney returns to the messy business of making music with this song-driven dramedy about creativity, credit, and one hit single with two possible fathers. Paul Rudd stars as a washed-up songwriter-turned-wedding singer whose late-night jam with Nick Jonas’s fading pop star turns into a comeback smash, a stolen-song feud, and one very tuneful fight over who gets to claim the glory.
🎥 The Last Viking
(Fri, May 29th — limited release; and on ✅VOD/Digital)
Family reunions are tricky enough before buried robbery money enters the picture. Nikolaj Lie Kaas stars as a recently released convict trying to recover his hidden loot, only to discover that his eccentric brother, played by a wonderfully against-type Mads Mikkelsen, can’t remember where it is. From Riders of Justice filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, this offbeat Danish crime comedy turns a desperate treasure hunt into a darkly funny excavation of sibling rivalry where forgiveness may be harder to find than the cash.
🎥 Pitfall
(Fri, May 29th — limited release)
One wrong step turns a peaceful outdoor trip into a dirt-covered nightmare. Richard Harmon stars as a young man who gets separated from his friends and falls into a spike-lined pit that definitely wasn’t built by nature. Trapped, injured, and possibly being watched, he must figure out how to survive when escape is ten feet above him and danger may be waiting at the edge.
🎥 Time and Water
(Fri, May 29th — limited release)
Iceland’s melting glaciers become both warning and memory in this National Geographic documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sara Dosa. Poet and author Andri Snær Magnason reflects on climate change through family archives, photographs, songs, and folklore, turning a changing landscape into something deeply personal.
🎥 Speed Demon
(Sun, May 31st — limited release; and on ✅VOD/Digital)
Katie Cassidy and William H. Macy board the train ride from hell in this exorcism thriller on rails. When a demon begins possessing passengers, Sister Lu and Father Novak are trapped inside a speeding nightmare with nowhere to run and very little room for holy water. Directed by Jon Keeyes, the film combines supernatural horror with runaway-train tension, because apparently evil now prefers public transportation.
🎥 Tekkonkinkreet (Remastered in 4K)
(Sun, May 31st and Mon, June 1st — re-release)
STUDIO4°C’s cult anime returns to theaters in a new 4K remaster, bringing Treasure Town back in all its strange, kinetic glory. Based on Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga, the story follows orphaned street kids Black and White as they fight to protect their crumbling city from gangsters, yakuza, alien assassins, and darker forces closing in.
🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Scream 7
(Thurs, May 28th — streaming on Paramount+)
Ghostface has a new target, and Sidney Prescott has a terrifying reason to pick up the phone again. Neve Campbell returns as Sidney’s teenage daughter (played by Isabel May) becomes the killer’s latest obsession, dragging old wounds into fresh bloodshed. With franchise co-creator Kevin Williamson directing, this slasher sequel proves survival rules were made to be broken.
🎦 Miss You, Love You
(Fri, May 29th — premiering on HBO MAX)
Grief makes for strange company in this darkly funny HBO dramedy about loss, funeral plans, and the unexpected people who show up when family falls short. Allison Janney stars as a blunt widow forced to plan her husband’s funeral with her estranged son’s assistant, played here by Andrew Rannells. Written and directed by comic actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter Jim Rash (The Descendants), this odd-couple story suggests that family is sometimes the person willing to stand beside you when everything else falls apart.
🎦 Propeller One-Way Night Coach
(Fri, May 29th — premiering on Apple TV)
With his directing beret on, John Travolta takes flight behind the camera for his feature directorial debut with this schmaltzy family adventure based on his own children’s book. Newcomer Clark Shotwell stars as an eight-year-old aviation dreamer whose cross-country trip with his mother turns into a wide-eyed journey through airports, airplanes, and first-class wonder. With Travolta and daughter Ella Bleu joining the ride, this coming-of-age tale is cleared for sentimental takeoff.
🎦 Dead Man’s Wire
(Fri, May 29th — streaming on Netflix)
Bill Skarsgård stars as Tony Kiritsis, a desperate man facing foreclosure who turns a wired shotgun and a kidnapped mortgage broker into a live-TV spectacle. Directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring Al Pacino, this true-crime dramatization watches one man’s breaking point become a media circus with a deadly trigger.
