What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: May 4 thru May 10, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
May is officially in full swing, bringing with it the start of the summer season for movies and television. And this week is a prime example of the kind of selection you’ll have to choose from. From here on out, you can expect some nostalgia-fueled throwbacks, action-packed sequels, a few genre-specific sleepers, and plenty of fresh reasons to keep your watchlist busy.
And as always, we’ve compiled a full list of what’s landing in cinemas and on streaming platforms this week. Which happens to be Mother’s Day weekend, so remember to call your mom before heading out to the theater or settling in for a streaming marathon this Sunday. Because no binge-watch session is worth getting guilt-tripped over later.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
(Thurs, May 7th — limited release)
From smoky East London pubs to packed global stadiums, this high-voltage music doc traces Iron Maiden’s rise from scrappy outsiders to heavy metal legends. With deep archive access, candid reflections, and appearances from Javier Bardem, Lars Ulrich, and Chuck D, it captures a five-decade bond that never stopped roaring. Some bands fade, but this beast still screams... loud.
🎥 Mortal Kombat II
(Fri, May 8th — wide release)
Karl Urban brings bruised action-star swagger to this bone-crushing sequel as Johnny Cage, a washed-up Hollywood action star whose ego takes a beating when real supernatural warriors start throwing punches. Director Simon McQuoid returns for a bloodier, louder sequel packed with familiar fighters, new challengers, and enough ’90s video-game nostalgia to make that old PS controller twitch.
🎥 The Sheep Detectives
(Fri, May 8th — wide release)
A dead shepherd, a $30 million will, and a flock of sheep that knows a suspicious accident when they see one. Hugh Jackman stars in this woolly whodunit, where his detective-novel-loving flock turns amateur sleuth after his mysterious death, with Molly Gordon, Emma Thompson, Nicholas Braun, Hong Chau, and Nicholas Galitzine among the suspects. Case closed? Not until these sheep get to the baaaa-ttom of it.
🎥 Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
(Fri, May 8th — wide release)
Lights up... and glasses on. This electrifying concert film drops us into Billie Eilish’s sold-out global tour, where arena spectacle gets the full cinematic 3D treatment. Co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron, the experience pulls audiences onto the stage and behind the scenes, turning the show into something less watched than fully swallowed.
🎥 Couples Weekend
(Fri, May 8th — limited release; on also ✅ VOD)
A cozy New Year’s retreat turns into a romantic disaster when Josh Gad and Alexandria Daddario discover their respective partners, played by Daveed Diggs and Ashley Park, are cheating on them with each other. Now trapped in a snowed-in cabin with nowhere to run, the foursome must sit with the fallout as secrets, resentment, and bad decisions start thawing fast.
🎥 Affection
(Fri, May 8th — limited release)
Jessica Rothe wakes into a domestic nightmare in this psychological horror film as Ellie, a woman whose mysterious condition keeps resetting her mind. Joseph Cross plays the man claiming to be her husband, but the more she questions reality, the less she can trust what’s waiting beside her. Every answer matters... if she can remember it long enough.
🎥 Neglected
(Fri, May 8th — limited release)
Retirement is going to have to wait. Josh Duhamel stars in this ticking-clock action thriller as a detective whose final days on the job turn nightmarish when Dylan Sprouse’s cold-blooded stranger delivers a brutal ultimatum: solve a string of gruesome murders, or his kidnapped son runs out of air. Nothing says “one last case” like trying to catch a killer before a loved one pays the ultimate price.
🎥 Linda Perry: Let It Die Here
(Fri, May 8th — limited release)
The hat, the voice, and the songs that helped define a generation. This revealing music doc follows Linda Perry from belting out “What’s Up” with 4 Non-Blondes to crafting major hits for Christina Aguilera, Pink, Celine Dion, and Dolly Parton. But the real drama unfolds offstage, where fame gives way to personal reflection and choices no chart-topper can drown out.
🎥 Silent Friend
(Fri, May 8th — limited release)
Tony Leung Chiu-wai steps into another contemplative role as a grieving neuroscientist in this quietly poetic drama from acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi. Set around a German botanical garden watched over by a centuries-old ginkgo tree, the film connects lives across generations, with Léa Seydoux drifting through time. Nature may be silent, but here it remembers everything.
🎥 The Python Hunt
(Fri, May 8th — limited release; in NY)
Snake hunting is apparently a team sport in Florida. This strange, sweaty documentary follows an eclectic group of amateur hunters competing to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades over ten grueling nights. Between brutal terrain, nocturnal creatures, and personal demons, conservation has never looked this fanged.
🎥 Louder Than Guns
(Fri, May 8th — limited release; in NY)
After tragedy strikes, the real challenge becomes talking about it. This timely documentary follows musician Ketch Secor and journalist David Greene as they travel across the country, using music and open dialogue to confront America’s deep divides over gun violence. From concert halls to barbershops, it suggests real listening may be the only way forward.
🎥 Labyrinth
(Sun, May 10th and Mon, May 11th — special limited release, via GKIDS)
Shoji Kawamori, the mind behind Macross and The Vision of Escaflowne, dives into digital chaos with this anime sci-fi adventure about identity, internet fame, and the cost of going viral. When a shy teen is replaced by a slick online alter ego bent on turning humanity into mindless content consumers, she must fight back from inside the device that trapped her.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Send Help
(Thurs, May 7th — streaming on Netflix)
Rachel McAdams gets the upper hand in this twisty survival thriller from director Sam Raimi, playing a mistreated assistant stranded on a remote island with her badly injured boss, played by Dylan O’Brien. What begins as a fight to stay alive soon turns into a darkly funny power shift years in the making. Payback never looked so well deserved.
🎦 Remarkably Bright Creatures
(Fri, May 8th — premiering on Netflix)
Sometimes the best way to understand humans is to have an octopus watching from the tank. Sally Field stars in this heartfelt Netflix drama as a guarded widow working the night shift at an aquarium, where a perceptive giant Pacific octopus, voiced by Alfred Molina, observes her unlikely bond with a young maintenance worker played by Lewis Pullman. Eight arms, zero nonsense, plenty of heart.
🎦 Greenland 2: Migration
(Fri, May 8th — streaming on Netflix)
With the world no longer ending in one loud bang but slowly grinding itself into uninhabitable instability, Gerard Butler’s John Garrity is back... this time leading his family out of the crumbling Greenland bunkers in search of a rumored refuge in France. Also starring Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis, this survival sequel turns a ravaged Europe into a relentless endurance test where every mile forward demands sacrifice, resilience, and choices that may cost more than staying behind.
🎦 We Bury the Dead
(Fri, May 8th — streaming on Hulu)
During a pandemic-ravaged collapse, a woman joins a grim body-retrieval unit in Australia while searching for her missing husband, only to learn the dead aren’t staying dead. As Ava (Daisy Ridley) pushes deeper into the wasteland, a botched military experiment turns her quest for closure into a relentless fight for survival against a full-blown zombie outbreak.
🎦 Whistle
(Fri, May 8th — streaming on Shudder)
Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse star as teens who unleash a deadly curse after blowing an ancient Aztec death whistle (oopsy!), summoning visions of death that turn one bad decision into a full-blown nightmare. With Nick Frost along for the ride as a high school school teacher and directed by horror helmer Corin Hardy (The Nun), once that whistle screams, silence is no longer an option.
🎦 No Place to Be Single
(Fri, May 8th — premiering on Prime Video)
In a Tuscan town where everyone is either coupled up or hunting for true love, one single mother would rather tend her vineyard than chase a fairy tale. In this Italian rom-com, Matilde Gioli stars as Elisa, whose carefully rooted life is upended when a long-lost childhood friend (Cristiano Caccamo) returns and stirs up feelings she thought had dried out.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
In this sequel to the hit horror-comedy, Grace (Samara Weaving) has just survived her in-laws’ twisted deadly ritual game, but the nightmare isn’t over yet. When a powerful new family dynasty tied to the same sinister tradition pulls her back into another life-or-death contest, she’s forced to fight once again… this time with her sister (Kathryn Newton) dragged into the blood-soaked mayhem. As alliances shift and the hunt begins anew, Grace must rely on her instincts to survive another round of a twisted family game that never seems to end.
✅ The Drama
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
Love gets complicated when honesty goes too far. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in this darkly comic A24 drama as a couple on the verge of marriage, undone by a single confession that forces them to question everything they thought they knew about each other—now left to wonder whether love can survive the truth.
✅ Lorne
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
Behind the curtain of late-night comedy, one quiet figure has been calling the shots for decades. Directed by Oscar-winner Morgan Neville, this documentary traces how Lorne Michaels built Saturday Night Live into a comedy institution while shaping generations of performers, writers, and weird little sketches that somehow became part of everyday culture.
✅ Palestine ‘36
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
Set against the turmoil of 1930s Palestine, this sweeping historical epic from Palestinian writer-director Annemarie Jacir (Wajib) traces one man’s struggle for identity and survival as empires clash and allegiances crumble. As British forces tighten their grip and refugees flood the land, Yusuf finds himself torn between loyalty, love, and resistance.
✅ André Is an Idiot
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
Mortality gets the last word in this Sundance-winning documentary, where self-described “idiot” André Ricciardi turns the camera on himself after a devastating colorectal cancer diagnosis. Blending candid vérité with surreal stop-motion, he chronicles his final chapter with dark humor and blunt self-awareness. Less a sentimental goodbye than a clear-eyed warning, the film becomes a pointed call to action about checkups, colonoscopies, and the cost of waiting too long.
✅ A Great Awakening
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
Before it was written into law, liberty had to be felt. Jonathan Blair and John Paul Sneed star in this sweeping historical drama as Rev. George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, whose unlikely friendship helps spark a movement fueled by belief, influence, and the emotional force of a nation coming to life.
✅ Scared to Death
(Tues, May 5th — On VOD/Digital)
Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley star in this horror-comedy about filmmakers staging a séance inside an abandoned orphanage, only to unleash something far less cooperative than a good ghost story. Director Paul Boyd mixes haunted-house chills with chaotic, effects-driven mayhem, where the cameras keep rolling long after reality checks out.
✅ Beast
(Fri, May 8th — On VOD/Digital)
Some fights aren’t about the belt. Daniel MacPherson stars in this stark MMA drama as a once-feared champion pulled back into the cage when his younger brother is put in danger and used as leverage. With Russell Crowe as the hardened trainer who built him and Luke Hemsworth as a ruthless promoter, one last fight becomes less about glory than survival.
✅ Exit 8
(Fri, May 8th — On VOD/Digital)
A routine subway ride turns into an endless loop when a Japanese man (Kazunari Ninomiya) finds himself trapped in a shifting corridor where every detail feels off and every decision could be a mistake. Directed by Genki Kawamura and based on the viral game by Kotake Create, this psychological Japanese horror thriller thrives on repetition and creeping paranoia, where escape depends on noticing what doesn’t belong.
✅ Fantasy Life
(Fri, May 8th — On VOD/Digital)
Love gets messy as boundaries begin to blur in this New York-set romantic comedy. Matthew Shear writes, directs, and stars as a spiraling law school dropout who takes a babysitting job and quickly falls for his employer (Amanda Peet), a married actress whose life isn’t as stable as it appears. When her rock-star husband (Alessandro Nivola) reenters the picture and the setting shifts to a crowded Martha’s Vineyard summer, desire becomes nearly impossible to ignore... or suppress.
⇯ See Above: ✅Couples Weekend (Fri, May 8; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Lord of the Flies
(Mon, May 4th — on Netflix)
A remote island becomes a brutal classroom in this new small-screen adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel. Featuring young actors Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, and David McKenna, the tense survival drama follows stranded schoolboys as order fractures, fear spreads, and childhood turns savage. Adapted by Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, innocence doesn’t disappear here. It gets hunted down and turned into a warning about how quickly civility can crack.
📺 Citadel: Season 2
(Wed, May 6th — on Prime Video)
Trust is a luxury no spy can afford in this globe-trotting second season, as Stanley Tucci’s Bernard Orlick is forced back into action after Citadel is left exposed and vulnerable. With Jack Reynor joining as a brash new ally and Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden returning as elite agents Nadia Sinh and Mason Kane, the series looks bigger, messier, and more eager to prove itself.
