What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: March 9 thru March 15, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
March keeps the new releases rolling, delivering a solid mix of titles landing in theaters, on VOD, and across streaming platforms this week. So whether you’re planning to head out to the movies this weekend or staying in to catch up on the latest shows and digital premieres, there are plenty of fresh options competing for your attention. And as we like to do every week, we’ve put together a list of what’s arriving over the next couple of days, both on the big screen and the small one. Think of it as your guide to what’s worth checking out before the week gets away from you. So let’s take a look and see if anything catches your eye.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 The Optimist
(Wed, Mar 11th — limited release)
Decades of silence begin to crack in this quietly powerful intergenerational drama about memory, trauma, and the courage it takes to speak. Avatar star Stephen Lang plays an aging Holocaust survivor living in isolation in Northern California, a man who has spent a lifetime burying the past. His guarded world shifts when he forms an unlikely bond with a troubled teenage outsider played by Eighth Grade’s Elsie Fisher. As their conversations deepen, painful memories begin to surface, and both discover unexpected strength in understanding each other’s stories.
🎥 Reminders of Him
(Fri, Mar 13th — wide release)
A second chance rarely comes easy in this emotionally charged redemption drama based on the novel by It Ends with Us bestselling author Colleen Hoover. Maika Monroe plays a woman returning home after seven years in prison for a tragic mistake, determined to reconnect with the young daughter she’s never met, only to face resistance from the girl’s protective grandparents (played by Lauren Graham and Bradley Whitford). When she forms a quiet bond with a wounded bar owner (portrayed by Tyriq Withers), the possibility of healing begins to emerge as they confront the fragile hope of starting over.
🎥 Undertone
(Fri, Mar 13th — wide release)
Some haunting stories don’t need ghosts… just the right sound. In this Fantasia Festival horror entry, Nina Kiri stars as a skeptical paranormal podcast host investigating strange audio recordings sent by a couple who believe their home is haunted. While reviewing the eerie files with her unseen co-host (voiced by Kris Holden-Ried), the noises begin creeping into her own life, turning a simple investigation into something far more disturbing than she expected. From first-time filmmaker Ian Tuason, this sound-driven horror piece transforms headphones and disembodied voices into a chilling immersive experience where what you hear becomes far more terrifying than what you see.
🎥 Kiki’s Delivery Service
(Fri, Mar 13th — re-release; IMAX release)
This beloved Studio Ghibli fantasy returns to theaters in a new 4K IMAX remaster, following a young witch-in-training who begins her traditional year of independence in a coastal city. As she launches a delivery service and builds a life among the townspeople, her magical abilities begin to falter under the pressure of loneliness and self-doubt. Through friendship and perseverance, she learns to find balance between independence and connection in this cherished coming-of-age adventure.
🎥 Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
(Fri, Mar 13th — limited release)
This sweeping post-apocalyptic fantasy from directors Domagoj Mazuran and Zoran Lisinac unfolds in a world reshaped by a catastrophic flood, where humanity now survives on scattered islands while the fortified city-state of Argos claims to protect what remains. Marco Ilsø and Sarah-Sofie Boussnina star as two rebellious Islanders who reject the idea that life inside its walls is the only future and set sail to uncover the truth behind a supernatural storm dominating the horizon.
🎥 Slanted
(Fri, Mar 13th — limited release)
Writer-director Amy Wang’s socially charged body-horror thriller stars Dìdi’s Shirley Chen as Joan Huang, a Chinese-American honor student desperate to gain acceptance at her high school. Believing a radical cosmetic procedure will transform her social life, she undergoes an experimental treatment that promises to make people of color appear paler, only to awaken in the body of a blonde white teen played by Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s Mckenna Grace. What first seems like the answer to her problems soon begins unraveling her identity and relationships, exposing the psychological and cultural consequences of assimilation and the cost of chasing popularity.
🎥 The Gates
(Fri, Mar 13th — limited release)
This tense thriller begins when three friends (Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, and Keith Powers) accidentally witness a murder while passing through a wealthy gated community at night. Now eyewitnesses to a horrific crime, they become the primary suspects as residents decide the easiest solution is blaming them for the murder and erasing the evidence. Trapped inside the neighborhood, the trio must evade hostile locals and the real culprit: an enraged pastor played by James Van Der Beek in his final film performance.
🎥 Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe
(Fri, Mar 13th — limited release)
Martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars in this family action-comedy sequel as the protector of Hu Hu, a lovable panda mistakenly believed to be a divine savior destined to protect a hidden magical world. When powerful enemies seek to exploit the panda’s supposed destiny, the unlikely duo journey into a mysterious land filled with ancient tribes and mystical warriors, where courage, loyalty, and a little kung fu may be the only way to keep the legend alive.