🎦 The Moment
(Fri, May 29th — streaming on HBO MAX)
Charli XCX plays a heightened version of herself in this darkly satirical music romp about a pop star spiraling as fame, branding, and performance swallow her whole. Inspired by “brat summer,” this psychological fever dream turns a world tour into an identity crisis where the spotlight doesn’t just follow her... it starts devouring her alive.
✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ Over Your Dead Body
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
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.
✅ Animal Farm: A Cautionary Tale
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
Revolution gets messy once the pigs discover the perks of power. This animated take on George Orwell’s classic fable follows a farmyard uprising that begins with dreams of equality, only to unravel into propaganda, fear, and four-legged tyranny. With Seth Rogen voicing Napoleon, Andy Serkis directing, and Nicholas Stoller writing, this darkly comic allegory proves some animals are more equal than others.
✅ Desert Warrior
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
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
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
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.
✅ My Best Friend’s Dead
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
Caitlin Duffy stars as a grieving recluse whose attempt to bring back her murdered best friend unleashes something far worse than death. Directed by Bruce Wemple and co-starring Anna Shields, this eerie horror thriller turns grief into a supernatural curse, as missing men, buried secrets, and one deadly presence drag a quiet town into nightmare territory.
✅ Two Prosecutors
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa turns Stalin’s Great Terror into a suffocating historical thriller about one man searching for truth inside a machine built to bury it. Aleksandr Kuznetsov stars as prosecutor Alexander Kornyev, whose secret letter from a prisoner sends him to Moscow and straight into a system where fear speaks louder than justice.
✅ The Champion
(Tues, May 26th — on VOD/Digital)
Every punch carries the weight of survival in this true-story-inspired WWII drama. Piotr Witkowski stars as Teddy Pietrzykowski, the Polish Warsaw boxing champion forced to fight inside Auschwitz for the entertainment of Nazi officers. Directed by Maciej Barczewski, this harrowing wartime drama turns the ring into a brutal battleground where hope becomes the one thing they can’t beat out of him.
✅ Iron Lung
(Sun, May 31st — on VOD/Digital; ★ YouTube Exclusive ★)
Popular YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Mark Fischbach makes his directorial debut with this bleak sci-fi horror adaptation of David Szymanski’s cult video game. Set after a cosmic disaster wipes the stars from the sky, Fischbach stars as a convict trapped inside a fragile submarine on a suicide mission beneath an alien sea of blood, turning isolation and cosmic dread into a suffocating descent where escape is always just out of reach.
⇯ See Above: ✅The Last Viking (Fri, May 29; VOD/Digital)
⇯ See Above: ✅Speed Demon (Sun, May 31; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
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📺 Summerwater
(Mon, May 25th — on Acorn TV)
A quiet Scottish holiday park becomes a pressure cooker in this ensemble drama adapted from Sarah Moss’s novel. Dougray Scott, Shirley Henderson, Valene Kane, Arnas Fedaravičius, Anna Próchniak, and Daniel Rigby star as vacationers whose peaceful getaway by the loch begins to reveal hidden tensions, private wounds, and emotional fault lines. Sunshine, scenery, and simmering dread? That’s one vacation package nobody asked for.
📺 World War II With Tom Hanks
(Mon, May 25th — on History Channel)
Tom Hanks guides viewers through the defining moments of World War II in this sweeping documentary series built around battles, strategy, espionage, codebreaking, and the staggering human cost of global conflict. With archival footage and expert insight, the series revisits the war not just as history, but as a world-shaping event filled with sacrifice, danger, and decisions that still echo today.
📺 Untold UK: Vinnie Jones
(Tues, May 26th — on Netflix)
Before Vinnie Jones became Hollywood’s go-to hardcase, he was already raising hell on the football pitch. As part of Netflix’s ongoing sports docuseries, this installment tracks Jones’s wild leap from construction worker to Wimbledon’s infamous Crazy Gang, where FA Cup glory, tabloid chaos, red cards, and reinvention turned natural swagger into a bruising film career.
📺 Spider-Noir
(Wed, May 27th — on Prime Video)
Nicolas Cage finally takes his particular brand of full-throttle weirdness to television, putting on the fedora and trench coat for a pulp-soaked Spider-Verse mystery set in 1933 New York City. Cage stars as “The Spider,” a hard-boiled gumshoe navigating mob bosses, masked villains, and a city where justice comes wrapped in shadows and cigarette smoke. With Brendan Gleeson, Jack Huston, Lamorne Morris, and Li Jun Li co-starring, this shadowy Spider-Man tale comes loaded with mob trouble, bad memories, and plenty of black-and-white attitude.
