All the Netflix movies heading your way in 2020
Netflix is continuing its quest to become one of the biggest studios in Hollywood and has unveiled its slate for 2020 (so far).
From the latest teen romcom to new movies from big names like David Fincher, there's something for everyone, but with so much to choose from it could be hard to narrow down which ones you'll want to add to your Netflix list.
So here are all the original movies hitting Netflix in the next 12 months along with a flavour of what they're about – all taken from Netflix's description – to help you decide.
Coming up on Netflix
Intuition
Release Date: May 28, 2020
Director:Alejandro Montiel
Starring: Luisana Lopilato, Joaquín Furriel
A rookie cop and a police detective investigate the murder of a 19 year old woman whose best friend is the prime suspect.
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai
Release date: June 5
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Starring: Saiyami Kher, Roshan Mathew, Amruta Subhash, and Rajshri Deshpande
The film tells the story of a bank cashier who finds cash flowing out of her kitchen sink, in the backdrop of 2016 bank note demonetisation.
The Last Days of American Crime
Release date: June 5
Director: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Édgar Ramírez, Anna Brewster, Michael Pitt, and Sharlto Copley
As a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke, a low level career criminal, teams up with famous gangster progeny Kevin Cash, and black market hacker Shelby Dupree to commit the heist of the century and the last crime in American history before the signal goes off.
Da 5 Bloods
Release date: June 12
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Paul Walter Hauser, Delroy Lindo
Four African American vets return to Vietnam to search for the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure.
A Whisker Away
Release date: June 18, 2020
Directors: Junichi Sato and Tomotaka Shibayama
Starring: Mirai Shida, Natsuki Hanae, Koichi Yamadera
Miyo Sasaki, nicknamed Muge has a bright personality and is full of energy at school and at home. She is also secretly in love with her classmate Kento Hinode. Miyo tries repeatedly to get Kento's attention, but he takes no notice of her. She realizes that the only way to get close to him is to transform into a cat, but at some point, the boundary between herself and the cat becomes ambiguous, and she is forced to give up her life as a human…
Feel the Beat
Release Date: June 19
Director: Elissa Down
Starring: Sofia Carson, Wolfgang Novogratz, Donna Lee Champlin, Rex Lee, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Lidya Jewett, Sadie Lapidus, Johanna Colón, Shaylee Mansfield, Shiloh Nelson, Justin Allan, Carina Battrick, Kai Zen, introducing Eva Hauge with Marissa Jaret Winokur and Enrico Colantoni
After failing to find success on Broadway, April returns to her small hometown and reluctantly is recruited to train a misfit group of young dancers for a big competition.
Lost Bullet
Release Date: June 19
Director: Guillaume Pierret
Starring: Stéfi Celma, Nicolas Duvauchelle, and Alban Lenoir
Lino is a whiz mechanic with a knack for building ram cars – until he gets arrested for a heist gone wrong. Scouted by the chief of a special drug law enforcement unit, he's offered a deal to avoid prison. Nine months later, Lino has definitely proven his worth. But as he's wrongfully accused of murder, he's left with no option but to find the only proof of his innocence – the bullet from the crime, lodged in a missing car.
One Way for Tomorrow
Release date: June 19
Director: Ozan Aciktan
Starring: Dilan Cicek Deniz and Metin Akdulger
The film depicts the romantic story of two strangers who met on a journey from Ankara to Izmir. Although having a rough start, their relationship takes a different path when they realize they have to confront themselves and would like to clean the slate as they get to know each other.
Nobody Knows I'm Here
Release Date: June 24
Director: Gaspar Antillo
Starring: Jorge García, Luis Gnecco, Millaray Lobos
Memo Garrido was a child artist in the Latin music industry in the early 90's. Decades later, he lives in seclusion in southern Chile practically cut off from the world. The unexpected appearance of Marta changes his world forever and forces him to face the confusing incident that destroyed his career.
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Release date: June 26
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan, Dan Stevens
When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity of a lifetime to represent their country at the world’s biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
The Paramedic
Release Date: July 1
Director: Carles Torras
Starring: Celso Bugallo, Mario Casas and Déborah François
Ángel works as a paramedic on emergency services on an ambulance. After suffering a terrible accident, his life alongside Vane begins to crumble. Obsessed with the idea that she’s being unfaithful, he will turn his life into a living hell from which it’ll be difficult to escape.
Desperados
Release Date: July 3
Director: LP
Starring: Nasim Pedrad, Lamorne Morris, Anna Camp, Sarah Burns, Robbie Amell and Heather Graham.
A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.
The Old Guard
Release Date: July 10
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Led by a warrior named Andy, a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile, the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetise their power by any means necessary.
The Kissing Booth 2
Release date: July 24
Director: Vince Marcello
Starring: Joey King, Joel Courtney, Jacob Elordi
Elle and Noah just had the most romantic summer ever, but as he heads off to Harvard Elle juggles a long-distance relationship, college applications with her BFF Lee and friendship with new classmate Marco.
Project Power
Release date: August 14
Directors: Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jamie Foxx
It's science fiction and that's all we know
The Prom
Release date: Autumn
Director: Ryan Murphy
Starring: Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Awkwafina
When a lesbian teenager is banned from attending the big dance with her girlfriend, a cast of Broadway eccentrics descend on a small Indiana town to fight back.
Mank
Release date: TBC
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins
A biopic about screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz and his battles with director Orson Welles over screenplay credit for Citizen Kane.
Rebecca
Release date: TBC
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Lily James, Armie Hammer
A newly-married young woman finds herself battling the shadow of her husband's dead first wife, the mysterious Rebecca, whose legacy continues to haunt the house.
Hillbilly Elegy
Release date: TBC
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso
A modern exploration of the American Dream about three generations of an Appalachian family.
The Boys in the Band
Release date: TBC
Director: Joe Mantello
Starring: Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells
A group of gay friends reunite to celebrate one of their birthdays, but when the host's potentially closeted college roommate shows up uninvited, the evening is thrown into turmoil.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Release date: TBC
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
A road trip becomes a twisted mix of palpable tension, psychological frailty and sheer terror.
Dick Johnson is Dead
Release date: TBC
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Starring: Dick Johnson
Director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
Crip Camp
Release date: TBC
Directors: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht
Down the road from Woodstock in the '70s, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teens with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a movement.
Over the Moon
Release date: TBC
Director: Glen Keane
A girl builds a rocket ship to travel to the moon in order to prove to her father that a legendary Moon Goddess really exists.
Already on Netflix
Airplane Mode
Release date: January 23
Director: César Rodrigues
Starring: Larissa Manoela, Erasmo Carlos, Katiuscia Canoro
When Ana, a young social media influencer, crashes her car because of her addiction to her cellphone, she is grounded and shipped to her grandfather's farm with one catch: she's not allowed to use her phone.
Miss Americana
Release date: January 31
Director: Lana Wilson
Starring: Taylor Swift
This film follows Taylor Swift as she learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice.
Horse Girl
Release date: February 7
Director: Jeff Baena
Starring: Alison Brie, Molly Shannon
An awkward woman with a fondness for crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows, finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You
Release date: February 12
Director: Michael Fimognari
Starring: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Jordan Fisher
Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.
Isi & Ossi
Release date: February 14
Director: Oliver Kienle
Starring: Lisa Vicari, Christina Hecke, Pegah Ferydoni
A billionaire's daughter and a struggling boxer start up a star-crossed romance.
The Last Thing He Wanted
Release date: February 21
Director: Dee Rees
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe
A veteran DC journalist loses the thread of her own story when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Based on Joan Didion's novel.
All the Bright Places
Release date: February 28
Director: Brett Haley
Starring: Elle Fanning, Justice Smith
As Violet and Theodore struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean something.
Spenser Confidential
Release date: March 6
Director: Peter Berg
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke
Ex-cop Spenser moves in with Hawk, an aspiring MMA fighter with his own rap sheet. Between gym rounds, the duo's taunts turn to trust, and they team up to solve a double homicide.
Lost Girls
Release date: March 13
Director: Liz Garbus
Starring: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke
Police inaction drives Mari Gilbert to investigate the disappearance of her daughter. Mari's search of the gated community where Shannan was last seen brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers. Based on a true story.
The Platform
Release date: March 20
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Starring: Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan
In a future dystopia, prisoners housed in vertically stacked cells watch hungrily as food descends from above — feeding the upper tiers, but leaving those below ravenous and radicalised.
Uncorked
Release date: March 27
Director: Prentice Penny
Starring: Mamoudou Athie, Courtney B Vance, Niecy Nash
Elijah must balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father's expectations that he carry on the family's Memphis BBQ joint.
Coffee & Kareem
Release date: April 3
Director: Michael Dowse
Starring: Taraji P Henson, Ed Helms, Betty Gilpin
A Detroit cop reluctantly teams with his girlfriend's 11 year-old son to clear his name and take down the city's most ruthless criminal.
Tigertail
Release date: April 10
Director: Alan Yang
Starring: John Cho, Tzi Ma, Joan Chen
A Taiwanese factory worker leaves his homeland to seek opportunity in America, where he struggles to find connection while balancing family and newfound responsibility.
Sergio
Release date: April 17
Director: Greg Barker
Starring: Ana de Armas, Wagner Moura
Set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
The Willoughbys
Release date: April 27
Directors: Kris Pearn and Cory Evans
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Jane Krakowski
Convinced they'd be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation, before embarking on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family.
Time To Hunt
Release date: April 23
Director: Yoon Sung-hyun
Starring: Lee Je-hoon, Ahn Jae-hong, Choi Woo-shik, Park Jung-min, Park Hae-soo as Han
While planning a heist to escape a dystopian world, a group of young people attracts the attention of a vicious killer.
Extraction
Release date: April 24
Director: Sam Hargrave
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, Golshifteh Farahani, Pankaj Tripathi and David Harbour,
A black-market mercenary who has nothing to lose is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord. But in the murky underworld of weapons dealers and drug traffickers, an already deadly mission approaches the impossible.
Dangerous Lies
Release date: April 30
Director: Michael Scott
Starring: Camila Mendes, Jessie T. Usher, Jamie Chung, Cam Gigandet, Sasha Alexander and Elliott Gould
A caregiver is drawn into a web of lies and murder after a wealthy elderly man dies and leaves his estate to her.
Rich In Love
Release date: April 30
Director: Bruno Garotti and Anita Barbosa
Starring: Danilo Mesquita, Giovanna Lancellotti and Fernanda Paes Leme
A man working at his wealthy father's business traps himself in a lie when he falls in love with a woman and tries to convince her that he comes from more humble beginnings.
All Day and a Night
Release date: May 1
Director: Joe Robert Cole
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Ashton Sanders and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
A young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery after landing in the same prison as his father.
The Half of It
Release date: May 1
Director: Alice Wu
Starring: Leah Lewis, Alexxis Lemire, Daniel Diemer
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
The Wrong Missy
Release date: May 13
Director: Tyler Spindel
Starring: David Spade and Lauren Lapkus
Disaster strikes when a man invites his dream girl to an island resort -- but a previous blind date shows up instead.
The Lovebirds
Release date: May 22
Director: Michael Showalter
Starring: Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.
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