🎥 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze: 35th Anniversary
(Fri, Mar 13th — re-release; One Week Only)
This 35th-anniversary theatrical re-release celebrates the 1991 sequel where the pizza-loving mutant heroes uncover the secrets behind the mysterious ooze that created them. As their longtime enemy plots revenge by unleashing new mutated creatures, the brothers must rely on teamwork and humor to stop the threat. Newly restored in 4K, this limited return invites audiences to revisit a nostalgic franchise entry known for its playful energy and comic-book charm.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
(Tue, Mar 10th — premiering on HBO MAX)
This HBO documentary revisits the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Survivors and firsthand witnesses recount the terrifying moments as the crisis unfolded, with footage from 2011 to 2015 reconstructing the events leading to the near meltdown of the power plant. Through personal testimonies and archival material, the film examines the confusion, fear, and lasting consequences faced by residents and emergency responders in the aftermath.
🎦 Zootopia 2
(Wed, Mar 11th — streaming on Disney+)
Disney’s beloved duo, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), return for another wild ride when Chief Bogo sends them to couples therapy—just as a slippery new villain (voiced by Ke Huy Quan) slithers into town. With chaos, comedy, and critters galore, this long-awaited sequel proves that in Zootopia, even the best partnerships need a little work.
🎦 Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere
(Wed, Mar 11th — premiering on Netflix)
With his trademark sarcasm and genuine curiosity, journalist Louis Theroux investigates the controversial online subculture known as the manosphere, traveling from Miami to Marbella to meet influencers whose “red-pill” messaging has gained massive audiences among young men. Through interviews and on-the-ground observation, Theroux examines how these figures promote ideas about masculinity, power, and gender roles while exploring the social and algorithmic forces fueling their popularity.
🎦 Bodycam
(Fri, Mar 13th — premiering on Shudder)
Two police officers responding to a domestic dispute accidentally shoot a civilian and attempt to conceal the incident by manipulating their body camera footage. As they cover up the mistake, the footage begins revealing disturbing, unexplainable events, suggesting they’re being watched in this supernatural found-footage horror thriller.
🎦 Anniversary
(Fri, Mar 13th — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
Family secrets, radical beliefs, and a dinner gone wrong! Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler star as a couple whose 25th anniversary celebration descends into suspicion when their son (Dylan O’Brien) brings home his new girlfriend (Phoebe Dynevor), a woman with a dangerously provocative past. Directed by Jan Komasa (Corpus Christi) and co-starring Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, and Mckenna Grace, this tense slow-burn thriller peels back the layers of love, loyalty, and the illusion of a perfect home... one uncomfortable toast at a time.
🎦 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
(Sat, Mar 14th — streaming on STARZ)
The Four Horsemen are back... or are they? Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Isla Fisher reunite under Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer for another sleek, twist-filled illusionist caper. With new recruits Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Justice Smith caught in a high-stakes heist against a powerful family dynasty led by Rosamund Pike, old tricks collide with new blood. And in this game, seeing isn’t believing, it’s just the setup for the next great trick.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
(Tues, Mar 10th — on VOD/Digital)
This offbeat sci-fi comedy drops Sam Rockwell into a late-night diner as a filthy, unhinged time traveler warning that an AI apocalypse is imminent, forcing a skeptical group (led by Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple) to decide whether saving humanity is worth trusting the last guy anyone would ever listen to. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the fate of the future comes with a simple rulebook: panic later, laugh now, and try very hard not to die.
✅ The Testament of Ann Lee
(Tues, Mar 10th — on VOD/Digital)
A raw, dirt-under-the-fingernails historical drama that ditches powdered wigs for sweat, song, and spiritual fervor. Amanda Seyfried delivers a ferocious, awards-worthy 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.
✅ Dracula
(Tues, Mar 10th — on VOD/Digital)
Caleb Landry Jones is a cursed 15th-century prince turned immortal vampire, drifting through centuries in search of his lost wife’s reincarnation (Matilda De Angelis), only to find tragic romance, religious fury, and blood-soaked inevitability waiting for him again in 1880s France in Luc Besson’s operatic reimagining of the Dracula myth.
✅ Solo Mio
(Tues, Mar 10th — on VOD/Digital)
Comedian Kevin James stars as a jilted groom who refuses to cancel his Italian honeymoon, roaming solo through Rome and beyond as great food, scenic detours, and unexpected connections begin to mend a very public heartbreak. This sun-drenched rom-com suggests the fastest way past being left at the altar might be getting lost in Italy, and finding someone worth slowing down for.
✅ Midwinter Break
(Tues, Mar 10th — on VOD/Digital)
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.
✅ This Is Not a Test
(Fri, Mar 13th — on VOD/Digital)
Olivia Holt stars in this high school-set zombie siege thriller as a frantic student leading her trapped classmates barricaded inside their school, where dwindling supplies and rising paranoia turn survival into a psychological pressure cooker. While waiting for the cavalry that may never come, they realize the undead outside might be less dangerous than the desperation spreading within the walls. Because this time, the final exam is who can survive the longest without giving up.
✅ Bank of Dave 2
(Fri, Mar 13th — on VOD/Digital)
This British dramedy sequel continues the real-life story of Dave Fishwick, a small-town English entrepreneur determined to challenge predatory payday lenders exploiting struggling communities. Rory Kinnear (The Diplomat, Skyfall) returns as Fishwick, rallying new allies as his grassroots campaign grows into an international fight that crosses the Atlantic and threatens powerful financial interests.
✅ Mexicali
(Fri, Mar 13th — on VOD/Digital)
Aussie martial artist Bren Foster stars as a retired special-forces soldier hoping to leave his violent past behind while running a small avocado farm near the border. But when a ruthless cartel threatens his land and the people he loves, his peaceful life quickly unravels. With his fiancée (Tania Raymonde) and friends caught in the escalating violence, he’s forced to rely on the deadly combat skills he thought he had buried for good.
✅ Islands
(Fri, Mar 13th — on VOD/Digital)
At a sun-soaked island resort, a charming tennis coach (Sam Riley) is drawn into a dangerous web of desire and deception when a mysterious tourist (Stacy Martin) arrives and her husband (Jack Farthing) vanishes without a trace. What starts as flirtation escalates into obsession and suspicion, turning paradise into a tense, sultry maze of secrets and danger in this tropical noir thriller.
📺 On TV This Week
📺 One Piece: Season 2
(Tues, Mar 10th — on Netflix)
A treasure hunt across the most dangerous seas in the world gets even stranger as this wildly imaginative pirate adventure returns for another voyage through the Grand Line. Iñaki Godoy reprises his role as the endlessly optimistic Monkey D. Luffy, joined by Emily Rudd, Mackenyu, Jacob Romero Gibson, and Taz Skylar as his loyal Straw Hat crew. As their search for the legendary treasure continues, a shadowy syndicate called Baroque Works unleashes assassins and rival pirates determined to stop them.
📺 Scarpetta
(Wed, Mar 11th — on Prime Video)
Nicole Kidman stars in this procedural crime thriller as legendary medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a brilliant forensic pathologist who returns to her hometown to reopen the very first case that haunted her career. As she connects two brutal murders decades apart that may point to the same elusive killer, the investigation drags old secrets into the light, pulling her husband (Simon Baker), former partner (Bobby Cannavale), sister (Jamie Lee Curtis), and niece (Ariana DeBose) into the fallout.
📺 Sunny Nights
(Wed, Mar 11th — on Hulu/Disney+)
Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden bring their perfectly awkward comedic timing to this sun-soaked Aussie crime comedy about a business plan gone wildly off the rails. The two star as American siblings who move to Sydney hoping to build a booming spray-tan empire, only to find themselves entangled with blackmailing locals and a ruthless crime boss played by Rachel House. As their bronzed dreams spiral into criminal chaos, keeping customers glowing may prove easier than keeping themselves out of prison.
📺 Virgin River: Season 7
(Thurs, Mar 12th — on Netflix)
Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson return as Mel and Jack, newly married and ready to build the family they’ve long imagined. In the seventh season of this hit Netflix drama, their pursuit of adoption brings hope along with fresh complications. Because in a small town like this, everyone might know your name, but pressure and personal drama have a way of spreading faster than any rumor.
📺 Dynasty: The Murdochs
(Fri, Mar 13th — on Netflix)
Power keeps a family close... until it turns them on each other. In this fiery docuseries, Rupert Murdoch stands at a crossroads, maneuvering to secure his legacy while his children, Lachlan, James, and Elisabeth, circle the empire he spent decades building. Drawing from thousands of private emails, texts, and internal documents, director Liz Garbus examines the media dynasty as both an inheritance battle and an ideological war, where boardroom strategy bleeds into family loyalty. It’s real-life Succession.
📺 Twisted Yoga
(Fri, Mar 13th — on Apple TV)
This investigative docuseries explores disturbing allegations surrounding a global tantric yoga movement once celebrated for spiritual enlightenment and wellness. Through testimonies from former followers, the series reveals how charismatic leaders allegedly twisted devotion into psychological control and exploitation. Survivors recount their experiences as this chilling exposé examines how the search for balance and healing slowly turned into something far more disturbing than anyone expected.
📺 The Madison
(Sat, Mar 14th — Paramount+)
Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell lead this neo-Western family drama from Taylor Sheridan, trading Manhattan’s skyline for Montana’s vast open skies. They play grieving parents who move their fractured family (Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Ben Schnetzer, more) to the Madison River valley, hoping distance and quiet might help them heal after a devastating loss. But as old tensions resurface and new wounds open, the family must confront the difficult work of rebuilding trust where beauty and heartbreak exist side by side.
📺 Rooster Fighter
(Sat, Mar 14th — Adult Swim; Midnight)
Humanity’s last line of defense might just have feathers. This outrageous action-comedy anime follows Keiji, a fearless rooster who travels the land battling towering monsters that suddenly appear and threaten mankind. Based on Shu Sakuratani’s cult manga, this absurdly heroic adventure arrives on Adult Swim’s Toonami block.
