10 New Movies on Netflix We Can’t Wait to Watch in April

Michael Mann’s 1995 movie Heat, famous for being the first film in which acting titans Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appeared on screen in a scene together, arrives to Netflix this month. Mann has been hinting that a sequel to the film will be arriving any day now — he already penned a novel, Heat 2, that he’s been planning to adapt for the screen — but in the meantime, now’s your chance to catch the original crime tale about an LAPD detective (Pacino) trying to take down a professional thief (De Niro) and his crew.

Vincent Cassel is an actor, a dancer, and now, at least onscreen, a DJ. In Banger, the new Netflix original film from France, Cassel plays Scorpex, a washed-up DJ recruited by French intelligence to help catch a rival DJ named Vestax (Mister V), who has ties to a Russian gangster. As Scorpex gets wrapped up in a dangerous web of criminals, he also sees his new relationship with Vestax as an opportunity to regain his popularity as a DJ by putting out a new, inspired banger.

The Dad Quest is a new arrival from Mexico about a father and son who learn they aren’t biologically related. The pair embark on a road trip that reconnects them with people from their past and helps them realize that it’s their bond and not their blood that makes them family. The Dad Quest arrives on April 6.

With the second season of Netflix’s hit series Wednesday arriving later this year, it only makes sense to catch the 1991 version of The Addams Family on Netflix when it arrives on April 9. Christina Ricci memorably played Wednesday Addams in this version, but the entire cast, including Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd, are wonderful as the hilariously macabre family based on the Charles Addams cartoons.

Inspired by a true story, Frozen Hot Boys is a new Netflix original from Thailand about a Thai snow-sculpting team that won a series of sculpture competitions in Japan despite the fact that it never snows in Thailand. The story focuses on a group of teens from a juvenile detention center who become unlikely underdogs in the international competition and are given a second chance despite the odds being stacked against them. Hey, if the Jamaican bobsled team can do it…

iHostage is another new title that’s inspired by actual events. In this case, it’s the hostage crisis that unfolded at an Apple Store in Amsterdam in 2022 when an armed man held everyone inside hostage for hours. The story is told through the eyes of the attacker, the first responders and one of the hostages, a Bulgarian man caught in the midst of the terrifying ordeal.

Filmmaker Greg Tillman’s Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror reveals details of the events of April 19, 1995, when Timothy McVeigh set off a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. The film arrives April 18, in time for the 30th anniversary of the bombing, which is still the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. With crime scene recreations, firsthand accounts and previously recorded interviews with McVeigh, the film gives a clear picture of the tragic events of the day.

Director Pippa Ehrlich, director of Netflix’s Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, is back with another film exploring the relationship between man and the natural world with Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey. The new film, which premieres April 21, follows a baby pangolin named Kulu who was rescued from poachers and rehabilitated to reenter life in the wild. 

Director Shinji Higuchi’s latest project is Bullet Train Explosion, about a Tokyo-bound bullet train rigged with explosives that will detonate if the train’s speed drops below 100 kmh. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi plays the train’s conductor, Takaichi, who needs to contain his passengers’ panic while commandeering the train to safety. The film’s production used real bullet trains and railway facilities courtesy of the East Japan Railway Company while filming to achieve maximum authenticity.

Havoc might just be one of April’s most anticipated releases on Netflix, thanks to the star power of Tom Hardy and the fact that filming on the movie wrapped nearly four years ago. Hardy plays Walker, a detective who’s being pursued by a crime syndicate and fellow cops after getting involved in a drug deal gone wrong. The action-packed thriller finds Walker battling corrupt politicians, criminals and his own past. Jessie Mei Li and Justin Cornwell co-star, and the film has appearances from Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker.