What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: January 19 thru January 25, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Need a checklist on what you might want to check out this week? You’re in the right place. We’ve rounded up all the major movie and TV releases landing over the next few days. So whether you’re planning a trip to your local theater this weekend or settling in at home to sample the latest streaming options, consider this your go-to guide for what’s worth putting on your watchlist this week.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Mercy
(Fri, Jan 23rd — wide release)
A near-future real-time thriller where the law no longer listens... it calculates! Chris Pratt stars as a former L.A. cop unjustly accused of murdering his wife and given 90 minutes to convince an A.I. judge (Rebecca Ferguson) that he’s innocent. If he can’t expose the real killer before the clock runs out, the system won’t hesitate—and it won’t feel a thing.
🎥 Return to Silent Hill
(Fri, Jan 23rd — wide release)
Jeremy Irvine stars as a broken man lured back to the fog-drenched town of Silent Hill by a letter from his supposedly dead wife (Hannah Emily Anderson), only to find a nightmare shaped by guilt, memory, and shifting reality. As familiar monsters return and new horrors close in, the question isn’t whether the town will destroy him... but whether it’s exposing something he can’t survive facing.
🎥 The Testament of Ann Lee
(Fri, Jan 23rd — expands wide)
A raw, dirt-under-the-fingernails historical drama that ditches powdered wigs for sweat, song, and spiritual fervor. Amanda Seyfried delivers a ferocious, awards-ready turn as a real-life radical religious leader whose ecstatic faith and defiant vision of equality ignite a volatile movement in an unforgiving 18th-century world—where devotion is expressed through trembling bodies, sacred dance, and an all-consuming belief that borders on the dangerous.
🎥 Arco
(Fri, Jan 23rd — expands wide)
The future literally crashes into the end of the world in this vibrant animated sci-fi adventure from French animator Ugo Bienvenu. Produced and voiced by Oscar-winner Natalie Portman, the inventive fantasy follows a young boy accidentally flung from a peaceful tomorrow into a shattered 2075, where survival hinges on quick thinking, unlikely friendships, and a stubborn belief that hope isn’t extinct yet. Saving the planet may be the only way he ever makes it home.
🎥 H Is for Hawk
(Fri, Jan 23rd — limited release)
A tender British drama where grief becomes a quiet act of survival. Claire Foy plays a woman shattered by her father’s death who retreats into solitude and forms a fierce, fragile bond with a wild goshawk as a way of enduring her loss, with Brendan Gleeson appearing as the father she can’t let go of. As the bird learns to fly free, she’s forced to confront the painful truth that healing doesn’t come from holding on, but from learning when to release.
🎥 In Cold Light
(Fri, Jan 23rd — limited release)
Longlegs star Maika Monroe stars in this gritty small-town crime thriller playing an ex–drug dealer framed for murder and forced to go on the offensive, with Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur as her estranged father and Oscar-winner Helen Hunt looming as the ruthless crime boss who wants her erased for good. In a town with no safe ground, staying alive means moving first and trusting no one.
🎥 Clika
(Fri, Jan 23rd — limited release)
A gritty music drama where viral fame comes fast... and consequences come faster. Herencia de Patrones singer Jesús Diego aka “JayDee” stars as a small-town musician swept into the spotlight of the new Mexican-American music wave, where success brings money, pressure, and real danger. As ambition tightens its grip, he’s forced to decide how much of himself he’s willing to lose to keep the dream alive.
🎥 Dooba Dooba
(Fri, Jan 23rd — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
A routine babysitting job spirals into a slow-burn nightmare in this found-footage thriller from director Ehrland Hollingsworth. Told entirely through in-home security cameras, the film traps viewers inside a suburban pressure cooker as a babysitter becomes the target of relentless psychological torment. With a disturbed 16-year-old pulling the strings, every camera turns into a weapon and escape stops being an option.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
(Wed, Jan 21st — premiering on Netflix)
A sobering true-crime documentary that centers survival over spectacle. Elizabeth Smart recounts her 2002 abduction and nine months of captivity in her own words, guiding viewers through trauma, endurance, and the long road back. What emerges isn’t just a case revisited, but a testament to reclaiming voice after unimaginable trauma and loss.
🎦 From the Ashes: The Pit
(Thurs, Jan 22nd — premiering on Netflix)
Trapped at the bottom of a massive sinkhole, three Saudi Arabian schoolgirls fight to escape in this claustrophobic survival thriller, a sequel to the 2024 school disaster movie. As fear, resentment, and long-simmering conflicts close in alongside the collapsing earth, getting out alive may be easier than confronting what’s waiting in the dark with them.
🎦 Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
(Thurs, Jan 22nd and Fri, Jan 23rd — premiering on HBO MAX)
From directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, this celebratory two-part documentary pays tribute to the unstoppable career of legendary comedian Mel Brooks, revisiting decades of groundbreaking comedy, cultural impact, and unapologetic irreverence as he approaches his 99th birthday.
🎦 Mother of Flies
(Fri, Jan 23rd — premiering on Shudder)
Hailing from the Adams Family—an entire clan of DIY horror filmmakers including actress and filmmaker Toby Poser, actor and filmmaker John Adams, and their daughters Zelda and Lulu—this lo-fi indie horror ritual insists that healing always comes with a price. Zelda Adams stars as a young woman facing a terminal diagnosis who turns to a reclusive witch (played by her real-life mother, Poser) and submits herself to three days of brutal, death-soaked rites. What begins as a desperate bid for survival slowly dismantles comfort, certainty, and the illusion that redemption comes without a cost.
🎦 Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(Fri, Jan 23rd — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
A stripped-down music biopic where fame goes quiet and the ghosts get loud. The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White stars as legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen retreating from the spotlight to confront isolation, doubt, and the creative demons behind his stark 1982 album, Nebraska. In the silence between songs, it aims to strip away the myth and reveal the man beneath.
🎦 The Big Fake
(Fri, Jan 23rd — premiering on Netflix)
Aspiring painter Toni Chichiarelli’s gift for forgery pulls him from studio walls into the corridors of crime and politics, where every masterpiece comes with a price. Directed by Stefano Lodovichi and starring Pietro Castellitto, this sleek Italian thriller draws on a real-life art forgery case in 1970s Rome and examines how far one man is willing to go to carve his name into history.
🎦 The Smashing Machine
(Fri, Jan 23rd — streaming on HBO MAX)
Dwayne Johnson sheds his larger-than-life persona to play Mark Kerr, a legendary MMA fighter whose dominance in the ring masks addiction, vulnerability, and a life slowly coming apart. Emily Blunt co-stars as the partner both holding him together and pulling him deeper into his spiral. As the damage mounts and the cheers fade, the real fight becomes surviving himself in this bruising 1990s-set sports drama from acclaimed filmmaker Benny Safdie.
🎦 Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie
(Fri, Jan 23rd — streaming on Peacock)
Laila Lockhart Kraner brings Gabby to life in the live-action adaptation of Netflix’s hit kids’ series, joining Gloria Estefan’s Grandma Gigi for a cat-tastic road trip to Cat Francisco. When Kristen Wiig’s eccentric Vera swipes Gabby’s beloved dollhouse, Gabby must reunite the Gabby Cats in a whimsical adventure to save it.
🎦 La Grazia
(Fri, Jan 23rd — streaming on MUBI)
A leader torn between faith and duty faces the most human of dilemmas in this lush, contemplative drama from Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty). As Italy’s president (Toni Servillo) weighs life, death, and the possible legalization of euthanasia, the film unfolds with Sorrentino’s signature grandeur and aching introspection—a meditation on power, grace, and legacy.
🎦 Secret Mall Apartment
(Fri, Jan 23rd — streaming on Netflix)
Executive produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction documentary follows a group of friends who secretly built and lived in an apartment hidden inside a bustling shopping mall. What started as a prank becomes an audacious experiment in creativity, community, and how long you can exist in plain sight before someone notices.
🎦 Eleanor the Great
(Sat, Jan 24th — streaming on Netflix)
Scarlett Johansson steps behind the camera for her directorial debut, a heartfelt tale of loss, memory, and unlikely friendship. June Squibb stars as Eleanor, a sharp-tongued senior citizen whose personal stories of loss and heartbreak captivate a grieving young journalist, played by Erin Kellyman. Joined by Chiwetel Ejiofor as Kellyman’s news anchor father, the film bridges generations with humor and tenderness. Proof that even at 94, life still has chapters worth telling, even if some of those stories aren’t entirely factual.
🎦 The Strangers: Chapter 2
(Sat, Jan 24th — streaming on STARZ)
Madelaine Petsch returns as Maya in director Renny Harlin’s second installment of the reimagined horror trilogy, waking in a hospital only to suspect the entire town is in on the terror. Following the events of Chapter 1, survival proves to be just the beginning as paranoia spreads. With the trilogy filmed back-to-back, Harlin doubles down on suspense and blood-soaked dread. In this second chapter, the strangers aren’t just outside the door... they might be everyone around you.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Merrily We Roll Along
(Tues, Jan 20th — on VOD/Digital)
Maria Friedman directs this live-taped adaptation of the beloved stage production charting three decades of friendship, ambition, and regret in reverse. Featuring some of Stephen Sondheim’s most personal and enduring songs and featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez, this new cinematic version reintroduces a timeless tale of art, love, and the price of success.
✅ The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(Tues, Jan 20th — on VOD/Digital)
SpongeBob dives into his biggest adventure yet, tailing the legendary Flying Dutchman to prove he’s finally a “big guy.” What starts as a bravery test spirals into a joke-packed plunge through the ocean’s weirdest depths, delivering high-seas chaos, goofy monsters, and classic nautical nonsense at full throttle.
✅ Little Trouble Girls
(Tues, Jan 20th — on VOD/Digital)
A shy 16-year-old teen, Lucija (Jara Sofija Ostan), finds herself drawn into a world of temptation and transformation during a choir retreat that tests her beliefs and her bonds. Winner of Best Cinematography at Tribeca, Urska Djukic’s acclaimed debut captures the turbulence of adolescence with striking intimacy and poetic realism.
✅ Vincent Must Die
(Tues, Jan 20th — on VOD/Digital)
In Stéphan Castang’s darkly satirical thriller, Karim Leklou plays an ordinary man who becomes public enemy number one when everyone suddenly tries to kill him. Equal parts black comedy and survival horror, it’s Office Space meets 28 Days Later—with existential laughs and blood to spare.
✅ Savage Flowers
(Tues, Jan 20th — on VOD/Digital)
Set in a world decimated by a deadly infection carried by children, this British horror thriller from director Brad Watson follows a young orphan who believes she’s found safety inside a decaying foster home on the edge of the apocalypse. That illusion doesn’t last. The real threat isn’t the ruin outside, but the volatile group of girls within.
⇯ See Above: ✅Dooba Dooba (Fri, Jan 23; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Star Search: Live Event
(Tues, Jan 20th — on Netflix, LIVE at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT)
A live talent competition where careers are made, or stalled in real time. Hosted by Anthony Anderson, this five-week Netflix event pits singers, dancers, comedians, and variety acts against each other under the eyes of celebrity judges Jelly Roll, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Chrissy Teigen, with viewers voting from home. When the outcome is decided live, every performance counts, and there’s no second take.
📺 Just a Dash: Season 3
(Tues, Jan 20th — on Netflix)
A chaotic food-comedy series where the kitchen is optional and the mess is guaranteed. The Bear producer-actor and chef Matty Matheson hits the road with no plan, no home base, and no rules, mixing sketch comedy with unapologetic food obsession wherever he lands. When structure disappears, the only thing left is pure, unfiltered culinary chaos.
📺 Handsome Devil: Charming Killer
(Tues, Jan 20th — on Paramount+)
Directed by Brian Ross, this three-part true crime docuseries investigates the case of Wade Wilson, a Florida man arrested for the murders of two women. The series explores how Wilson’s mugshot and “bad boy” persona led to an unexpected and disturbing social media obsession among fans.
📺 The Beauty
(Wed, Jan 21st — on FX on Hulu/Disney+)
Beauty is instant and consequences are fatal in Ryan Murphy’s new FX series, a glossy body-horror thriller based on Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley’s graphic novel. Ashton Kutcher stars as a tech tycoon who unleashes a miracle drug promising instant beauty and flawlessness, while Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall, as FBI agents, dig into the brutal fallout it leaves behind. In a world where desire is monetized and empathy is optional, chasing perfection becomes a lethal business model.
📺 Steal
(Wed, Jan 21st — on Prime Video)
In this new British thriller series where a daylight robbery targets far more than cash, Sophie Turner stars as an office worker forced into survival mode when armed thieves seize her workplace. With a fellow officer worker (Archie Madekwe) dragged in as an unwilling accomplice and a haunted detective (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) racing to stop it from the outside, motives sharpen, pressure mounts, and the real crime threatens to devastate lives long after the doors reopen.
📺 Drops of God: Season 2
(Wed, Jan 21st — on Apple TV)
This multilingual French-Japanese series stars Fleur Geffrier and Tomohisa Yamashita as wine geniuses Camille and Issei. In the second season, the rivals must join forces to uncover the origin of the world’s greatest wine—a mystery that their legendary late father was never able to solve.
📺 Queer Eye: Season 10 (Final Season)
(Wed, Jan 21st — on Netflix)
A heartfelt final chapter where transformation meets goodbye. The Fab Five head to Washington, D.C., delivering one last round of life-changing makeovers to local heroes while reflecting on how far the journey has come. As the curtain falls, the real transformation isn’t just the makeovers... it’s the legacy they leave behind.
📺 Free Bert
(Thurs, Jan 22nd — on Netflix)
Comedian Bert Kreischer plays a heightened version of himself dropped into elite Beverly Hills parent culture after his daughters land spots at a prestigious private school, forcing him to attempt the unthinkable: growing up. As his efforts to fit in backfire spectacularly, he’s left to decide whether becoming “normal” is worth losing the chaos that defines him.
📺 Finding Her Edge
(Thurs, Jan 22nd — on Netflix)
Starring Madelyn Keys and Cale Ambrozic, this teen drama follows Adriana Russo as she trains for the World Figure Skating Championships while harboring feelings for her former partner and first love. To save her family’s struggling rink, Adriana and her new partner Brayden must pretend to be a couple off the ice to land a crucial sponsorship.
📺 Skyscraper Live
(Fri, Jan 23rd — on Netflix, LIVE at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT)
This isn’t just another climbing doc—it’s a high-wire experiment in live television, with no safety net, no edits, and absolutely zero margin for error. Free-solo icon Alex Honnold pushes his discipline into terrifying new territory as he scales Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings on the planet, in real time for a global audience.
📺 Memory of a Killer
(Sun, Jan 25th — on FOX)
Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey returns to network TV as a professional hitman whose carefully constructed double life starts to crumble after a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s. As his memory declines, survival depends on whether he can still trust his instincts, while Gina Torres closes in as an FBI agent and his daughter (Odeya Rush) begins to see the truth about who her father really is. Michael Imperioli co-stars as his longtime handler, because in this line of work, forgetting how to do the job doesn’t earn retirement... it earns a bullet!
📺 It’s Not Like That
(Sun, Jan 25th — Wonder Project on Prime Video)
From the writers of Life As We Know It and Parenthood comes a tender, character-driven drama series starring Scott Foley, Erinn Hayes, and JR Ramirez about two fractured families finding connection after everything falls apart. He’s a widowed pastor raising three kids; she’s newly divorced, navigating two teenagers and a future she never planned. This isn’t a rushed love story, but a quietly emotional look at how grief, faith, and responsibility reshape relationships in unexpected ways.