📺 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: Season 2
(Wed, May 27th — on Netflix)
Wednesday star Emma Myers returns as Pip, the teen sleuth who just can’t seem to leave trouble alone. After solving one cold case, Pip is waiting for a major trial to bring answers. But when a friend suddenly vanishes, she’s pulled into another investigation with far more personal stakes.
📺 My 2 Cents
(Wed, May 27th — on Netflix)
Keeping a neighborhood bar alive sounds cozy enough... until the bills, old grudges, and everyday disasters start piling up. From Italian cartoonist “Zerocalcare”, this animated comedy follows Zero and Wild Boar as they try to save their tiny local hangout while life keeps spilling over the counter. When a figure from the past returns, their already messy problems get one more unpaid tab.
📺 The Four Seasons: Season 2
(Thurs, May 28th — on Netflix)
Old friends, old baggage, new vacations... and apparently no emotional carry-on limit. Tina Fey, Will Forte, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Colman Domingo, Marco Calvani, and Erika Henningsen return for a second season of midlife reinvention, grief, friendship, and messy group dynamics. From the Jersey Shore to upstate New York to Italy, the gang keeps chasing relaxation while their problems insist on booking the same trip.
📺 Brazil ‘70: The Third Star
(Fri, May 29th — on Netflix)
Pelé and Brazil’s legendary 1970 national team take center stage in this scripted Netflix miniseries about pressure, politics, and the pursuit of soccer immortality. Lucas Agrícola stars as Pelé, with Rodrigo Santoro as João Saldanha and Bruno Mazzeo as Mário Zagallo, as the team tries to rebound from the disappointment of the 1966 World Cup.
📺 Murder Mindfully: Season 2
(Thurs, May 28th — on Netflix)
Self-care gets another body count in Season 2 of this German dark comedy. Tom Schilling returns as Björn Diemel, a man still balancing mafia problems with personal healing, while Peter Jordan’s therapist Joschka Breitner pushes him toward a confrontation with his inner child. Unfortunately for everyone around him, Björn’s road to emotional growth still has a nasty habit of making people disappear.
📺 Criminal Minds: Evolution: Season 19
(Thurs, May 28th — on Paramount+)
The BAU is back on the hunt, and evil apparently hasn’t run out of fresh ways to be deeply disturbing. Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez, Paget Brewster, and RJ Hatanaka return as the team investigates a new string of chilling cases. Meanwhile, serial killer Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) sits for revealing interviews that could help unlock the next nightmare... or make everything worse.
📺 Deli Boys: Season 2
(Thurs, May 28th — on Hulu/Disney+)
The Dar brothers are still trying to survive the family business, which would be stressful enough even if it weren’t also a criminal empire. Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, and Poorna Jagannathan return for another round of dirty cash, Philly crooks, and deli-counter dysfunction. With Fred Armisen, Andrew Rannells, and Kumail Nanjiani joining the chaos, Season 2 looks like crime comedy served hot, messy, and probably under investigation.
📺 The Doll Factory
(Thurs, May 28th — on The Network)
Victorian London turns dark and dangerous in this shadowy British thriller about freedom, art, and obsession. Esmé Creed-Miles stars as Iris, a frustrated shopgirl chasing dreams beyond the walls closing in around her, while Mirren Mack plays the worried sister watching danger creep closer. Based on Elizabeth Macneal’s bestselling novel, this one suggests liberation may come with a very steep price.
📺 Star City
(Fri, May 29th — on Apple TV)
History takes a hard left turn in this For All Mankind spinoff, which shifts the space race behind Soviet lines after Russia beats America to the Moon. Rhys Ifans leads the cast as the Chief Designer driving a lunar victory built on ambition, secrecy, paranoia, and state pressure. One small step for the USSR, one giant headache for everyone involved.
📺 Craig Ferguson: American On Purpose
(Sat, May 30th — on CNN)
Scottish-born comedian Craig Ferguson takes a coast-to-coast look at the American dream in this five-part CNN Original Series timed to America’s 250th anniversary. Mixing history, humor, and his own experience as a naturalized citizen, Ferguson digs into free speech, individualism, patriotism, capitalism, immigration, and all the strange contradictions baked into the national identity. Guests include Tiffany Haddish, Daymond John, Jason Biggs, KT Tunstall, Salman Rushdie, and more.