📺 Worst Ex Ever: Season 2
(Wed, May 6th — on Netflix)
Love can hurt, but this true-crime docuseries takes that idea straight into nightmare territory. Season 2 digs into harrowing stories of betrayal, violence, and deceit through eyewitness accounts, bodycam footage, and animated reenactments. Sometimes the scariest person in your life is the one you used to date.
📺 The Other Bennet Sister
(Wed, May 6th — on Britbox, U.S.)
The overlooked Bennet sister finally gets her turn in this witty period drama set inside Jane Austen’s beloved universe. Ella Bruccoleri stars as Mary Bennet, who steps out from her sisters’ shadow to chase education, independence, and maybe even romance. Created by Sarah Quintrell, this is a story for anyone who ever suspected the quiet one had the most interesting chapter waiting.
📺 The Terror: Devil in Silver
(Thurs, May 7th — on AMC+/Shudder)
A mental hospital becomes its own kind of haunted maze in this claustrophobic new installment of the Ridley Scott–produced horror anthology series. Dan Stevens stars as Pepper, a wrongfully committed patient trapped inside New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, where the staff (Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi) can’t be trusted and something darker may be feeding on the suffering around him. With Victor LaValle adapting his own horror novel, sanity might be the first thing to check out.
📺 M.I.A.
(Thurs, May 7th — on Peacock)
South Florida gets even hotter in this Miami-set crime thriller from Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque. Newcomer Shannon Gisela stars as Etta Tiger Jonze, a restless young woman whose escape dreams turn into a revenge mission after the cartel slaughters her family. With a dozen targets ahead and allies by her side, she’s not just running anymore. She’s bringing the heat.
📺 Legends
(Thurs, May 7th — on Netflix)
In early ’90s Britain, the war on drugs got desperate enough to send ordinary customs officers undercover. Tom Burke, Aml Ameen, Tom Hughes, and Hayley Squires star as everyday agents pushed into the criminal underworld with undercover identities, with Steve Coogan as the seasoned handler trying to keep them alive. Created by Neil Forsyth, this true-story crime thriller knows a fake identity is only useful until someone starts asking real questions.
📺 The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek
(Thurs, May 7th — on Netflix)
A children’s rhyme becomes a killer’s calling card in this dark Danish crime thriller. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Danica Curcic return as detectives Mark Hess and Naia Thulin, pulled back into an uneasy partnership while hunting a stalking predator who toys with victims before striking. Some games end with a winner. This one ends with a body.
📺 Amadeus
(Fri, May 8th — on STARZ)
Genius dazzles, but envy cuts deeper in this new British take on the Mozart and Salieri rivalry. Will Sharpe plays Mozart as a bold, volatile force chasing freedom in Vienna, while Paul Bettany brings simmering intensity to Salieri, the court composer rattled by a talent he sees as both divine gift and personal torment. Some geniuses inspire awe. Others invite ire.
📺 Thank You, Next: Season 3
(Fri, May 8th — on Netflix)
No more running, no more romantic damage control. Season 3 of this Turkish romantic drama finds Serenay Sarıkaya’s Leyla facing the fallout of a life-shattering relationship as she finally approaches love, life, and her past on her own terms. Sometimes moving on means getting close enough to what hurt you in the first place.
📺 Unconditional
(Fri, May 8th — on Apple TV)
A mother-daughter getaway turns into an international nightmare in this tense thriller from the producers of Homeland. When 23-year-old Gali (Talia Linne Ronn) is arrested for drug smuggling in Moscow, her mother Orna (Liraz Chamami) refuses to believe the charges and throws herself into the fight to save her. But the deeper she digs, the more freedom starts to look like a dangerous bargain.
📺 The Roast of Kevin Hart
(Sun, May 10th — on Netflix, LIVE at 8PM ET/ 5PM PT)
Kevin Hart has spent years roasting everyone else, so now it’s his turn to take the heat. Hosted by Shane Gillis, this live Netflix comedy event puts Hart in the hot seat during the final night of Netflix Is a Joke Fest at the Kia Forum. The guest list is still under wraps, but the target is loud, famous, and very hard to miss.
